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To be FURIOUS with the 'if you vote you're an idiot' comments on facebook!

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nomorequotes · 22/05/2014 20:32

From women as well!

So the women who died for our right to vote are idiots to are they?

My least favourite one has gone on to say that the world will only change when 'we all find love in our hearts' and that this is the 'answer' to the issues facing people all over the world.

AIBU to want to put this person in a large cardboard box and just shake some bloody sense into her. She is advocating removing all regulations and rules in the world, ignorant of our human rights and what they stand for and what they mean. She seems to have some blissful idealism about a country without the right to vote and that somehow that goes hand in hand with not being ruled by a ruling class. Actually looking at the EVIDENCE of other countries where people can't/aren't allowed to vote or have their hands chopped off for voting 'wrong' it is quite clear that without the right to vote we'd be in a much worse position than we are now.

I don't understand this snobbery towards people who chose to vote/live in the real world and why it has become fashionable to turn your nose up at people who actually admit there is negative actions in the world and seek to change it.

Its driving me up the wall, I am SO angry with them.

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LadyWithLapdog · 22/05/2014 20:35

I kind of get the finding live in our hearts, awakening and all that. Till then we have to engage with the world as it is and try and make it better. Voting is one way.

Joysmum · 22/05/2014 20:40

I couldn't give a shit about what people I don't respect think.

nomorequotes · 22/05/2014 20:42

Finding love in your heart is a privilege though surely? How people are expected to find love in their hearts when they can't get hold of clean safe waters is a bit beyond me. It is also taking the onus off the bullshit multinationals that are running an enormous slave trade and instead putting the onus on the poor little people who are just trying to survive from day to day.

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CalamitouslyWrong · 22/05/2014 20:45

Surely we could use that love in our hearts as a basis for voting responsibly and with care for our fellow humans. Having love in your heart doesn't prevent you from voting as far as I know.

nomorequotes · 22/05/2014 20:48

My issue is not with people having love in their hearts, it is with people banging on about all we need is love and how they are going to change the world by talking about love being all we need rather than actually going out and doing some volunteering or giving some time/money to charities and trying to actually MAKE the world a better place.

Love love is a verb, Love is a doing word.

I am getting really bored of people who think that they are so much better than everyone else because they ignore anything negative in the world and just focus on the positive. Sometimes you have to be aware of the negative to make positive change.

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nomorequotes · 22/05/2014 20:48

My issue is not with people having love in their hearts, it is with people banging on about all we need is love and how they are going to change the world by talking about love being all we need rather than actually going out and doing some volunteering or giving some time/money to charities and trying to actually MAKE the world a better place.

Love love is a verb, Love is a doing word.

I am getting really bored of people who think that they are so much better than everyone else because they ignore anything negative in the world and just focus on the positive. Sometimes you have to be aware of the negative to make positive change.

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nomorequotes · 22/05/2014 20:48

My issue is not with people having love in their hearts, it is with people banging on about all we need is love and how they are going to change the world by talking about love being all we need rather than actually going out and doing some volunteering or giving some time/money to charities and trying to actually MAKE the world a better place.

Love love is a verb, Love is a doing word.

I am getting really bored of people who think that they are so much better than everyone else because they ignore anything negative in the world and just focus on the positive. Sometimes you have to be aware of the negative to make positive change.

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nomorequotes · 22/05/2014 20:54

Sorry about the multiple posts.
I have to also add that it is irrelevant how much 'love' we have in our hearts as individuals if the top of multinational corporations don't have 'love' in their hearts. We need regulations in order to make sure the humans on this planet start to be treated with respect and kindness.

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cardibach · 22/05/2014 21:44

I haven't seen anyone saying voting makes you an idiot. I have come close to defriending people for some very not-love-in-their-hearts posts lately, though.

cardibach · 22/05/2014 21:46

Incidentally, love is also an abstract noun.

FatalCabbage · 22/05/2014 22:08

You might like this cartoon which was widely shared on FB today.

Mintyy · 22/05/2014 22:11

Honestly, an awful lot of people seem to have individuals who enrage them as their "friends" on Facebook so I doubt they have the energy to get worked up about what your friends are posting.

deakymom · 22/05/2014 22:19

ive also seen posts recommending you deface your ballot paper as a "protest" so your vote won't count what is the point of that?

UsedtobeFeckless · 22/05/2014 22:21

Just unfollow the daft trout and her half-baked platitudes will never darken your newsfeed ever again ... It's great! I've done it to loads of people who kept sending me tripey memes and pictures of toast and what not - very empowering!

nomorequotes · 23/05/2014 09:00

Deaky if you deface your ballot your vote DOES count, as a vote against the parties involved and will be counted as such

if enough people spoilt their ballots we would have a complete change in the political system.

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