What the Cellar looks like to me - Page 2

infinite monkey · 10-31-2012, 12:19 PM

I usually click on threads that particularly annoy/bore the living fuck out of me in the 'new posts' section just to get them off the list.

jimhelm · 10-31-2012, 01:25 PM

exactly like my screen looks, UTE... 'cept mine's grey....It took me a minute to figure out what the hell you were even talking about.

I've been ignoring those same threads

Good for you. politics makes you ... and most people... a dickhole. nothing good can come from it. arguing about it just causes polarization, resentment and petty behavior.

someone pull my finger

Undertoad · 10-31-2012, 02:27 PM

In Pennsylvania, the major parties used the legal system to kick all* third-party candidates off the ballot.

I wasn't even going to vote for any of them - probably -

Ah but look at me getting political just because this isn't the Politics section.

*with a few really minor exceptions at state rep and lower levels

Pete Zicato · 10-31-2012, 05:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Undertoad

I don't even open the threads so after I've read the Cellar, it looks like this.

My OCD won't let me do that. When I've read what I want out of a forum, I use the Mark this forum read menu.

BigV · 10-31-2012, 06:50 PM

I have the same itch Pete, but I scratch each one individually. walking down the tree.

limey · 11-01-2012, 01:56 AM

Pete! How the debbil are you!?!

Sent by thought transference.

Griff · 11-01-2012, 05:36 AM

I'll fall in with the no party is entitled to your vote line. The part about skipping the political section does some good by avoiding people at their worst but sometimes the political is personal like here and you miss something important.

Undertoad · 11-01-2012, 09:04 AM

sexobon age reference noted: he still believes that voting is an honor to Democracy, greater than the various ways Democracy has been shat upon by the powers that be. That means he still follows the ideals of the Greatest Generation and so was probably parented by them. He does not contain the cynicism of Gen X and later. He's a Boomer.

My ballot access complaint is not trivial. 100,000 Pennsylvania voters and 40,000 ballot access petition signatories were strategically disenfranchised before the election began. To participate in this process means to ~~accept~~ pretend that the resulting election is fair and representational. The people who died for that notion have already been shit on. In some ways, if I vote, I'm shitting on them too.

Lamplighter · 11-01-2012, 09:14 AM

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Originally Posted by Undertoad

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My ballot access complaint is not trivial. 100,000 Pennsylvania voters and 40,000 ballot access petition signatories were strategically disenfranchised before the election began. To participate in this process means to ~~accept~~ pretend that the resulting election is fair and representational. The people who died for that notion have already been shit on. In some ways, if I vote, I'm shitting on them too.

UT, I'm glad you posted this last paragraph.
I had completely misunderstood your reason(s) for boycotting the politics threads.

I would agree and join you, but in reality it is only by participating
in your local elections that such situations can be changed.

There's still the old election cliche: "THROW THE BASTARDS OUT"

xoxoxoBruce · 11-01-2012, 12:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Lamplighter

There's still the old election cliche: "THROW THE BASTARDS OUT"

The flaw being, when the challenger is worse than the incumbent.

Lamplighter · 11-01-2012, 11:52 PM

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

The flaw being, when the challenger is worse than the incumbent.

Write in your own name

... or mine

xoxoxoBruce · 11-01-2012, 11:58 PM

But then when the challenger is elected for lack of your opposition, you end up worse off than you were.

Undertoad · 11-01-2012, 09:23 AM

In 2008 it was the Democrats who made the legal challenge and threw the third parties off. This year it was the Republicans.

Which ones are the bastards I can throw out by voting?

Lamplighter · 11-01-2012, 09:34 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Undertoad

In 2008 it was the Democrats who made the legal challenge and threw the third parties off. This year it was the Republicans.

Which ones are the bastards I can throw out by voting?

Don't just think party-ticket...

Get rid of the extremists... there are moderates in both parties,
and there are candidates who see politics as one of the highest callings.

BigV · 11-01-2012, 09:26 AM

the incumbent

then vote your conscience on the non partisan issues.

10-31-2012, 01:25 PM	#2
jimhelm a beautiful fool Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: 39.939705 Posts: 4,504	exactly like my screen looks, UTE... 'cept mine's grey....It took me a minute to figure out what the hell you were even talking about. I've been ignoring those same threads Good for you. politics makes you ... and most people... a dickhole. nothing good can come from it. arguing about it just causes polarization, resentment and petty behavior. someone pull my finger __________________ There's a Shadow just behind me. Shrouding every step I take. Making every promise empty, pointing every finger at me. _tool

10-31-2012, 06:50 PM	#5
BigV Goon Squad Leader Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Seattle Posts: 27,063	I have the same itch Pete, but I scratch each one individually. walking down the tree. __________________ Be Just and Fear Not.

11-01-2012, 01:56 AM	#6
limey Encroaching on your decrees Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: An island within the south-west coast of Scotland Posts: 7,016	Pete! How the debbil are you!?! Sent by thought transference. __________________ Living it up on the edge ... of civilisation, within the southwest coast of

11-01-2012, 05:36 AM	#7
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	I'll fall in with the no party is entitled to your vote line. The part about skipping the political section does some good by avoiding people at their worst but sometimes the political is personal like here and you miss something important. __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

11-01-2012, 11:58 PM	#12
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	But then when the challenger is elected for lack of your opposition, you end up worse off than you were. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

10-31-2012, 12:19 PM	#1
infinite monkey Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Mar 2011 Posts: 13,002	I usually click on threads that particularly annoy/bore the living fuck out of me in the 'new posts' section just to get them off the list.

10-31-2012, 02:27 PM	#3
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	In Pennsylvania, the major parties used the legal system to kick all* third-party candidates off the ballot. I wasn't even going to vote for any of them - probably - Ah but look at me getting political just because this isn't the Politics section. *with a few really minor exceptions at state rep and lower levels

11-01-2012, 09:04 AM	#8
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	sexobon age reference noted: he still believes that voting is an honor to Democracy, greater than the various ways Democracy has been shat upon by the powers that be. That means he still follows the ideals of the Greatest Generation and so was probably parented by them. He does not contain the cynicism of Gen X and later. He's a Boomer. My ballot access complaint is not trivial. 100,000 Pennsylvania voters and 40,000 ballot access petition signatories were strategically disenfranchised before the election began. To participate in this process means to ~~accept~~ pretend that the resulting election is fair and representational. The people who died for that notion have already been shit on. In some ways, if I vote, I'm shitting on them too.

11-01-2012, 09:23 AM	#13
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	In 2008 it was the Democrats who made the legal challenge and threw the third parties off. This year it was the Republicans. Which ones are the bastards I can throw out by voting?

11-01-2012, 09:26 AM	#15
BigV Goon Squad Leader Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Seattle Posts: 27,063	the incumbent then vote your conscience on the non partisan issues. __________________ Be Just and Fear Not.

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