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zakharov posted:the longstanding (and stupid) American myth of rural people as Real Americans and city dwellers as the other. Would sure be nice if city dwellers didn't hold the inverse belief... Byzantine posted:The minority viewpoint of "i want it to be the 1950s again" should be ignored. I was talking about the civil rights movement, among others in that vein, not white supremacy (which, I agree, is a minority viewpoint that needs extinguishing rather than feeding).
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There's no reason people from rural states should count for more votes. None.
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Dec 20, 2016 04:24
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Dumb question: What's wrong with 1 voter = 1 vote (on national level)?
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TotalLossBrain posted:Dumb question: What's wrong with 1 voter = 1 vote (on national level)? People who think they should get bonus points for living in the middle of nowhere will whine that elections are decided by the places where people actually live.
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TotalLossBrain posted:Dumb question: What's wrong with 1 voter = 1 vote (on national level)? The Republicans would never win the Presidency again.
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Dec 20, 2016 04:34
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Thanks for the great scahdenfreude friends. Maybe a palet clenser 
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This whole election business doesn't seem to be rocket voodoo for the rest of halfway democratic nations 
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Dec 20, 2016 04:39
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Do we have a make fun of moron druggies thread anywhere currently. Used to be one in fyad that was good and one in GBS that went between alright and poo poo. I love moron stories like mayo man.
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Moral of the story is don't sucker-punch a guy in a place filled with people with guns. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=al_OrWywKqo
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UCS Hellmaker posted:Do we have a make fun of moron druggies thread anywhere currently. Used to be one in fyad that was good and one in GBS that went between alright and poo poo. I love moron stories like mayo man. http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3798506
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flosofl posted:They did. They obviously left an opening for precisely this to happen, since the cat easily has access to the interior of the completed tower. It's just a kid being melodramatic.
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Dec 20, 2016 08:58
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Met posted:There's no reason people from rural states should count for more votes. None. But they don't. "Hot drat, I won Vermont!" said no national office seeker ever. The point is rural states have some value. The big prizes are still the most populated states. Proportional awarding of electors is probably the only reform that'd ever pass. If Texas ever goes Blue you can believe Republicans will be all over that.
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Mak0rz posted:I dunno how to embed Facebook videos and I can't find it on YouTube but here: It's kind of funny how both kids got ahead because the other paused thinking they were going to win.
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Whenever I see a paused gif of an animal and a person in a precarious situation without fail the person will end up eating poo poo because of the animal and the animal will emerge unscathed
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Calaveron posted:Whenever I see a paused gif of an animal and a person in a precarious situation without fail the person will end up eating poo poo because of the animal and the animal will emerge unscathed Well yeah. None of us want to see animals getting hurt. We're not monsters.
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Krispy Kareem posted:But they don't.
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Krispy Kareem posted:But they don't. Here are the states that actually decide the election now: Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Michigan, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Wisconsin The rest always go one way or the other, so they are essentially meaningless. The EC has marginalized every other state but those, as you know exactly where their vote lie. Basically we have a system where the overwhelming majority of the united states just flat out doesn't matter. Strudel Man posted:But they do. Rural states have value out of proportion to their actual voting population. Ergo, they count for more votes. I believe he means that the electors are in proportion to the population, and not the current system which is representatives + senators. If you remove the senator number things start to line up a lot more, and every state is worth 2 EC votes less, so the electoral college will drop to 436. 100 less for all states total, and 2 less for DC which gets 3, same as the smallest state. The EC is poo poo and needs to be redone. I'd prefer popular vote so that people as a whole are more likely to vote since it will actually matter.
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Any lawyer goons know who does the pedestrian or his insurance would end up suing here?
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Outrail posted:Any lawyer goons know who does the pedestrian or his insurance would end up suing here? It's Russia, so no one? vvv I thought that was pre-dictatorship and the courts stopped working years ago. vvv Gynocentric Regime has a new favorite as of 22:19 on Dec 20, 2016 |
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Glazier posted:It's Russia, so no one? I thought the proliferation of dash cams in Russia was because of the high number of spurious personal injury suits. So, he sues everyone?
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Sloober posted:Here are the states that actually decide the election now: Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Michigan, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Wisconsin The majority of the land area doesn't matter. The areas that have low electoral votes are the areas where nobody lives. Wyoming has a population of 586,000. That's less than 6 people per square mile, and a smaller population in the entire state than Detroit. Of course Wyoming is going to have less representation than Boston: nobody loving lives there. The only thing a switch to a popular vote will do is prevent cases where the loser of the election manages to get the presidency handed to them anyway because of how the system is set up. Dirt doesn't vote. People do.
