And all along the st Lawrence up to septisles in Quebec, my dad side comes from a farm there.
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Spoiler:I don’t want to be human. I want to see gamma rays, I want to hear X-rays, and I want to smell dark matter. Do you see the absurdity of what I am? I can’t even express these things properly, because I have to—I have to conceptualize complex ideas in this stupid, limiting spoken language, but I know I want to reach out with something other than these prehensile paws, and feel the solar wind of a supernova flowing over me. I’m a machine, and I can know much more.
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Originally posted by Annoyed View PostYeah, I read an article about that.. I was thinking that you might not be happy with that result.
Not that I understand your country's political situation, it looks like your version of Conservative / Republicans won.
2 things bother me.
1: Preference voting
2: "winning" without a majority which gives very minor parties far more political clout than they deserve as they must be pandered to.sigpicALL THANKS TO THE WONDERFUL CREATOR OF THIS SIG GO TO R.I.G.A lie is just a truth that hasn't gone through conversion therapy yetThe truth isn't the truth
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Originally posted by Gatefan1976 View PostIn other news, our election was the expected cluster-**** you might expect. Womble, do you guys have this stupid preference thing in party voting, or are all parties in the Knesset individual entities when voting?If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions.- Abba Eban.
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Originally posted by Gatefan1976 View PostThat's not what bothers me.
2 things bother me.
1: Preference voting
2: "winning" without a majority which gives very minor parties far more political clout than they deserve as they must be pandered to.
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Originally posted by Annoyed View PostSounds a bit like the goal is similar to our EC system, where the large urban areas can't silence the sparsely populated rural areas.sigpicALL THANKS TO THE WONDERFUL CREATOR OF THIS SIG GO TO R.I.G.A lie is just a truth that hasn't gone through conversion therapy yetThe truth isn't the truth
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Originally posted by Gatefan1976 View PostNothing remotely like that.Spoiler:I don’t want to be human. I want to see gamma rays, I want to hear X-rays, and I want to smell dark matter. Do you see the absurdity of what I am? I can’t even express these things properly, because I have to—I have to conceptualize complex ideas in this stupid, limiting spoken language, but I know I want to reach out with something other than these prehensile paws, and feel the solar wind of a supernova flowing over me. I’m a machine, and I can know much more.
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Originally posted by Annoyed View PostYeah, the voices of the people in rural areas shouldn't be heard, right?Spoiler:I don’t want to be human. I want to see gamma rays, I want to hear X-rays, and I want to smell dark matter. Do you see the absurdity of what I am? I can’t even express these things properly, because I have to—I have to conceptualize complex ideas in this stupid, limiting spoken language, but I know I want to reach out with something other than these prehensile paws, and feel the solar wind of a supernova flowing over me. I’m a machine, and I can know much more.
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Originally posted by Annoyed View PostYeah, the voices of the people in rural areas shouldn't be heard, right?
That's what you don't get, you want "rural voters" to carry more weight than "urban voters". 10 urban voters don't even equate to 1 rural voter in the US, but as their thinking aligns with yours, you like it that way. Flip it around with the same rules, and you would be calling for the dismantling of the EC faster than Donnie boy can tweet something stupid.
Again, you place what you want over what the majority wants, because it's convenient for you.
It should NEVER work that way.sigpicALL THANKS TO THE WONDERFUL CREATOR OF THIS SIG GO TO R.I.G.A lie is just a truth that hasn't gone through conversion therapy yetThe truth isn't the truth
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Originally posted by Gatefan1976 View PostThey deserve to be heard, just as much as anyone else.
That's what you don't get, you want "rural voters" to carry more weight than "urban voters". 10 urban voters don't even equate to 1 rural voter in the US, but as their thinking aligns with yours, you like it that way. Flip it around with the same rules, and you would be calling for the dismantling of the EC faster than Donnie boy can tweet something stupid.
Again, you place what you want over what the majority wants, because it's convenient for you.
It should NEVER work that way.
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Originally posted by Annoyed View PostNo, the problem is it's a numbers game. Unless the outnumbered rural voters are given more weight, they have no voice.sigpicALL THANKS TO THE WONDERFUL CREATOR OF THIS SIG GO TO R.I.G.A lie is just a truth that hasn't gone through conversion therapy yetThe truth isn't the truth
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