US Geekhackers, remember to VOTE today!!

[clickclack]

Voodoo is a religion...

Since when is poking things a religion? By that measure all annoying people and horny guys are Voodooians.

Uh... Oh yeah, VOTE! I think that's where I was going with this.

[laffindude]

Sent my absentee ballot in awhile ago.
No thank you Demopublicans. /3rd party.

[WRXChris]

Sent my absentee ballot in awhile ago.
No thank you Demopublicans. /3rd party.

+1 here.  I voted early for Gary Johnson!  I just moved and unfortunately don't have voting residency in CO yet and was forced to vote in VA (I would have loved to vote for CO amendment 64!).

[rayuki]

lol and remember guys, a vote for obama is a vote for romney! according to your awesome poll booths lol

[metalliqaz]

[xsphat]

Am I labeled a troll now?

[fohat.digs]

There are 2 parties in the USA today. If you cast your vote anywhere else, you are farting in the wind.

Well, occasionally not. The people who voted for Ralph Nader in Florida in 2000 put Bush Jr into the White House.

Otherwise, there is no room for anything else.

I could see a chunk of Republicans slicing off into a (true or false) Libertarian Party (maybe it would take one of each), a hard-core bible-thumping collection of arch social-conservatives, a dis-attached wealthy class concerned only with preserving their riches by any means necessary, and perhaps a remaining core of "Goldwater" Republicans that really do favor lower taxes but a massive military.

Democrats could have their own Libertarians of a "kinder and gentler" social attitude, a religious wing that took "love your brother" seriously, an amoral intellectual elite, and perhaps a European-style social welfare contingent.

But if any of these groups split off one at a time, they would be instantly squashed and made irrelevant. So we are stuck with 2 dysfunctional parties comprising wildly disparate collections of mis-matched bedfellows.

It would be amusing if it weren't so horrible.

[clickclack]

Am I labeled a troll now?

No. You're trying too hard.
Must let if flow from within...

[xsphat]

Am I labeled a troll now?

No. You're trying too hard.
Must let if flow from within...

Nice, thanks. I just take no sh1t and have generally been on a living roller coaster lately. I'm really an ok guy, wouldn't go so far as nice, but OK is fair.

[xsphat]

I shall go to the mountain top and be seen through the eyes of real trolls.

[clickclack]

Nice, thanks. I just take no sh1t and have generally been on a living roller coaster lately. I'm really an ok guy, wouldn't go so far as nice, but OK is fair.

No worries. You have a strong personality. It's not a "problem", it's a "feature".

[hashbaz]

Since I said so, lol. Catholics are inherently evil and I will fight them until I can't.

This isn't a troll?

[xsphat]

No, a troll would be more like, "I f*cked your mother you ugly ***got."

Right?

[clickclack]

I shall go to the mountain top and be seen through the eyes of real trolls.

Careful there. Don't ascend too much, the pressure drops and the ego swells

[metalliqaz]

No, a troll would be more like, "I f*cked your mother you ugly ***got."

Right?

No that's a flame.  The catholic thing was a troll.  Especially if you don't actually give a F about what catholics do.

[xsphat]

I'm not worried. I can see someone calling me a troll because I'm opinionated and a generally "in your face" kinda guy. I am NO DIFFERENT in person, btw. Consider that.

[xsphat]

No, a troll would be more like, "I f*cked your mother you ugly ***got."

Right?

No that's a flame.  The catholic thing was a troll.  Especially if you don't actually give a F about what catholics do.

But I do. I'm honestly offended by religion and the very idea of a god.

I'm not trying to piss anyone off, I'm just getting pissed off myself!

[hashbaz]

No, a troll would be more like, "I f*cked your mother you ugly ***got."

Not a particularly effective troll.  Ridiculous overgeneralizations will get better results.

[clickclack]

No, a troll would be more like, "I f*cked your mother you ugly ***got."
Right?

Sure. But if you just add the word "driveway" to that line then someone on here already beat you to it.
What a small world.

Living up to this small corner of gh today aren't we?  =P

[xsphat]

Ok then. 

No, a troll would be more like, "I f*cked your mother you ugly ***got."

Not a particularly effective troll.  Ridiculous overgeneralizations will get better results.

But dude, I'm trying to get better, not worse. Help a brother out. I don't want to be a troll, I just don't want everyone to, well, hate me.

