The Politics Megathread

[2SpiritCherokeePrincess]

 

[Ivegotnolife]

Did you see how Ice Tea, Fifty Cents, and Lil Wayne endorsed Trump because he actually listened to them, and adopted the platinum plan instead of old, crazy,'vote for me or you aint black!' Joe Biden!

Sunrise!

 

[BestBoy]

@2SpiritCherokeePrincess Supply Side Jesus is one of the funniest things I've ever seen.

 

[2SpiritCherokeePrincess]

 

[MawMaw]

 

[bigtiddyoneesan]

@MawMaw
Actually made me kek. Hope you don't get modded.

And a disclaimer for anyone who thinks it's too offensive and anyone who laughs at it is awful:

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It's satire and it's hyperbolic. The outlandishness is what makes it funny in the first place.

 

[Richman]

@bigtiddyoneesan
Political question:

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Is it true that (in the US) the political parties aren't exactly left and right? I read on The Internet^TM that they're are more like right and not-as-right.

 

[blackyawgdom]

One party gets endorsement from normal people. The other gets support from pyromaniac ghosts, the tiki torch industry, worshipers of a literal symbol of treason, the kind of people that Godwin made a Law for, and people too extreme for /pol/

 

[bigtiddyoneesan]

@Richman
From my understanding, yes. Although, there are always people and groups that advocate for policies all across the spectrum (the political spectrum not the autism one), which can make it seem like the actual policies and policy-makers are at different points than they actually are.

@blackyawgdom
Although you may be exaggerating and/or joking, there are normal people on every side.

 

[2SpiritCherokeePrincess]

@Richman America's Political Compass, 2020: https://www.politicalcompass.org/uselection2020

 

[bigtiddyoneesan]

@Richman @2SpiritCherokeePrincess
Take the above linked one with a grain of salt. Actually, it might be better just to disregard it altogether.
https://old.reddit.com/r/PoliticalC...id_the_political_compass_test_as_trump_biden/

 

[BestBoy]

John Mulaney's monologue was on point on tonight.

 

[blackyawgdom]

@BestBoy Last weeks Weekend Update segment was the superior one of this and last seasons sofar. Not counting Gumby >.>

 

[BrapEbony]

@Tatsuya-Kai
I wouldn't recommend attempting to talk to Halo in good faith, because he isn't. The majority of the people in this forum aren't taking the discussion seriously, their own or anyone else's.

 

[2SpiritCherokeePrincess]

Who needs memes when Trump & his supporters are acting like this: https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/trum...-032332809.html?.tsrc=daily_mail&uh_test=1_04 https://news.yahoo.com/tensions-ris...-224651126.html?.tsrc=daily_mail&uh_test=1_04

 

[Chrona]

@Richman
It's true compared to most of the world's comparative republics and democracies. America's "first past the post" (i.e. first place is all that matters) voting style encourages people not to vote for things they believe in, but against things they don't believe in. This key difference forces a stringent two party system that's only shifted twice in the history of the US. Needless to say, this causes the parties to become so centralized to each other that major political shifts rarely occur, again, only twice in US history has this happened. Since most citizens of democracy don't actually understand the nuances of the political landscape they're in, this results in parties mainly being split down highly visible and divisive issues that are immediately consequential to laypeople, i.e Abortion and Gun Rights being good examples. Anything larger than that is actually very limited in how much the two parties differ in their behaviour, since, again, a fair number of people aren't voting Democrat or Republican because they support Democrats or Republicans, they're voting not-Democrat and not-Republican. For a more nuanced discussion of why this is, there's a CGPGrey video that explains this well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7tWHJfhiyo

If you're curious as for the two times the US has had a shift in political parties, originally there were the Federalists and Democratic-Republicans which lasted until about 1816, where the main argument to be had was how much authority the Federal government had (supported by Federalists) vs the individual states and citizens of those states (Democratic-Republicans) actually had in regards to laws and who actually gets to resolve disputes between states. The Federalists collapsed and then the Democratic-Republicans fractured into, you guessed it, the current Democrat party and the... Whig party. Where the main split was concerning Democrats heavily favoring individual rights and rewriting laws and the constitution at majority will, while the Whig party was mainly devoted to a strong consistency in application of laws and the letter of laws, favoring less extreme Democratic movements. This continued onwards until the Civil War, where the Whigs dissolve and the current Republican party came into being.

@2SpiritCherokeePrincess
If we're going to talk about these types of things, the Trump Hearse setting up a casket next to the Biden bus has so much more stylistic flair.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/running-red-lights-like-crazy-pro-trump-hearse-chases-biden-campaign-bus-through-texas

 

[BestBoy]

Have y'all seen the Texas GOP's response when asked about this incident? Childish and conspiracy ridden.

 

[BroederTrapist]

_{(silently wonders how many of the people who posted here are americans that vote in the USA elections)}

 

[Chrona]

@BroederTrapist
It isn't really silent if you make a post about it. Fuck I don't even think you used the correct punctuation for your RP. That's definitely supposed to be an asterisk enclosure not a parentheses one.

 

[BroederTrapist]

_{@Chrona **shhhhh, don't wake em. In 2 days this thread might still explode after Trump declares himself emperor.**}