"InfinityAero" (infinityaero)
06/08/2016 at 17:40 • Filed to: None
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"InfinityAero" (infinityaero)
06/08/2016 at 17:40 • Filed to: None | 6
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It was time to rip the bandaid off. Too many conservative (union member) police stalking me looking for an excuse to give me a ticket. Too many middle-aged white ladies cutting me off, preventing me from yielding and high beaming me. I couldn’t continue to live my driving life in constant fear that a deranged Wendell Pierce might come across me on the freeway and lose all grip on reality.
Residue free, at least. Even in this small way, the campaign was looking out for the little guys, I guess. I pulled it off filled with sadness; I won’t have a good choice to make this November. Perhaps someday I’ll get to vote for a major party candidate that I agree with policy-wise to the same degree, but I doubt it. Money wins out in our politics, over us, so I’m surprised he even got this far. RIP Sanders campaign, 2015-2016. Hello Corporate Hill vs Coward Failure Trump, 2016-2017.
Ike
> InfinityAero
06/08/2016 at 17:44 |
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Never understood political bumper stickers, good way to risk Pissing off people with out the benefit of maybe changing a mind
TheHondaBro
> InfinityAero
06/08/2016 at 17:44 |
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B-b-b-but Bernie still has a chance!! Right?? Right??!? Yeeeah he does. You just wait!! /s
xyzabc
> InfinityAero
06/08/2016 at 17:46 |
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People deserve the Government Officials they elect.
jkm7680
> TheHondaBro
06/08/2016 at 17:48 |
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lol no chance
Party-vi
> xyzabc
06/08/2016 at 17:48 |
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Which would be fine if voting were unanimous.
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InfinityAero
> xyzabc
06/08/2016 at 17:48 |
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We do get the politicians we deserve.
Biggus Dickus (RevsBro)
> InfinityAero
06/08/2016 at 17:49 |
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The old man needs to go back to the nursing home.
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InfinityAero
> Biggus Dickus (RevsBro)
06/08/2016 at 17:51 |
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Prob more likely to find him in a picket line or march, actually. I hope I someday have that much energy again, he’s lived a grind in the last year that I wouldn’t make it through a week of. That goes for all the candidates that made it to the end.
Sn210
> Ike
06/08/2016 at 17:53 |
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Especially tow truck drivers, apparently
Chris_K_F drives an FR-Slow
> InfinityAero
06/08/2016 at 17:55 |
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We have our three* nominees.
FTFY ;)
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InfinityAero
> Ike
06/08/2016 at 17:57 |
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I’m a pretty nice driver generally, letting pedestrians go by, letting people merge in, not tailgating. Guess I should have put it on the front instead of the back... :P
I hadn’t had a political bumper sticker on my car since early in the Iraq war, when I had an anti-Bush sticker on my car. Two tickets in a month... I finally realized what was going on after an officer waited for me in a parking lot, then followed me for 6 miles through the city before giving up on me making a mistake. I expected that, the road raging from other people is bizzare though. I don’t get pissed every time I see a Trump or Hillary sticker, or start tailgating people... just bizzare and unexpected.
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xyzabc
> InfinityAero
06/08/2016 at 18:02 |
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...and this basic observation (albeit often times misquoted / misconstrued) is over 200-years old.
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InfinityAero
> Chris_K_F drives an FR-Slow
06/08/2016 at 18:03 |
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I’m wholeheartedly supporting third party candidates this year. Voting third party (Johnson or Stein) sends a message that the two major parties are failing to represent a significant block of conservatives and liberals, and need to adapt or die. Also, if the Greens or Liberterians get to 5% of the vote they get federal funding. Honestly, those two minor party platforms capture more directly what truly liberal or conservative views are, much better than our two corrupted major parties.
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Chris_K_F drives an FR-Slow
> InfinityAero
06/08/2016 at 18:10 |
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The real key, in terms of percentages, is Johnson getting the 15% he needs to be included in the debates. That will be the biggest blow to the Dems and Reps, because $hillary and Drumpf will actually have to defend their policies rather than just sling giant piles of shit at each other.
It’s not a completely unrealistic chance that Gary Johnson could be the next POTUS. I do think it’s highly unlikely, and would be a major battle, but if he can get on the debate stage there is a not insignificant opportunity. The real positive outcome from that will be helping people realize that they don’t need to pick between the lesser of two evils, which will hopefully translate into a much better election the next time around. This could be the LP’s opportunity to start moving in on the Republican Part’s floundering position.
vondon302
> InfinityAero
06/08/2016 at 18:19 |
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Nicely said.
coelacanthist
> InfinityAero
06/08/2016 at 18:38 |
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We don't have any nominees, there have been no conventions.
mazda616
> InfinityAero
06/08/2016 at 18:51 |
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Voting for Gary Johnson just as I did in 2012. The two major parties are pathetically out of touch with the American people. I liked that Bernie wasn’t an “establishment” candidate but I didn’t support the economic ideas of his. Socialism doesn’t work. Look at Venezuela.
But, even more than that, I don’t support anything Trump does or says because he’s a narcissistic idiot and Hillary is just so isolated and out of touch, it’s sad. I can’t have someone represent me who doesn’t understand the way life works for the vast majority of this country’s people.
American politics suck.
PorkchoPlissken
> InfinityAero
06/08/2016 at 19:01 |
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This is why I never put any bumper sticker of opinion on my cars. It’s really not effective advertising either, based on how many shitty drivers are out there with stickers, that make me not ever want to share their views.
