• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    “I never vote for, only against.” – W.C. Fields in a rare serious moment.

    Something I take to heart. I will never get a candidate who represents everything I stand for, but there will always be one who represents less of what I stand for than the other.

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      3 months ago

      I saw something similar recently along the lines of:

      Voting isn’t a love-letter to a candidate; it’s a chess move.

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        3 months ago

        Great quote. Also, love your username. SQL injection vibes.

        Edit: Went in search of more info about this quote and thought I’d share what I found:

        “A vote is a chess move, not a valentine.”

        • Rebecca Solnit

        It’s a summarized version of the writer’s idea/turn of phrase she often brought up in her writing around the 2016 election.

        Here’s her November 2016 article from The Nation.

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          3 months ago

          In reality is just results in being @'d regularly in tech-related groupchats when people post error messages.