We have two Schrödingers dogs, they both want to go out and not go out (cos it is raining hard) at the same time.

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Thank you.

I have voted (early). There were people on the ballot I knew I was not going to vote for, even though they would be considered the lesser of two evils. Luckily, there was a third choice which was a better choice than the main two, so they got my vote.

The people who say just voting for the lesser two evils works, well Trump proved them wrong. At some point there has to be a major change.

Now with another one of these big bogus showdowns looming down on us, I can already pick up the stench of another bummer. I understand, along with a lot of other people, that the big thing this year is Beating Nixon. But that was also the big thing, as I recall, twelve years ago in 1960 – and as far as I can tell, we’ve gone from bad to worse to rotten since then, and the outlook is for more of the same.

—Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail ’72 (1973)

@anton @liaizon I meant crowdsourcing the ideas for setting something like this up.

@purplepadma @DoubleTreble amen

@DoubleTreble Thanks, I hate making phone calls of any kind!

Yeah that’s what people have been saying since like the 1800s. I forgot who said it or what it was from, but there was a post going around last election with quotes from a bunch of different periods of history with people railing against the two-party system and complaining about how every single election it’s always the same choice between voting for things to stay the same/get a little worse, or get much worse. Every election it’s the same narrative of how this is the most important election’ ever where you have to accept the slightly shitty choice to ‘save democracy’. Going back 200 years. And nothing has been done to change the system no matter how many times the ‘good’ party has been in charge, and the gradual downslide into a fascist shithole has continued regardless of who’s in charge. No matter how many times people have voted in the ‘lesser evil’, y’all are still caught in that bullshit trap. Maybe if a third party had been able to gain some ground in those 200 years things might be different, but people like you claim that voting third party is throwing your vote away just as much as non-voting, so i don’t even know what to say to someone who’s bought in so completely to the fiction that you have any sort of choice in this system. Keep voting and the corporations will keep throwing up shittier and shittier stooges to build the future they want regardless. It’s literally the quote from wargames. The game is rigged and the only winning move is not to play. And also to overthrow your piece of shit government/corporate overlords.

My (very low) understanding is that he wasn’t invited because even these pervert assholes thought he would be too weird.

Maybe they invited him but only gave him the bottom-shelf minors.

What if the other choice is also driving off a cliff, but further away?

Then that buys time to develop other choices, still better than not voting.

@mjack Some are turning off the services because they're afraid of the PHP implications.

@neil we can always count on you Neil!

Now, was he actually in the Epstein files, or did he just desperately want to be? I remeber him asking for an invite to the “wildest parties,” but I don’t remember if anyone actually liked him enough to let him be there.

Wouldn’t loving democracy involve having many political parties to represent the many people who live in the country? Why do any blue states use First-past-the-post voting if democrats love democracy? The republicans arent in control in blue states, there is nothing stopping democrats from loving democracy.