Replies to rarity, page 34
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@dtluna @rarity @mrmattimation i don't even have pgp setup yet should get that done.
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@rarity @mrmattimation that reminds me @dtluna when you going to show me your FrankerZ?
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@rarity I'll tweet the link regardless of whether or not the stream is NSFW so if I don't post it here I'll post it there.
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@rarity It's really weird how the arguably most advanced society in the world, tech wise, has these social customs likely viewed by most Americans as old-fashioned, traditional, or even archaic in some cases.
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@rarity Oh, I'm well aware. I just think it's funny given how much stigma it got after WWII.
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@rarity I've got family even deeper on the Mexican side of the Whitesican spectrum who (at least on FB and IG) are pro-Trump. It's absolutely baffling, like if Adam Sandler came out as a neo Nazi.
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@rarity Hey I saw a flogger in Warframe not long ago, and everyone thought them extint in 2009.
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@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.
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@rarity Seeing who could catch a greased pig the quickest would be a better system than what we have here...
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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.
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@rarity My friend Andrew put it into words really well. She just wants to be an answer on a history test.
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@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.
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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.
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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.
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@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.
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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.
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@rarity Well, I'm not saying he CAN'T be a disaster, but I won't tell myself he absolutely will be until he actually does anything bad.
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@rarity That last sentence is interesting to me because I've had this theory (a desperate hope, more like) that he's taking a page out of Nixon's book and pretending to be an absolute lunatic to expand his press coverage and deter our enemies.
