Oh, if you can't be bothered to get up off of your lazy butt and vote, don't you dare moan about the government afterwards

May 7, 2026 8:40am CST
Oh my god Yvonne said that's a right mouthful. And of course she was right . And also about the title of this post being quite long There's a wee innuendo there that will have the more pious, reading this, ,shifting uncomfortable in his chair as he realises what body building has done to his testicles. That's my last word on that, mini balls!! So today's Scottish Parliament vote. If you don't vote, please don't you dare moan about the outcome or any decision at all made by the winning party in the next 5 years You have no right to complain. Whilst the majority of us went and did our civic duty to elect a government we thought would best serve Scotland You ya selfish bunch of bas***** sat on your sofa playing video games eating takeaway bought with the taxes we paid. Never worked a day in your lives, yet moan about every single issue you think you understand. Like sound bites you learned to mimic whilst your kebab sauce dribbles down onto your trousers, and your kids spread head lice all over the school. You people are Scotland's shame. The people we hope stay indoors and play your Xbox in summer so you don't put thee tourists off of our small but proud nation. So today, the turnout will be approx 50% of those eligible to vote The 50% who care, who work hard or have now retired but had worked hard all their lives, like me and Yvonne. The 50% who can't be bothered , are too lazy, or just too ignorant to appreciate a vote to elect who governs us in a democracy like ours , should be deported somewhere like Afghanistan or North Korea. So when all the free handouts stop , when the welfare payments for kids with so called mental health problems stops, when the Employment service actually make you work for your benefits , when there are no more energy payments or free school meals or uniforms , You might just wish you had voted So with all due respect. STFU already and go and get a job.
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@porwest (112127)
• United States
20h
I think you said it right. If you don't vote, you have no skin in the game and you get what you get. Sure, that may still be the case that you don't get what you want even when you DO vote, but at least you can assert you voted for somethning else. That all said, there are some people who vote I wish would just stay home anyway. Because sometimes I don't get what I wanted because too many idiots showed up to claim their freebies and giveaways.
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20h
Well here they get everything for nothing anyway so they don't bother me in that respect
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@porwest (112127)
• United States
20h
@Ineeddentures You're paying for it though. Handily.
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@lovebuglena (51702)
• Staten Island, New York
18h
Kind of like when I went to vote for mayor of New York City. I did not vote for Mamdani and yet he still became the mayor of the city.
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@lovebuglena (51702)
• Staten Island, New York
18h
Even when you go out to vote, doesn’t mean the right person will get elected.
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@lovebuglena (51702)
• Staten Island, New York
13h
@Ineeddentures I definitely want to have say. However, the idiots that voted for Mamdani screwed it up for the rest of us. And they are not even gonna get what he promised them.
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13h
@lovebuglena The "idiots" (your word to describe people who voted for someone you don't approve of) who voted for Trump, have screwed it up for the rest of us
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18h
Well Lena If you don't go and vote then the less likely it is that the candidate of your choice will be elected And maybe right person for you, is not the right person for a larger majority voting for someone rlse We live in so called democracies, We should vote and have a say Because you wouldn't want to live in a place where you didn't have a say Would you?
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@cuttyrish (3166)
• United States
16h
You’re definitely hitting on a massive point of frustration for a lot of people—the idea that if you don't participate in the process, you lose the right to complain about the results. I always believe in this quote: "Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote"
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@cuttyrish (3166)
• United States
14h
@IneeddenturesHaha thank you, I think I finally stopped fighting the English language. I used to be an academic and legal writer, but i got lazy, and most jobs that i used to when I was in college, was writing jobs.
@cuttyrish (3166)
• United States
13h
@Ineeddentures And the quote above: Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote That was my favorite quote when i took Political Science course. (it's my first course in college) We had a project to increase student voting in school, we needed to print shirts and place that quote theire and give it to students to increase students voting for student body.
15h
I was having a look at your posts from before And felt the need to congratulate you on the elevation of your writing skills Reading how you write now it's like you a different writer entirely
@LadyDuck (500309)
• Italy
20h
Even one vote counts and if you want to have your voice heard it is important to go and to vote. So many do not vote and then complain because another party won.
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@LadyDuck (500309)
• Italy
3h
@Ineeddentures - I know, it's the same everywhere. They do not go to vote but they complain all the time about who won.
18h
Or worse Anna They complain about who ever wins And often these people have no idea because they do not know what party manifesto contains
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@franxav (14537)
• India
20h
I agree with you on that point. Your title is very relevant for me. We voted for our state legislative assembly. Our state West Bengal is a part of India and we voted on April 23 and April 29. To say it in a nutshell, it was a farce of the grandest scale and it was a well planned rigged election, in which the national election commission colluded with the central government party. The political party at the central government has been declared winner but it is quite clear that dishonest means have been used to win. Millions of citizens feel they have been cheated but what can be done about it? News is pouring in that violence has been spreading in different parts of the state.
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18h
Sometimes an uprising of the people is the only way to change things But not using violence What would Ghandi have done?
@LindaOHio (220492)
• United States
Just now
Well put. I vote in every election here in the States.
@crossbones27 (52694)
• Mojave, California
3h
It don't matter here, Trump doing one thing he said he was going to do, finally. Rigging to where only Republicans will win. Gerrymander away said our supreme court, but they even rigged that to where Republicans get advantage over Democrats too. Democrats were playing and winning the Gerrymander laws by actually putting it on the ballot, unlike Texas. Now Republicans can just can draw districts how ever they want with no voter ever having a say. Also why do people always pick on poor people? Poor people do not raise the cost of living, they lower it. Poor people are to poor to rig anything like rich people do. Rich people raise your cost of living to absurd standards and people just like that's how its supposed to work. It makes no sense and they get more welfare than all the poor people on earth. If you want to lower the cost of living make people poor again.
@JudyEv (379412)
• Rockingham, Australia
9h
Voting is compulsory here which isn't a perfect solution but hopefully is a little better than non-compulsory. Maybe more Americans will vote next time around and get the person they'd prefer.