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chitoryu12 posted:The majority of the land area doesn't matter. The areas that have low electoral votes are the areas where nobody lives. Wyoming has a population of 586,000. That's less than 6 people per square mile, and a smaller population in the entire state than Detroit. Of course Wyoming is going to have less representation than Boston: nobody loving lives there. The only thing a switch to a popular vote will do is prevent cases where the loser of the election manages to get the presidency handed to them anyway because of how the system is set up.
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Blizzard just released an Overwatch comic which revealed that Tracer is in a relationship with a woman. Some real good schadenfreude with nerds exploding in rage on the official Overwatch forums.
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TotalLossBrain posted:This whole election business doesn't seem to be rocket voodoo for the rest of halfway democratic nations Seems to you, because you are ignorant. I'm from Australia and I can tell you we don't have a single popular vote for control of the country. There are very few nations who do. My country votes by district to select the members of the house of representatives, then by state to select the senate members. The leader of the victorious party becomes the prime minister, but the only people that vote directly for him/her are the people in his/her district. Also a member may fail to win the popular vote in their district but still be elected by being handed voting preferences from minority parties. If neither of the major parties can form a majority government then they must broker coalitions with independents and minor party representatives and form a minority government. This is every bit as weird and voodoo as the poo poo you're complaining about. I'm sure it's the same elsewhere in the developed world.
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chitoryu12 posted:The majority of the land area doesn't matter. The areas that have low electoral votes are the areas where nobody lives. Wyoming has a population of 586,000. That's less than 6 people per square mile, and a smaller population in the entire state than Detroit. Of course Wyoming is going to have less representation than Boston: nobody loving lives there. The only thing a switch to a popular vote will do is prevent cases where the loser of the election manages to get the presidency handed to them anyway because of how the system is set up. Do you not get that giving a minimum number of EC votes means that people in those states have more powerful votes?
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Sloober posted:I fairly sure you missed the point I was making but alright. I wasn't talking at all about land area just that the only votes that matter now are the swing States Those swing states only matter because the 3 biggest states vote so consistently. As soon as NY, CA, or TX comes into play again the whole balance changes. And Texas is probably going to come into play in another decade. This probably isn't a schadenfreude topic though.
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BJPaskoff posted:Blizzard just released an Overwatch comic which revealed that Tracer is in a relationship with a woman. Some real good schadenfreude with nerds exploding in rage on the official Overwatch forums. Ahaha, loving gamers. Seemingly 90%+ of Overwatch fanart and poo poo has been lesbian porn, but this is suddenly a bridge too far.
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Leon Einstein posted:Do you not get that giving a minimum number of EC votes means that people in those states have more powerful votes? That's literally what I'm criticizing?
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chitoryu12 posted:That's literally what I'm criticizing? You all seem to be agreeing with each other so I'm not sure what's going on here.
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Perestroika posted:Ahaha, loving gamers. Seemingly 90%+ of Overwatch fanart and poo poo has been lesbian porn, but this is suddenly a bridge too far. The weirdos jerking off to head canon porn aren't the weirdos wetting themselves about it existing.
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Since when do shooter characters have personalities? Why is there erotic fan fiction about them? Why am I so old?
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zakharov posted:Since when do shooter characters have personalities? Why is there erotic fan fiction about them? Why am I so old? Oh we have such sights to show you.  Overwatch is a very...odd example though. Porn being made of games is nothing new, but the sheer volume of it surrounding Overwatch is absolutely insane - couple this with bickering over who fucks who and you've got a really uptight, volatile fanbase. I stopped reading the goon thread because it started spilling over into there; only so many times you can see ~ironically~ posted titty fan art before it starts getting weird.
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poptart_fairy posted:The weirdos jerking off.... Speaking of which:  to a degree.http://deadspin.com/security-guard-appears-to-be-masturbating-near-cheerlea-1790317271 Edit - it's safe for the security guard though. He got the ol' insta-fired.
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BJPaskoff posted:Blizzard just released an Overwatch comic which revealed that Tracer is in a relationship with a woman. Some real good schadenfreude with nerds exploding in rage on the official Overwatch forums.  I never loving learn. That whole forum needs to be killed by fire.
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I can honestly say that anyone that self identifies as a gamer throws immediate red flags about what "issues" are important to them
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I will jerk off at work AND NOBODY WILL SUSPECT. Reminded of the care assistant that was fired after recording herself doing strip tease poo poo with her phone while performing care for a dementia patient (trying to find it just brings up similar examples outside of the UK which...is even more depressing). Like, what the hell are you thinking trying to pull that off? What is going through your head? 
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