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| Topic | Do you frown upon people who vote third party? |
| joe40001 07/25/20 11:29:44 AM #61 | @Notti Thoughts? --- "joe is attractive and quite the brilliant poster" - Seiichi Omori https://imgur.com/TheGsZ9 |
| Topic | Do you frown upon people who vote third party? |
| joe40001 07/22/20 1:57:27 AM #58 | Notti posted... I'm not sure people do understand spoilers. (I'm sure this vid has been posted 100 times, but lets make it 101)I'm confused you are explaining this to me like I'm 12. It's pretty clear what "spoiler" votes are and they derive from 2 main assumptions: 1. The votes for a 3rd party will come almost exclusively from one party. 2. In a FPtP system, it is impossible for a 3rd party to ever win. Not sure why that makes 3rd party voting smarter. You can't know for sure how close the vote will be.No, if everyone does that then the 3rd party wins. If even a third of the people do that, the 3rd party wins. ... Being part of the 5% that loses means almost nothing.See this is where I think we are talking on a very low level. It means a huge amount. Firstly if a 3rd party got 5% in 2016 for one it would give them millions in FEC grants for 2020, secondly if 2 parties lose 5% of the vote the next cycle people will know "1. hey it's not pointless to vote 3rd party" and "2. The two parties need to do a hell of a lot better job fighting for those centrists" It's not a false binary, it's a realization that splitting your vote (in the current First-Past-The-Post voting system, see video) is self sabotaging.It's not self-sabotaging, it uses your vote to most effectively communicate. The only reason you believe that it's pointless is because of the narrative people push that it's pointless. You are promoting a self-fulfilling cynicism as wisdom. When it simply isn't. Turtle and Owl never needed to switch, they could've unified, they could've done a lot. It is the "throw your vote away" lie that entrenches the 2 party system. A system a HUGE majority are unhappy with. https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2019/04/11/public-trust-in-government-1958-2019/ https://news.gallup.com/poll/1600/congress-public.aspx If we didn't buy into the lie and just looked at Hillary and Trump and say "nope" and voted "anybody but Hillary or trump" by percentage that would win by a landslide. You claim to hate the 2 party system but you are promoting it's favorite lie. That "you don't have a choice". But any vote sends a message, and in a country where the approval of the government never hits 50% and can hit as low as 15% or worse, it is insanely clear that the majority are quite dissatisfied. It is factually untrue that a majority can't win in a democracy. Let's approach the question from a different angle: Let's assume literally what happened in the Simpsons happened. 2 Aliens came in, hell bent on taking over and oppressing humanity, they replaced the 2 candidates leading the 2 party system. They were the nominees: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7NeRiNefO0 Who would you vote for? I'm asking sincerely. Because if your answer is anything but Kang or Kodos, you acknowledge that in dire enough circumstances 3rd partying voting is valid, and that in dire enough circumstances 3rd party voting is the only responsible thing to do. --- "joe is attractive and quite the brilliant poster" - Seiichi Omori https://imgur.com/TheGsZ9 |
| Topic | I think I'm going to take a couple weeks off from watching porn. |
| joe40001 07/19/20 2:44:54 AM #14 | closetjpopfan posted... Good luck My libido isn't really that high. It doesn't take much time, plus my life still needs reordering anyway. --- "joe is attractive and quite the brilliant poster" - Seiichi Omori https://imgur.com/TheGsZ9 |
| Topic | Do you frown upon people who vote third party? |
