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[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Isn't there an amendment about this?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Correct. The 3rd amendment requires enlisted military personnel to ask and obtain your consent prior to fucking your wife in your own home.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

"Definitely bring back prima nocta"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

I dunno I'd probably let someone from Labour fuck my wife, I hear they're pretty good at fucking the British people.

/s fuck the Tories.

[–] [email protected] 57 points 5 days ago (2 children)

The Guardian (a left-of-centre British newspaper) did something similar in 2004, getting volunteers to phone voters in battleground states imploring them to vote Democrat. If anything, this boosted the Republican vote, as random foreigners telling citizens who to vote for is not a good look.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 days ago

Only Americans get to tell other countries who they can and can't elect!

[–] [email protected] 29 points 5 days ago

Meanwhile, Russian propaganda is laundered through US sources backing Republicans

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Brace yourselves, here come the 3rd amendment absolutist nutjobs.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Oh we're the nutjobs? I suppose you'd like to have a fireteam of Marines just slamming Rip Its in your kitchen and digging burnpits to dispose of thier shit in your backyard? Yeah, crazy to not want that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

I think the nut job aspect would be leaping to the conclusion they would be forcing people to quarter these folks, as opposed to arranging long term hotels/rentals or maybe voluntary hosts. Employers do this all the time and people don't presume a constitutional crisis.

Still seems stupid, shouldn't need that much manpower to help canvas.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago

This feels like kink-shaming

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago
[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

America: looks left, right, and down before proxying the road

Up:

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

As for the majority, if not the entirety of the Commonwealth I’d think.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 5 days ago (3 children)

At the risk of explaining a joke into the ground your comment has more than one reference. The UK's two main parties have their colors flipped. Labour's color is red.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

So does nearly every country except the US. But it must be everyone else who has it flipped

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Same for Canada. Libs are red, cons blue.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 5 days ago (2 children)

The UK's two main parties have their colors flipped. Labour's color is red.

Lol. The USA's two parties have their colours flipped.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Dems were red for longer on political maps than they have been blue. It was an odd quirk of CNN's maps in the 2000 election that made Democratic Party = Blue and Republican Party = Red in our minds. The fact that the map was everywhere for weeks while Florida was decided meant that it stuck instead of returning to what it had previously been for decades.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago

In 2000, the NY Times arbitrarily went with Red for Republicans because the first letter matched. This was the first time they printed color maps for an election. Everyone else kinda just went along with what the NY Times was doing that year.

And yeah, like you say CNN was showing that map a lot in 2000 and once people started saying "red state" and "blue state" it kinda stuck.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

In Finaland we also have red for the Social Democrats, and blue for a couple right-wing parties

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Blue for right wing, red for left wing has been standard since forever. What colour was the USSR?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

What colour was the USSR?

Same color as the Nazis I think.