The Return of Testing Chat Thread

[The Spartan]

On the flip side of that, I wonder how much bitching and moaning (and conspiracy theories...?) I'll have to overhear at work today.

Edit: come to think of it, I'm almost afraid (not really, but you know what I mean) to log into my Facebook account.

[Aaron]

So Obama did in fact win. Now instead of looking 15 years older he can look 30 years older four years from now.

And man I bet N&P is going to be even smugger than usual. I'm almost afraid to look.

If people are smug over four more years of Obama...then they need a reality check.

Four more years of torture, murder via drone, assault on rights, prosecution of whistleblowers and sucking coporate dick.

Congrats, the only difference between mittens and obama is obama won't try to tell you what to do with your uterus.

They were both shit options but pretending Obama is some sort of victory for America and the left, no.

[timmy]

Favourite phrase for this situation: Least Worst Option

[Aaron]

Exactly.

[Losonti Tokash]

i feel pretty smug because romney was that big a piece of shit

obama has also done plenty of things that are pretty great but then again everything you said is true

man

[Aaron]

Oh I agree about Romney, total human garbage.

The kind of man that would do or say anything to be Pres

[Phantasee]

Jill Stein 2016!

[Aaron]

Who?

[Phantasee]

[Phantasee]

http://www.jillstein.org/

[Losonti Tokash]

She's a cool lady who didn't even get on the ballot here.

[adr]

I gladly voted for Jill Stein. I was really hoping she would at least have gotten 1%, but blargh. At least Gary Johnson got that.

[Darksi4190]

We still have a green party?

You'd think they'd have learned by now. Those guys are about as politically relevant as Ralph Nader.

[Infinity Biscuit]

Yeah how dare anyone try to bring sensible policies into a national discussion. What weirdos.

[Losonti Tokash]

We still have a green party?

You'd think they'd have learned by now. Those guys are about as politically relevant as Ralph Nader.

[adr]

i listened to some things ralph nader had to say earlier this year for the first time

he's actually a pretty cool dude

[Aaron]

We still have a green party?

You'd think they'd have learned by now. Those guys are about as politically relevant as Ralph Nader.

Thank you for continuing to contribute to America's slide into irrelevance and general stupidity.

P.S. Twitter is a marvelous invention. Watching Trump pull out all his doll hair live.

[Bakustra]

We still have a green party?

You'd think they'd have learned by now. Those guys are about as politically relevant as Ralph Nader.

[Oxymoron]

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wat

I don't understand

[joviwan]

Maybe you should spoiler that for gands.

[Oxymoron]

Maybe it's the bad quality of the thing, but the guy on that gif (is that Ron Paul ?) look surprisingly like Jean-Luc Picard, if maybe with a bit more hair.

[Bakustra]

Maybe it's the bad quality of the thing, but the guy on that gif (is that Ron Paul ?) look surprisingly like Jean-Luc Picard, if maybe with a bit more hair.

it's a gif made by a paul supporter to show how the rEVOLution was winning out

edit: every single election we go through the same game where people are shocked to discover third parties existing

at least this time people will be blaming florida on the libertarians

[Metatwaddle]

i'm not quite sure why i didn't vote for jill stein, to be honest. it's not as if i live in a swing or near-swing state.

[Glass Fort MacLeod]

I didn't vote for Jill Stein although she was on the ballot. I was more terrified Romney might have gotten into office. Remember, in the us there were some 48 million people who actually thought 'President Romney' was a good idea. That should give you a clue about why people might actually be happy Obama won, despite the fact he's the 'least worst option' to borrow tim's phrase. Obama is a product of the American system, not a cause of it, and that's what should be horrible.

To put it another way, I also voted against the motion to amend the Minnesota constitution and deny same-sex couples the right to marry. It failed to pass, and I'm glad it did (as were a few people on SDN) but what does that really mean? I'm celebrating the fact my state (and by extension my country) is not heaping even more needless hate and discrimination on citizens because some Americans lack the mental flexibility to accept reality. So what exactly does that make me, as an American? Is it horrible of me to be settling for such a minor victory even though it means those same people - just as American as I am, lack some of the same rights and privileges I have always taken for granted?

[Bakustra]

I didn't vote for Jill Stein although she was on the ballot. I was more terrified Romney might have gotten into office. Remember, in the us there were some 48 million people who actually thought 'President Romney' was a good idea. That should give you a clue about why people might actually be happy Obama won, despite the fact he's the 'least worst option' to borrow tim's phrase. Obama is a product of the American system, not a cause of it, and that's what should be horrible.

To put it another way, I also voted against the motion to amend the Minnesota constitution and deny same-sex couples the right to marry. It failed to pass, and I'm glad it did (as were a few people on SDN) but what does that really mean? I'm celebrating the fact my state (and by extension my country) is not heaping even more needless hate and discrimination on citizens because some Americans lack the mental flexibility to accept reality. So what exactly does that make me, as an American? Is it horrible of me to be settling for such a minor victory even though it means those same people - just as American as I am, lack some of the same rights and privileges I have always taken for granted?

I don't think it's horrible. Just because things haven't changed yet doesn't mean that it's bad to be celebrating hatred losing in my book.