Official Discussion Thread (Ghost Edit)

[Acsii]

I'm never gonna vote. It's my damn right not to.

I don't understand people like this... They choose not to vote but still complain about the government

[Jokeblue]

I'm never gonna vote. It's my damn right not to.

I don't understand people like this... They choose not to vote but still complain about the government

But Acsii, if they don't vote, then they had no hand in picking the current government and are entitled to complain about everyone elses bad choice that they didnt make D:

[Mr. Bigglesworth]

It's not because it's your right, that's just a bad excuse even if it is a right.

[Ricky Denzel]

It's not because it's your right, that's just a bad excuse even if it is a right.

Should I feel insulted?

[DJ TATCM]

i feel insulted bc u dindt anser wmy question :c

als o if i didnt feel like voting itd be too much effort to type that out mself yknow wha mean
:c

[Ricky Denzel]

can you send it to my email.

Also: I'm gonna miss this guy


Monty Oum (Creator of RWBY and Red Vs. Blue) - 1981-2015

[FLAOFEI]

I'm never gonna vote. It's my damn right not to.

Are you serious about this O.O
Cause from my cultural background that seems idiotic... It's pretty much as counterproductive as it gets! Sorry if that offends you, but that's how it is
If you like democracy you better do your part in keeping it! And that means voting! If you don't want idiots who want to take away your rights ruling your country, you better do your part in keeping them out.

[Mr. Bigglesworth]

So I did pretty good with my marks last trimester. One of my subjects is in doubt as to whether or not I passed but considering the amount of stuff I had to do all at once and how bad I am at multitasking that could be a lot worse.

[ph00tbag]

Are you serious about this O.O
Cause from my cultural background that seems idiotic... It's pretty much as counterproductive as it gets! Sorry if that offends you, but that's how it is
If you like democracy you better do your part in keeping it! And that means voting! If you don't want idiots who want to take away your rights ruling your country, you better do your part in keeping them out.

Believe it or not, it's a common opinion over here. I've never understood it, myself. For what it's worth, if you believe none of the candidates will represent your views, or worse, that all of them are bought and paid for by the oligarchy, then not voting is a way to register that sentiment. And unfortunately, it's hard to argue against it.

[FLAOFEI]

Oh... Wow... I had no idea...

And unfortunately, it's hard to argue against it.

It kinda is though... Not voting is a way of saying you accept the choice of the other voters. If the message is that you don't like the candidates you should atleast throw away your vote where it counts! Like at Vermin Supreme or someone like that. you might not get him into parliament or anything, but you will pull down the % of voters voting for the candidates you don't like.

In my experience people never think with that much math... So I see why people wouldn't see that as obvious enough to believe...

Edit: Or if you want to have an emotionalish argumen you can say "That's how people like Hittler get power! Good people shut up!"
Cause if good ppl don't voice their opinions it gives more power to those with extreme views, wo are gonna vote either way. I'm willing to bet atleast 90% of all neo-nazi fanatics make their voices hearheard. And if only 50% of the general population vote, that gives them way more power.

[Ricky Denzel]

I'm still not voting. So you can send my black ass to jail! I don't care *Said with a smile on his face*

[Mr. Bigglesworth]

Uh? Good for you I guess?

[FLAOFEI]

Well... I wish I could say that that's your problem, and yours alone... but it's atleast not my problem, so go ahead. Do that. Some great democratic guy once said that he didn't agree with someones opinionss, but he would diefor your right to say them. I don't think I'd go that far, since by my standards you don't seem to value democracy and free speach, but what the hell, why not, I've never thought highly of neither America nor politics :/

[Ricky Denzel]

didn't have to be passive aggressive about it.

[Bronies Are Cool]

I will not vote. Not for a while at least.
But don't call me idiotic for it.
I decided not to vote. I also do not complain about my government. I'm content with it really.
But that's because I don't know much about current issues in my government regarding new laws and bills.
And I decided I'm not voting because I simply do not know enough about anything

[eery]

Thats actually quite a wise decision. it's sorta ridiculous how much useless shit we were taught on school, for instance in math, we were taught all kinds of abstract math concepts, but not basic taxes, how to manage your own economy.

