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If you don’t have a seat at the table; you ARE the menu. 

If you don’t have a seat at the table; you ARE the menu — the American political reality that proves REPRESENTATION MATTERS!!!!

Another version of this saying is “If you don’t have a seat at the table; then you are on the menu.” Meaning: there are a lot of people who are going to get rights, privileges, and tax cuts at the expense of front line workers and people living on the margins.

This is most easily seen in areas where both gerrymandering and redistricting are used to disenfranchise minority voters.

Another area where this is seen is in the backlash against a woman’s right to choose. As of September 9th 2023, the young women coming of age in my family have fewer reproductive and healthcare options than did the generation that crossed into womanhood ahead of them.

Representation Matters and if you don’t have a seat at the table you are on the menu; indeed, if you don’t have a seat at the table you ARE the menu!
Representation matters: If you don’t have a seat at the table; you ARE the menu.
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Seattle University 

Seattle University is a small, quaint, Jesuit college located in a shithole ghetto section of Seattle and attended by students who couldn't make the bar for University of Washington but wanted to hang out in Seattle's depressing weather anyway because they mistakenly thought Seattle would be a great place to live.
Dude, I heard you didn't make it into UW.

Yeah but I can still hang with you in Seattle's depressing fucking weather 'cause Seattle University let me in. Hopefully that rain doesn't drive us to suicide.
Seattle University by Smack Baby September 14, 2011
I arrive in to SeaTac at 6pm.
SeaTac by Matt Weller February 5, 2007

If you don't have a seat at the table; you are on the menu. 

If you don't have a seat at the table; you are on the menu. — A statement used in minority communities to reflect the reality that representation matters.
Vote for people who represent you and represent your interest because: If you don't have a seat at the table; you are on the menu.
1) Along with the courts, the main governing body of the Galactic Republic that Supreme Chancellor Sheev Palpatine of Naboo embodies.
2) An government entity possessing the unlimited power.

3) A man too dangerous to be left alive.
"I am the Senate." - Palpatine, the Senate
"Not yet." - Mace Windu, blinded by arrogance
"It's treason, then." - Palpatine, readying himself to do a 920 degree backflip spin from the prone position to stab three worthless Jedi masters while screeching
Senate by FullHonestTruth November 29, 2017

the senate 

The man that has amassed so much power in the government that he alone embodies the government.

ex: Sheev Palpatine