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Yeah I think we get a perception and political unrest in this country but I have found probably 4 out of 5 people don't care about politics at all.
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Redczar posted:100% red-blooded citizen of the United States You can't import that amount of ignorance.
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Nov 6, 2014 17:30
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I'm 27 years old and almost nobody I know voted yesterday. Honestly I can't really blame them, and I say that as someone who voted.
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Nov 6, 2014 17:37
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If you think I'm going to pass on the chance to get a sticker FOR FREE, you are dumb. That's how I got hooked on the civic duty.
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Nov 6, 2014 17:44
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Haha in my government class in college the professor said that the reason our country is so great is because no one feels the need to vote because things will work out either way. He said we should only worry if a lot of people vote.
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Nov 6, 2014 18:06
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Was he white? If so, then he's probably right about that.
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Nov 6, 2014 18:20
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Most people I know are old and white so of course they all voted.
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Nov 6, 2014 18:29
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How do you not notice there's an election? Over here in socialist hellhole, we all get mailed a little ticket-thingie that we have to bring to the polling place, so if nothing else, we get that as a notification that "hey, it's time to vote for [whatever] on [date]". On the other hand, America is hosed up, so I guess I shouldn't be surprised.
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Nov 6, 2014 18:38
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BonHair posted:How do you not notice there's an election? Most of the time it doesn't really matter to be honest. Edit: A lot of this election cycle was republicans and democrats trying really hard to prove they weren't Obama. When both parties have the same position, it's easy to just sort of tune that poo poo out.
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Nov 6, 2014 18:47
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"In America you're free to be stupid" ~ John Kerry. In my wife's home country they fine you if you don't vote and they dip everyone's finger in ink after they've voted. If they see someone on the streets without ink they haul his rear end to the polls.
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Nov 6, 2014 18:57
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BonHair posted:How do you not notice there's an election? Over here in socialist hellhole, we all get mailed a little ticket-thingie that we have to bring to the polling place, so if nothing else, we get that as a notification that "hey, it's time to vote for [whatever] on [date]". On the other hand, America is hosed up, so I guess I shouldn't be surprised. In the US we don't have little tickets, we know it's election season when we can't turn on the TV or watch a video on the internet without seeing political ads that tell us it's time to choose between "the one who wants to release all of the serial rapists from prison" and "the one who wants to murder all the poor people".
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BonHair posted:How do you not notice there's an election? Over here in socialist hellhole, we all get mailed a little ticket-thingie that we have to bring to the polling place, so if nothing else, we get that as a notification that "hey, it's time to vote for [whatever] on [date]". On the other hand, America is hosed up, so I guess I shouldn't be surprised. Trying to keep people from voting/feeling like voting is literally the entire Republican strategy over here. The country is much further left on average than our politics shows, but if that was actually represented by the polls both parties would be hosed. So they stoop to petty bickering while only really being different on a few social issues. gently caress this God-damned country 
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Nov 6, 2014 19:06
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Triskelli posted:Trying to keep people from voting/feeling like voting is literally the entire Republican strategy over here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=145Y8wG0Q2w Now that's fresh!
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Nov 6, 2014 19:35
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Sephiroth_IRA posted:"In America you're free to be stupid" ~ John Kerry. Here in Illinois, we just elected a completely untested Republican governor who's never been in public office before. A loving investment banker defeated the incumbent Democrat in a blue state. We also said "yes" to the millionaires' tax and "yes" to raising our state minimum wage. Our governor-elect is a millionaire that would be subject to the tax increase, and he also specifically said in the months prior to election that there was no way the minimum wage was getting increased if he won. Americans are great at decision-making edit: at least he's never been indicted, which is something our two last elected governors can't say 
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Nov 6, 2014 19:59
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GOTTA STAY FAI posted:Here in Illinois, we just elected a completely untested Republican governor who's never been in public office before. Honestly, I'm not sure that's such a bad thing. Would be nice to have someone who isn't a career politician (yet).
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GOTTA STAY FAI posted:edit: at least he's never been indicted, which is something our two last elected governors can't say This is Illinois we're talking about, and the GA is still dominated by Democrats. Give it time, he'll either get dirty(er) or get nothing done.
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Nov 6, 2014 20:29
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BonHair posted:How do you not notice there's an election? Over here in socialist hellhole, we all get mailed a little ticket-thingie that we have to bring to the polling place, so if nothing else, we get that as a notification that "hey, it's time to vote for [whatever] on [date]". On the other hand, America is hosed up, so I guess I shouldn't be surprised. My city sends out postcards and puts up signs all over public spaces (in the parks, front lawns of city buildings, etc.) and voter turnout is really high. So much of this stuff is local here.
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Nov 6, 2014 20:35
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I never got why the democrats don't just go ten steps left and cash in on that sweet youth/black/hispanic vote. Also why they don't try to reform the system to allow for more parties, most of which would probably be leftist and end up supporting democrat policies.
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BonHair posted:I never got why the democrats don't just go ten steps left and cash in on that sweet youth/black/hispanic vote. Also why they don't try to reform the system to allow for more parties, most of which would probably be leftist and end up supporting democrat policies. Because Democrats are, as a party, milquetoast corporatists who are afraid of change and their vote share going to literally anyone else. 
