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LifeSizePotato posted:my problem is that the parties that most closely fit my beliefs are utterly contemptible mouthbreathing morons when it comes to one of my most rewarding hobbies. Just say guns dude. and who gives a poo poo, gun control is completely dead in this country.
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Nov 5, 2014 23:27
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LifeSizePotato posted:my problem is that the parties that most closely fit my beliefs are utterly contemptible mouthbreathing morons when it comes to one of my most rewarding hobbies. Have you tried being an adult and weighing the less of two evils, then voted on this ideal to prevent the greater evil from taking power?
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Nov 5, 2014 23:27
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Big Beef City posted:The choice is quite clear. i know you're being ironic, but yes. the democrats are not going to change if they keep winning seats despite ignoring their voter base. i wanted them to lose the senate and i want them to lose everything in 2016 unless they get their act together because that party is a farce.
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Nov 5, 2014 23:28
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Cubey posted:i know you're being ironic, but yes. the democrats are not going to change if they keep winning seats despite ignoring their voter base. i wanted them to lose the senate and i want them to lose everything in 2016 unless they get their act together because that party is a farce. It seems you're an idiot, friend!
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Nov 5, 2014 23:29
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lets all be friends. together. as a people
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Nov 5, 2014 23:30
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Big Beef City posted:It seems you're an idiot, friend! you're right lets keep voting them in so we can keep the status quo of nothing getting done, terrible fiscal policies etc. i'd rather let the republicans run poo poo while the democrats completely fall apart and a new group of people take over because the democrats we have now loving suck poo poo. just a reminder that the republicans spent the last two years self-destructing and yet they still demonstrated that they understand their voting base better than the democrats.
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Nov 5, 2014 23:30
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Very unpopular governor here got re-elected 50 to 49% on the back of our state being red as hell. If only there was some political system most of the rest of the world used that was able to apportion power based on actual ratio of support instead of a binary win/loss total..
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Nov 5, 2014 23:31
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Big Beef City posted:Have you tried being an adult and weighing the less of two evils, then voted on this ideal to prevent the greater evil from taking power? nah, i'd rather be a dumb child but keep my guns.
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Nov 5, 2014 23:32
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Big Beef City posted:Have you tried being an adult and weighing the less of two evils, then voted on this ideal to prevent the greater evil from taking power? lol
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Nov 5, 2014 23:32
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ugh, you didn't degrade yourself utterly by voting against your closely held beliefs? you're a loving child.
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Nov 5, 2014 23:33
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A Stupid Baby posted:Very unpopular governor here got re-elected 50 to 49% on the back of our state being red as hell. If only there was some political system most of the rest of the world used that was able to apportion power based on actual ratio of support instead of a binary win/loss total.. if we adopted a system like this it would go a very long way to curing voter apathy, however both parties stand to benefit way too much fromn the current system for this to ever be an even slight possibility.
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Nov 5, 2014 23:34
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Awfully ableist of you, OP. Heh, yeah, let me just 'get out' and 'vote', as if that were a thing. Heh. Heh. *Makes 1000 tumblr posts on Lena Durman while country burns*
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Nov 5, 2014 23:34
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Big Beef City posted:Have you tried being an adult and weighing the less of two evils, then voted on this ideal to prevent the greater evil from taking power? lmao this post
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Nov 5, 2014 23:34
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Chinatown posted:lmao this post Excuse me but that was a rather well thought-out and reasoned position. Your callous rebuttal has no place here.
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Nov 5, 2014 23:36
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Big Beef City posted:The choice is quite clear. It seems like if we keep voting D just cause they're not R then we're going to end up with a right and far right party to choose from in our lifetime.
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Nov 5, 2014 23:37
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ArbitraryC posted:Won't voting for dems strictly as the "not republican" just encourage them to keep moving farther right (as they have been for years) because they have no reason to pander to me? By not voting for them to the point where it costs them elections (as it did this time), shouldn't that send the message that they have lost touch with their base? there have been contentious and tedious 500-page threads in d&d about this verdict imo: do what floats your boat
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Nov 5, 2014 23:38
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Big Beef City posted:Excuse me but that was a rather well thought-out and reasoned position. Your callous rebuttal has no place here. 
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Nov 5, 2014 23:38
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Reminder that if you voted for the losers yesterday like an idiot you wasted 2-3 hours of fappy time.
