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Dixie Cretin Seaman
Jan 22, 2008

all hat and one catte
Hot Rope Guy

Elephant Ambush posted:

I'd like them to see the error of their ways and learn a lesson and become better people but there's a higher chance of them sawing their own heads off.

they will blame their problems on immigrants and cosmopolitan elites in an accelerating spiral of decline that usually ends in genocide and national destruction. fortunately for america their pool of potential brownshirt conscripts exhibit abnormally high rates of opioid dependence, diabetes, and age-related frailty/dementia

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funeral home DJ
Apr 21, 2003


Pillbug

Dixie Cretin Seaman posted:

they will blame their problems on immigrants and cosmopolitan elites in an accelerating spiral of decline that usually ends in genocide and national destruction. fortunately for america their pool of potential brownshirt conscripts exhibit abnormally high rates of opioid dependence, diabetes, and age-related frailty/dementia

what’s gonna be interesting is when Charlie chud thinks Danny chud is keeping all the money in his pile of discarded bones and feces, and the chuds will turn on each other

I’ll be dead by then and probably cannibalized but maybe my ghost will see it!

Grape
Nov 16, 2017

Happily shilling for China!
The real question is can the rest of us survive these people destroying themselves, will we be able to enjoy their absence on the other end or be absent ourselves.

Yuli Ban
Nov 22, 2016

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Ripoff posted:

what’s gonna be interesting is when Charlie chud thinks Danny chud is keeping all the money in his pile of discarded bones and feces, and the chuds will turn on each other

I’ll be dead by then and probably cannibalized but maybe my ghost will see it!

China'll be pumping bullets into their heads by the time it gets to that point.

Zeroisanumber
Oct 23, 2010

Nap Ghost

Yuli Ban posted:

China'll be pumping bullets into their heads by the time it gets to that point.

Inshallah

Grape
Nov 16, 2017

Happily shilling for China!
China is just the ancient version of the USA.

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

Exploration is ill-advised.

KiteAuraan posted:

That's basically any time I play a Bethesda Fallout, and 75% of Fist of the North Star.

And Mad Max.

Johnny Knoxville will be the king of the wasteland.

SMILLENNIALSMILLEN
Jun 26, 2009



FMguru posted:

It's neck-and-neck with the UK unilaterally torching its trade and customs relationship with its closest neighbor and biggest partner. The Brits had a pretty advantageous position in the EU (could keep own currency, didn't have to join Schengen area, etc) and they just threw that all away. If they ever do try to rejoin the EU in the future, it will be on much, much less advantageous terms.

I read a piece in the NYT a couple months ago about a seaside town in England which was strongly pro-Brexit because their fishing fleet had dwindled to near-nothingness, supposedly because of EU fisheries regulation and competition. So they were very happy that they'd throw off the crippling yoke of Brussels, happy days are here again! Except...the fishing port had turned into a major import/export/processing/distribution point for seafood, and those firms employed more people than the fishing fleet ever did, and they are all shutting down operations in the wake of the end of EU trade relations. The locals, naturally, were whining up a storm about the unfairness of it all.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/23/business/grimsby-brexit.html

my favourite brexit headline&sub (so far):

pre:
Cancelling Brexit might spark a hard right backlash. But delivering Brexit definitely will
We are so monumentally screwed.

Philthy
Jan 28, 2003

Pillbug
why are people so dumb

Zil
Jun 4, 2011

Satanically Summoned Citrus


Philthy posted:

why are people so dumb

1. Really really bad at pattern recognition.
2. Place short term gain higher than long term ones.
3. Racism

Jedi Knight Luigi
Jul 13, 2009
democracy was a mistake

WampaLord
Jan 14, 2010

Philthy posted:

why are people so dumb

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkCwFkOZoOY

Let us English
Feb 21, 2004

Actual photo of Let Us English, probably seen here waking his wife up in the morning talking about chemical formulae when all she wants is a hot cup of shhhhh

Jedi Knight Luigi posted:

democracy was a mistake

I've got some good news for you. It'll be dead in your lifetime.

ikanreed
Sep 25, 2009

I honestly I have no idea who cannibal[SIC] is and I do not know why I should know.

syq dude, just syq!