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Nov 6, 2014 21:12
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The reality is that both major parties think (with good reason) that they've got nothing to gain and everything to lose if they were to switch over from the winner-takes-all election system we have now to, say, a proportional representation system that some parliamentary systems use (if your party wins at least a certain percent of votes, you get a rep).
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Nov 6, 2014 21:25
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BonHair posted:Also why they don't try to reform the system to allow for more parties, most of which would probably be leftist and end up supporting democrat policies. Not an American, but I presume that competition is not something any political party would like. Yes they'd probably support them, but a vote for Theoretical Party is one less vote for the next closest one.
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Nov 6, 2014 21:28
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BonHair posted:I never got why the democrats don't just go ten steps left and cash in on that sweet youth/black/hispanic vote. White America is still pretty racist (less so with younger white people, but big enough that it's still a factor), America is so poo poo at talking about race that saying something someone did is racist will make moderates flock to them and say "um no you're the real racist", blacks and Hispanics don't really have any party they can turn to other than minor fringe parties so catering to them particularly hard seems (to more cynical Dems) be a wasted effort. quote:Also why they don't try to reform the system to allow for more parties, most of which would probably be leftist and end up supporting democrat policies. Both parties in America rely on being coalitions of lots of conflicting factions; Objectivist Libertarians/Religious Right for Republicans, and pseudo-socialists/classic Liberals for Democrats are two big examples. Allowing lots of new parties in disrupts that pretty hard. Election reform would need the Democrats to be convinced the Republicans will fracture more than they will, and frankly I'd say the GOP has the better brand still.
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Yeah, the whole thing with Rauner is he hasn't been indicted on anything YET. There's plenty he could be/should have been indicted on.
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A caller on C-SPAN called Obama the n-word, so I immediately went to Facebook to see the stupid. Public page so too bad for Sandra. 
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Nov 6, 2014 22:14
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She makes a good point, maybe that guy was so fed up with the race card being pulled that he called the president a friend of the family ironically. That's a thing right?
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Nov 6, 2014 22:29
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In the 2012 election Indiana voted a guy for senator who didn't live in Indiana. It can always be worse.
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Having facebook comments counts, right? A longtime family friend shared this and my mom commented she'd "rather be fat than miserable" (as a former fat, there's no difference  ), and the comments on this article are gloriously in-denial fatfolk.
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Yo, you may have gotten past the fat thing, but it looks like you still have the miserable part... Besides, that fat lady gave us the greatest gift of all: pictures of grown adults gawking like fools. (Though, honestly, in the bathing suit ones, they may just be momentarily blinded by the sun reflecting off her pale, pale body.)
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TrekBek posted:Yo, you may have gotten past the fat thing, but it looks like you still have the miserable part... Baby steps 
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BonHair posted:I never got why the democrats don't just go ten steps left and cash in on that sweet youth/black/hispanic vote. Also why they don't try to reform the system to allow for more parties, most of which would probably be leftist and end up supporting democrat policies. Because as individuals the politicians benefit a hell of a lot more from some cushy post-politics job at an investment bank than they do from just winning.
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Nov 7, 2014 00:18
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Day by day, friend. In more "people being stupid with their actual names attached" news, apparently a second Silk Road was shut down. 
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Nov 7, 2014 00:22
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Computer, initiate "fight back" pro to call.
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Nov 7, 2014 00:25
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TrekBek posted:Day by day, friend. Mess with my firewall and you're gonna get burned!
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Met posted:
You can't post Carrot Facts and not also include at least one of his tweets where he doesn't even mention carrots and instead mentions how much he misses Megan!
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A guy in Canada was fired from being a kids hockey coach because he posted Nazi poo poo all over his Facebook. http://www.si.com/nhl/2014/11/05/you-cant-be-nazi-and-coach-kids-hockey quote:Sandau, 33, insists he's not a Nazi, just "a big history buff" who says that millions died because of typhus and not the Holocaust. In fact, he claims "the Germans were actually doing their best to save the lives" of those victims. His page is gone now, but the internet will never forget.  
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dijon du jour posted:In the US we don't have little tickets, we know it's election season when we can't turn on the TV or watch a video on the internet without seeing political ads that tell us it's time to choose between "the one who wants to release all of the serial rapists from prison" and "the one who wants to murder all the poor people". The worst is all the junk mail, I swear I was throwing away at least ten of those "my opponent is a communist/kills kittens/forgot  " cards a day. My favorite was one calling out our incumbent Assemblymember on supporting/not supporting a particular controversial issue... followed by a rebuttal card pointing out that he wasn't even in office then. It's like high school gossiping, I swear.I can't vote since I'm not a citizen yet, but my fiance has worked at the polls for the last two elections and holy poo poo are those things badly run. They put her completely in charge of the polling station and all the workers for her first ever time working there. All she had was a day of training and a phone number to call if she got stuck (which only picked up one out of five times). She did a great job with what she had, but she vowed never, ever to let them put her in a supervisory position again. It's like nobody gave an actual gently caress about the process. Which sadly, doesn't surprise me. 
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Otana posted:It's like nobody gave an actual gently caress about the process. Which sadly, doesn't surprise me. Depending upon which precinct the polling place is, that might be a feature and not a bug.
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Otana posted:The worst is all the junk mail, I swear I was throwing away at least ten of those "my opponent is a communist/kills kittens/forgot I'm really not a violent person, but I would 100% fully support the use of mace on the people who write that poo poo. All the little Karl Rove wannabes and the candidates that sign off on it.
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