[xsphat]

No, a troll would be more like, "I f*cked your mother you ugly ***got."
Right?

Sure. But if you just add the word "driveway" to that line then someone on here already beat you to it.

I can't even figure out where to put driveway in that sentence, lol.

[laffindude]

If you cast your vote anywhere else, you are farting in the wind.

So is voting Republican in a solid blue state, and vice versa. Also I am not in a swing state. Me voting either way would not have mattered.
Edit: I just want to bump libertarian numbers a little. We're closing in on 5%, which would gain us federal election budget. Sure it probably still wouldn't matter in the next election, but at least it is a step breaking up the duopoly.

[hashbaz]

Input Nirvana's favorite inflammatory for a while was to threaten to rape women family members in driveways.  Then he realized what a truly abhorrent thing that is to say and stopped.

We just haven't had any real trolls around here in a while, xsphat.  Maybe we're getting soft.

[xsphat]

If you cast your vote anywhere else, you are farting in the wind.

So is voting Republican in a solid blue state, and vice versa. Also I am not in a swing state. Me voting either way would not have mattered.

We don't pick the president, but voting for the rest of the elections on the ballot is good because there your votes there have weight.

EDIT: Wow, I had no idea they were almost to 5%. That is a huge number for a third party. I wish you would have told me that yesterday ...

[xsphat]

Input Nirvana's favorite inflammatory for a while was to threaten to rape women family members in driveways.  Then he realized what a truly abhorrent thing that is to say and stopped.

We just haven't had any real trolls around here in a while, xsphat.  Maybe we're getting soft.

Dude, I promise I will never threaten anyone, even if they post lego pics. I believe what I say, that is why I can't be true troll. But at time, calling me a b!tch might be fair.

[hashbaz]

Fair enough.

[TheQsanity]

You are not labeled a troll. But don't judge the original meaning of  an  old text just from what you hear or just how modern people practice it. Remember the game telephone?

A lot of different religions have been revised and translated many times over. All religions have their flaws but just because of them don't disacknowledge their good.

How the religion was intended and how it is practiced or perceived(you) is always different much like telephone.

Superstitions are similar to religion in that they have been created for a reason. The perceived meaning may be different. For example: the spilling salt superstition was likely created for people to not waste salt as it was quite valuable.

Oftentimes religion states stories, meanings, and phrases in riddles  or metaphors. So my may have to try to find the meaning between the words before you take it by litteral.

Once you understand, you will be less offended when somone mention s god.

[xsphat]

Religion, superstition and fairy tales were all created to teach people to do the right thing. Same with monsters, ghosts and even holidays (as reward for not doing whatever) but what they are today is not a thing like what they once were. Fairy tales have no balls anymore, and the religions I'm most against strive on greed without a care for the followers. It's just too tainted nowadays.

If people could drop some of the blindly dogmatic stuff (I argue with this guy at work once in a while that no, no damn arch could house every species on Earth) and bring out the morels then religion would much more tolerable.

Plus, anyone that tells me to kneel better be ready to put me on the ground with force. Just saying.

 

[demik]

Xsphat, as a fellow religion hater. You're cool with me.

[MMB]

[clickclack]

Religion, superstition and fairy tales were all created to teach people to do the right thing...
... Fairy tales have no balls anymore...

InB4 Struwwelpeter!

I had good parents, but I must say Heinrich Hoffmann can be credited with keeping me on the straight and narrow.
It's never to late to scare, errrr... scarr your children. Get started today, and YOU TOO can shape a little person (a.k.a Kid).

Election looking close so far. Love the news- He has the lead, no He has the lead, no wait, HE has the lead, etc.

[xsphat]

Xsphat, as a fellow religion hater. You're cool with me.

Thanks man, you're cool with me, too.

But I read the "things you hate" thread today and I saw your name in there quite a bit. Then I read your posts and they all sound so normal, so what's up with that? lol

[TheQsanity]

I wouldnt argue with such ignorant people as they believe in such event. They will not agree with anyone that they think disagrees with them, just as I will no longer reason with you.


 



Next time you see your co-worker, ask him wether men are sinful and ask him who wrote the bible? Tell him men wrote the bible through the message of god but a mans hand did write the bible therefore the bible was written by the hands of a sinner.