I saw this cool sorta musicy video on the subject the other day it was pretty cool

[ph00tbag]

Well, fwiw, taxes and budgeting are really just arithmetic. The problem is that we don't do home ec anymore, which taught everything from budgeting and cooking to how your toilet works. It taught us how to exist in the modern world. Civics would also be nice to have back, since people would actually understand how the government works on every level.

As for math, I'd say the stuff you learn in high school really isn't useless outside of theory. Even if you study Calculus, using diff eqs for optimization is nice.

[Jokeblue]

I guess they just assume that you'd learn that kind of stuff at home. I mean, yeah you kinda do, but it would definately not be a waste of time for a school to, in someway, dedicate time to teaching students how this wackjob world works. However, in my case I did General Maths at school rather than anything advanced or complicated cos I hate maths. And in that we did do things like budgeting and and other income related arithmetic like tax and other stuff, but they didn't really treat it like they were trying to help us prepare for the real world versions of it and more so just because it was another exercise in the books that we had to cover as part of our rubric. So we did do it, but it was just another chapter in a book for pretty much everyone.

[Bronies Are Cool]

My school kind of did a home economics lesson.
Basically we kept track of the money we spend each month. Then we add in car expenses, rent, insurance and all sorts of stuff if it's not already there to make it look more realistic. Then we compared all those costs along with potential yearly costs (oil change, vacation, etc) to a projected income.
I used my current income level and I can say that I'm now feeling more secure about living on my own

[Acsii]

For me Home eco was literally just cooking haha. And on the lines of calculus it's super handy, I use it a lot.

[ExoBassTix]

Well I stepped out of secondary school three years early. Can't say I remember anything I've learned regarding economics and maths (except the pythagoras theorem and tiny bits of trigonometry), but I've never ever had any lessons on any school in my life in which the subject was even a little bit about living in this mad big world of ours. Well, maybe except biology. Not sure. Oh and English... I mean come on, Animal Farm.

But well, politics only ever annoys or confuses me, so I don't pay much attention to it. I only really notice anything politics-related when the media decides I should. Another reason why the media can die in a hole and leave it to us.

[Mr. Bigglesworth]

For me Home eco was literally just cooking haha. And on the lines of calculus it's super handy, I use it a lot.

In grade 9 I used to do engineering class, which had alright content but was exclusively full of idiots who shouldn't be allowed near tools of any kind so I switched out and home ec was all that was free and pretty much immediately became the home ec's teacher's least favourite person. I was kind of a little shit back then, I forgot to bring ingredients one day so I came to class and stood sort of just behind people so she didn't know I was there till the class had 5 minutes left. She wasn't very happy about that.

[S.P.P]

In England, I was never taught economics at all. Nor politics, home ex or general studies. The British education system is screwed up in the sense that it teaches you NOTHING useful. I went and did A-level chemistry, biology and psychology, before which secondary school didn't properly equip me for learning advanced chem & bio, let alone real-world "life skills" and knowledge. It's a struggle.

[FLAOFEI]

It's sorta ridiculous how much useless shit we were taught on school, for instance in math, we were taught all kinds of abstract math concepts, but not basic taxes, how to manage your own economy.

My first reaction to this was like "OH HELL NO!!!", cause I'm studdying electrical engineering... and that means I'm studdying some pretty darn abstract shit! If you think derivatives are abstract, you ain't seen nothing yet! I learn and use alot of 'abstract' concepts , and I have to devote a shitload of time and energy on understanding them, so I got a little pissed off when you called them useless...

None the less. I still ask my parents what the hell those wierd letters with big words and alarming (and pretty darn abstract) numbers, telling me things I should probably understand. And after watching that music video I got pretty shocked... cause I realised I don't know human rights...

I also as I wrote this realised that the math I use is only usefull in a select few jobs... So yeah... I get the point.

And I also realised I've spent the last few hours making a parody image for a patch making fun of how crazy a certain mathematical concept is...

Spoiler Spongebob:

[Facade]

thinking about the square root of negative one always made my brain hurt