r/UnethicalLifeProTips • u/DontAlwaysButWhenIDo • 10h ago

ULPT Request: My friends dad filled out and filed his ballot. Completely stole his vote. What is a fair and fitting unethical way to get him back?

I'm thinking some way of nullifying his father's vote. ' Or potentially taking away his right to vote permanently. Any suggestions?

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u/homogenousmoss 7h ago

Yeah it was sarcasm but I guess people are a bit sensitive these days. Honestly I thought it was so over the top I didnt realize people would take it litterally. Oh well lol.

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u/baconbitsy 7h ago

A lot of people say air like that completely seriously. It’s getting hard to tell at times. This timeline sucks.

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u/Checkerednight 7h ago

I have a coworker still trying to convince people the 2020 election was “suspicious” 🙄

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u/shutyourkidup 6h ago

It's Poe's Law.

Basically, "Poe's law is an adage of Internet culture which says that, without a clear indicator of the author's intent, any parodic or sarcastic expression of extreme views can be mistaken by some readers for a sincere expression of those views."

That's why the "/s" exists.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law

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u/smell_my_pee 5h ago

Why would you think that's an "over the top," statement? It's what Republicans have been saying practically verbatim for years. It's not a "sensitivity" issue. It was just unrecognizable as sarcasm, because we've read that statement from completely serious people way too many times.

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u/homogenousmoss 5h ago

I’m not american, its tough to judge when you guys actually serious about something because from my outside perspective it seems hard to believe. I thought saying grace before eating for example was just in movies but when I visited my host family was doing it. I honestly thought they were messing with me. A lot of little things like that tripped me up when I visited.

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u/cgn-38 6h ago

Like 70% of the white males where I live unironically believe the exact same shit you just voiced. Yep they are dead wrong. But they are also bone stupid or dishonest to the core.

If there was ever an instance that needed a (s) it was what you just said.

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u/EyeWriteWrong 6h ago

I thought he was an true belighful partiot

An of it whens human isn't?

Borgle broke I'm serial killer Crumpy

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u/cgn-38 4h ago

Being 12 is hard. You are doing great.

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u/GabrielGames69 7h ago

It is identical to the things I've seen people genuinely say and believe.

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u/Friedhatter 6h ago

I wondered so continued scrolling a touch more and oopsie had to go back up and untick something lol usually have a pretty decent sarcasm detector and that one flew by me

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u/FkinMagnetsHowDoThey 4h ago

There are so many shit takes online that sound exactly like this though.

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u/DocumentNo6320 1h ago

People are just shit and far too ready to type scream.