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The grinch during his NY trial for fraud stealing Christmas.

I thought Roguelikes were meant to have permadeath?

People can have opinions without having other people pay money for them, you know…

Please, no, you have invited another page of aquatic mammal puns.

What better way for people to octopi their time?

I think his veneer of competence was shattered when it took him 15 rounds of voting to become the speaker, and his negotiation seemed to mostly involve just doing the vote again until he panicked and caved to the nutjob wing of the Republicans.

Now his choice is negotiate with the Democrats and face a vote to oust him which could quite easily succeed given there are 12 rebels and a 9 seat majority, or do nothing and force thousands of people out of their jobs during a cost of living crisis.

I’m not sure comparisons between US elections during a civil war and Ukrainian elections during an actual war can really be made. By the time the elections came round, the Union was basically going to win (though I’ll accept that prior to about two months before the election, that wasn’t quite so obvious) and Confederate states didn’t get a vote (obviously, they’re not part of the union) so it was basically administering votes in areas that were already controlled, minus Louisiana and Tennessee as they’d seceded but been recaptured. There are still Ukrainians living in Russian occupied areas of Ukraine.

I don’t think the Russian soldiers would allow people to vote, logistically or otherwise, and even if they did, there was the “plebiscite” held in the four areas Russia annexed that had armed Russians going round collecting votes, which surprise surprise “voted” to become part of Russia.

It becomes a Catch-22 of allowing Russia to have a pretty direct influence over the election, or allowing Russia the propaganda of not allowing those in occupied areas to vote, so they can say that Ukraine has abandoned them and they belong to Russia now.