Variance
> InfinityAero
06/08/2016 at 19:03 |
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I’ve heard that there were potentially millions of provisional ballots handed out in California that still have to be counted. Apparently there’s over 18 million registered democrat voters and only 4 million votes had been counted?
Apparently damn near everybody at UCLA was given a provisional ballot, despite showing valid proof of registration. Some sketchy stuff going on, for sure.
Dr_Watson
> InfinityAero
06/08/2016 at 19:03 |
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Because they listened when people voted Nader? Or Perot?
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Ike
> InfinityAero
06/08/2016 at 19:07 |
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I go further with the though, no good can come of sports teams, political groups, or ideological bumper stickers.
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InfinityAero
> mazda616
06/08/2016 at 19:14 |
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Socialist policies, based on a system where you have a firm understanding of global economics, economy of scale, and beaurocratic overrun can be successful on a National scale. I tend to be more liberal, so I see some of the success stories, like Denmark.
I get the skepticism that it wouldn’t work on a scale much larger than that but I also happen to be a proud American where I think if another nation’s able to do something we should be able to do it as well and as efficiently. We’re failing on healthcare, higher education, infrastructure, banking, taxation and international business because we’ve sacrificed them on the alter of crony capitalism. I’m cool with having pure capitalist systems, ones that actually drive down costs, but that’s rarely what we get in these for-profit government institutions. Instead we get the revolving door, and our GDP soars as corporate profits for a few chosen companies rise on the backs of taxpayers, who subsidize the whole mess through their taxes while they also pay directly. I’d rather have the government handle it directly rather than the inefficient, expensive, “capitalist” systems we have now. I’m skeptical of any positive change in those areas of the government while money is allowed to dominate “speech” in politics.
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InfinityAero
> Variance
06/08/2016 at 19:14 |
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Yep, happened in AZ too, no followup by press.
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InfinityAero
> coelacanthist
06/08/2016 at 19:16 |
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I suppose something catastrophic could happen.... to either “presumptive”, but I think the stage is set as much as the Bastard bowl in game of thrones. Anything else would be a shocker.
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mazda616
> InfinityAero
06/08/2016 at 19:16 |
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I disagree with socialism on a broad scale. I don’t want the government that much in control of my life. That’s the libertarian side of me.
But, I also disagree with the crony capitalism we have going on. You are correct in that it only benefits a select few. Pure capitalism works. It's just impossible to find.
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InfinityAero
> coelacanthist
06/08/2016 at 19:16 |
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But also, in this case, there aren’t any potential voters left.
B/Xmrrmvr
> InfinityAero
06/08/2016 at 19:17 |
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You can always get this as a bumper sticker:
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InfinityAero
> Ike
06/08/2016 at 19:19 |
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Bumper stickers suck in general. I’m glad it came off clean. The pig of a truck cruises best at around the speed limit, so I wasn’t worried about being pulled. The rage... DC metro thing I’d guess.
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InfinityAero
> mazda616
06/08/2016 at 19:24 |
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Pure capitalism is great with a *little* management. Wage floor I’m cool with, for instance.
I’m a capitalist in most areas, but we’re spending so goddamn much, getting so little, in the biggest GDP in the world. It’s tough to even start a business in our economy. Calling America a “capitalist country” is as much a ruse as calling it socialist, we’re neither, and both are far better than what we have.
Mazarin
> coelacanthist
06/08/2016 at 19:27 |
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Look, it’s Technicality Man!
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coelacanthist
> InfinityAero
06/08/2016 at 19:28 |
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Just playing devils advocate, nothing would surprise me in this race short of trump peeling back his face to reveal his true identity as a reptilian alien. You are very articulate, engaged and reasonable, considered politics yourself?
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InfinityAero
> coelacanthist
06/08/2016 at 19:34 |
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Thank you, that’s really nice. God help me, a little bit, now that I’m getting old enough to realize how much most of them are complete sham gifters, I’m getting frustrated enough...
*Sigh* Can you tell I have no desire to be a politician? At this point I’m just concerned and want to help, and likely have no idea how to, like a passerby trying to help a downed biker.
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coelacanthist
> InfinityAero
06/08/2016 at 19:38 |
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Fight the good fight in any way you see appropriate. This is OUR country despite what the powers at be are happy having us believe. I'm pretty turned off as well. I've been trying to focus more on local politics, although it's only slightly less frustrating.
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InfinityAero
> coelacanthist
06/08/2016 at 19:54 |
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Right on, you as well. Local is where it starts, that’s a big lesson for me this primary.
His Stigness
> Variance
06/08/2016 at 20:03 |
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Just because there are a certain number of registered voters doesn’t mean they all vote. Primary turnout is always shit.
NeedForSwede
> Chris_K_F drives an FR-Slow
06/08/2016 at 20:15 |
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Saw him on Samantha Bee’s program. He worked for a goddamn pot company. I love him. Don’t agree with all things libertarian, but it’s not like he’ll fuck things up any more than Clinton or Trump. Freak power, baby.
CCC (formerly CyclistCarCoexist)
> InfinityAero
06/08/2016 at 21:08 |
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There is the terribly corrupt provisional votes in Cali. Millions of votes in California were not counted. Stay strong. Fuck the rest of them
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Ike
> InfinityAero
06/08/2016 at 21:12 |
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DC metro, the worst of everything from around the country
Tekamul
> Biggus Dickus (RevsBro)
06/08/2016 at 23:35 |
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Yeah, get that 74 year old outta here! Now where are the other two? You know, the 68 year old and the 69 year old. We need somebody spry!