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and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
is my understanding of American Politics correct?
There's two parties. Republicans, who are all about rich people and hate everything the Democrats do and yell a lot and Democrats, who are all about rich people, sometimes also about not rich people, hate everything the republicans do and generally try not to make too much noise.
Americans have to choose between the two and their platform is pretty much always "What my opponent said, but the opposite".
Also, each vote isn't worth the same because of a guy named Gerry Manders who decided states should vote, not people, so people vote for a state and then the winning party takes all the votes together, therefore erasing those of the losing party.
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No, I'm no longer allowed there because I killed one of their mods in single combat. But I heard about Magical burst in the obscure/horrible RPGs thread.
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and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
Huh! That's funny, then, because there is an entire thread dedicated to one guy wanting to hack Magical Burst to be a Persona RPG. How strange!
On the black screen
First step of road trip complete- Pack house into car and head to parent's house to set off.
It begins really tuesday morning when I make the first step out of the state.
Wooo road trip weeeek
In general, first past the post systems are... not great, and Mr Mandering as you put it makes things worse. Then there's the voter disenfranchising, and the absolutely horrible way the US senate works.
I was aware of that campaign. I didn't check the notes (if any are posted). All I can say is, we drew the same parallels between the relationship rules for Magical Burst and the S. Links in Persona. But I assure you, my conversion effort is lazy and unrelated to theirs. Plus, it's a system that's light on rules, so practically nothing is changed. Just the genders and ages. (Going to run it as more of a college thing than a high school thing.)
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Sore backs and asses await you!
Already there thanks to moving furniture that was WAYYY heavier than I am out of our house
Woo?
The Democrats aka the big tent- This is the party of Obama though he represents one side, the conservative democrat side. This party includes everything from blue dogs(dems in name) to our super liberals like Dennis Kucinich who want to make a department of peace and make some of the European liberals look like conservative. Many are the middle ground which is right of most Europeans but have a longer history of developing social programs.
Other notable Dems include-Johnson, Kennedy, FDR and Clinton
The Republicans aka The Grand Old Party aka Nut Jobs- Now this party is kind of three parties. The old school republicans. These are super rare now but they are usually conservative but tend to see a use in some public programs. Reagan Republicans, this is like Mr. Ninja Turtle Mitch McConnell, want to dismantle the social programs and work under the impression of trickle down economics. They tend to reduce taxes and cut all but defense. But they have in the past worked with dems for the country, also can be really crazy. Last is the Tea Party, home of Cantor the crazy. These people take a slash and burn response to government. They are the children of the Reagan revolution who took Ayn Rand as a literal path to prosperity. They wish to privatize and dismantle the government. They also see default as nothing bad. They got into the house last election on a very anti-Obama platform.
Problem is lots of our media portrays it with out the nuance. Which hurts our discussions a lot.
I'm sorry, I had the mental image of you trying to drag a dresser larger then yourself. Like an ant and a rubber tree plant.
Gnite forums I will talk to you more next week I think
Not too far off from what actually happened.
Right. The Democrats. They're the one who are insane and determined to ruin America *crying eagle*. Right?
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Read some stuff Kucinich wants he would be up there with Greens. He can be awesome other times, kind of nutty. He also looks like a puppet. I would so vote for him if I could though.
So you have politicians saying extreme things to fire the base, and simple things to connect with the independents, and it's basicly ends up as nonsensical and bad analogies.
Most countries have non-mandantory voting. Down here in Australia, we do. That's never been an issue for me.
But I've seen people on both sides of the "if you don't vote, you don't have a say" argument for non-mandantory countries, and I've always been surprised by the vehemence on the end of the people who seem to be of the opinion that you get a say in the political process regardless of whether you vote or not.
So my question is more along the lines of "what kind of change do people expect when they don't participate in the institutional democratic process", beyond a desire to tear the whole system down
that's all i'm saying dogg
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
And the other party is full of republicans!
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The Republican Party is a Fox News corporation.
And all politicians say really stupid things, that is politicians. Though a lot of our current soundbite world comes from a 24 hour news cycle and the repeal of the equal time protections by Reagan in the 1980s(at least I remember it being then). We use to force TV to give equal time to both candidates, now we don't. In many ways this allowed the evolution of Fox News. But that is a whole different can of worms.
Things should just be better, obviously.
Fixed that for you Elki.