Red Mosquito

yeah, you guys are doing way better compared to where I tried to go with it. Well done fellas.

Birds in Hell wrote:

stip wrote:it's not a majority. It's a well organized minority that bothers to show up to vote.

I'll admit the idea of non-compulsory voting is somewhat alien to me as an Australian but, given that's how your system works, I don't see how that makes the result any less legitimate.

Well when those in power do everything they can to make voting as hard as possible, because they know lower turnouts favor them, it casts a shadow on the results. People waited in line for upwards of 5 hours to vote in the Arizona primary. The Voting Rights Act was recently overturned. Voter ID laws that disproportionately affect poor and minority people are all the rage now.

around the gender bender

cutuphalfdead wrote:

Birds in Hell wrote:

stip wrote:it's not a majority. It's a well organized minority that bothers to show up to vote.

I'll admit the idea of non-compulsory voting is somewhat alien to me as an Australian but, given that's how your system works, I don't see how that makes the result any less legitimate.

Well when those in power do everything they can to make voting as hard as possible, because they know lower turnouts favor them, it casts a shadow on the results. People waited in line for upwards of 5 hours to vote in the Arizona primary. The Voting Rights Act was recently overturned. Voter ID laws that disproportionately affect poor and minority people are all the rage now.

Remember, Pete, only certain portions of the VRA were overturned: the parts that prevented states with a history of discrimination from easily changing their voting laws. What could possibly go wrong?

Birds in Hell wrote:

stip wrote:it's not a majority. It's a well organized minority that bothers to show up to vote.

I'll admit the idea of non-compulsory voting is somewhat alien to me as an Australian but, given that's how your system works, I don't see how that makes the result any less legitimate.

it doesn't. I was just disputing the majority claim.

though I agree with chud's larger point

stip wrote:it's not a majority. It's a well organized minority that bothers to show up to vote.

I was talking about people in the government and the obscenely wealthy, not the US population as a whole - which is mostly Christian (radical or not) anyway. I think the fact that they are doing everything that they can to prevent minorities from voting at all is pretty scandalous in and of itself, and tends to make the "people voted for us so it's the people's will" excuse seem pathetically self-serving in hindsight.

America is a pretty fucked up place when you think about it.

I wanted to post in the delete me thread, who deleted it?

cutuphalfdead wrote:America is a pretty fucked up lace when you think about it.

Eh European lace is even more fucked up.

Damn, i forgot the band is playing a show right now

numbers wrote:

cutuphalfdead wrote:America is a pretty fucked up lace when you think about it.

Eh European lace is even more fucked up.

When I put on some lace I'm never sure which bathroom to use.

numbers wrote:I wanted to post in the delete me thread, who deleted it?

I made it a global announcement

numbers wrote:

cutuphalfdead wrote:America is a pretty fucked up lace when you think about it.

Eh European lace is even more fucked up.

Chantilly lace?

Chud and I are on the same page again. It's time to rub our dicks together.

stip wrote:

numbers wrote:I wanted to post in the delete me thread, who deleted it?

I made it a global announcement

no wait, it's gone

stip wrote:

numbers wrote:I wanted to post in the delete me thread, who deleted it?

I made it a global announcement

Apologies, you made the appropriate move.

Damnit, Stip.

cutuphalfdead wrote:

Birds in Hell wrote:

stip wrote:it's not a majority. It's a well organized minority that bothers to show up to vote.

I'll admit the idea of non-compulsory voting is somewhat alien to me as an Australian but, given that's how your system works, I don't see how that makes the result any less legitimate.

Well when those in power do everything they can to make voting as hard as possible, because they know lower turnouts favor them, it casts a shadow on the results. People waited in line for upwards of 5 hours to vote in the Arizona primary. The Voting Rights Act was recently overturned. Voter ID laws that disproportionately affect poor and minority people are all the rage now.

That's a very fair criticism, I definitely wasn't considering any difficulties in being able to actually cast a vote.

Wendy Carlos's Twin wrote:Chud and I are on the same page again. It's time to rub our dicks together.

Why do we let ourselves ever drift apart?