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Roth posted:I'm pretty sure the point is that Clinton has a fairly significant amount of political experience over Trump, while Trump is just now getting into politics and wasn't even all that good at what he was doing before the election. I mean, I'd rather drive an old junker than a unicycle with no seat, but I'd still prefer a car that excels as a car instead of only having the option between the junker or the unicycle.
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I suppose the thing you're mainly interested in in America is who gets put on the Supreme Court. I imagine you could've ended up with a situation where enough of the really hardcore Sanders people either didn't vote or voted for Trump (because they want to teach Clinton a lesson or because they're accelerationists or something; I think I've read that Susan Sarandon believes or did believe in something like that, which I suppose is fine when you're a multi-millionaire celebrity with an Academy Award, but probably rather less so if you're a poor immigrant or a Muslim or an LGBT person  ) then voted for the True Progressive MessiahTM in 2020, only to find that they can't get anything done because now there's like six conservative judges on the Supreme Court and three liberal ones.
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Nov 1, 2016 23:08
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Wheat Loaf posted:<posts massive picture of Nigel Farage>
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Ghostlight posted:Well I mean, he's horrible and all, but giving him 1/650th representation in a parliament is a small price to pay for 90%+ of voters to have a say in government rather than the most popular ~30%. That's true. The system does start looking a wee bit dodgy when UKIP can get four million votes or so and end up with one seat, while the SNP can get about two million votes and end up with 56 seats.
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Nov 1, 2016 23:11
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Wheat Loaf posted:I suppose the thing you're mainly interested in in America is who gets put on the Supreme Court. I imagine you could've ended up with a situation where enough of the really hardcore Sanders people either didn't vote or voted for Trump Well lest you think I just massively hate Clinton out of hipsterish spite or something I also think the people you're describing are loving retarded and if they sink it for Clinton so they can be "principled" or whatever I'll never stop screaming.
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WickedHate posted:Well lest you think I just massively hate Clinton out of hipsterish spite or something I also think the people you're describing are loving retarded and if they sink it for Clinton so they can be "principled" or whatever I'll never stop screaming. I didn't mean to come across like I was accusing you. Sorry. 
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Wheat Loaf posted:I suppose the thing you're mainly interested in in America is who gets put on the Supreme Court. I imagine you could've ended up with a situation where enough of the really hardcore Sanders people either didn't vote or voted for Trump (because they want to teach Clinton a lesson or because they're accelerationists or something; I think I've read that Susan Sarandon believes or did believe in something like that, which I suppose is fine when you're a multi-millionaire celebrity with an Academy Award, but probably rather less so if you're a poor immigrant or a Muslim or an LGBT person You can say stupid here.
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Wheat Loaf posted:I didn't mean to come across like I was accusing you. Sorry. It's okay~! 
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Wheat Loaf posted:That's true. The system does start looking a wee bit dodgy when UKIP can get four million votes or so and end up with one seat, while the SNP can get about two million votes and end up with 56 seats.
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Nov 1, 2016 23:38
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Ghostlight posted:It's intended that the system prioritises seats to electorates rather than popular vote so that you don't end up in a situation where, for example, a party may control virtually the whole of a country yet have half as much representation as another party that does well in major centres of population but not well enough to actually win anything on their own. Without that you'd have no representation at all outside of major cities. It made much more sense when the Lords could just buy seats in the Commons for their sons. 
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Nov 1, 2016 23:40
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I believe that there should be legislation banning "giant douche and turd sandwich" jokes is my newest political belief that came out of this election.
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Nov 1, 2016 23:42
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As a segue into comics, I'm looking forward to Occupy Avengers tomorrow.
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Anything with "Occupy" in the title seems rather...out of date.Roth posted:I believe that there should be legislation banning "giant douche and turd sandwich" jokes is my newest political belief that came out of this election. How do you feel about Senator Daterape and incumbent President Douchbag?
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WickedHate posted:Anything with "Occupy" in the title seems rather...out of date.  Go away
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I'm sorry, I thought Family Guy references would be alright if they were from before it got bad.