| joe40001 07/18/20 5:23:09 AM #50 | Notti posted... Most people don't understand spoiler votes, but it is amusing they think "no one ever thought to vote 3rd party before, i am so enlightened", "why didn't we listen to Washington!" etc. No, we get it, but a vote only matters if you think about it as representative of a larger group. No election I've ever voted in will be off by 1 vote, but if I think of my vote as representing say 5% of like minded people in the population, then it definitely matters. The only reason we are stuck in a 2 party system is because people are resigned to a false binary that pretty much everybody agrees is ruining the country. So the people doing what they can to fight that aren't naive or ignorant. --- "joe is attractive and quite the brilliant poster" - Seiichi Omori https://imgur.com/TheGsZ9 |
| Topic | I think I'm going to take a couple weeks off from watching porn. |
| joe40001 07/17/20 3:05:23 PM #6 | This is more difficult that I expected. It's not that I need porn that much, but just that it's become a very common habit. So the window between me going "hey I should look at porn" and looking at it got pretty short particularly because I'm on my computer all the time. Anyway it's good to be doing this, I don't like porn, looking at it just makes me feel like a worse person. --- "joe is attractive and quite the brilliant poster" - Seiichi Omori https://imgur.com/TheGsZ9 |
| Topic | Grant Imahara, of Mythbusters, passes away at 49 |
| joe40001 07/17/20 12:35:34 AM #125 | |
| Topic | Choose which one you're going to cuddle with every night [1][2][3][4][5][6] |
| joe40001 07/16/20 4:21:50 PM #24 | 4, eh, almost --- "joe is attractive and quite the brilliant poster" - Seiichi Omori https://imgur.com/TheGsZ9 |
| Topic | I think I'm going to take a couple weeks off from watching porn. |
| joe40001 07/16/20 4:08:43 PM #1 | I don't think it's good for my mental health. --- "joe is attractive and quite the brilliant poster" - Seiichi Omori https://imgur.com/TheGsZ9 |
| Topic | Grant Imahara, of Mythbusters, passes away at 49 |
| joe40001 07/15/20 7:53:47 PM #122 | Questionmarktarius posted... Being sad that someone else isn't sad enough just seems odd. I don't like the idea that his loss is "just normal" in any way --- "joe is attractive and quite the brilliant poster" - Seiichi Omori https://imgur.com/TheGsZ9 |
| Topic | What do you do with the horrible sinking feeling that life will never be as good |
| joe40001 07/15/20 2:15:41 PM #19 | dolomedes posted... i feel you on the lack of excitement, and that's a sad feeling. you're certainly not alone. Honestly, I don't need new stuff, like I can't come close to caring about the old stuff like I did. If I could watch movies now with the same excitement I did back then, or even like 70% of the excitement, that would be plenty to make my life awesome. --- "joe is attractive and quite the brilliant poster" - Seiichi Omori https://imgur.com/TheGsZ9 |
| Topic | What do you do with the horrible sinking feeling that life will never be as good |
| joe40001 07/15/20 2:14:35 PM #16 | dolomedes posted... this I will trust you. There hasn't been a single year in my life where I wouldn't easily trade it for 4 years earlier, and desperately trade it for 8 or more years earlier. Well none since I was a teen. --- "joe is attractive and quite the brilliant poster" - Seiichi Omori https://imgur.com/TheGsZ9 |
| Topic | What do you do with the horrible sinking feeling that life will never be as good |
| joe40001 07/15/20 2:10:32 PM #13 | Ok, then I think my brain has broken. Because even when I was a depressed wreck living in my grandma's upstairs 6 years ago, I could go down hang out with her and look at the snow, and it was almost kinda adjacent to alright. Now, it is so hard to feel feelings about anything. Recently through a series of events I got 10 thousand dollars, and I swear to god I felt less good about it than I felt about a single day of playing video games at 10 years old. Hell even a single hour. It was like "oh ok, I guess some of the horribleness of life might be staved off a bit." but no excitement whatsoever. --- "joe is attractive and quite the brilliant poster" - Seiichi Omori https://imgur.com/TheGsZ9 |
| Topic | What do you do with the horrible sinking feeling that life will never be as good |
| joe40001 07/15/20 1:53:57 PM #5 | dolomedes posted... make topics about it on gamefaqs and ignore all the responses, mostly So is this "life feels real and awesome for me from 0-12" then "life feels ok but uncomfortable from 12-20" and then "life is a pointless exercise in increasing hopelessless and lack of human feeling 21+" just a me thing? Can you legitimately be as happy at say 50 as 10? Because if so, me and most humans live on very different planets. --- "joe is attractive and quite the brilliant poster" - Seiichi Omori https://imgur.com/TheGsZ9 |
