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   Joe Crawford (artlung@xoxo.zone)'s status on Friday, 19-Jan-2024 07:55:55 JST Joe Crawford

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   Quoted from: https://medium.com/@cshirky/theres-no-such-thing-as-a-protest-vote-c2fdacabd704 "There’s No Such Thing As A Protest Vote" by Clay Shirky
   6 August 2016

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     Joe Crawford (artlung@xoxo.zone)'s status on Friday, 19-Jan-2024 07:55:56 JST Joe Crawford

     Joe Lieberman, among other jerks, speaking out for a third party US Presidential candidate. Clay Shirky aptly summed up sending this message:

     "But it doesn’t matter what message you think you are sending, because no one will receive it. No one is listening. The system is set up so that every choice other than ‘R’ or ‘D’ boils down to “I defer to the judgement of my fellow citizens.” It’s easy to argue that our system shouldn’t work like that. It’s impossible to argue it doesn’t work like that."

     Annika Backstrom repeated this.