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Chocolate_Fondue - Group: Member - Total Posts: 2
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Hillary vs. Trump: The Thread! \(^o^)/
Posted on: 07/14/16 07:56PM

For you guys and gals who are from the U.S., i would genuinely like to know who you intend to vote for! /)^3^(\

The Billary or the Frump? Or possibly Ned Flanders? Who do YOU want in office?



Jerl - Group: The Real Administrator - Total Posts: 6704
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Posted on: 07/14/16 08:44PM

I'm voting for Lozer T. User.

The best leader is one who is always asleep.



jedi1357 - Group: Moderator - Total Posts: 5772
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Posted on: 07/14/16 10:05PM

“The major problem—one of the major problems, for there are several—one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them.
To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it.
To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.”
ā€• Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

That said, I would sooner vote for Elmer Fudd than Hillery Clinton.



Dirty_Harry - Group: Moderator - Total Posts: 628
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Posted on: 07/14/16 10:20PM

Someone said "democracy is when 51% trample over the wishes of the 49%." Actually, you wish it was. This is what you get instead:
"The United States Electoral College is the institution that elects the President and Vice President of the United States every four years. Citizens of the United States do not directly elect the president or the vice president..."

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_College_(United_States)

"An electoral college is a set of electors who are selected to elect a candidate to a particular office. Often these represent different organizations, political parties, or entities, with each organization, political party or entity represented by a particular number of electors or with votes weighted in a particular way. Many times, though, the electors are simply important people whose wisdom would ideally provide a better choice than a larger body. The system can ignore the wishes of a general membership."

So, in other words, you don't vote. Corporations vote. Because their choices are better, obviously, you silly voter.



jedi1357 - Group: Moderator - Total Posts: 5772
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Posted on: 07/14/16 10:23PM

Dirty_Harry said:
Someone said "democracy is when 51% trample over the wishes of the 49%." Actually, you wish it was. This is what you get instead: "The United States Electoral College is the institution that elects the President and Vice President of the United States every four years. Citizens of the United States do not directly elect the president or the vice president..."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_College_(United_States)


Yea but I voted for some of those members, all of whom lost. 21 candidates for 16 seats. They - All - Lost! (Sigh.)



Dirty_Harry - Group: Moderator - Total Posts: 628
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Posted on: 07/14/16 10:28PM

Let me get this straight. You vote for someone to make a choice for you. He/she is not obligated to pick what you wanted.



jedi1357 - Group: Moderator - Total Posts: 5772
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Posted on: 07/14/16 10:30PM

Dirty_Harry said:
Let me get this straight. You vote for someone to make a choice for you. He/she is not obligated to pick what you wanted.


This is 100% true. However it is the system our founding fathers chose. We are a Republic not a democracy.



Dirty_Harry - Group: Moderator - Total Posts: 628
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Posted on: 07/14/16 10:43PM

Times change. The founding fathers must have had illiterate uneducated masses in mind. But then again, ignorance is still a thing. cdn.quotesgram.com/small/...hill-Democracy-Quotes.jpg



Klamen007 - Group: Member - Total Posts: 111
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Posted on: 07/14/16 11:04PM

I'm not voting this year. Both candidates are too awful to vote for.



Domestic_Importer - Group: Member - Total Posts: 183
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Posted on: 07/14/16 11:20PM

If only changing the constitution to where a actual voting process can happen was possible, or at least was easy to do. But it's worse for those living in the US territories and D.C., since citizens living in those areas can't even (officialy) vote.



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