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I, for my part, will be employing either an American or Gasden flag for my End Of The Republic celebration.

I have voted! GLORIA IN EXCELSIS POTUS! GLORIA IN AETERNUM CLINTON IMPERATRIX!

...Also, I can't seem to get the irc site to work. Is it blank for anyone else?

Can we have someone make sure smirk isn't drinking ethylene glycol or straight up methanol?

Fair's fair, they're still technically ingestible!

Also, if anyone has an outside line to mainiac he might appreciate being in irc with us at the culmination. Worth a shot.

Quote from: sluissa on November 07, 2016, 04:24:19 pm

Quote from: Powder Miner on November 07, 2016, 04:18:09 pm

Is it just me, or has the tone of the thread become a bit more vicious since [he who shall not be named] got banned? Like, is it just that the election's finally coming up or has the martyring of [he who shall not be named] spread his salt equitably among the other patrons of the thread in a final testament?

I think you're just seeing things. I think things have definitely calmed down. But you're now maybe actually noticing the arguments of others rather than just paying attention to the spectacle that was he who shall not be named.

I like to think I've always paid at least a moderate amount of attention. Mostly referring to now nearly everyone went off on Uxie, from (jokingly) pressuring him for nude pics to talking about how they lnew that facts didn't mean anything to him etc etc...

I think everyone tended to walk on eggshells a bit more when mainiac was around, as these threads have a history of getting locked and if it was gonna happen, it was gonna involve mainiac. So a combination of imminent election and our main saltshaker getting banned has made everyone a little more likely to shake it themselves. Just my reading of it though.

Any Californian Bay12ers (or anybody else willing to give their 2 cents) want to weigh in on proposition 64 (Marijuana legalization)? I'm unsure. On one hand, it's time to end the war on drugs and do it differently than just jailing because obviously that isn't working, on the other hand, opponents are saying that it doesn't do enough to regulate it well.

Ballotpedia page on California prop 64.

Hmm. I have family out there, and according to them the marijuana farms need regulation (completely apart from the obvious fact that many are illegal and will shoot you if you get too close). They create water problems, fertilizer and chemical runoff, labor problems, etc. The normal farm stuff. Legalization would help with that, though from a quick skim of your link I can't see anything related directly to cultivation. I'd say it's a cautious yes; need to legalize things to regulate 'em properly.

Also, nobody here has mentioned sweet pasta?
Linguini with cinammon and tinned peaches.

Oh, man. Spaghetti (or other long thin pasta) with cinnamon and feta cheese. It's amazing.

Oh boy, it's time for the thread to devolve into shouting about THE ABSOLUTELY REAL HUMAN-CAUSED IMMANENT GLOBAL THREAT of climate change!

Godsdammit MSH, you've done this before! "Immanent" and "imminent" are two entirely separate words; you are literally worse than Hitler.

Who are the two men fighting in front of Rubio and Jeb, but behind Trump and Clinton?

Those would be VPs Pence and Kaine, I believe. Also the helmet-less trooper that Trump is jumping over is probably Chris Christie.

Hillary's chaos marines all apparently work for CNBC. I approve.

Of course she had it in the bag 8 years ago, RedKing. The only problem was that she needed a specific Great Adversary to perfect her takeover and destruction of our civilization, and Trump's programming wasn't complete enough back then. So she passed the presidency off to our man Barack Hussein Obama to keep warm for her in 8 years when the final preparations would be complete. Now are the End Times.

the election is immanent.

In a manner of speaking, the election is indeed within all of us, like a collective fever dream, but I think you meant imminent =P

Now, if only Bernie were the Dem nominee, we could give a serious go to immanentizing the eschaton...

Is there any actual explanation as to why Clinton seems to be losing votes every day to Trump at an alarming pace? It feels like I'm missing some part of the picture here, because the other, pro-Democrat, forum, is either keeping silent on that issue, or saying that "fivethirtyeight wants a horse race", which is pretty interesting since I remember them praising 538 for its accuracy when it was predicting Trump having no path to victory as all a few months ago...

Elections tend to tighten up towards the end in any case, so it's pretty unsurprising. Undecideds and some third-partiers finally head for either of the two main camps, base voters fall in line, etc. It's not going to make much of a difference. Now that mainiac isn't here to get mad at me for linking to the Princeton Election Consortium, you might want to go over there and read through some of his articles on how - in spite of or perhaps because of all the drama - this has been a very stable race from the beginning.