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Author Topic: Amazingly Stupid Things You've Heard People Say  (Read 1043758 times)

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Re: Amazingly Stupid Things You've Heard People Say
« Reply #1995 on: October 10, 2012, 11:40:48 am »

The US political system would also benefit from limited campaigning. It's almost like the politicians around here never do anything, because they're always too busy campaigning.
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« Reply #1996 on: October 10, 2012, 11:46:49 am »

Two party isn't the problem, winner-take-all is.

If a party representing 5% of the people could get 5% of the seats in congress, without those people all having to live in the same state...
As I said, first past the post is a terrible system, and causes the 2 party system.

((yes, I realize America doesn't use a first past the post system, but it's comparable enough))

The US political system would also benefit from limited campaigning. It's almost like the politicians around here never do anything, because they're always too busy campaigning.
I'm pretty sure that what's campaigning in America, would be seen as serious corruption in other states.
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« Reply #1997 on: October 10, 2012, 11:47:23 am »

Funnily enough I saw that as an advantage of being the opposition to a sitting president. Hes got all that running the US stuff to worry about while you can go about promising the moon on a stick to everyone.

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« Reply #1998 on: October 10, 2012, 12:20:22 pm »

Funnily enough I saw that as an advantage of being the opposition to a sitting president. Hes got all that running the US stuff to worry about while you can go about promising the moon on a stick to everyone.
True, but a sitting candidate has all sorts of free, job-related public events he has to go to where there will be reporters and he can use those as impromptu campaign events. Hell, the State of the Union address is essentially an annual re-election pitch.
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Re: Amazingly Stupid Things You've Heard People Say
« Reply #1999 on: October 10, 2012, 01:18:55 pm »

Hey, CCPgrey released ANOTHER video concerning american political systems just now.

I conclude from this that the entire American voting system is fucked up majorly.
« Last Edit: October 10, 2012, 01:21:14 pm by miauw62 »
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« Reply #2000 on: October 10, 2012, 01:48:24 pm »

Top story tonight: American electoral system is a steaming pile of faeces.

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Re: Amazingly Stupid Things You've Heard People Say
« Reply #2001 on: October 10, 2012, 01:56:16 pm »

Both are amusing images, I'll admit :P
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Re: Amazingly Stupid Things You've Heard People Say
« Reply #2002 on: October 10, 2012, 05:19:57 pm »

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Re: Amazingly Stupid Things You've Heard People Say
« Reply #2003 on: October 10, 2012, 05:20:23 pm »

At 0:36 in that video, there's a creeper senator in the back.

Also yeah, this is stupid, and probably won't change since Americans love to try to hearken back to a past they don't have and this takes them back to the "GOOD OLD DAYS" of... a few centuries ago.

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Re: Amazingly Stupid Things You've Heard People Say
« Reply #2004 on: October 10, 2012, 05:57:05 pm »

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« Reply #2005 on: October 10, 2012, 07:20:55 pm »

My brothers girlfriend asked me "Who's Stephen Hawking?" I facepalmed hard that day.
You should roll with it. Say he was some famous general or something, who conquered all of Greece and lost it to the Chinese.

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« Reply #2006 on: October 10, 2012, 07:24:16 pm »

My brothers girlfriend asked me "Who's Stephen Hawking?" I facepalmed hard that day.
You should roll with it. Say he was some famous general or something, who conquered all of Greece and lost it to the Chinese.
The dirty capitalist Chinese.

But then Greece was freed by the revolution thrown by the uber badass, JFK, who was in turn assassinated by Hitler, who would go on to conquer Germany and create the Holocaust.
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Re: Amazingly Stupid Things You've Heard People Say
« Reply #2007 on: October 10, 2012, 07:25:02 pm »

My brothers girlfriend asked me "Who's Stephen Hawking?" I facepalmed hard that day.
You should roll with it. Say he was some famous general or something, who conquered all of Greece and lost it to the Chinese.


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Re: Amazingly Stupid Things You've Heard People Say
« Reply #2008 on: October 10, 2012, 07:25:24 pm »

My brothers girlfriend asked me "Who's Stephen Hawking?" I facepalmed hard that day.
You should roll with it. Say he was some famous general or something, who conquered all of Greece and lost it to the Chinese.
The dirty capitalist Chinese.

But then Greece was freed by the revolution thrown by the uber badass, JFK, who was in turn assassinated by Hitler, who would go on to conquer Germany and create the Holocaust.
But you know, Hitler wasn't all bad. He did kill Hitler.
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« Reply #2009 on: October 10, 2012, 07:26:01 pm »

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