| Topic | Viacom allows a racist murderer to stay on their platform but cuts Nick Cannon |
| joe40001 07/15/20 1:43:50 PM #9 | Some people seem to think me defending free speech is a republican thing (even though I'm not republican). So let me say this: Nick should keep his job, people should be able to sort out their thoughts, even publicly. --- "joe is attractive and quite the brilliant poster" - Seiichi Omori https://imgur.com/TheGsZ9 |
| Topic | Grant Imahara, of Mythbusters, passes away at 49 |
| joe40001 07/15/20 1:34:06 PM #119 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TG_pm98W8c I kinda wished they allowed themselves to be even more sad. I know the adult thing to do is to honor people and stay composed, but it just feels wrong to even pretend at all like losing somebody like him is ok. --- "joe is attractive and quite the brilliant poster" - Seiichi Omori https://imgur.com/TheGsZ9 |
| Topic | What do you do with the horrible sinking feeling that life will never be as good |
| joe40001 07/15/20 1:32:05 PM #1 | As it was when you were 10? Not even close, not by a longshot, not ever? What do you do with that feeling? --- "joe is attractive and quite the brilliant poster" - Seiichi Omori https://imgur.com/TheGsZ9 |
| Topic | Should people be publicly accountable for what they say anonymously online? |
| joe40001 07/12/20 3:42:50 AM #44 | |
| Topic | to those who say "all lives matter", does that include black lives? |
| joe40001 07/12/20 3:38:35 AM #84 | Reis posted... no I mean it does mean that. As a sentence "All lives matter" is pretty easy to understand in english, that doesn't mean that I can't understand how people would see that phrase as a counterpoint to "Black Lives Matter" What a lot of people are thinking is: "BLM" = "There is a problem with police brutality against black people" "ALM" = "BLM is wrong" Though I would guess the BLM in the ALM person's mindset sees it more as a problematic movement than a false claim. The world would get easier if we spoke literally and not in mottos of ever shifting meaning. I've seen the claims: "Racism is incredibly bad and horribly unforgivable, racists deserve all the suffering they get" along with the claim "By virtue of being born white, a white person cannot help but be racist." And if you chain those two ideas together we obviously have a problem. Overall we need to speak more freely and precisely. --- "joe is attractive and quite the brilliant poster" - Seiichi Omori https://imgur.com/TheGsZ9 |
| Topic | why the fuck is gamefaqs blocking vpn users now |
| joe40001 07/12/20 3:13:51 AM #2 | This is bad if true. --- "joe is attractive and quite the brilliant poster" - Seiichi Omori https://imgur.com/TheGsZ9 |
| Topic | Going to Utah for a mental health break |
| joe40001 07/12/20 2:29:08 AM #7 | parabola_master posted... Thank you everyone for your replies, and thank you Machete for your post I am here and it is pretty hot, high of 110 low of 81 (I'm in southwest utah) --- "joe is attractive and quite the brilliant poster" - Seiichi Omori https://imgur.com/TheGsZ9 |
| Topic | Mitt Romney says Trump committed unprecedented historic corruption |
| joe40001 07/12/20 12:48:45 AM #38 | monkmith posted... words are cheap, and pointless grandstanding is valueless. romney has shown, time and again, that he's an asshole; ignoring his history purely because he called trump out on his bullshit from his bulletproof senate seat means nothing. He voted in the impeachment, and in politics calling the president of your party corrupt is not meaningless or cheap, it signals to others in the party it is safe to be honest, and once the discussion has shifted the actions can shift too. --- "joe is attractive and quite the brilliant poster" - Seiichi Omori https://imgur.com/TheGsZ9 |
| Topic | Do you frown upon people who vote third party? |
| joe40001 07/12/20 12:38:48 AM #38 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chFaesfO7fQ Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos! --- "joe is attractive and quite the brilliant poster" - Seiichi Omori https://imgur.com/TheGsZ9 |
