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[Cruxador]

I think California has something like, you have a vote, and then the top two candidates from that vote run against eachother no matter what parties they are?

This is true but only applies to elections for state positions.

California also has this little issue.

"People are stupid and don't read forms correctly" isn't a California-specific issue.

[Orange Wizard]

Wait, why's the party allowed to call themselves Independent anyway?

[Cruxador]

Wait, why's the party allowed to call themselves Independent anyway?

They're not called "Independent" they're called "The American Independent Party". It even has the word "party" right in the name, so only an idiot would think it's not a party. Why shouldn't they be allowed to use what words they want in their name?

[Orange Wizard]

Normally there are restrictions to prevent confusion, like the exact problem people are having.

For instance, from the NZ Electoral Commission's guidelines:

2.7        Acceptable party name

A party name (and any abbreviation) will be accepted provided it:

is not offensive or indecent
is not likely to confuse or mislead voters
is not excessively long (the name should not be longer than 52 characters including spaces
and punctuation), or
does not refer to an honour or title or similar form of identification.

[NullForceOmega]

United States OW, we don't have smart rules, we have soulless politicians with huge amounts of money who have a vested interest in maintaining the status quo.

Also, your eurocentrism is getting pretty stale.  I don't mind seeing points brought up for comparison or exploration, but you're starting to sound more and more troll like.

[Dorsidwarf]

United States OW, we don't have smart rules, we have soulless politicians with huge amounts of money who have a vested interest in maintaining the status quo.

Also, your eurocentrism is getting pretty stale.  I don't mind seeing points brought up for comparison or exploration, but you're starting to sound more and more troll like.

American geography strikes again.

[Orange Wizard]

NZ

eurocentrism

10/10

Though yeh, fair enough. I do get a bit carried away with that.

[scriver]

New Zealand, Old Zeeland, and a tiny piece of Poland.

[Reelya]

"Centrism" now means talking about things and places that are on the other side of the planet to the place you're centric about. Hey, don't say Bay12 isn't progressive: we've redefined both geography and geometry.

[Sheb]

"Centrism" now means talking about things and places that are on the other side of the planet to the place you're centric about. Hey, don't say Bay12 isn't progressive: we've redefined both geography and geometry.

As a self-defined progressive, I take offense to this.

[Reelya]

Don't worry, I've redefined "take offense to this." as "approve of this message."

[martinuzz]

Looks like Trump is trying to be like Erdogan.

An anonymous opponent is sueing artist Illma Gore, who had to move to the UK because of death threats against her in the US, for putting her painting "Make America Great Again" depicting Trump with a micropenis, on sale.
The artist suspects Trump supporters to be behind it.
When Facebook and Ebay removed the painting from their websites, they informed the artist that they did so because a third party had filed a lawsuit based on the Digital Millenium Copyright Act against her.
Based on this law, which is meant to protect author's rights online, Gore can get an 'infringement notice' which orders her to remove illegal content.

According to law experts, the law is more often than not appealed to for improper reasons, usually to pester competition.
It can be expected that the artist will have to defend herself in court, and prove that the anonymous complaintant has no grounds to appeal to the DMCA law.
Who exactly filed the lawsuit is still shrouded, but Gore herself expects it to come from the Trump circle.

Gore herself says to not be rattled by all the commotion, and will stand firm for her art. The sale will go on, and part of the proceedings will be donated to the shelter for homeless in LA.
"Anyone who is scared of a fictive dick does not scare me", she says.

https://www.facebook.com/tomfoolery.art/
http://www.volkskrant.nl/buitenland/schilderes-van-naakte-donald-trump-met-micropenis-riskeert-rechtszaak~a4284650/

[SirQuiamus]

Yeahm, that's one fine piece of art.

If by "fine" you mean something that inspires absolute soul-destroying horror on a cosmic scale.

[sprinkled chariot]

Such painting is warcrime against art.
That athenian law about big fines for artist making ugly art now starts making sense for me.

[SirQuiamus]

I'm still glad that the painting exists, somewhere, far away. In the same way I'm glad that the Great Old One sleeps quietly in R'lyeh.

I know what my avatar will be when Trump becomes president and the world ends.