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syntaxrigger posted:Considering how unhelpful the federal government has been during the pandemic and leaving some governors to their own devices, it would seem to me secession is more likely than it has been in the past BUT I don't ever see that happening. Especially not without bloodshed. maybe not a loud, bloody secession but we're already seeing states band together through side channels to evade the feds when distributing medical supplies and that can't help national cohesion
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Jonny 290 posted:buying AR15s. maybe look into it? I'm tempted to pick up a makarov.
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AnimeIsTrash posted:I'm tempted to pick up a makarov. makarov died after 7 heart attacks which is pretty amazing
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DELETE CASCADE posted:secession is unconstitutional and if a state with significant military presence (ie, all of them) tried it, the feds would absolutely have none of it i saw some f35s flying around today and it was cool as heck, we can still fix america  also hf those things are LOUD
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DELETE CASCADE posted:secession is unconstitutional and if a state with significant military presence (ie, all of them) tried it, the feds would absolutely have none of it countries don’t generally put the terms for breaking up the country in their founding documents but somehow they still find a way
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lol if the f35 doesn't make you think of everything that's wrong with america
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Broken Machine posted:i saw some f35s flying around today and it was cool as heck, we can still fix america
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Progressive JPEG posted:got contactless beer delivery from the essential brewer, in time for the 4 day easter weekend woop oh poo poo I forgot about that gotta get the Easter bunny it’s poo poo together or else the young ones will be going the non-believers
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PCjr sidecar posted:good ole hobby farmers. they don’t make a significant fraction of output or get most of the subsidies but they have a shitload of land 
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haveblue posted:maybe not a loud, bloody secession but we're already seeing states band together through side channels to evade the feds when distributing medical supplies and that can't help national cohesion I am not sure what "national cohesion" means in this sense but if it is basically "people are mad at the federal government" I think that is basically Texas and Louisiana all the time.
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you gotta have huge tracts of land or hundreds of cows to make it in farming genuinely was looking into bug farming. market not quite ready when I was looking plus cash flow and logistics meh so it was back to being paid six nz figgies for excel functions for me
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Displeased Moo Cow posted:you gotta have huge tracts of land or hundreds of cows to make it in farming Banking on dystopia timeline with alternative food sources. I'm IN. Please include crawfish tia.
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Apr 8, 2020 20:37
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i fuckign knew it
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I’m still writing in Bernie Sanders and I’m still going to make sure the Hawaii Democratic Party has MFA as a policy platform and I’m still going to try and go to Milwaukee and make life hell for these dumbass centrists. It’s more work now, but it was always going to be a lot of work. I still respect Bernie but it isn’t about him, it’s about us.
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syntaxrigger posted:Banking on dystopia timeline with alternative food sources. I'm IN. Please include crawfish tia. pretty sure thats a similar setup in mona lisa overdrive in the wastelands of ohio so this sounds like a sound plan
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i kind of wish bern had stayed in until he had 1200 delegates, because then he would get to help set the platform at the dnc, but whatever. i understand why he bowed out due to corona. biden is a demented piece of poo poo tho
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too true, stop, it hurts
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The Fool posted:too true, stop, it hurts https://twitter.com/donni/status/1247729433366183937?s=20
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PIZZA.BAT posted:we have first past the post voting combined with winner take all. this naturally forces politics into a bifurcated system. there are examples out there where this isn't the case but you need significant cultural norms to overcome it. the fact we immediately split into a two-party system and stayed there for centuries pretty much means we're stuck with it unless we completely overhaul how votes are tallied and distribute power Contrast this with reasonable systems using reasonable voting systems - everyone is so polite because they need to work with eachother and form coalitions to govern rather than win primaries - and it actually matters to get support of voters deciding their second/third choice. You know, compromising and stuff.
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now that i've thought about it for the day i'm probably writing in the coronavirus for president
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ah yes aus multiparty ranked choice which has produced (checks notes) a right govt and a center left party in minority and one seat for the greens transformative
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ShadowHawk posted:Oh it gets better than that. Bifurcated parties + primaries + pervasive gerrymandering encourage a very clear "us and them" form of politics. Their loss is your gain. That's why America was virtually alone in "politicizing" whether or not you "believed in coronavirus". italy-parliament-fistfight.gif or the loving uk lib dems teaming up with torys for austerity lol
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PIZZA.BAT posted:i have no lower opinion than people who speed in residential neighborhoods. just pure unadulterated selfishness and ignorance excuse me but traffic on the 80 was so bad and waze told me to take this side street past this school and god damnit i was held up at this stupid light for 15 seconds longer and i gotta make up lost time and gently caress there were also other idiots following waze and backed up traffic at this rando stop sign because idiots wouldn't just roll through it like smarties and and now i turned onto this other residential street and gotta blow through quick to make up all this lost time to get around them before the next intersection and my hemmerhoids are on the verge of popping after sitting in my f350 freedom rancher 9/11 edition truck for 1.2 hrs!!! gently caress u i will never drive slow in residential streets
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the ballot in california for a major position like senate or governor or president has a dozen names of candidates from random rear end political parties that most people have never heard of. they don't get any meaningful amount of votes. millions of californians who would probably struggle to fill in a scantron have somehow trained themselves to scan through all those names, find the one that says DEMOCRATIC next to it, and fill in that box. i seriously doubt that a change to ranked-choice voting would result in any immediate change beyond just putting 1 in the same box
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Shaggar posted:I think once you get through a few elections w/ ranked choice people will get more comfortable with it and not worry about putting preferred candidates above their fallback. shaggar was right
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PCjr sidecar posted:ah yes aus multiparty ranked choice which has produced (checks notes) a right govt and a center left party in minority and one seat for the greens that may reflect more on the australian populace than the process
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fucken hell I have a girl that works under me who is going to break quarantine and spend easter in a coronavirus hotspot and come back to the pharmacy to work next week and I’m terrified of her. like nothing is below her. she’d break into my house and smash my poo poo up if she knew it was me she doesn’t pay income tax does not give a single gently caress about doing the right thing, just the thing that works for her she has a daughter but I think she did whatever it was she could to lose custody on purpose so she could spend more of her life doing whatever it is the gently caress she wants once she was part of a small community gym(that rented part of a building for certain nights a week) and she fundraised some money for a mural but some poo poo happened and they wanted the money for something else and tried to take her to small claims court or some bullshit so while this was happening she out of her own pocket created a gym in the same building at different times of the week but made it free, just to drive the other gym out of business purely out of spite she’s literally the worst person I’ve met and i’m very scared for my own lifestyle if she decides she doesn’t like me I also work alone with her a couple days a week a classic libertarian lol but in great news our health minister broke quarantine twice and destroyed his own career, and was quoted saying in response to all of this “yeah I was a bit of a dick”
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echinopsis posted:fucken hell I have a girl that works under me nice
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I feel like we’re more likely to evolve into some kind of arch-Soviet system of liberal capitalist oligarchy at this point
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lancemantis posted:I feel like we’re more likely to evolve into some kind of arch-Soviet system of liberal capitalist oligarchy at this point but we're there tho
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lancemantis posted:I feel like we’re more likely to evolve into some kind of arch-Soviet system of liberal capitalist oligarchy at this point
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