I’m sure Kissinger was also involved in it, somehow. Throw him in there and you have an awful people stew going.

Yeah i don’t think anyone should be entitled to a vote either, I just also think that since one of the two parties has won every election in modern history that it would be a futile gesture to vote for third parties. Nader was a smart man and a worthy candidate, though without the backing of either party was left…

I think we agree on many parts of this discussion so I’d appreciate it if you didn’t frame me as some sheep that has been duped, or act like this is some fight that I’ve picked where I’ve personally offended you. I’m just trying to have a casual conversation about politics and you’re going on about how I shot my…

That’s my bad I guess, for Nader. I was around ten when all this was happening so I don’t have the experience of watching these politicians make their moves, only have what I’ve studied about third party candidates and his name came up as an example of a third party guy who drew a lot of votes away from people who…

Leave it to the “populists” to send things into a tailspin. Yeah after Wallace sort of “revealed” who Nixon could court that’s when he started calling on all the, as you put it, genteel white nationalists to vote. Was it him who coined the term “silent majority”?

There are a lot of reasons we don’t have single payer healthcare: lobbyists, republican senate majority leaders blocking bills, Trump getting elected, so on. All of that has to do with 1) our electoral system making it easy for people against single payer healthcare to get re-elected 2) it being very difficult to…

I would say that the last third party candidate who really made a splash in our current system was Theodore Roosevelt. And yeah, by design all of our political branches are designed to function in a slow, rather counterproductive manner in order to “prevent mob rule” or preserve status quo, whatever you think Madison…

Looks like the Moon is still good.

Hey, don’t talk about my wife like that hahahaha

yeah not only do you make a good point about the fractious infighting that made the Greek pantheon so relatable, but also one would think the Fae and the Greeks would have different, if not opposing, goals. Seeing as how Fae folk are from the Celtic Fringe of Britain and the Greek gods are... Greek. Reminds me of the…

Much of his authority is derived from his brain, but also much of his authority is derived from his mane.

“The man in the moon is not here right now, please leave a message and he will get back to you in six to ten business orbits.”

yeah isn’t it typically the gods hexing the mortals and “speaking to them with intent” by appearing to them in disguise and telling them they had a great destiny of having to risk life and limb in quests for glory because Zeus secretly slept with (or raped depending on the version) their mother twenty years ago?

Well I agree with you about the problems of the two party system, however, my issue about voting for a third party candidate fits into that. Voting for a Kanye or a Nader instead of one of the two major party candidates, loathsome as they may be, is a wasted vote and if say 5% of people who could have voted for Biden…

No if I was going to change anything it would be making representation more proportional instead of just first past the post and then trying to whittle down the massive two party system into something more interest-specific so we don’t get two awful candidates trying to represent huge swathes of disparate groups under…

Yeah that was one of the reasons I think Trump got enough momentum in the first place back at the start of the last electoral cycle. He’d tweet something ridiculous and offensive and headline-grabbing such as “build a border wall” and then he got scads of media attention all day without having to do any work. At the…

I agree. Even if Kanye doesn’t view it that way, that is pretty much what his campaign is going to be. Like a Nader or a Perot, a vote for him is a vote for Trump.

I read that she got accused of that a while ago by someone who used to work for her family, but it didn’t get mentioned in the reasons for the show’s cancellation. I thought the fact that their main star had such grievances leveled against her would have played a role in their decision, but Greenwald seemed to…

I liked it for the most part and it managed a great visual style as well as a top notch cast. The plot was a little shaky in its attempts to capture the Coen Bros or Elmore Leonard charm and the finale was a mass of cliches. Like having someone who just let go of a massive amount of baggage decide to throw a pack of…

I had the same initial inclination but soldiered on. You didn’t miss much.