ICastFist

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 week ago (22 children)

It's been "too late" for 'mericans to "win back the country" for a couple of decades at least. I mean, the entire electoral/voting system needs to be redone from the ground up because it's very non-democratic.

[–] [email protected] 112 points 1 week ago (6 children)

I love how Economy is a high priority, yet they voted for the asshole known being the genius behind several bankruptcies. "The economy isn't doing good, clearly we need someone who can fuck shit up to make it work!"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

The "I cast fist" meme predates that, which is where I based my username from :)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

I hope he does and that all the billionaires join on the maiden flight, we're gonna get rid of the worst scum in one single swoop. I mean, chances are that things will go as well in space/on Mars as his self driving teslas, so please do that ASAP

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Oooooohhhh, I don't think I've seen that episode of TTS Emperor! Why yes, I am Marneus Calgar of the Ultrasmurfs and totally not an alphabet legionnaire of a certain scaly type! 🐉🐉

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Some things come to mind:

  • Each state could theoretically name a different candidate (all that primaries bullshit)
  • No unified federal law for voting for the fucking president; each state has different voting laws
  • Parties have to be registered at a state level and ONLY Rep and Dem exist on all 50. What the fucking fuck
  • Unlimited money spending
  • The fucking electoral college. Winner takes the whole state.
  • Election on tuesday (if i recall, that's a leftover of ye olde times because it's when rural people were more likely to be around cities)

'muricans somehow insist they are a democracy despite all the hurdles, weird laws and obvious gatekeeping that make it a very shitty republic where votes are NOT equal.

For comparison, Brazil's elections for president and state governors happen on the same year/day (also for some senators and federal deputies, but let's focus on president). It's direct vote counting, majority (50% + 1) wins. If no candidate gets more than half total votes, the 2 better voted candidates go to a 2nd turn, which happens 4 weeks after the 1st. Election happens on a sunday and there's an electoral tribunal that handles all the logistics across all 27 states.

Regarding expenditure, it took us a while to stop allowing corporations to finance candidates' campaigns (thanks in no small part to a supreme judge who wanted to keep that legal), the downside is that candidates with rich "friends"/families still have a significant advantage, since direct individual donations are still allowed.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

Unreal Tournament 2004 is my favorite OST by number of tracks that I love. It has several absolute banger tracks, like Morpheus3, Hyperblast-Redux, Convoy, Atlantis and Level11. I often keep a number of those tracks on my playlists.

Although I don't like the game itself much (I suck at it), Cloudbuilt also has some awesome tracks, my personal favorite is Aurora. The guitar chords at the apex is just heavenly.

Rebel Galaxy has some very nice stuff to feel like a 'merican space cowboy, it's mostly licensed music as far as i can tell.

Assault Android Cactus usually gets your blood pumping hard, which is great because the game is a pretty fun twin-stick arena. The tracks Assault and Licorice are just 👨‍🍳😙👌

... Come to think of it, looking at my list, I'm a real sucker for sci-fi OSTs, huh. I do want to make honorable mentions to Mass Effect (mostly 2), Skyrim and Smash Bros. Ultimate

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Ooohhh, now that sounds hot!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

I think we're about to circle back to circa 1000s yurop: "Now, my child, you behave while I try to sell you as a ~~slave~~ FREE ENTREPRENEURIAL COLLABORATOR to mr. Rich Douchebag, as that is the only way to go up the social and financial ladder."

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 weeks ago (11 children)

As much as I'd like to make fun of the 'muricans, I'm well aware Brazil would totally do the same fucking thing with jair bolsonaro. Thankfully the fucker is ineligible for another 7 or so years, but his sons are still causing trouble.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

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