I'll need to research that as I'm supposed to get blood pressure medicine for my dad

it's really amazing that people keep voting for dems and repubs.... i mean jfc they are ****ing us all over so bad it's insane

How common are options in the US?

Wonder how hard it is to actually run for political seats. I voted for some guy cause he had a cool name

lol filthy

That's what I thought. I realize you can have independent candidates, but I wonder if the US would benefit from a more formalized multi-party system.

We have a variety of other parties - Libertarian, Socialist Workers, Green, U.S. Taxpayers, Communist, Forward, Constitution, Alliance and a number of others that I'm sure I'm forgetting.

What they all lack is a critical mass of support, organization and/or funding. They may occasionally get a boost from a charismatic candidate or from someone who's absurdly wealthy, but it doesn't last.

There are a variety of reasons for that, but one is the "big tent" approach taken by the main parties. If you're passionate about an issue one party or the other will take you in. Even if there is another wing of the party diametrically opposed to that position. They'll happily lie to you to get your vote. See, e.g. the dems and environmental policy, the republicans and gov't spending.

It's all a scheme, designed to maximize financial advantage for the political class and their running dogs. /filthycliffnotes

it's not "lolfilthy" it's "lolusa"

the blame isn't on the left. the blame is on the stranglehold that the elite have on everything

the elites own the sources of information, and own the politicians, and own the judges, and own everything

that's why it doesn't matter what the people want. we want healthcare. we want peace. we want a livable planet. we want fair wealth distribution. we want affordable housing... all wildly popular, and doable.


and it's not even "left". these are very mainstream, middle of the road, what pretty much everyone wants

Sorry, the lolfilthy still applies. Your third paragraph sums up our political system beautifully.

You *do* understand why people vote for Dems or Repubs, you just don't like it.

It would mean more votes for them and they haven't floated it, so I don't see what your point is

Almost can't happen with our first-past-the-post voting system that is in place almost everywhere.

it's an unsustainable system. if the people don't revolt, the planet will

just watched the scene in the crown where they execute russian royalty in 1917

good stuff!!!

but i think we were supposed to feel sympathy for them lol

It was all gratuitous though and they had already abdicated and the Bolsheviks already had power-- and there were kids that were killed so even if you want to hold the adults responsible for their crimes the kids were innocent.

Like in Anastasia

plz

of all the killings the bolsheviks did, this one makes by far and away the most sense.

there was specific and sensible, motivation for killing them in the spectrum of ongoing civil disorder and war

Not exactly a surprising response

We need a truthfulness index for people in different categories.

When you say stuff like "won't someone please think of the Monarchs" when talking about a revolution the responses kind of right themselves.

Talking about children though not monarchs.

And the revolution was over.

oh the communists won! we live in a communist world now ! woo hoo!!!



revolution def wasn't over. they had a century long fight, that they eventually lost

Killing 12 year olds to fight the boog.

It's a losing argument here on this one.

royalty apologist