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Nov 5, 2014 23:39
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Baba Ganoush posted:Reminder that if you voted for the losers yesterday like an idiot you wasted 2-3 hours of fappy time. i fapped in the poll booth tyvm (both times)
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Nov 5, 2014 23:40
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ArbitraryC posted:Won't voting for dems strictly as the "not republican" just encourage them to keep moving farther right (as they have been for years) because they have no reason to pander to me? By not voting for them to the point where it costs them elections (as it did this time), shouldn't that send the message that they have lost touch with their base? Let me get this straight. Your argument for not voting Democrat is: "Voting Democrat will just swing them more Republican; so it's better to NOT vote Democrat and let the Republicans win to prove a point that America want's more liberal 'D's on the ballot." You're a loving idiot, my friend.
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Nov 5, 2014 23:40
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ArbitraryC posted:Won't voting for dems strictly as the "not republican" just encourage them to keep moving farther right (as they have been for years) because they have no reason to pander to me? By not voting for them to the point where it costs them elections (as it did this time), shouldn't that send the message that they have lost touch with their base? the problem is that every time the democrats lose, they go further right anyway so really the only answer is that the party needs to collapse and be completely replaced. also we are already at the point where we only have a right and a far right party to choose from.
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Nov 5, 2014 23:40
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Big Beef City posted:Have you tried being an adult and weighing the less of two evils, then voted on this ideal to prevent the greater evil from taking power? JFC this bullshit is exactly why we're stuck with a slightly-centerish-right party and a nutjob-right party. Get this through your loving skulls: when you vote for the lesser of two evils, you're voting for evil
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Nov 5, 2014 23:41
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Family friend is going to have to "get out" of the state now and "move back to Alaska where her son used to be stationed" because "even a state Redder than Kansas" actually provides "healthcare for people with 25% lung function and one good eye" so she can "live out her final years in good health but completely isolated from any of her family or friends". But one of the parties has successfully turned every election into some kind of extreme referendum on abortion or gays or mexicans, all issues that literally cannot be legislated on and can only be very slowly changed by electing a president and hoping some justices kick but it prevents people from electing non-fuckups into office if they don't hold the right religous views.
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Nov 5, 2014 23:42
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*sassy black woman voice* big beef city mad as hell
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Nov 5, 2014 23:42
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Sentient Data posted:JFC this bullshit is exactly why we're stuck with a slightly-centerish-right party and a nutjob-right party. Get this through your loving skulls: when you vote for the lesser of two evils, you're voting for evil write in Stalin, then. Just vote.
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Nov 5, 2014 23:42
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lmao if you voted and didnt write in "DEEZ NUTZ" for every candidate. literally lmao.
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Nov 5, 2014 23:43
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Big Beef City posted:write in Stalin, then. Just vote. I did vote for a third party, I'm just pissed at all the people who vote for the main two out of some defeatist or local sports team attitude
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Nov 5, 2014 23:43
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Chimera-gui posted:The only reason I'm unwilling to vote is cause my mother is trying to force to vote for Rob Wittman and Ed Gillespie. Chimera-gui posted:She'd ask me who I voted for though so voting anything but those two is not an option.
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Nov 5, 2014 23:44
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Nov 5, 2014 23:46
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you can actually exercise a lot of personal agency in your own life regardless of who your rep is and don't give me that privilege poo poo you dopey spoiled fucks
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Nov 5, 2014 23:47
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opting out of the political process is loving awesome, the only thing caring about politics does for you is make you insufferable and depressed.
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Nov 5, 2014 23:48
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fanged wang posted:opting out of the political process is loving awesome, the only thing caring about politics does for you is make you insufferable and depressed. what if i'm already insufferable and depressed?
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Nov 5, 2014 23:49
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fanged wang posted:opting out of the political process is loving awesome, the only thing caring about politics does for you is make you insufferable and depressed.
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Nov 5, 2014 23:49
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The only effective way to vote is with where you spend you money actually. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBwAxmrE194 fanged wang posted:opting out of the political process is loving awesome, the only thing caring about politics does for you is make you insufferable and depressed. 
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Nov 5, 2014 23:50
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LifeSizePotato posted:there have been contentious and tedious 500-page threads in d&d about this
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Nov 5, 2014 23:51
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Harald posted:this but unironically it's almost as if its a sham
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Nov 5, 2014 23:51
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Big Beef City posted:Let me get this straight. so you should vote republican in order to get them to go left actually
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Nov 5, 2014 23:52
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You have three options: Sit on a large penis Sit on a smaller penis Don't sit on a penis.
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Nov 5, 2014 23:52
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ArbitraryC posted:Can you summarize the stance of people who still think you should vote D as a lesser of two evils option? I mean I get that's preferable to a Republican majority in the short term but I really can't see how its not a dumb plan long-term. We're already hitting the point where a lot of D candidates are basically just Republicans in support of gay marriage or other social issues. not really, i don't care enough so i don't know. i just wish i could in good conscience vote for some sort of socialist party that doesn't think i'm a backwards murder fetishist redneck because i like guns
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Nov 5, 2014 23:54
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