| Topic | Do you frown upon people who vote third party? |
| joe40001 07/12/20 12:36:20 AM #35 | Tenlaar posted... I acknowledge that they are engaging in useless spoiler voting and am not afraid to say that to them. It wouldn't be a spoiler if other people also just voted for who they thought the best candidate was. --- "joe is attractive and quite the brilliant poster" - Seiichi Omori https://imgur.com/TheGsZ9 |
| Topic | She approaches you and says '' I'll do anything to get your vote'' |
| joe40001 07/12/20 12:35:36 AM #38 | No, I don't like her so I wouldn't want to vote for her, but ngl she could be hot in some contexts. --- "joe is attractive and quite the brilliant poster" - Seiichi Omori https://imgur.com/TheGsZ9 |
| Topic | Mitt Romney says Trump committed unprecedented historic corruption |
| joe40001 07/12/20 12:24:33 AM #34 | solosnake posted... So you would rather he just praise and support trump no matter what like every other republican? Makes no sense dude Right? I don't understand how people want progress but mock every step towards progress as not enough. Yeah it's not enough, but it's better than nothing. If anything needs mocking it's the people doing nothing, not the people making progress. --- "joe is attractive and quite the brilliant poster" - Seiichi Omori https://imgur.com/TheGsZ9 |
| Topic | Mitt Romney says Trump committed unprecedented historic corruption |
| joe40001 07/12/20 12:23:08 AM #32 | lurk posted... Lots of temporary embarrassed Rs ? Are you saying I'm a republican? I'm not. --- "joe is attractive and quite the brilliant poster" - Seiichi Omori https://imgur.com/TheGsZ9 |
| Topic | Mitt Romney says Trump committed unprecedented historic corruption |
| joe40001 07/12/20 12:21:31 AM #31 | monkmith posted... lol The divisiveness is why we always elect the worst from each party. Because primaries make each side pick their worst candidate and then we go "well fuck I guess I gotta pick one" He comes off as sounding bad there, to be sure. And look, you may be right that he's just better at playing the game, he sees the tide as shifting and so his centrist moves are just performance art. Idk. But he's appearing to kinda try now. And if that is legitimate centrism then it would be something I would value and trust WAY more than Hillary. I've always kinda liked Biden, he needs to take some time drink some tea, meditate and de-gunk his brain a bit but I do like Biden a lot. But Mitt is not a monster just because he's a republican, any part of him that is a monster is mostly that way because he's a hyper rich politician. --- "joe is attractive and quite the brilliant poster" - Seiichi Omori https://imgur.com/TheGsZ9 |
| Topic | Mitt Romney says Trump committed unprecedented historic corruption |
| joe40001 07/12/20 12:05:46 AM #25 | monkmith posted... in comparison to trump, or one of the other psychos that seem to have gained in power in the GOP, sure. The DNC can be pretty sleazy too. If it comes down to the question of "what has really fucked the country in the last 30 years?" the answer is "the media and divisive us vs them politics". Mitt might have a better chance of actually bringing the country together rather than Biden, he definitely would've over Hillary. Don't get me wrong, I don't fully trust him, but honestly things are so shitty that the effort to even look like you care about the people across the aisle and care about integrity is a very welcome thing. --- "joe is attractive and quite the brilliant poster" - Seiichi Omori https://imgur.com/TheGsZ9 |
| Topic | Single bros, your attitude towards COVID-19? |
| joe40001 07/12/20 12:02:23 AM #4 | Herodopus posted... no change to my life in that regard. i stopped dating/hooking up a couple years ago. briefly considered hooking up in march, have since lost the feeling No, you had the first part right, but the second part is wrong. All there is is the void, the void is life now. --- "joe is attractive and quite the brilliant poster" - Seiichi Omori https://imgur.com/TheGsZ9 |
| Topic | Playing Sniper Elite 4 on Authentic Plus difficulty AMA |
