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[Descan]

That censorship was really weird. Why were they censored at all, actually? :I

[kaijyuu]

Maybe bare chests are offensive in Australia? 

[Max White]

Not really, it has more to do with being an ad coming out of a religious conservative who thinks men holding hands is offensive.

[Reelya]

The whole thing is just playing on the "ick" factor. But showing someones grandparents "doin' the do" is pretty "ick" too, yet nobody would take that to mean it should be illegal.

[Sirus]

The whole thing is just playing on the "ick" factor. But showing someones grandparents "doin' the do" is pretty "ick" too, yet nobody would take that to mean it should be illegal.

Ah, but grandparents have already bred, hopefully as many times as biologically possible! Thus they have fulfilled their duty to society, unlike those evil gays.

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MASSIVE sarcasm here.

[Flying Dice]

Seriously? It is just expected over there?
It is making fucking national news over here for the controversy... People are either up in arms and insulted, laughing at just how bad the entire thing is, or thumping bibles. Protip: Katter is the only one with a bible in hand.

Attack ads worse than that wouldn't raise any eyebrows on my part. As far as I'm concerned, it just gives me an extra reason to avoid television.

[Max White]

Ok, I think I may have found one of the causes of why your nation is the way it is... Firstly, politics is not meant to be about who has the biggest, holiest dick.

[Scelly9]

"My dick is 80 million dollars long"
^^^^^
Complete summary of our politics.

[kaenneth]

I think it's partly because we tried to set limits on how much candidates could advertize themselves.

So, to get around that limit, a legally unrelated organization shows ads against the other guys.

It might be better to just allow them to put all their money into positive ads for themselves, than have to listen to all this bile.

[Truean]

I think it's partly because we tried to set limits on how much candidates could advertize themselves.

So, to get around that limit, a legally unrelated organization shows ads against the other guys.

It might be better to just allow them to put all their money into positive ads for themselves, than have to listen to all this bile.

You know that they'd just directly pay for the personal attacks then though....

[darkrider2]

What country are we talking about?

Attack ads pretty much run on the logic that, "If I convince [audience] that the other guy is wrong (or just a dick), then by logical deduction I must be correct, so [audience] will vote for I"

Which is bullpocky, since it is entirely possible (and altogether common) for everyone to be wrong at the same time. And probably dicks too.

[Truean]

What country are we talking about?

Attack ads pretty much run on the logic that, "If I convince [audience] that the other guy is wrong (or just a dick), then by logical deduction I must be correct, so [audience] will vote for I"

Which is bullpocky, since it is entirely possible (and altogether common) for everyone to be wrong at the same time. And probably dicks too.

Well, We're sorta comparing the US to Aus from what I can tell.

As for the rest of what you said, you're right with one critical flaw. "Logic," most people tragically don't use it. It is often choosing the lesser of two evils, so they make the other guy out to be the greater evil....

[darkrider2]

Yeah, one reason I wish we had more than two parties to vote for over here (US).

[penguinofhonor]

"My dick is 80 million dollars long"
^^^^^
Complete summary of our politics.

wisest post in the entire thread

[Truean]

Rick Santorum doesn't know what he's talking about and no one should be surprised: http://news.yahoo.com/santorum-doesnt-seem-mind-offending-puerto-rico-210301975.html

There is no such law saying you have to speak English to be a U.S. State.... Come on man, the place has a Spanish name....

He's also trying to jump on Obama for still saying "57 States Primaries, instead of 50, duh." Wait, wait, wait, I know what you might be thinking. Yes, there are 50 states, but there are 57 primaries. How you ask? What we do have 57 of? States, commonwealths, another kind of commonwealths, districts, and territories. In other words, we have 57 primaries and caucuses.

As mentioned in the article above. Puerto Rico, not a state, has a primary with I think 23 delegates total? Then there's Guam (9 delegates), Northern Mariana Is.(9 delegates), U.S. Virgin Islands (9 delegates), American Samoa (9 delegates), Washington, D.C. (19 delegates) and I'm forgetting one, but meh. Let's say I'm in the ballpark with those delegate numbers in as close a race as we're running, that's 78 delegates up for grabs.... That could make a pretty big difference.