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farraday posted:https://twitter.com/mashable/status/868833075249254400 How I like to imagine the visit went: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrnNKP_xA3A Dog tax best tax 
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farraday posted:Feel free to cite the exact location in the US where there is never any Democrats on a non-presidential ballot ever as per your claim. Any non-statewide race in Texas.
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Transplants into red states could have moved there thinking they'll finally be free to be the racist sack of poo poo they really are.
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Not any. Some. Dems run even in small towns hete for mayor and sherif. Its usually a few state positions that go unopposed.
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JUST MAKING CHILI posted:Any non-statewide race in Texas. Texas legislative elections are concurrent with US federal elections. The statewide governor race is set in federal off years so unless there's no Democrat running for governor, there's always a democrat on the ballot. Try again.
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ToxicSlurpee posted:No. Coats of arms sometimes go back like 1,000 years. Very old families that have their origins in nobility (be they currently nobility or otherwise) tend to have one. These are those wealthy families that have fingers in many pies throughout the world that make up much of the European aristocracy. Trump desperately wants to be in that club but he can't because his family's money is relatively new. No matter how they started, they have been a matter of 'stupid people paying the government money' for at least the last 300 years. http://www.college-of-arms.gov.uk/services/granting-arms
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Wark Say posted:Shinzo Abe, known among some of my bros in Japan as "That loving Goblin", is a well known denier of the crimes Japan has committed in the past, including (but certainly not limited to!) denying that the Rape of Nanking was a thing. Him and Shintaro Ishihara (former governor of Tokyo) are loving awful. Since I have a ton of friends living in Tokyo, Saitama and Chiba, I tend to keep up with Japanese politics. I talked to a guy who has lived in the states for nearly 20 years, and he explained to me why comfort women were just lying Korean whores. I stopped talking to him after that, because ew, wtf. I didn't even bring up all the other atrocities from WWII because that was the moment I realized that he really bought into Japanese nationalism and I felt sad about it. His arguments for Japanese nationalism pretty much mirrored the arguments from Evropa Nation. 
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pumpinglemma posted:There are a whole lot of people itt pretending that if you live in a safe blue state there's no reason to vote. But half the reason we're in so much poo poo is that you didn't just lose the presidency, you lost the House and Senate that could have acted as a check. A lot of blue state non-voters can take their share of the blame for that. And given that they're in blue states, voter suppression is a non-factor - they're just lazy fucks. all my reps and senators are dems.
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RuanGacho posted:Shortcut, protect regulations, persecute corruption. Gay marriage and lovely insurance based healthcare vs. Pretty much all economic activity and foreign policy. But not a right wing empire. Come on, dude.
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Groovelord Neato posted:all my reps and senators are dems. And votes from democrats are what keeps it that way Anyone arguing that votes in states with a dominant party don't matter is insanely loving stupid
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farraday posted:Texas legislative elections are concurrent with US federal elections. The statewide governor race is set in federal off years so unless there's no Democrat running for governor, there's always a democrat on the ballot. You're a loving idiot. I see unopposed races all the time in GA. Its expensive to run a campaign, and entrenched incumbents are almost impossible to beat.
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Buca di Bepis posted:And votes from democrats are what keeps it that way Yeah. If you are able to do so without undue hardship, always go vote -- even if you spoil the ballot after deciding you can't vote for any of the candidates. Encourage friends, family and even strangers to vote. Help people to be able to vote, if you can. Work to create a culture where voting becomes a habit rather than a choice, and every citizen's vote is treated as "in play."
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Tiny Brontosaurus posted:Lock this thread on weekends. Take the site offline on weekends.
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Chilichimp posted:You're a loving idiot. I see unopposed races all the time in GA. Do you not know the difference between a ballot and an unopposed race? Give me your precinct and I'll check for the last one party ballot for you.
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Can't we go back to talking about trump or boars?