| joe40001 07/12/20 12:01:05 AM #22 | Dang, you are making me want to play this game. --- "joe is attractive and quite the brilliant poster" - Seiichi Omori https://imgur.com/TheGsZ9 |
| Topic | Mitt Romney says Trump committed unprecedented historic corruption |
| joe40001 07/11/20 11:59:38 PM #21 | lurk posted... Knew this dude was a closet Republican. A centrist isn't that bad now. Honestly I kinda like Biden and his policies, but anybody willing to call out their own party is something very good in these kinds of times. In theory as a democrat I would be ok with a Romney presidency. --- "joe is attractive and quite the brilliant poster" - Seiichi Omori https://imgur.com/TheGsZ9 |
| Topic | Single bros, your attitude towards COVID-19? |
| joe40001 07/11/20 11:55:44 PM #2 | It's funny seeing normal people react to going without dating as almost like a druggie going without their drugs. Like "how are you coping? how can anybody manage this?" Me a foreveralone virgin:  --- "joe is attractive and quite the brilliant poster" - Seiichi Omori https://imgur.com/TheGsZ9 |
| Topic | Now that Donald Trump has worn a mask in public, will more people wear them? |
| joe40001 07/11/20 11:50:20 PM #10 | MFBKBass5 posted... Him wearing a mask once changes nothing about his attitude towards Covid. Him wearing a mask once will change nothing. Hes already done enough damage claiming its a hoax and under control. I give him credit in the same way I give credit to the horse who keeps kicking me in the nuts taking a 5 minute break before resuming. The mass murderer that he is just decided to murder some less people. So that's a relatively good thing, while still being bad. Honestly if we can get him to do more stuff that slightly unfucks everything he has fucked, I'll pretend to give him credit. History will always remember him as a garbage sociopath but we can give him a fake attaboy if it'll save 100k americans. --- "joe is attractive and quite the brilliant poster" - Seiichi Omori https://imgur.com/TheGsZ9 |
| Topic | Will Seth Green apologize for his black man impersonation on Robot Chicken? |
| joe40001 07/11/20 11:45:51 PM #19 | muchdran posted... The political affiliation is all that matters. Jimmy Kimmel is safe because? Was he safe? He had to do this huge apology self humiliation thing. I don't think many people have just been given a pass, some don't get fired if they bow to the cancelers though. --- "joe is attractive and quite the brilliant poster" - Seiichi Omori https://imgur.com/TheGsZ9 |
| Topic | Going to Utah for a mental health break |
| joe40001 07/11/20 11:43:30 PM #2 | Hikes but it hot af. Beyond that I wouldn't go out much in covid times. --- "joe is attractive and quite the brilliant poster" - Seiichi Omori https://imgur.com/TheGsZ9 |
| Topic | Now that Donald Trump has worn a mask in public, will more people wear them? |
| joe40001 07/11/20 11:39:22 PM #3 | Yes more will, I'm guessing those who finally switch will be like "look it wasn't a big deal until recently". I will applaud anybody who admits any mistake ever, those people are my favorite people and are like unicorns on the far right and the far left. --- "joe is attractive and quite the brilliant poster" - Seiichi Omori https://imgur.com/TheGsZ9 |
| Topic | I stlil don't know how dangerous the fucking covid is? |
| joe40001 07/11/20 11:35:28 PM #53 | HagenEx posted... Like I said, everyone should act according to their own experiences, and stop trying to change other people's minds about it, always being respectful. I cosign the respectful part. The fighting/shaming isn't going to help. But helping others know the facts on the ground is not at all a bad thing and can be done respectfully. If somebody I cared about, or even a stranger I valued the human life of said: "Everybody I've seen play Russian roulette has lived so based on my experiences it's safe for me to play it". I would not be out of line to try to help explain to them the risks. 1 in 2396 americans have died from this, and many more are left with permanent damage and suffering. If I can respectfully help educate somebody else in a way that gets them to behave more safely for themselves and others why not? --- "joe is attractive and quite the brilliant poster" - Seiichi Omori https://imgur.com/TheGsZ9 |