[xsphat]

Funny, I have said that. I have also asked him if god stopped talking to us because if we see a burning shrub these days we put it out. Also, the next coming of Christ will be missed because if a virgin gets pregnant she goes on talk shows like Springer instead of the head of the holiness line.

[Appeac]

From Michigan and had to write in GJ... A wasted vote is voting for someone you don't agree with, and if a third party wins 5% this year, they get ballot access and matching public funds in 2016, here's hoping I see proportional representation before I die...

[MMB]

I generally don't waste time arguing with religious people regarding their beliefs. I feel they have just as much right to believe as I have the right not to. And I leave it at that.

[xsphat]

I enjoy testing out my logic on them and let them trip over their faults.

And yes, THAT guy was winning last time I checked.

I would love it if a group got to 5%, then maybe this political scene could stop being so stagnant.

[Lanx]

i'm at a loss for memory, was the electoral college set up cuz there was a weird tie back then? or was it cuz of the threat of black ppl getting the right to vote, since they were 3/5's of a man? (being kinda serious). i mean why does it matter if a state has to be red or blue?, i mean just cuz i lean liberally why do i have to live in a blue state(which i would) as opposed to if i had to move to crazy ass arizona, for a bounty of reasons.

[xsphat]

I don't think you have to think the way the state you live in is colored on election night. I live my life and half the time I don't even remember the governor's name, unless it's Philip ...

[SmallFry]

Thank god its over. I hate the ads, calls, and mail. -_-

[laffindude]

i'm at a loss for memory, was the electoral college set up cuz there was a weird tie back then? or was it cuz of the threat of black ppl getting the right to vote, since they were 3/5's of a man? (being kinda serious). i mean why does it matter if a state has to be red or blue?, i mean just cuz i lean liberally why do i have to live in a blue state(which i would) as opposed to if i had to move to crazy ass arizona, for a bounty of reasons.

Our government was setup with checks and balances. Like Senate to give more say to rural states vs the House for the populous states. I believe the indirect election was setup to because it wasn't efficient to do popular votes at the time. Originally the presidents were supposed to be elected by the House, but 14th amendment could be used to limit some state's votes. Electoral college adds another layer of checks and balances to separate how much power the elected House members have. Our darker skinned brothers were not in the consideration at all, since... well. They were not considered citizens, so had no right to vote.

If you want crazy. All the solidly blue states were red states. The bible belt were solidly blue. Flip flop occurred after Reagan swept the country. The reason southern states were solid Democratic haven... just remember why Unions were created. I'll leave it to your own judgment for how it is now, but Racism is well entrenched into the old DNC.

PS. Arizona rocks.

[Lanx]

PS. Arizona rocks.

only if you're white! otherwise harrassment "illegal alien!"

[sth]

welp obama

[laffindude]

only if you're white! otherwise harrassment "illegal alien!"

I am not white.

Edit: I called 273 a few month ago for Romney. Almost got it if it weren't for pesky FL and Co again. Damn swing states ;o

[noisyturtle]

Looks like the house goes to Republicans, senate to the Democrats and four more years of Obama.

[xsphat]

Looks like the house goes to Republicans, senate to the Democrats and four more years of Obama.

America! Frak Yeah!

[laffindude]

If Republicans can't win VS Obama, it shows you how out of touch with the public they are. Hardcore conservatism doesn't mesh well with today's culture.

Oh, NV and WI went blue. I guess I was off more than I thought. Not all the votes are in but we'll see

[TheQsanity]

i'm at a loss for memory, was the electoral college set up cuz there was a weird tie back then? or was it cuz of the threat of black ppl getting the right to vote, since they were 3/5's of a man? (being kinda serious). i mean why does it matter if a state has to be red or blue?, i mean just cuz i lean liberally why do i have to live in a blue state(which i would) as opposed to if i had to move to crazy ass arizona, for a bounty of reasons.

I am not sure but I am pretty sure it has something to do with communication and how they counted the ballots back then. But I thibk most of us agree that this method is out of date and needs reform.

[laffindude]

Most of the government agencies can do with a thorough spring cleaning.

[TheQsanity]

Looks like the house goes to Republicans, senate to the Democrats and four more years of Obama.

America! Frak Yeah!

It doesn't matter who got elected the result will be the same and nothing will have gotten done. I am just glad we elected Obama and Biden just because don't have to put another name, to be known as someone else that got nothing done.