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General Discussion / Re: Election Day, USA!
« on: November 08, 2016, 07:05:47 pm »
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General Discussion / Re: Doc Helgoland's Asylum for the Politically American: Judgement Day
« on: November 08, 2016, 07:03:08 pm »
Starting an IRC watch channel at irc.sorcery.net #bay12election.
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General Discussion / Re: Doc Helgoland's Asylum for the Politically American
« on: October 24, 2016, 10:51:47 am »
Sent in my absentee ballot this morning! #imwithher as an unironic supporter of elitist center-left stagnation.
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General Discussion / Re: Doc Helgoland's Asylum for the Politically American
« on: October 23, 2016, 02:22:01 pm »I think we may see a three-party state in the nearish future. The Democrats will move slightly right (probably giving up gun control) and take the bulk of Republican voters. Liberals will migrate out into either a Green Party that figures out how to organize, or a new party altogether. The Republican Remnants will whither into the core of a new religio-reactivist party. Only the new moderate party will be substantially economically neoconservative, the left being socialist and the far right not having a coherent economic policy beyond "Be a Captain Planet villain."Three party can't work with our system, it's going to get marginalized due to FPTP math.
And Obama can retract his nomination at any time. As soon as the votes are in and the Republicans realize it's a lost cause and try to get Garland, Obama can drop the compromise and say "No, you guys get what you asked for. Clinton gets to nominate whoever she likes. GTG, I'm getting sized for robes."
Well, not necessarily- there are plenty of examples of three-party FPTP, like Canada or Britain before 2015. However, stable three-party FPTP systems tend to have a strongly regional party, like the SNP or Bloc Québécois, as power broker. A GOP split might produce that, but I don't get the sense that Tea Partiers and establishment GOPers cut cleanly across regional lines.
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General Discussion / Re: Doc Helgoland's Asylum for the Politically American
« on: October 19, 2016, 06:48:40 pm »
Friendly reminded that you can join the official debate popcorn IRC channel at irc.sorcery.net #bay12debate.
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General Discussion / Re: Doc Helgoland's Asylum for the Politically American
« on: October 09, 2016, 08:02:18 pm »How does irc.sorcery.net #bay12debate sound?Tell me how to use, and I will participate.
How do I get the Kiwi IRC to get to it?
http://sorcery.net/index.php?option=com_wrapper&view=wrapper&Itemid=69 should work. It's got Kiwi embedded.
Mibbit also works- select SorceryNet as your server.
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General Discussion / Re: Doc Helgoland's Asylum for the Politically American
« on: October 09, 2016, 07:57:52 pm »
How does irc.sorcery.net #bay12debate sound?
Washington University's student union president is from Singapore and gave a prelude address.
Why is a guy from the world's most shining example of benevolent dictatorship giving the prelude address?Who?
Washington University's student union president is from Singapore and gave a prelude address.
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General Discussion / Re: Doc Helgoland's Asylum for the Politically American
« on: October 09, 2016, 07:54:35 pm »
Why is a guy from the world's most shining example of benevolent dictatorship giving the prelude address?
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General Discussion / Re: Doc Helgoland's Asylum for the Politically American
« on: October 09, 2016, 07:26:17 pm »
Getting a head start on numbing the inevitable pain with some port wine.
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General Discussion / Re: Doc Helgoland's Asylum for the Politically American
« on: October 08, 2016, 02:58:49 pm »If Trump were willing to resign he could always tell his electors not to vote for him. The state laws generally require the electors not to but I'm pretty sure that wouldn't stand up in court and the states could always revise their laws.
I wonder how this will play out for Romney. He and Kasich are the biggest two names in the NeverTrump movement and he can point to actual achievements as a businessman. Sure Bane Capital is controversial for their work fighting the Batman but the Mormon Olympics is well regarded.
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If Trump were willing to resign he could always tell his electors not to vote for him.
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General Discussion / Re: Doc Helgoland's Asylum for the Politically American
« on: October 07, 2016, 11:28:56 pm »57
General Discussion / Re: Doc Helgoland's Asylum for the Politically American
« on: October 07, 2016, 09:35:46 pm »
Happy October Surprise!
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General Discussion / Re: Doc Helgoland's Asylum for the Politically American
« on: September 26, 2016, 09:41:38 pm »
"I decided I was viciously going to attack her family, but I stopped myself at the last second, so I'm real mature."
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General Discussion / Re: This Thread Is For Educational Purposes Only
« on: September 01, 2016, 09:37:21 pm »
Time is a four-corner cube. Does your teacher know?
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General Discussion / Re: If you were forced to become ruler for life of a single country...
« on: September 01, 2016, 09:36:11 pm »
I'll make America great again by throwing everything west of the Mississippi into the lake of fire. Nelson Rockefeller will return in glory and splendor to defeat Reagan in a cosmic battle and institute an eternal kingdom of benevolent Northeastern aristocracy.