Elections 2014, in a tweet

"SnapUndersteer, Italian Spiderman" (dasborgen)
11/05/2014 at 19:56 • Filed to: None

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DISCUSSION (23)

TheHondaBro > SnapUndersteer, Italian Spiderman
11/05/2014 at 19:59

Oh, no. Don't you dare do politics around here.

macanamera > SnapUndersteer, Italian Spiderman
11/05/2014 at 20:03

Don't republicans love all those things?

Fred (FreddsterExprs) > SnapUndersteer, Italian Spiderman
11/05/2014 at 20:07

As someone who has been to this country for a solid 4 weeks, all I can do is shake my head.

That Bastard Kurtis - An Attempt to Standardize My Username Across Platforms > macanamera
11/05/2014 at 20:09

Those and gay marriage. Basically their entire platform the last 50 years.

SnapUndersteer, Italian Spiderman > TheHondaBro
11/05/2014 at 20:11

Since when?

I'll talk about what I want, when I want on Oppo.......... And so long as I'm here I'll make damn sure all the users on here I and the other admins oversee can do so also

ttyymmnn > SnapUndersteer, Italian Spiderman
11/05/2014 at 20:16

Democracy : Noun, informal. A form of government in which a people, faced with the responsibility of self-rule, cast the job instead to an exclusive mire of unskilled panders.

- Brooke McEldowney

Carlitos the Fünfer > SnapUndersteer, Italian Spiderman
11/05/2014 at 20:19

Technically you're right.

Birddog > Fred (FreddsterExprs)
11/05/2014 at 20:20

If you're going to form an opinion I'd shy away from Politics. Both parties are screwed up. We just vote on who's less whacked.

SnapUndersteer, Italian Spiderman > Carlitos the Fünfer
11/05/2014 at 20:31

thanks for linking me to a piece I helped write.

CounterTorqueSteer > SnapUndersteer, Italian Spiderman
11/05/2014 at 20:49

Who pissed in your drink today?

SnapUndersteer, Italian Spiderman > CounterTorqueSteer
11/05/2014 at 21:06

I suppose intonation doesn't get transmitted easily via simple text........

Fred (FreddsterExprs) > Birddog
11/05/2014 at 21:09

I've been following US politics for quite some time now, and while both parties are not that great (also, a two party system? Because questions should always be answered with YES or NO, right?) the Republicans are out of their mind. Reagan's trickle down economics don't work, as evident by the bad results McDonalds and other consumable producers scored - there is no purchasing power in the lower classes, and it hurts business. That fact is ignored and the idea of a reasonable minimum wage is bashed by the GOP. Also, guns. I get why they have been necessary, but this isn't the wild west anymore.

HeathJokerSick > SnapUndersteer, Italian Spiderman
11/05/2014 at 21:19

Get over it. Voters have spoken on the country's future direction.

SnapUndersteer, Italian Spiderman > HeathJokerSick
11/05/2014 at 21:25

Why are you assuming I am peeved by this?

This isn't even my twitter account

HeathJokerSick > SnapUndersteer, Italian Spiderman
11/05/2014 at 21:27

I was talking to Ben.

SnapUndersteer, Italian Spiderman > HeathJokerSick
11/05/2014 at 21:30

So go tweet to him... I fear your comment in reply to me falls on deaf ears lol

Birddog > Fred (FreddsterExprs)
11/05/2014 at 21:33

The voters have spoken. The only way to send the Donkeys a message was to go GOP.

Fred (FreddsterExprs) > Birddog
11/05/2014 at 21:45

Go to the worse for a total two-year gridlock to send a message? That's a bit extreme, isn't it? Where is a reasonable, alternative party that is not a splinter cell of any of the two major groups? That's my biggest question and complaint actually. I wouldn't want to vote Obama into office either, but there is no alternative.

Birddog > Fred (FreddsterExprs)
11/05/2014 at 22:08

You're preaching to a Union guy. We're supposed to be automatic votes for the Dems. I'm not the only one that voted the "wrong way".

If the GOP plays their cards right, that's a big IF. Come 2016 I'd bet the GOP could exhume Dick Nixon and win the White House over any Dem candidate.

Fred (FreddsterExprs) > Birddog
11/05/2014 at 23:04

They have to rely on Hillary messing up in a big way to win. At least that's what I think. And maybe not be totally gridlocking Washington. Then they might have a chance.

Birddog > Fred (FreddsterExprs)
11/06/2014 at 03:59

Hillary? Hillary Rodham Clinton?

One Illinois Democratic President is enough.

If she's the top choice you need to embrace President Christie right now.

duurtlang > Fred (FreddsterExprs)
11/06/2014 at 04:43

As another outsider that's I find incomprehensible as well, the two-party system. That, and the from my perspective extremist views of one of the parties. Having said that, I do image a two party system breeds extreme views.

KirkyV > duurtlang
11/06/2014 at 13:51

It depends, really. The UK's had a two-party-ish system for ages - it's more like four parties at the moment, but two are significantly more powerful than any of the others - and one of the more significant issues in voter apathy within British politics is that the major parties are seen as far too similar to one-another.