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right wing X left wing here. this is facebook all over again
Thursday, 12-May-16 00:10:41 UTC from web-
@mushi Actually it's two left wing against someone taking the middle ground.
Thursday, 12-May-16 00:15:42 UTC from web-
Thursday, 12-May-16 00:16:22 UTC from web
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@rarity I'm taking the position of "I'm not sure if he'll be great, but I'm not sure he'll be terrible either", which is a neutral position. I dislike the north american right as much as anyone else.
Thursday, 12-May-16 00:17:39 UTC from web-
@nerthos Well Still, I don't see how someone could vote for a person on a coin flip. It's not a chance of whether the new burger joint you went to for lunch will be terrible, it's the Presidency
Thursday, 12-May-16 00:19:11 UTC from web-
@rarity Well I guess I can understand that. I voted Macri after all because it was a chance of the bad guys being right, and a chance at them being wrong and things going well, which turned out to be the case. The alternative was 100% assured impunity to the corrupt and collapse of the economy. So I guess you're doing the same in your own way, from the way you see things.
Thursday, 12-May-16 00:21:08 UTC from web-
Thursday, 12-May-16 00:22:06 UTC from web
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@rarity I cannot in good conscience do that. Trump and Clinton are too close in polls right now for me to even think about voting for a third party, as much as I'd love to do that.
Thursday, 12-May-16 00:24:52 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation I'll have to see as it gets closer
Thursday, 12-May-16 00:26:05 UTC from web -
@mrmattimation Haha, you're in the same position I was in october.
Thursday, 12-May-16 00:26:10 UTC from web-
@nerthos It sucks because I turned 18 in September so my first vote is, essentially, "who do I hate the least"
Thursday, 12-May-16 00:27:24 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation Get used to it, that's the basis of real world democracy.
Thursday, 12-May-16 00:31:05 UTC from web
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@rarity I avoided going for the third party as it was absolutely necessary to keep Scioli off winning first round, as Macri only had a chance in the second round with the opposition being split between him and Massa. But I don't know how the system works over there or anything.
Thursday, 12-May-16 00:25:07 UTC from web-
@nerthos You guys do runoff right? where you number your options from most to least favorite?
Thursday, 12-May-16 00:25:51 UTC from web-
@rarity We have a first round where a candidate needs a 40% of the votes AND at least 10% of difference from the second candidate to win, and a second round between the two candidates with the highest vote counts if no candidate manages to achieve those two conditions.
Thursday, 12-May-16 00:27:42 UTC from web-
Thursday, 12-May-16 00:28:25 UTC from web
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@rarity We call it "ballotage", I'm not familiar with the term "runoff", but it might be the same thing. In the second round a candidate needs a simple majority to win. 50.01% is enough to win.
Thursday, 12-May-16 00:30:14 UTC from web -
@rarity Seeing who could catch a greased pig the quickest would be a better system than what we have here...
Thursday, 12-May-16 00:31:00 UTC from web -
@rarity You do have an advantage over here: voting isn't mandatory, so people who have no interest or don't know what they're doing can and often just skip voting.
Thursday, 12-May-16 00:32:23 UTC from web
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