Comments on: Yesterday, We All Lost

By: Jillian

Jillian — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 22:50:24 +0000

I agree with you, Anne Wynne.

This issue isn't about homosexuality, it's about discrimination.

Discrimination is evil no matter what form it takes. We need to get our minds off what they do in bed (it's none of our business) and fight to eliminate discrimination! While we're at it we need to ask our legislators why we're not controlling marijuana with the *same laws* we use for alcohol.

By: Anne Wynne

Anne Wynne — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 18:11:17 +0000

It is time for us, the straight allies, to stand up and stand with our gay and lesbian friends who are being systematically denied the most basic rights and recognition – the very things we, in the heterosexual world, take for granted day after day.

By: Amanda Hess

Amanda Hess — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 17:06:17 +0000

I'm not convinces that Ruth Samuelson isn't Ernest.

By: Ernest

Ernest — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 16:03:16 +0000

I'm not Ruth but I'll be more than happy to do so.

"Yesterday we all lost" ???.. I wish you got lost, Riggs. Speak for yourself, you uninteresting little, er, non-person.

By: Amanda Hess

Amanda Hess — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 15:23:31 +0000

Ruth Samuelson, please step forward!

By: Reid

Reid — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 15:18:23 +0000

wtf are you doing keeping a registration in Florida?

How can you call yourself a person dedicated to the principles of liberty when you're committing ongoing voter fraud?

I'd love to see a blog post of how many Citypaper staffmembers are refusing to register in DC. Maybe we'd have fewer douchebags like Michael Brown in office if people followed the law and voted where they actually live.

By: Amanda Hess

Amanda Hess — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 14:54:18 +0000

I'm not sure what the ballot initiative has to do with a two-party system. No one's trying to "bully" you into retracting your views, just providing a counterpoint to your combination of not-voting-as-symbolic gesture and not-voting-because-maybe-what-I-want-won't-win. It's easy to bitch about legislation you don't like after the fact, but not only did you not vote---you actually encouraged other people not to vote.

By: David Quinn

David Quinn — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 08:17:55 +0000

You goddam libertarians and your broken window theory. Instead of sitting around bitching about the broken window, why not fix the fucking window? You may not think that your one vote makes a difference, but I'm sure a hell of a lot of people feel that way and don't vote because of it. How different do you think this whole thing would have turned out if all of those people l had actually voted instead of bitching about how little your vote counts. Maybe your vote doesn't count for much, but it still fucking counts for something. It counts way more than the kind of broken down defeatism you're spreading. The people who voted for Amendment 2 may be ignorant, bigoted motherfuckers, but at least they're smart enough to know you can't solve things solely by blogging and bitching about them. Grow up.

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” Yes and No at jamYe waXman. seX matters. - jamYe waXman. seX matters. — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 21:14:01 +0000

[...] we’ve yet to go. Perhaps that’s the yin and yang of the universe. Mike Riggs wrote an easy to read op-ed on the subject today at the Washington City [...]

By: Christopher Allen

Christopher Allen — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 18:16:23 +0000

You should have done what I did Mike. I voted in everything other than the presidential election. While you may claim that my one vote did not make a difference saying that you won't vote is just as good as saying that you are accepting your defeat. In order to truly make progress we must always be relentless in our pursuit of justice and equality both in and outside of the polls. Giving up because you don’t think you’re going to win is an action of surrender. That doesn’t sound like the Mike Riggs that I grew up with.

[On an interesting side note 2/3s Osceola County's local elections were decided by absentee ballot since they have such a large snowbird population.]

By: Mike Riggs

Mike Riggs — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 17:56:16 +0000

I didn't vote because I don't believe in a two-party system, and had I voted against prop 2, it wouldn't have mattered anyway because of where I'm registered (unless you're willing to blame non-voting Republicans for losing DC to Obama). I regret not voting for one specific ballot initiative because doing so would have been ideologically symbolic, while at the same time, politically impotent. While I wish that Prop 2 and various initiatives in other states had failed, I won't be bullied into retracting my views. I was tempted at one point to vote for Obama, but am now glad I didn't. Especially since it was Democrats that made possible the passage of Prop. 2 in Florida.

By: Amanda Hess

Amanda Hess — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 17:00:56 +0000

So ... you didn't vote because after the election was decided and all the votes were counted you found that the people who DID vote in the election disagreed with you?

And you lead with P. Diddy in your tirade against voting.

By: Alexis

Alexis — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 16:33:51 +0000

Isn't not voting always counter-productive? If you would neglect your right to vote because one issue that's important to a certain segment of society wasn't in your opinion adequately addressed...all the friends, lovers, countrymen you reference will never have someone (president or otherwise) who will push forward the initiatives you seek...and would simply embolden the people who reject your needs/wants/ideas in the first place. Vote. People hosed down for doing it 40+ yrs ago didn't abstain just because a dixiecrat was on the ballot and neither should you.

By: Mike Riggs

Mike Riggs — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 16:11:11 +0000

Again, my vote wouldn't have done much in my home county, and I'll admit that I should have restricted my argument to the presidential ticket.

Also, I don't understand the P. Diddy reference.

By: Amanda Hess

Amanda Hess — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 16:07:25 +0000

How can you stand by your reason not to vote? You didn't have to vote in the presidential election. Do you get all your electoral news from P. Diddy? I guess blogging is the new voting.