American Politics Thread AKA The FacePalm Thread

[General Mutante]

We should eat them.

[PertHJ]

When's your time up?

[9seconds]

I got 10 years before my hand jewel starts flashing

[PertHJ]

You're not 35 yet are you?

[nazi scum]

people over 45 shouldnt be allowed to vote

People under 45 shouldnt be allowed to vote. Or drive. It all started going downhill when we gave women the vote.

[9seconds]

You're not 35 yet are you?

I sure am, wee buddy

what have I done with my life?

[9seconds]

still hate the greens...

thinking of voting for gareth morgan..

[PertHJ]

Yea, probs going to vote greens as at least they'll make the 5%, but fucked if I know what they're up to these days

[9seconds]

its a totally defeatist attitude to voting, and why labour and national always win

[TimShadbolt]

This time around I am of the 'vote Labour to get National out' persuasion.

[PertHJ]

What persuasion were you last time?

[Dixon Cider A.C.]

Didn't vote in the last two elections, pretty funny aye

[the croc]

Semi-seriously considered considered TOP, voted Greens all the other times.

I don't mind Gareth Morgan's eccentricities, I think it's good to be an agitator but I've fucking hated the sly winks to Trump. Stay the fuck away from that piece of shit.

I'll probably vote Greens again, stoked some of the old guard are leaving, they need to revisit some of their long held positions on homeopathy/magic healing, fluoridation, glyphosate and genetic engineering. If you want science based policy you can't pick and choose.

That being said I talked to a certain candidate recently who was keen to get that stuff back on the table and was a bit more pragmatic than some of the patchouli sniffers.

[TimShadbolt]

What persuasion were you last time?

Last 3 elections:
Labour + Greens
Labour + Greens
Labour + Internet Party

I always give Labour my local MP vote because because it's Grant Robertson. I'm also a list member of the Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party, but I never end up voting for them.

[9seconds]

Semi-seriously considered considered TOP, voted Greens all the other times.

I don't mind Gareth Morgan's eccentricities, I think it's good to be an agitator but I've fucking hated the sly winks to Trump. Stay the fuck away from that piece of shit.

yeh, i hated when he compared himself to trump, what the fuck

but then i had this conversation with him.

as you can imagine, for the better part of a day i thought he was fucking nuts.

I'll probably vote Greens again, stoked some of the old guard are leaving, they need to revisit some of their long held positions on homeopathy/magic healing, fluoridation, glyphosate and genetic engineering. If you want science based policy you can't pick and choose.

That being said I talked to a certain candidate recently who was keen to get that stuff back on the table and was a bit more pragmatic than some of the patchouli sniffers.

i want to believe, but i also want to hate.

[Max]

I'd like Hone in parliament just to fuck shit up a bit... but only way that will happen is if he wins a seat, Mana won't make 5%. Safe labour where I live so doesn't really matter who i vote for there, party vote will probably be green.

Edit:despite Labour fucking over Internet/Mana last election, Kelvin Davis has been a good MP. I wouldn't fancy Hone's chances going up against him.

[Rizzo]

I'm still registered under my parents address which is North Shore, Auckland so the local winner is always National which sucks. I usually vote labor for the local since they're the only one with even a slight chance of ousting nats locally. Have always voted green for the party vote since they're the closest to me in terms of political orientation.

I got libertarian socialist or w/e on that vote compass thing but I think that was primarily cause of a few "no opinion" options on the weirder questions. I don't feel very libertarian, those guys are usually dicks.

when is the next election anyway?

[9seconds]

libertarian socialist is basically anarcho-socialist, it doesnt mean ayn rand loving loonies

[9seconds]

this kind of thing is why i am likely to vote for morgan.. despite not liking him, it would be good if he teams up with Hone honestly

http://www.top.org.nz/why_the_governmen ... al-content

[Dixon Cider A.C.]

I prefer cats to native birds for some reason.

[9seconds]

well, we will be putting you against the wall then, when the revolution comes.

[Dixon Cider A.C.]

The native bird protection based revolution?

[General Mutante]

Bring back Colin Craig.

[General Mutante]

[Max]

The people's poet!




There is only one of me, it's true

But I wish this were not the case, because I wish I could have you

If instead one man I was two

That would be one for all the other and one of me for you.

[Dead Kid]

Trump pulls funds away from climate change research in favour of shooting phallic monstrosities at Mars. But better than nothing I guess:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/don ... 71dcf849e3

[TimShadbolt]

Wow. That's actually pretty awesome. It seems like NASA has been falling behind Musk and Branson in recent years.

[Dead Kid]

http://www.smh.com.au/world/russia-anxi ... w8fvp.html

But Putin also admitted the joke's wearing thin as he attacked "political schizophrenia" gripping Washington and rejected US media reports that Trump disclosed confidential intelligence to Lavrov. The turmoil in Washington "made us laugh" at first, "today it's not just sad, it's a matter of concern," he said.

[the croc]

He's painted fucked. A matter of not if but when.

[Red_switch]

Wow. That's actually pretty awesome. It seems like NASA has been falling behind Musk and Branson in recent years.

Not really. Musk is fucking out with pretty much all his KPI's when it comes to fulfilling contractual obligations for NASA. This is one reason why NASA are re-focusing on space transport, particularly to near-earth orbit, themselves. They publicly called Space-X out on this on social media a while back.

Musk is a massive egotistical piece of shit, on a highway to nowhere. His engineer turnover is apparently horrendous, allegedly worse than Steve Jobs.

But de-funding NASA's earth science missions is stupid. Really, really, stupid.