• thefartographer@lemm.ee
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      7 months ago

      I'd like to cast my vote for Chat GPT, but, like one of the significantly older, more janky versions. Hell, SmarterChild for President!

      • vexikron@lemmy.zip
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        7 months ago

        Can I vote for a sentient cloud of methane being released by already thawing permafrost?

          • vexikron@lemmy.zip
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            7 months ago

            Are you saying that I can manifest my ideal gaseous leader by thinking about it?

            Or were you unaware that last year in Alaska and BC, rivers were running a yellow color indicating the permafrost was already starting to melt?

            ...

            Or is this all a setup for a fart joke, Mr or Ms or Mz fartographer?

            • thefartographer@lemm.ee
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              7 months ago

              No need to be so formal, you can use my regular title "The."

              Unfortunately, I'm all too aware of the horrible gasses, bacteria, and viruses in the permafrost that lay juuuuuust dormant enough that we're about one snail's fart away from potential catastrophe. Which is why, once again, I implore you: please do not vote for an uprising of that which lays beneath centuries and millennia of delicate ice. I'd hate to find out that we doomed ourselves via the Santa Claus/Last Unicorn effect.

              • vexikron@lemmy.zip
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                7 months ago

                Well you are in luck!

                I am currently homeless, thus I do not have a permanent address, thus I cannot legally vote!

                God Bless America.

                • thefartographer@lemm.ee
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                  6 months ago

                  I'm really sorry to hear that! I hope you get to enjoy a future as bright as you are and fuck these ecocentric policies

                  • vexikron@lemmy.zip
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                    6 months ago

                    Hilariously I am broke and homeless and one of my degrees is in Economics.

                    You only need to know one quote to summarize the mindset of nearly all Western Economists:

                    "In the long run, we are all dead anyway."

                    I remember choosing Iceland as my case study for a school report in 2010 about how various national economies responded to the 08 financial crash.

                    My professor was quite angry when I pointed out an actual successful real world example of an economy that just told all the banks to go fuck themselves and basically did pretty economically well.

                    That wasnt possible according to what he was teaching.

                    • thefartographer@lemm.ee
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                      6 months ago

                      I have zero degrees because I realized that college professors were put on this earth to piss me off and then dropped out. And look at me now! I'm friends with a homeless person! But for serious, is there anything internet strangers can do to help?

                      • vexikron@lemmy.zip
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                        6 months ago

                        I really do not know.

                        My credit score is abysmal after my wallet was stolen, and I now have an eviction, and I am living off of SSDI.

                        I would like to be able to live somewhere with a bed and within walking distance to grocery stores.

                        So far I have managed to pull of the bed part, had to get halfway across the country to find a motel cheap enough I can basically live in, but its a mile away from a grocery store and even after now about 2 weeks of nothing but resting, my extremely sore and torn ligaments still are not great.

                        Basically at this point in my life (read through my comment history if you want some more details), I just want to be left alone to try to make my own video game. Just because I love video games amd coding... and as sad as this may sound I feel that is basically all I have left that would really give me any drive in life.

                        I have many other hobbies amd interests, and I am sure that I could eventually find new friends... but my family and nearly all my old friends are either delusional, manipulative or indifferent to what I have been going through.

                        I probably just need to rest more. I have been figuring out how to stay alive on my own for a bit more than a year now... and I do not think I can ever really trust anyone ever again, after how many people have taken advantage of me.

        • MaoTheLawn [any, any]
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          7 months ago

          cluhVERbut

          that's my best attempt at how I remember cleverbot saying it's own name

    • Adkml [he/him]
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      7 months ago

      Would be funny to literally not have a candidate on the ballot for either party and libs still insist you have to vote for unspecified faceless candidate a otherwise unspecified faceless candidate b will win.

  • flan [they/them]
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    7 months ago

    Presidential elections should be decided the old fashioned way: shooting matches between warlords to determine who has the mandate of heaven.

  • kristina [she/her]
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    7 months ago

    It'd be hilarious if this became a common thing and our voting system became even more of a farce

  • Ho_Chi_Chungus [she/her]
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    7 months ago

    I remember seeing a post earlier about whether Hexbear thinks Trump or Biden wins 2024 but it seems no one predicted that there simply would not be a presidential election in 2024. At least if this keeps going

      • Adkml [he/him]
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        7 months ago

        This isnwhat actually is going to happen sometime in the next 2 decades with candidates are going to declare they won and the country is going to balkanize over it.

        And I really don't think it'll be a civil war because there's no defined fronts, it'd be all the cities being blockaded by all the surrounding rural areas.

        The only thing that might prevent this from happening is if liberals say the republican president won with their compelling argument of "fuck you what're you gonna fo about it" to move forward ad a nation and begin healing.

          • Adkml [he/him]
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            7 months ago

            Yea but it was a month long dog and pony show.

            In the scanrio I'm suggesting it's more like 2020 where any objective observer agrees Biden got the EC votes to win but 40% of the country just says "nuh uh" and dems still end up agreeing to give up.

