US Election 2024

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Buick6

too punk to drunk
Why do the Dumbo-Crap Septics think Biden still has his marbles together? I mean they real want a Convicted Criminal, Violent insurrectionist and total liar and incompetent scam artist as their President? It's crazier than a Batman movie.
 
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version

Well-known member
Buick6 said:
Why do the Dumbo-Crap Septics think Biden still has his marbles together?
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I don't think they do. They've just fucked about for four years instead of lining up a replacement and now they're locked in and having to do damage control.
 
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A lad said in work this week imagine you had a firm send their contract manager to look at a project and he's fucking 75+ and forgets your name six times. Are they getting the work, are they fuck

Strange times
 
Clinamenic

Clinamenic

Binary & Tweed
Part of me thinks I'd be making a bigger civic statement by not voting, IE by contributing to the collective gesture of disillusionment with our given options.
 
Murphy

Murphy

cat malogen
you then have to live with said state of disillusionment

not nagging you personally, a collective and institutional state of denial has led to this situation underpinned by democracy as the loooong con
 
Clinamenic

Clinamenic

Binary & Tweed
I could also just find some third party figure, like I did in 2016. That would arguably be slightly better than not voting, because I'd still be signalling disillusionment with the two major parties, which is the key thing I reckon.
 
Murphy

Murphy

cat malogen
Don’t envy you. Get some big black boots, a skin/mullet and take loads of K



*this post is not an endorsement of Spiral Tribe
 
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I'd vote for Biden if I were American. He's fucked, but he'll at least be surrounded by more normal people steering the ship than Trump will be. Biden wins and you get bog standard DC liberals, Trump wins and you get the unhinged man himself plus the bigoted lunatics willing to work with him.
 
Mr. Tea

Mr. Tea

Let's Talk About Ceps
Clinamenic said:
I might as well. The whole thing strikes me as an epiphenomenal farce. For the last two elections I only really voted out of a quaint sense of obligation, but even that is beginning to crumble.
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Are you registered to vote where you're currently living, or where you grew up?

The ass-backwards electoral college system unfortunately means it is basically pointless to vote (from the POV of the presidential election) if you live in a state like California or Wyoming that invariably votes one way or the other, regardless of whether you're supporting the side that always wins in that state or the side that always loses, so the election is always decided by a handful of key swing states. I mean, you know this of course...

To an extent the FPTP system we have in the UK suffers from the same problem, although to a much smaller degree, since we have 650 constituencies instead of 50 states, and that's for about 1/5th the population.
 
Mr. Tea

Mr. Tea

Let's Talk About Ceps
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I'd vote for Biden if I were American. He's fucked, but he'll at least be surrounded by more normal people steering the ship than Trump will be. You vote Biden and you get bog standard DC liberals. You vote Trump and you get the unhinged man himself, plus all the bigoted lunatics willing to work with him.
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Plus if Biden wins then there will be a chance to vote for a (hopefully!) slightly more exciting, or at least less doddery, Democratic candidate in 2028. Whereas I'm doubtful if that election will be much more than an "election" if Trump wins again in November.
 
Clinamenic

Clinamenic

Binary & Tweed
Mr. Tea said:
Are you registered to vote where you're currently living, or where you grew up?

The ass-backwards electoral college system unfortunately means it is basically pointless to vote (from the POV of the presidential election) if you live in a state like California or Wyoming that invariably votes one way or the other, regardless of whether you're supporting the side that always wins in that state or the side that always loses, so the election is always decided by a handful of key swing states. I mean, you know this of course...

To an extent the FPTP system we have in the UK suffers from the same problem, although to a much smaller degree, since we have 650 constituencies instead of 50 states, and that's for about 1/5th the population.
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Yeah I'm registered to vote in LA, but I'm not registered within a particular party.
 
Clinamenic

Clinamenic

Binary & Tweed
Mr. Tea said:
Plus if Biden wins then there will be a chance to vote for a (hopefully!) slightly more exciting, or at least less doddery, Democratic candidate in 2028. Whereas I'm doubtful if that election will be much more than an "election" if Trump wins again in November.
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Yeah good point
 
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