2016 Presidential Election

[JackRiddler]

as your post indicates

Bullshit! I'm not blaming one Clinton for the other Clinton's misdeeds. I am correctly noting the political embrace of Clinton of the other Clinton's misdeeds (and vice-versa). How is this different from Clinton's political embrace of Kissinger et al.? Or wait, does that also not count for the same reason? Okay, how about Clinton's failure to distance herself from the misdeeds of her latest endorser, Condoleezza Rice, the fugitive war criminal?

[Wombaticus Rex]

this election has turned everyone into blithering idiots

We are, perhaps, functioning more like a Facebook argument than a discussion board, here in the present tense. But that's inevitable the same way the Anthropic Principle is nothing special: things happened.

Currently, we are a full month away from the finish line, as the game is framed. I mean this in a loving way, but I don't expect any of you to get more sane or less convinced during that time span. While tempted by the prospect of suspending a majority of RI users for the next 30 days and basking in the silence, it's not worth the rewards or the resentment. Just because the United States is setting the stage for Civil War II doesn't mean RI has to follow suit; after all, we're fucking Canadian.

That said, as ever -- no matter how angry someone makes us, it doesn't justify using RI as a venue for caps lock rageposting. This is allegedly a research community, even if we're mostly post-nihilist peanut gallery in practice. This is definitely not a space for therapy beyond the fact, here at the end of all things, almost everyone here authentically really likes each other as a human being after years of onscreen co-habitation.

Be excellent to one another, and all of you, shut the fuck up. Hugs!

[JackRiddler]

Die, tyrant, die!!!

(I'm sorry, I just cannot do the all-caps for full effect. Allergic.)

[Cordelia]

this election has turned everyone into blithering idiots

Not just here but everywhere even irl. Let's just get along.

yes, by everyone I do mean everyone. myself included.

I wonder what the post election encore new act will bring.

[dada]

This is a research community? I thought we were saving the world. huh.

I wonder what the post election encore new act will bring.

Whatever it is, we'll want to look our best. Let's go shopping for new hats.

Here's a nice fez. Can't go wrong with a fez:

fawkesfez.jpg

Chef's hat. Let's get cookin!:

fawkeschef.jpg

Or my favorite, talking bird hat. His name is Ezlo.

fawkesezlo.jpg

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[Agent Orange Cooper]

I wonder what the post election encore new act will bring.

here's a preview

[OP ED]

Don't feel too safe Northerners. The Canadians weren't Candians yet, but they were drawn into the last civil war here. Good luck avoiding the next. I live like twenty kilometers away.

[Nordic]

Let's face it:

[seemslikeadream]

voting works in my town....in my county and in my state

it kept out the religious right from my school board....from my town council and from gaining ground in my state legislation ...voting kept out what Scott Walker did in Wisconsin

it is helping to stop the sale of state of Tennessee to private out-of-state vendors

voting has helped to keep women safe from the anti-abortion predators

[JackRiddler]

Yes, there is something infantile in that graphic, in the author's self-assurance that he (it has to be a he) knows something almost no one else does, is somehow the lone adult in a land of children. The system is not a democracy and not just, but there is a shocking amount of control or power expressed both ways (or in all directions) through the processes and circuitry of popular participation. If not, this many resources would never be devoted to maintaining, to steering, and to corrupting them. Just because it does not work as advertised it does not mean it is not a battlefield, as well as a show, as well as an out-of-control machine. If you zoomed out to see more of this silly scene, the "elites" would also have a toy steering wheel. Just a bigger one, and more flashing lights on the toy dashboard. No one is in charge. Mass society is autopoietic. For an obvious example, the economic policies come down pretty straightforwardly from the logic of capitalism and the ideology of neoliberalism. Why do they take decades to implement, why are they never completed, why do they never work?

[coffin_dodger]

JR said:

No one is in charge

We live in a system - and always have, as far I can tell - where heirarchy is the overarching reality. Our parents are in charge. Our schoolteachers are in charge. Our bosses are in charge. Our politicians are in charge. Our monarch is in charge. Our pope is in charge.

This system follows us from cradle to grave, saturating our every moment of existence - yet there is no one at the top?

How very, very convenient. The greatest sleight of hand ever performed has to be this misdirection. It is truly a 'nothing to see here, move on' masterclass. You are cloyingly immersed in it - it is everywhere - yet it does not exist where it most obviously should?

Do you think a worker ant knows it's a worker ant? Nature has a way of hiding inconvenient facts from it's functioning parts.

[Harvey]

I'm surprised that Trump handled the last question of the debate - "find something positive to say about the other candidate" - better than Clinton did. She complimented his children. He called her a fighter and said she doesn't give up and he considers it a positive trait. That was a great question to end on.

His children shoot elephants and leopards with guns. That is where his sense of fighting spirit leads, toward empty gestures of the most futile vanity, a heroic contest of non contest. Her fighting spirit is rage at the stupidity of her audience.

Prove me wrong.

[seemslikeadream]

Pedophile Rapist For President

A pretrial date has been set for the Donald Trump child rape lawsuit

Defendant Trump initiated sexual contact with Plaintiff at four different parties. On the fourth and final sexual encounter with Defendant Trump, Defendant Trump tied Plaintiff to a bed, exposed himself to Plaintiff, and then proceeded to forcibly rape Plaintiff. During the course of this savage sexual attack, Plaintiff loudly pleaded with Defendant Trump to stop but with no effect. Defendant Trump responded to Plaintiff’s pleas by violently striking Plaintiff in the face with his open hand and screaming that he would do whatever he wanted.Immediately following this rape, Defendant Trump threatened Plaintiff that, were she ever to reveal any of the details of the sexual and physical abuse of her by Defendant Trump, Plaintiff and her family would be physically harmed if not killed.

http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/306274/ ... e-lawsuit/

After Mike Tyson was convicted of rape in 1992, Trump said Tyson was the real victim
http://www.vox.com/identities/2016/10/1 ... -recording

[Cordelia]

I'm surprised that Trump handled the last question of the debate - "find something positive to say about the other candidate" - better than Clinton did. She complimented his children. He called her a fighter and said she doesn't give up and he considers it a positive trait. That was a great question to end on.

His children shoot elephants and leopards with guns. That is where his sense of fighting spirit leads, toward empty gestures of the most futile vanity, a heroic contest of non contest. Her fighting spirit is rage at the stupidity of her audience.

Prove me wrong.

I bet that request took them both by surprise