            But republicans are usually smart enough to give dems a boogeyman to point to and blame for their loss because they understand liberals ideal state of existence is losing while claiming a moral victory.

        • theposterformerlyknownasgood
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          7 months ago

          And I really don't think it'll be a civil war because there's no defined fronts, it'd be all the cities being blockaded by all the surrounding rural areas.

          Lol no. If some sheriff tries to enforce a blockade on a major metropole they would be told to stand down and then either arrested or shot. This is a direct threat to capital interests

          • Adkml [he/him]
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            7 months ago

            Arrested or shot by who? I'd it gets to this point it's gonna be the cops manning the barricades.

            The Canadian truckers managed to fuck up commerce for like three weeks and they didn't even know what they were mad about.

            • CrimsonSage [any]
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              7 months ago

              Yeah but that's because the seal of civility still holds. Like they actually start starving people they are gonna get fuckin merced. Like let's not fall into the trap that only hogs have guns, they may have more but not a monopoly, or numbers in their favor.

              • Adkml [he/him]
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                7 months ago

                There is nothing I want more in this world to be true but if your hope is for the liberals to take up arms with the socialists and communists to violently oppose fascism history has a pretty depressing track record.

                If it plays out like every other time it's gotten to that point liberals will absolutely start giving up anybody the chuds deem as undesirables as a bargaining chip they'll ultimately get nothing for.

                But again I would like literally nothing more than to be wrong about this.

                • CrimsonSage [any]
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                  7 months ago

                  Oh no, I don't see somecross class alliance. The fact is there is no significant organized socialist formation in the the usa for the libs to join with; like what an alliance with the cpusa? Lol. What I see is the conservatives basically forcing a conflict on unwilling libs. Now the question is whether that conflic would give what little left there is space to maneuver. I do think that the right would be crushed by the liberals in the long run. The liberals have a significant hold on the mic as well as the military, in addition to global finance capital and still significant domestic industrial capital. The hogs are really just focused in small regional industry and the extractive Industy.

            • theposterformerlyknownasgood
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              7 months ago

              The truckers were never a serious threat to capital, they were annoying and cost a lot of money. But the cost of bringing down the hammer on them was higher to the political class than the loss of money. A blockade of all the urban areas though? That's war.

              And sure cops are gonna be reactionary, but cops have tried to aide with states and municipalities against the federal government before and they have literally never won that fight.

  • nat_turner_overdrive [he/him]
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    7 months ago

    Imagine being some dnc dipshit paid six or seven figures, and this unbelievably plain outcome didn't occur to you

    Still getting paid more than me despite being demonstrably dumber and picking the wrong fucking choice every time

    Also I live in Texas, wasn't voting for genocide Joe anyway

    • CTHlurker [he/him]
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      7 months ago

      The Democrats fucking love to disprove the very meritocracy they claim to defend

  • SnowySkyes [she/her]
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    7 months ago

    Yes! Be the catalyst that slowly sends this nation into a state of balkanization! KEEP GOING! sicko-flipped

  • Mindfury [he/him]
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    7 months ago

    PSL winds up being the only party represented in every state ballot following a spate of tit-for-tat removals of Trump and Biden across the whole country
    PSL candidate receives protest votes from dems in each state Biden is excluded and vice versa
    PSL candidate accidentally wins Florida
    ...
    lol

  • TupamarosShakur [he/him]
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    7 months ago

    The only thing stopping him, he said, was that people in Texas “believe in democracy.”

    sorry fellas, stop the balkanization celebrations, the gop is just as civility brained as the libs

  • RION [she/her]
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    7 months ago

    pog pog pog

    give me a president/antipresident dynamic where the states are split in who they recognize. shatter the fabric of the nation lets-fucking-go

    • wtypstanaccount04 [he/him]
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      7 months ago

      I propose an Avignon situation personally. Put a second president in Michigan or something, fuck it.

  • SexUnderSocialism [she/her]
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    7 months ago

    We all knew that move in Colorado was going to open up a Pandora's box. Let's see if it's one that won't be closed. sicko-flipped

      • WashedAnus [he/him]
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        7 months ago

        Packing my bags, moving to Colorado with a replica of John Brown's sword.

        • Wakmrow [he/him]
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          6 months ago

          Come visit, friend. We've got more than swords ;)

  • Tunnelvision [they/them]
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    7 months ago

    I like how it says threaten. Fuckin do it bitch, you know it would be the only thing to get people off the couch and into the streets again. As much as we talk shit about the electoral system, taking Joe Biden off is pretty much the thing that will tell everyone in Texas that Greg abbot is basically the president of Texas, and everyone hates that guy. No more democracy, not even the illusion.

    • Adkml [he/him]
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      7 months ago

      Yea this might even be so mask off that it would actually get liberals to realize rhe entire system is a sham and there's no reas9n to put any faith in voting. but I've also said that a bunch of times before........