Zil posted:

1. Really really bad at pattern recognition.
2. Place short term gain higher than long term ones.
3. Racism

Pattern recognition they're pretty good at even the total dumbasses. What's called "semantic inhibition" is what's missing.

You know the ability to go "this first thought I have has problems, let me think again before I go with it"

Call Your Grandma
Jan 17, 2010

lmao tbh

OBAMNA PHONE
Aug 7, 2002
https://www.businessinsider.com.au/trump-tangier-island-disappearing-sea-level-rise-2017-6?r=US&IR=T
Trump told the mayor of a disappearing island not to worry about sea-level rise -- these photos show how grave the situation has become

lmbo a whole island of trump voters who can see their land disappearing and yet believe trump and a SEAWALL would solve the problem

build that wall lmao

Elephant Ambush
Nov 13, 2012

...We sholde spenden more time together. What sayest thou?
Nap Ghost

Jedi Knight Luigi posted:

democracy was a mistake

Yes it was. Good thing we don't have that in America.

"Democracy" literally means "majority rules" and that will always mean making GBS threads on minorities and the vulnerable.

gently caress people who say poo poo like "abolish the senate" or "get rid of the electoral college". As soon as we do that and the chuds can use it against minorities and progressives they will genocide us all.

Yeowch!!! My Balls!!!
May 31, 2006

Elephant Ambush posted:

Yes it was. Good thing we don't have that in America.

"Democracy" literally means "majority rules" and that will always mean making GBS threads on minorities and the vulnerable.

gently caress people who say poo poo like "abolish the senate" or "get rid of the electoral college". As soon as we do that and the chuds can use it against minorities and progressives they will genocide us all.

we must preserve the institutions designed to give disproportionate power to republicans, because otherwise we will have no way to counteract republicans

QuickbreathFinisher
Sep 28, 2008

by reading this post you have agreed to form a gay socialist micronation.
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Ah yes, bastion of progressive politics, the United States Senate. It sure is a good thing gays and other minorities are concentrated in our nation's smaller, less densely populated states so they can be more easily represented.

funeral home DJ
Apr 21, 2003


Pillbug

BraveUlysses posted:

https://www.businessinsider.com.au/trump-tangier-island-disappearing-sea-level-rise-2017-6?r=US&IR=T
Trump told the mayor of a disappearing island not to worry about sea-level rise -- these photos show how grave the situation has become

lmbo a whole island of trump voters who can see their land disappearing and yet believe trump and a SEAWALL would solve the problem

build that wall lmao

make America gr-*glub* agai-*glub glub glub*

at the end of this, the mayor sees the countless bodies floating in the ocean that was once their island, and blames Gay Black Liberal Islamic Jews.

Dreddout
Oct 1, 2015

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

Elephant Ambush posted:

Yes it was. Good thing we don't have that in America.

"Democracy" literally means "majority rules" and that will always mean making GBS threads on minorities and the vulnerable.

gently caress people who say poo poo like "abolish the senate" or "get rid of the electoral college". As soon as we do that and the chuds can use it against minorities and progressives they will genocide us all.

Welcome to usgov101 you can set your walking stick by the wall

H.P. Hovercraft
Jan 12, 2004

one thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse
Slippery Tilde

Elephant Ambush posted:

Yes it was. Good thing we don't have that in America.

"Democracy" literally means "majority rules" and that will always mean making GBS threads on minorities and the vulnerable.

gently caress people who say poo poo like "abolish the senate" or "get rid of the electoral college". As soon as we do that and the chuds can use it against minorities and progressives they will genocide us all.

lol

Skellybones
May 31, 2011




Fun Shoe

Elephant Ambush posted:

Yes it was. Good thing we don't have that in America.

"Democracy" literally means "majority rules" and that will always mean making GBS threads on minorities and the vulnerable.

gently caress people who say poo poo like "abolish the senate" or "get rid of the electoral college". As soon as we do that and the chuds can use it against minorities and progressives they will genocide us all.

