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American Democracy: Presidential Edition - Vote Your Conscience!
Elki
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Rumor has it that an unpopular person is trying to get elected president of the United States, and their opponents are uniting against it.
Here's an artist's rendition of how it'll turn out.
Here's an artist's rendition of how it'll turn out.
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Tragicomedy.
Yes.
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cogedy? tramedy? a lil bit greek, a lil bit shakespeare?
We find that out November 8th.
only i could watch Jurassic Bark over and over. not sure i could go through this election more than once.
It all depends on how it ends.
Irony, apparently.
So anyway, while we've been talking about this, we're in a new day now. What new awfulness has surfaced?
Like, Bush/Gore was retrospectively more terrifying, but nobody could see that at the time
This is like, a train full of nuclear weapons with faulty detonators is on fire and barreling across a poorly-maintained bridge over a canyon full of puppies and there's a bus full of orphans stalled out on the tracks and everyone can see it coming because it's being livestreamed by fifty people on their phones and, just, one of you can pull the lever, just pull the freaking lever, oh my god just-
But a total lightweight giving a cribbed speech is the thing that wrecks their newscycle.
Motherfucker.
They tried to bury us. They didn't know that we were seeds. 2018 Midterms. Get your shit together.
Trump is still on track to secure the nomination.
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Yeah watching the world spiral to dystopia isn't really something I thought I was going to have to watch even like 10 years ago.
It's really hard to keep hearing all this shit, and not asking the question, what's the point of the trivial shit I work on every day if the world's about to explode within the next 4 years?
I can't wait for this election to be over just so I know how fucked we are.
Delegates opposed to Trump are getting threatened. As in death threats.
My Backloggery
It gets better. Alex Jones got into a fight with labor protestors, then was whisked away in an unmarked car by police.
This is a thing that happened.
Less drunk.
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Were there helicopters involved? Were they black?
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They tried to bury us. They didn't know that we were seeds. 2018 Midterms. Get your shit together.
No. Both are illegal use of copyrighted material. Like singing a song that someone wrote. Just because you change a few lyrics unless it's a parody of the song itself it's not fair use. You have to license (and attribute).
You can sometimes fair use for quotes but only if it's as a quote. If not then plagiarism is a copyright violation. You could quote a song in the same way or even maybe play a small section of the song.
Edit: but playing a section of a song/performance would only be fair use is something like music critique since you can get the value from just the quote in another instance
And here's the video! Beware some very loud bleeping from the start.
Then the second line... ok again, only so many variations of..
Third line... yeah.
Reminds me of a funny story in high school. Spoilered because it's really more or less OT at this point.
20 minutes later, the teacher calls me and a friend up. We're often in the same group on projects, so we're known compatriots to him. He says "Nice try, but you clearly just copied your work (as in, I'm the one who "did the work", and my friend is the one who I let "copy it". For the record, we didn't. We completely did the paper separately, and I said as much. He hands me both papers.
We fucking wrote almost literally the same words. My work is barely a derivative of the textbook as is (and just to point out, this is fine and the teacher knows and expects this given the subject and length). But my friend's paper is even less a derivative of mine. It legitimately looks like he just copied my paper but was so lazy he only changed some "and's" and "the's".
The ending is a lot happier though. We both got zero's, but this was hardly a grade defining paper, and it didn't affect a thing. This was also the kind of teacher that you're more chummy with, not strictly business. And I was more or less kind of a "teachers pet" kind of student as well. I could slack off or help others with their work because I'd get the job done, and it was ok because I never disrupted the class. It was also the type of hands-on class that when you're done, there's really nothing for you to do but twiddle your thumbs anyways (you have 4 days to finish this circuit board build, and I'd do it in 2 and a half). So I think on some level he believed me. But he still gave the zero. And my response to him was that... I can't fight it, nor really prove otherwise. Because I'm looking at both papers and it looks exactly like we copied each other. Even though I swear to you all we did not!
...To go back to the speech though... yeah, pretty clear lady totally copied that speech.
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Edit: they are the color guard.
That's very cool
They were painted with complex murals depicting birds of prey diving. /s
A bunch of kids representing a bunch of other nations pledged allegiance to the American flag.
Nobody saw the slightest problem with this.
Yeah, that was weird.
(headdesk)
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I'm fully aware the sikh religion is its own thing and has nothing to do with muslims, but you generally don't give off the impression you care about those distinctions RNC.
1) College educated whites, 10 points or so towards Clinton.
2) Hispanics, 10 points towards Clinton (if Spanish language polls are conducted).
So the idea Trump could win is based on dramatically higher turnout among non-college educated whites or lower turnout among minorities. Based on the primary, neither is happening.
i could see that working if it were meant as a celebration of immigration but that's just not the GOP.