"Of all the silly nonsense, this is the stupidest tea party I've ever been to in all my life."

[cscottd]

Comments

[mis_verduras]

I see.

[lafinjack]

The electoral system in the US is set up, intentionally or not, so that a two party system will always dominate. Third-parties will never be a factor until something like instant runoff voting gets instituted. Until then it's a wasted vote.

[cscottd]

If someone came up to you and offered you two bowlfuls of faeces, would you get out your spoon and weigh the pros and cons of each or just say "no thanks"?

Well... if I knew that I was going to end up with one or the other of them, no matter what (which would be the case, if your analogy is to hold true), then I'd certainly do whatever I could to end up with the least objectionable one.

[yes_justice]

People who eat dirt live longer than those who eat nothing.

[enders_shadow]

haha, I don't know if you live or have been in NYC, but for awhile there was a series of subway advertisements that went like this:

"New studies show that people who eat peanuts live longer than people who don't eat.

This message brought to you by the National Peanut Association"

I always laughed when I saw those ads.

[yes_justice]

lol. So true, and peanuts are a far cry healthier than crappy American politics!

[enders_shadow]

So what do you propose we do?

[xforge]

Well, I tried voting for Karl Marx but it just felt like useless wanking. Then I tried voting for Kucinich and even more so.

[mis_verduras]

I'll take wanking over being raped any day of the week.

[pacotelic]

John McCain thanks you for the vote.

[mis_verduras]

Please explain to me how McCain is worse than Obama.

[enders_shadow]

But the problem is, if enough people decided to wank on Kucinich, sure, he would have won; but if the wrong number decided to toss their votes from Obama to McCain, the raping would have been far, far worse.

Can you *IMAGINE* VP Palin going to a foreign country to talk with them? I mean, the world would be a much scarier place if Obama had lost.

[enders_shadow]

er, from Obama to Kucinich

My point was that when you know your going to get ass-raped by the politician in charge of the country, the question is: lube or no?

(in this case, Obama is lube, McCain is no-lube)

[bernmarx]

Afghanistan didn't start as an imperialist war effort, it started as a response to the 9/11/01 attacks and the Taliban's obstructionism.

[mis_verduras]

You seriously believe the purpose of the Afghanistan war wasn't to solidify the US's grip on South Asia from the beginning