Wow it would be bad if a reactionary political party controlled any of the branches of the US government.

VitalSigns
Sep 3, 2011

Thank god the electoral college protects us from Republican presidents

Elephant Ambush
Nov 13, 2012

...We sholde spenden more time together. What sayest thou?
Nap Ghost

Yeowch!!! My Balls!!! posted:

we must preserve the institutions designed to give disproportionate power to republicans, because otherwise we will have no way to counteract republicans

Modern Republicans didn't exist when the electoral college was created. What the hell are you talking about?

Shear Modulus
Jun 9, 2010



imagine if we didnt have the electoral college and the supreme court and the senate. the government might start gunning down black people in the street for no reason and kidnapping brown children from their parents and banning muslims from entering the country

Elephant Ambush
Nov 13, 2012

...We sholde spenden more time together. What sayest thou?
Nap Ghost

VitalSigns posted:

Thank god the electoral college protects us from Republican presidents

Hillary lost because she sucked. That's not the fault of the electoral college.

Again, getting rid of these things will make minority representation worse.

Shear Modulus
Jun 9, 2010



good thing we didnt have majority rule at the founding of the country. otherwise we might have had an entire race of people working as literal loving slaves

Shear Modulus
Jun 9, 2010



Elephant Ambush posted:

Hillary lost because she sucked. That's not the fault of the electoral college.

Again, getting rid of these things will make minority representation worse.

hillary sucking and being the shittiest candidate in th history of the dems, while 100% true, does not change the fact that she would have won if we elected presidents by "most votes wins"

Brother Tadger
Feb 15, 2012

I'm accidentally a suicide bomber!

Yes, if things were different, things would be different. Get this man a Nobel prize!

Beowulfs_Ghost
Nov 6, 2009

Elephant Ambush posted:

Hillary lost because she sucked. That's not the fault of the electoral college.

Again, getting rid of these things will make minority representation worse.

Sure...

If by "minority" you mean a small number of slave owners.

The electoral college exists to give bonus points to slave owners through the 3/5ths compromise.

Shear Modulus
Jun 9, 2010



the thing they tell you in 9th grade civics that the checks and balances were designed to prevent oppression by the majority of the minority was true but it was done to protect the ruling majority (the rich) from "the mob" (slaves, indentured servants, women, people who work for a living, etc)

none of this particularly new. its all right in the loving federalist papers how the senate and the electoral college are good because they let men of standing control the government and make sure the mob wont do anything uncouth like free the slaves

Burt Sexual
Jan 26, 2006

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Switchblade Switcharoo
This seems to be a very stupid derail.

Skellybones
May 31, 2011




Fun Shoe
It's vital for minority representation that states like Wyoming with the combined population of a single large town has the same legislative power as, say, California.

OBAMNA PHONE
Aug 7, 2002
cant we all just focus on crab guys that are gonna let their mobile homes go underwater (financially and literally) and children drown

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer

Elephant Ambush posted:

Hillary lost because she sucked. That's not the fault of the electoral college.

Again, getting rid of these things will make minority representation worse.

there are other options than your poo poo system lol

Jedi Knight Luigi
Jul 13, 2009

Skellybones posted:

It's vital for minority representation that states like Wyoming with the combined population of a single large town has the same legislative power as, say, California.

and Puerto Rico has almost 6x the population of Wyoming 😂

Dixie Cretin Seaman
Jan 22, 2008

all hat and one catte
Hot Rope Guy
looking forward to some trump-voting rust belt union workers itt

Epic High Five
Jun 5, 2004



dissolve the Senate and expand the House to 1 rep per 100k citizens and also install a boxing ring

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H.P. Hovercraft
Jan 12, 2004

one thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse
Slippery Tilde

Epic High Five posted:

dissolve the Senate and expand the House to 1 rep per 100k citizens and also install a boxing ring

setting it to one rep per the pop of the least populous state would fix a lot

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