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[–] [email protected] 141 points 10 months ago (5 children)

Do it. Please. This will be the funniest election in US History. Make it so that literally only 1 state has both of them on the ballot and that state has enough electoral college votes and is swingy enough to actually matter, so the entire election boils down to literally one state. I want this because I want to hear libs explain for decades to come about how AKCHUALLY that's just what REAL DEMOCRACY looks like and I should particpate in it more if I want to see it differently. It'll be so funny.

[–] [email protected] 63 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

The Founding Fathers always intended that suburban Atlanta voters decide the direction of the country.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 10 months ago

I wonder what the going rate of a highly influencable voter in Georgia would be this election.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 10 months ago

Real democracy is when everyone who wants their vote to count moves to Pennsylvania every four years.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I want three winners:

  • the one with the most votes

  • the one with the most electoral votes

  • the one with the most elector votes

[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago (1 children)

2024: The First Triumvirate

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago

See? Division of powers, checks and balances!

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 10 months ago (2 children)

“Ankh-Morpork had dallied with many forms of government and had ended up with that form of democracy known as One Man, One Vote. The Patrician was the Man; he had the Vote.”

[–] [email protected] 34 points 10 months ago (1 children)

After rewatching The Hogfather BBC special every Christmas time for a while, this year I've begun the book and am now SOOOO gonna become a Discworld Guy. All these cute little witticisms in the narration and the puns upon puns. I'm having a fantastic time. There's some pretty easy to pick up class consciousness as well. I should have known, I love this kind of over clever British stuff, I'm certain with the accent(s) I'd be seen as having a dry wit instead of being seen as a sarcastic prick.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeah I read a few of the books a while back and recently got back into them. They're a great time.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago (4 children)

If a book makes me read for fun,.it's really good. Otherwise I feel like I should be reading something informative. Which is stupid as hell cause if I'm rewatching star trek for the 80th time I don't feel like I should be reading something informative. It's nice to read a nice book and not constantly.tly be adding citations and taking notes

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago

the US could only dream of a government as functional and responsive as vetinari's...

[–] [email protected] 20 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Please let Georgia be the one and Stacy Abrams to attempt an ascent to God kween and make trump win lathe-of-heaven

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[–] [email protected] 78 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Pokes the US with a stick

Cmon, balkanize already

[–] [email protected] 73 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

Funniest outcome: The election goes and red states and blue states both declare their own winner. Trump establishes an anti-presidency in Mar A Lago. The country's executive branch effectively splits in two - the border patrol reports to Florida, the Department of Education reports to DC, the DOD builds a second Pentagon that costs over half a billion dollars and the Department of Energy arranges for joint custody of the nuclear stockpile.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 10 months ago

joint custody of the nuclear stockpile

"I should control the nuclear. Me. Only me. Some people say the mother should get the kids. Many judges think that too. But they are wrong and bad. I say no. The father should get the kids. The mother did her job - big job. Nobody wants to do that. Pregnant and blood... But the father is important very important. And if the mother is too far away - new wife. So - better. Everything is better. I should control the nuclear..."

[–] [email protected] 23 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

DOD builds a second Pentagon that costs over half a billion dollars

professional-managerial liberal officer corps VS machismo-chud crayoneater grunts

who will win the grand prize?? (the privilege of paying for reconstruction of the American exclusion zone)

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[–] [email protected] 57 points 10 months ago

Fucking please… we don’t deserve something this good tho.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 10 months ago (2 children)

It has never made any sense that states have any control over national elections.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I think it does. In a way it's similar to how the Soviet Union would pick political leaders. It's more hierarchical and distributed. It just happens that every state's votes go to whoever wins the popular in that state.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

What I mean is that for any national office, the states should have no say who is on the ballot. The elections should at least be audited by a national authority, as well. This is assuming a functional government that wants to continue existing, so please disregard.

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 10 months ago

The backlash to the backlash to the thing that’s just begun

[–] [email protected] 37 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (5 children)
[–] [email protected] 63 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, the closest we're going to get to a 2nd civil war in the States is gonna be a wave of stochastic terrorism

They're gonna try some Turner Diaries shit and it's gonna get ugly real quick

No open warfare, just lots of mass shootings and public lynchings

[–] [email protected] 45 points 10 months ago

There's even a precedent for it in Bleeding Kansas, although John Brown was actually fighting for something worthwhile unlike the current farce.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The dems will simply fold and say "Vote!" and not fight. That's not much of a civil war.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

The establishment sure but they've been revving the boomer libs for this with MSNBC the same as the boomer chuds have by Fox

Here's hoping RFK does just well enough for a 3 way split and all the boomers getting mad enough to either kill each other or have heart attacks

[–] [email protected] 46 points 10 months ago

Liberals don't have it in them to fight for something like this

They rolled over for Bush in 2000, they can do it again

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I think a millitary coup and the dissolution of the two current parties is more likely and a significant amount of people would not even care, faith is so low in either party. The millitary is not gonna allow that shit to happen they will depose Abott and everyone around him before Texas starts shelling New Mexico.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago

0% unfortunately. The treats are still flowing.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I’m going to die in the impending hellfire, all alone. Yay.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 10 months ago (2 children)

none are alone in the great conflagration

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 10 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 59 points 10 months ago (2 children)

top comment chain is thirsting over Hunter Biden and insinuating that Joe Biden has a large penis

shit u not

[–] [email protected] 54 points 10 months ago (8 children)

Fuck I hate reddit comment chains.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 10 months ago

Holy shit what is wrong with people.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 10 months ago

You know, West Wing gets a lot of flak for the average Liberal's civility fetishes but Jon Stewart is also partially responsible for the quippy smart-ass way of talking that Millennial libs have.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 10 months ago

What do you mean, good sir. That thread is le epic bacon narwhals at midnight Darude Sandstorm

[–] [email protected] 42 points 10 months ago

All politics is sexual pathology

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I don't get this weird obsession that liberals have with Hunter Biden's cock

[–] [email protected] 28 points 10 months ago

blue or red our boy has the nation's attention

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 10 months ago

omg i want this to happen so bad

[–] [email protected] 31 points 10 months ago

Hell yeah, this is gonna be funny

[–] [email protected] 29 points 10 months ago

BAL-KAN-IZE! BAL-KAN-IZE!

Death to America

[–] [email protected] 26 points 10 months ago

Lol. Lmao, even.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 10 months ago

Cmonnn balkanize....

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago

Thank you comrade trump for bringing about the destruction of the USA.

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