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.
The Founding Fathers always intended that suburban Atlanta voters decide the direction of the country.
I wonder what the going rate of a highly influencable voter in Georgia would be this election.
Real democracy is when everyone who wants their vote to count moves to Pennsylvania every four years.
I want three winners:
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the one with the most votes
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the one with the most electoral votes
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the one with the most elector votes
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“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.”
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.
Yeah I read a few of the books a while back and recently got back into them. They're a great time.
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
I recommend everything Pratchett has written.
Hogfather is a great book, but it's also one of four dozen books that take place in Discworld. While all of his books are enjoyable on their own you will find if you read more, the author has very carefully interwoven them together. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/73/Discworld_Reading_Order_Guide_3.0.jpg
This is a great time of year to read the HogFather, if his approach to beliefs interests you, consider reading Pyramids or Small Gods next.
If you really like Shakespeare, check out his "witches" series, which features Granny Weatherwax, easily one of my favorite characters in all of literature.
if you like the cities and police procedurals check out "Guards Guards". If you're interested in the industrial revolution sub-series, I would still recommend you read "guards guards" first, as it helps set the stage for a lot of the Ankh-Morpork based books.
If you like fantasy, "the color of magic" is rough, being the first book he published, but it is classic. It was the first diskworld book I picked up, and I remember laughing out loud within the first few pages. It also introduces many staple characters, like Death.
Speaking of Death, if you enjoy the hog Father, you might consider Mort, and the rest of the Death subseries. I don't think any author but Pratchett could humanize the anthropomorphic representation of a concept like death so successfully (except perhaps Neil Gaiman).
Should I finish the whole City Watch series before the industrial revolution? So far I've read Guards Guards and Men at Arms
I’ll just chime in to say the entire watch series is golden and you should 100% finish it, but I believe the industrial revolution series starts part way through the guard series
eh, dont worry, just read the whole thing in publishing order. you'll re-read them anyway.
the US could only dream of a government as functional and responsive as vetinari's...
Please let Georgia be the one and Stacy Abrams to attempt an ascent to God kween and make trump win
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.
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..."
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)
It has never made any sense that states have any control over national elections.
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.
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.
the states used to be more sovereign, all this antifederalism lying around is vestigial politics from the 18th century.
the states should have no say who is on the ballot
I don't think that's really objectively the one way it should work. Why should people that represent millions of people have to be directly voted on by millions of people? Even just in terms of electoralism, that isn't democracy. There is no way you can reach a consensus or most popular choice because millions of people can't agree on something or even communicate. It's hard enough coming to an agreement with input from a group of 30 people.
If anything, you could do the opposite and break down the election of electors into multiple levels of hierarchy, and let each elector vote based on their own political position.
That would ultimately be more like the USSR or China or Cuba, etc.
I think the "flattening" of US "democracy" is more about the fact that it's all a charade so why spend the effort on having tons of elections. Yes it would make sense to just have individuals vote directly for the president, out of simplicity. But that wouldn't make it much more "democratic" other than better reflecting the popular vote that we all think of it as being based on.
It did before elteicity. If you gotta count everything by hand it made the job way easier
I’m going to die in the impending hellfire, all alone. Yay.
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
There's even a precedent for it in Bleeding Kansas, although John Brown was actually fighting for something worthwhile unlike the current farce.
The dems will simply fold and say "Vote!" and not fight. That's not much of a civil war.
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
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
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.
top comment chain is thirsting over Hunter Biden and insinuating that Joe Biden has a large penis
shit u not
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.
What do you mean, good sir. That thread is le epic bacon narwhals at midnight Darude Sandstorm
I thought there was at least a hand making a jerk off motion but I'm not sure it got added.
I don't get this weird obsession that liberals have with Hunter Biden's cock
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