You want the people to “Maga hat” riot the white house? You think that’s the plan?

Were you dropped on your head as a baby?

This. I hate the stuff. Can’t sleep and get a killer case of restless legs.

I am prone to respiratory complaints, it’s my weakness. However, I’d rather have that misery than pseudoephedrine.

If you have a point to make, it’s alluded me.

Why do we have to sign up to every fucking thing and it’s brother? Everything gets hacked eventually. Why don’t we just hand over our data to the hackers and cut out the middle man?

I disagree. Voting with your wallet is the only metric they understand. They just ascribe different analysis as to why it failed to their boardrooms. In the end, you put 70 million into the development and marketing of a game that doesn’t sell, that is going to get attention. Complaining on Reddit won’t.

It’s like the corporate world has made gaming into a twisted version of THEIR game. How do we grind money out of these idiots?

Well, I think that they will probably work it out in the end by going bust. Every CEO - in the end - blames the consumer, not the product nor the service.

Speak it brother. I’m currently playing Far Cry 3 and other past greats. I have money in my pocket, happy to buy something worthwhile, but nothing new AND good is available. Nothing.

Doesn’t the Supreme Court limit the powers of the house and the presidency, like, a lot?

I’m afraid that I still don’t get it, most probably because I am thick.

Someone has to be eliminated. That’s the whole point of elections. OPV means that your choice counts, well your preferences do. It also means that you don’t have to vote for the person you don’t want to, but you can rank your preferences. It is very rare that I would rank a bunch of people the same value. It is generally easy to rank candidates.

In our senate we sometimes have to rank over 100 candidates. If you do that you must number every box and can’t make a mistake. Or, the parties have registered their preferences and you just tick one box for your chosen party and that’s it. So it’s either one box ticked or 100 or so. The optional thing is that you don’t have to pick all 100, but that changes sometimes due to party politics playing with the system. One the whole, our electoral system limits how much political parties can mess about with elections. For instance, no party chooses electoral boundaries. Gerrymandering doesn’t happen here anymore. It used to, but not now.

I shall have to investigate the STAR system.

Ok. But why rank them the same?

I don’t see the point. In preferential voting you choose your candidates in a ranked order, so if number 5 doesn’t make the cut in the final count, your next vote (number 4) kicks in, and so on. Not exactly - all number 1 votes are tallied, and the losers are eliminated and then the second vote from the loser candidate gets tallied and so on until the winner is chosen. In this way your ranked choice is never exhausted until a winner arises. Your number 3 choice may get voted in. All votes are potentially important. FPTP sounds like a crap shoot.

Australia has optional preferential voting. If there is 10 candidates, you can list them in order you want, but you don’t have to pick them all. You can stop at any point. Pick 3 or 4 in order, or say 7, but you don’t have to rank the nazi at all.

Feared by world leaders? They think Trump’s a joke. He’s literally Putin’s patsy.

I think that it’s about 50 or so days till the election. I’m not even American and it’s so goddamned exhausting.

Make them elected and dark money will guarantee that the self-same bastards are elected. You think that democracy is a roadblock to these people?

Not surprised that it happened, shocked that the story got out.

No acknowledged historian believes that the strategic bombing of Germany shortened the war to any significant degree. The Nazi leaders didn’t care and the civilians endured.

The Londoners didn’t overthrow their government during their blitz, nor did the Germans during theirs.

Exactly, I hate what the Russians are doing, but as a former grunt, I’ll never rejoice in killing.

Why does Tucker Carlson look like he just realised he sharted.

That’s hilarious! Have an upvote!

Who can argue against the proposition that the US is not moving towards a Taliban style society?