:vote: :maybe-later-kiddo:

  • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    This might be on several layers of irony. Often the joke is Calvin will say stuff that's correct but framed wrong or he'll say it in an annoying way. Or Calvin will represent a vehicle for frustration or spite. I read this comic as something like ironic frustration with voting, not literal.

  • D61 [any]
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    2 years ago

    The majority of people aren't super informed and don't vote in the USA though.

    Its much easier to complain and criticize than to take the risk of deciding to do something when there isn't complete information and any failure will be hung on around your neck.

    So, maybe this is less cringe than than it first seems.

    • came_apart_at_Kmart [he/him, comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      of course, voting is only one of the things Calvin lists that he won't do, which includes "not follow complex issues". but any time someone says, "hey, vote also" there's always this big pushback against everything said.

      "people should vote" is not the same thing as "people should only vote", but conflating the two allows one to remove what amounts to a relatively small errand once every few years and rebrand laziness as cleverness.

      voting isn't cringe. if voting was completely useless, they wouldn't keep trying to stop black people from doing it. and whenever i go in to push buttons, aside from whatever spectacle big ticket BS is going on, there are about a dozen other local things going on that deserve attention.

      but some people just want to be edgy and act like ignoring whatever little power they have within electoralism is The Only Real Leftism ™️

      • Abraxiel
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        2 years ago

        If you ever enter a polling location, you get Havana syndrome that makes you a lib.

        Yeah, but really, everyone here should still vote. It's not very hard.

      • D61 [any]
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        2 years ago

        but any time someone says, “hey, vote also” there’s always this big pushback against everything said.

        Oh yeah, there's the chunk of nay-sayers who take the term "anti-electoralism" to justify never voting in the elections of a liberal democracy.

        Also, Calvin is a literal child and is repeating what big brained adults say, both with way more confidence that they deserve to have. A part of me really wants to think there's an important message in that combination.

  • fishnwhistle420 [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    In America you can either be pro-Ukraine war or you’re “uninformed” there’s no other option.

  • 7bicycles [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    This comic is older than 30 years. It'd have been a dumb take back then, too, for all intents and purposes, but nowhere near as dumb as it is today

  • Cromalin [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    nah, this is talking about a specific type of guy. not that it isn't kind of cringe, but it's not too bad