Journal of Other Forum Analysis (Volume II, Issue 1)

[Eric Cartman]

Intentionally not voting is resigning that you do not care which candidate will win. It's a full endorsement of either policy.

Say you and I go to a restaurant. Like an American joint.

And I say to you, "You can only have a burger or pasta."

Pretend for a second that you have little agency in this weird sudden relationship of ours to simply order a third option. No. Your choices are a burger or pasta. Also pretend that you don't like either choice (you could very well not like either but I don't know your palate.)

And you say to me "If that's the case, I'm not eating tonight."

Does this mean, then, you actually like burgers and pasta? Or does it mean you've disavowed both choices?

Let's go further and say I order the burger for you. Is this a statement about your personal preference for a burger over pasta (just because you dislike both doesn't mean you can't rank them still.) Does this mean you cannot complain about the awful smell of the burger in front of you now?

Does.... does Nepenthe not even comprehend how restaurants work?

If you don't like whats on menu, you don't stand around in the middle of the restaurant lecturing everyone on how shit the restaurant is and trying to organise a pod to go into the kitchen and make your own menu, or bitch how all the restaurants are in cahoots because they all offer recognisably human food when you really fucking want dog biscuits drenched in blood with a side of cockroaches or some other shit unpalatable to the majority of restaurant clientele.

you fuck off somewhere else and live with the regret of your stupid fucking choices.