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Customer comes into store, browses for 20 minutes. HOW THE HELL CAN THIS COMIC BE $XX Rhyno pulls comic off the wall, looks up current pricing. Well sir you're right. It's actually $XX + $25 now. So you should grab it at this price before I price it up. YOU MUST THINK I'M A DUMBER gently caress THAN YOU IF THINK THAT WILL WORK. Rhyno silently prices comic up $25, returns it to wall. Customer looks absolutely dumbfounded. Rhyno wishes the customer a very good night as he leaves. graded copy of Detective #871, first Snyder Batman story
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Nov 1, 2016 23:52
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Rhyno, your store stories(storeies) are always such a delight. 
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Wheat Loaf posted:One thing I have been a bit surprised by as an outside observer is that nobody seems to have been making much of Clinton potentially being America's first female president. I would have thought that would have invited more commentary.
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WickedHate posted:Rhyno, your store stories(storeies) are always such a delight. Preemptively being an rear end in a top hat never gets you what you want, I never understand why people think that's how you get a deal.
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CapnAndy posted:Fiction has delighted in doing female Presidents for so long precisely to trade on the novelty factor that it's simply lost all its novelty factor before we ever got a real one. Every other country that matters has had female leaders, it is pretty wild to think about, in retrospect, how the USA is the last holdout. Rhyno posted:Preemptively being an rear end in a top hat never gets you what you want, I never understand why people think that's how you get a deal. If assholes knew how not to be assholes there wouldn't be assholes. Their cursed.
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WickedHate posted:I'm sorry, I thought Family Guy references would be alright if they were from before it got bad. If you can figure out some choice Family Guy jokes from before Seth McFarlane was born, by all means, post em.
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When was/is the Prez election story coming out?Wheat Loaf posted:That's true. The system does start looking a wee bit dodgy when UKIP can get four million votes or so and end up with one seat, while the SNP can get about two million votes and end up with 56 seats. Single Transferable Vote is the way and the truth and the life. Doctor Spaceman fucked around with this message at 00:29 on Nov 2, 2016 |
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Yo BSS I just moved halfway across the country to Sacramento, anybody know what the best LCBS in the area might be?
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Doctor Spaceman posted:When was/is the Prez election story coming out? It's been hidden in the back of a Catwoman issue dropping tomorrow.
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Rhyno posted:It's been hidden in the back of a Catwoman issue dropping tomorrow. Thanks!
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Kleptocracy for the win. Gimme all your money, plebs.
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Batman Return of the Caped Crusaders is completely batshit in the best way possible. The only issues is no mustache and the animation doesn't feel right.
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Madkal posted:Kleptocracy for the win. Gimme all your money, plebs. Well, then you wouldn't be stealing anything, they'd be giving it to you. But hey, taxes, theft, what's the difference??? 
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If you're asking for stuff in a kleptocracy you're bottom tier scrub
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Doctor Spaceman posted:Single Transferable Vote is the way and the truth and the life. We have that in Northern Ireland. Unfortunately, we don't have any good parties to vote for.
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Wheat Loaf posted:We have that in Northern Ireland. Sounds like it's time for Wheat Loaf to run for office!
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As a DC resident, I'm glad the Obamas are planning on sticking around for a bit after January. They've really added a lot to the city in a way that the Bushes did not. (The Bush girls added some fun stories of drunken craziness, but that's not really the same.) I'm not sure the Clintons will be the same, and the Trumps definitely would not be.
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Trump just gave you a luxury hotel because he cares about the working class.
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WickedHate posted:Every other country that matters has had female leaders, it is pretty wild to think about, in retrospect, how the USA is the last holdout. Canada doesn't count. Our only female Prime Minister so far lasted two months.
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Chaos Hippy posted:Canada doesn't count. Our only female Prime Minister so far lasted two months. So far our only female president has lasted zero months, so that's still ahead.
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Ghostlight posted:You've had the same female leader for 64 years, actually?? I did specify Prime Minister. There is no head of state less important that Canada's head of state.
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Open Marriage Night posted:Trump just gave you a luxury hotel because he cares about the working class.
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Chaos Hippy posted:Canada doesn't count. Our only female Prime Minister so far lasted two months. And wasn't elected by the general public.
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Endless Mike posted:This is true. We love our $20 tater tots and $16 hipster fries, at Benjamin, named for DC's favorite son, Benjamin Franklin. Haha. Is that at the hotel?
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