Relevant because at the time of posting to statewide senate racebis separated by less than 100 votes.
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Your OS is a personal choice, you get to choose it for yourself and it neither affects nor is affected by the choices of others. Elections are a collective choice, you get to voice your opinion but the result is decided by consensus, and the result is forced upon you. They are not comparable choices.
You're going to be forced to eat shit no matter which way you vote, at least choose the smaller portion.
Are you implying that my vote isn't my own or that my choice of OS doesn't have real world consequences for other people? OS'es are also a collective choice that dictate software development on the macro level and revenue flows of other people. Will me personally not buying a windows license or a PC preloaded with a license cause layoffs at Microsoft? No, but if enough of us do it will and force Microsoft to change.
Do you think the GOP will change from the Trump/Epstein/Shapiro faction now that they've been resoundly trounced? To early to tell, but it wouldn't have the opportunity to happen at all without them losing. Same thing with the Democrats moving away from the Pelosi style wouldn't have happened without the losses in 2010.
You also missed my qualifier about eating shit. I'm not willingly eating it. If a candidate wants my vote, they have to earn it. I'm not endorsing a giant turd for office
Your vote does nothing individually. You don't get to personally choose your representatives. You vote for who you want, and whichever candidate gets the most votes is the one who represents you, regardless of whether they were your choice.
Your choice in OS is completely individual. You can choose Linux, your neighbor can choose Windows, your other neighbor can choose MacOS, and you all get what you want. It's a different dynamic entirely. Large scale consequences of millions of people choosing one way or another in regards to OS are a completely unrelated phenomenon.
I didn't miss your qualifier, it just isn't a useful qualifier. You can vote your conscience and get force-fed a huge pile of shit, or hold your nose and vote for the smaller pile of shit and maybe get it. You can endorse whoever you want, but you'll be eating shit regardless. And ballots are anonymous, so "endorsement" isn't the right word in the first place.