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Owlofcreamcheese posted:Can't we go back to talking about trump or boars? Pros of having a boar as president instead: unlikely to have sexually assaulted any humans unlikely to go golfing instead of working likely to prefer eating Russians over working with them Cons: unlikely to actually be 35 years old and thus constitutional amendment needed all communication in grunts that must be interpreted by staffers likely to prefer eating staffers over working with them
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zonohedron posted:Pros of having a boar as president instead: Last one is also not a con.
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zonohedron posted:Pros of having a boar as president instead: Night10194 posted:Last one is also not a con.
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Having a boar for a president would be really tedious.
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The problem with having a boar for prez is that he would be very vulnerable to attacks from crazy Gauls, as demonstrated by Macron.
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a boar? for president? he'd get.... eaten .... ...alive
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rkajdi posted:There's more than just that. Abe wants a real military (not an SDF) and to be allowed to have nuclear weapons. Dude is legit scary, and a lot of people in the US are blind to it because he acts modestly like he's in our corner against China. He is "in our corner" mainly because he wants us to go to war with China and destroy them (and ourselves) so that glorious nippon can assume the mantle of world leader.  Julio Cruz posted:Not to mention what happens if a couple of cell towers in Detroit or Cleveland "coincidentally" go offline on Election Day. That's too obvious, a more simplistic thing would be for some of the numerous human garbage police officers with access to Stingrays finding a way to use them to harvest and modify any votes that happen to pass through them.
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farraday posted:Do you not know the difference between a ballot and an unopposed race? Give me your precinct and I'll check for the last one party ballot for you. Are you aware that unopposed candidates still appear on the ballot? Here, man, 3rd from the top, left column. No democrat candidate. https://www.gwinnettcounty.com/static/departments/elections/2016_Election/11.08.2016_Consolidated_Ballot_Revise_9_16_16.pdf And a staggering number of unopposed. Chilichimp fucked around with this message at 22:06 on May 28, 2017 |
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RuanGacho posted:Language is a limited medium and if we start tearing down ideals that are agnostic in their prescriptions for the greater good of all because someone worse than us said similar things at some point in history then we are left with nothing but nihilism and despair. Cultural, military, and economic influence. I'm honestly not sure what would preclude the United States from being considered an empire at point. Bit of a derail, though.
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AstheWorldWorlds posted:Cultural, military, and economic influence. I'm honestly not sure what would preclude the United States from being considered an empire at point. Not having colonies or offshore commodities owned by the state.
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Gnossiennes posted:I talked to a guy who has lived in the states for nearly 20 years, and he explained to me why comfort women were just lying Korean whores.
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Chilichimp posted:Not having colonies or offshore commodities owned by the state. We had effectively colonial territories, though. And not all empires follow the pattern of aggressively holding subjugated territory over time (well, we actually did this too) as the Athenian and Carthaginian empires, for example, usually relied on a much softer hand. Does it not count as empire if you annex it to some people?
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Maybe we should make boar hunting a requirement for being the prez. Just give them a pistol, a knife , and a boar spear.
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PhazonLink posted:Maybe we should make boar hunting a requirement for being the prez. Something something robert baratheon
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PhazonLink posted:Maybe we should make boar hunting a requirement for being the prez. The Rock 2020.
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PhazonLink posted:Maybe we should make boar hunting a requirement for being the prez. a classic coming of age hunt in the bronze age world
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Mustached Demon posted:The Rock 2020. Rock beats Trump in the primary. Booker wins Dem primary. Contest is between The Rock and Booker in 2020. Rock wins, dazzles the masses with his charisma while the GOP party machine rolls back the bulk of the progressive era. How do you like my political horror fiction?
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farraday posted:Do you not know the difference between a ballot and an unopposed race? Give me your precinct and I'll check for the last one party ballot for you. Nice PM meltdown, why don't you stop being a pedant and acknowledge the possibility of certain districts in the US (mainly rural) being so firmly red that democrats either don't run or have no chance. That is a pretty firm source of voter suppression. I waxed about "voting anyway" a few pages ago, so we are probably on the same side here, but telling someone a ballot condition where no democrats have a chance in the age of scientific gerrymandering seems like a foot-in-mouth kind of statement.
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