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Chokes McGee posted:Honestly? They both ended up unhinged monsters as their reigns went on, but that's pretty much roman_emperor.txt. True, Roman history is always willing to poo poo all over people on the losing side of conflicts---but even giving them that, the two of them combined were pretty loving nutty. (I can't remember if it was Caligula or Nero that had regular conversations with statues---not the "hey zeus what's up" variety but the "yes YES KILL THEM ALL OF COURSE" variety. Nero was mostly just too young for the job, too concerned with his sweet lyre solo jam sessions, theatre, consorting with commoners, and generally being the most powerful teenager in Europe. He wasn't crazy and seems to have genuinely cared for the people since he rebuilt large sections of Rome after the famous fire from the imperial treasury. Caligula was fine for the first year or two and then he came down with meningitis or something along those lines and lost his sanity. Neither of them were really the gleeful, power-mad kind of crazy that has been attached to them in the popular mind. Well, Caligula sort of was but not because of an "absolute power corrupts absolutely" kind of thing. Jazerus has issued a correction as of 04:34 on Dec 6, 2014 |
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Cliff Racer posted:Yeah sorry, wrong thread. Now look, the fact that the only picture they could find of Jay Williams appears to be a 1998 Geocities .jpg doesn't make his face goofy.
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The 1860-1928 streak for the Republicans was basically a firm "gently caress you, ex-Confederates". The Democratic party churned for a century before its realignment was complete and the modern era of elections started; considering nobody is lining up on the fields of Gettysburg this time around there will probably not be a 70 year freeze for the Republicans, but they have made a lot of political enemies among the voting public that will be permanent as long as there is no sincere and dramatic realignment, in growing demographics. There's absolutely nothing about the US political system that forces the two major parties to be in equilibrium if one or the other is unwilling to alter a toxic ideology; a balance is just how things have worked out in recent decades.
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OneThousandMonkeys posted:From everything I've heard about Indiana it's a stealth pick for worst state in the country. You would be incorrect. The massive misery of Mississippi or Louisiana, the willful cratering of Kansas by the state government...there are so many worse contenders. Indianapolis is a shithole that is being gentrified so that everyone can pretend it isn't one of the highest murder rate cities in the nation due to the profound neglect of the poor and black parts of the city, but the rest of the state is just standard white people country. Corporations have a stranglehold on the state government such that even folks like Mike Pence can't do nearly as much damage with socially regressive policies as many other Republican states. Indiana is just purgatory, not hell.
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axeil posted:So with the Trump VP pick is IN-GOV now in play? Do they even have a replacement candidate yet? IN GOP: 
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User Error posted:This guy is currently in 2nd place in the Missouri US Senate democratic primary. The universe that the Onion observes to generate their stories has finally fully merged with our own.
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Badger of Basra posted:Didn't this happen in 2014? Where people kept saying "oh man it's super close!" and then Election Day comes and whatever R senator it was wins with 60% That was also the election where the Dems decided Obama was toxic to their campaigns for idiotic reasons. 2014 was a hosed up election in terms of Democratic turnout even excluding the usual midterm slump.
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frankenfreak posted:Great, now I wish Paradox actually made an American politics game. I find that the After the End mod for CK2 realistically simulates American politics
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Nobody gives a poo poo what the Star thinks nor do we care if Evan Bayh has been on a world tour since he left office, this will be down to partisans + name recognition which is a fight Bayh is likely to win.
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Civilized Fishbot posted:This is a while back, but thanks for explaining! however bayh is still undisputably the better choice that's indiana for you
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hopefully the fact that schumer's the worst won't let rubio win
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