What’s the reasoning for mandatory voting?

As human beings, our interests, philosophies, politics, etc, yes.

As workers in a job, not so much. The analogy works in that scenario. We all conform, to varying degrees, to the groups that we join. Especially when that group is your full time employ, where you spend most of your time and gain most of your money.

There’s a HBO show called The Wire that is amazing, and I would recommend to anyone to watch, but particularly to yourself because “Simon has said that despite its framing as a crime drama, the show is “really about the American city, and about how we live together. It’s about how institutions have an effect on individuals. Whether one is a cop, a longshoreman, a drug dealer, a politician, a judge or a lawyer, all are ultimately compromised and must contend with whatever institution to which they are committed.”[5]”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wire

Trailer: https://youtu.be/1S5khOZ1wBs

Warning: it is slow paced, it’s more like reading a book on your screen than watching a traditional TV show, but it’s worth it

Are you me?

I had a very similar experience, except it involved them running after me and trying to punch me in the face, after I’d walked 5 minutes down the street.

Then a few weeks later they messaged an “apology” saying we’re both to blame that things got out of hand.

Fuck Trump, fuck Farage, fuck Republicans, fuck Reform, fuck racists, fuck hatred, fuck intolerance. I just want my dumb, funny, stoner friend back, but that’s not possible now that he’s a hate filled arsehole.

Iran is authoritarian and brutal but this is the first I’m hearing of genocidal.

Got any examples I can look up?

The uploader has not made this video available in your country.

Rude.

Frustrated, modern (whatever that means in this context), professional, and yet, still willing to point a gun at peaceful civilian protestors.

The jackboot is coming down on your head, but at least it’s polished, neatly tied, and only coming down hard enough to knock you out, not kill you.

They’re representative politicians in a supposed representative democracy.

The word representative means they are there in place of “the people” because you can’t expect everyone to read and fully understand everything.

That is therefore the politician’s job. They are not supposed to have people to summarise the bill for them. They are meant to understand it and determine whether to vote yes or no based on the needs and requirements of their constituents.

If the bill is too long or complex then they should vote no until they can understand the whole thing.

In the opposite of The Simpsons Governator, they are meant to read, not to lead!

They are different. They’re more racist, xenophobic, and (surprisingly, it’s possible) more incompetent.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_controversies

Eh…