| Topic | Will Seth Green apologize for his black man impersonation on Robot Chicken? |
| joe40001 07/11/20 11:25:08 PM #14 | FortuneCookie posted... Blackface was done with the intent of reassuring White society that Black people were not a threat to them. It was meant to demean and to create social disparity. I've always been of the mind that skin changing makeup should have a different name than minstral show blackface. --- "joe is attractive and quite the brilliant poster" - Seiichi Omori https://imgur.com/TheGsZ9 |
| Topic | I got someone instabanned on xbox |
| joe40001 07/11/20 11:22:05 PM #8 | Axiom posted... Dude probably destroyed his xbox in a rage lol just ruined a 15 year olds favorite hobby for no reason --- "joe is attractive and quite the brilliant poster" - Seiichi Omori https://imgur.com/TheGsZ9 |
| Topic | She wants you to disrespect her |
| joe40001 07/11/20 11:19:14 PM #3 | Society has told me that it is always wrong to disrespect women. Even when roleplaying. What, are you trying to get me banned from reddit or something? --- "joe is attractive and quite the brilliant poster" - Seiichi Omori https://imgur.com/TheGsZ9 |
| Topic | Will Seth Green apologize for his black man impersonation on Robot Chicken? |
| joe40001 07/11/20 11:15:34 PM #11 | BeyondWalls posted... Is it though? I'd rank it with the Simpson's Apu too in that it was cartoonish in a cartoon, it isn't an implication that all or most people of any race are bad in any way. Like you have to eventually come up with a rule rather than saying "this isn't ok AND this isn't ok AND this isn't ok..." just forever. Because 1. What if literally 99.9% of people are ok with it? 2. Any rule like this leads to a kinda ridiculous world. "Only people of a certain group can voice somebody in that group" Is that the rule? To what end? Age? Country of origin? Ability? Religion? Fat people voicing thin people? Any of the talented minority voice actors should lose all their non-minority roles? What's the endgame? Is there any rule? Has anybody doing any of this canceling thought it through? I'm going to make a sane request that for some reason the cancel fetishists don't seem to want to do: "Decide on a rule. Lay out the rule clearly. THEN implement the rule." I allow for the possibility that there is some stuff out there that might offend a large group of people willfully and unduly. But the rule simply can't be "somebody claimed that this is offensive, and so we should get rid of it and apologize." If that's the rule then literally anything can get removed because literally anything can be claimed to be found offensive. "I find TC's claim to be an attack on Seth Green and as he is an Ashkenazi Jew I find it to be a racially motivated attack and extremely offensive. I believe TC should apologize at the very least if not be moderated." I claimed offense, should TC have to apologize? --- "joe is attractive and quite the brilliant poster" - Seiichi Omori https://imgur.com/TheGsZ9 |
| Topic | I got someone instabanned on xbox |
| joe40001 07/11/20 11:02:34 PM #6 | I think I prefer trash talking to eggshells world. --- "joe is attractive and quite the brilliant poster" - Seiichi Omori https://imgur.com/TheGsZ9 |
| Topic | No Mans Sky is half off on PS4 right now. Is it finally a game worth playing? |
| joe40001 07/11/20 11:00:22 PM #2 | I like it. I don't play it nearly enough, but that's true of most of my games. --- "joe is attractive and quite the brilliant poster" - Seiichi Omori https://imgur.com/TheGsZ9 |
| Topic | BURGER KANG is under fire after trans employee dies |
| joe40001 07/11/20 10:59:31 PM #4 | DarkRoast posted... BK is to blame if they asked her to work while she was symptomatic for thought in any way that she had covid-19. --- "joe is attractive and quite the brilliant poster" - Seiichi Omori https://imgur.com/TheGsZ9 |
| Topic | Will Seth Green apologize for his black man impersonation on Robot Chicken? |
| joe40001 07/11/20 10:58:49 PM #2 | Pretty much nobody should be apologizing for any of this shit. It happened years ago, and in context it's fine. --- "joe is attractive and quite the brilliant poster" - Seiichi Omori https://imgur.com/TheGsZ9 |
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