colmear

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[–] colmear@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 4 days ago

And then you look at paintings from the Middle Ages and wonder how people evolved backwards

[–] colmear@discuss.tchncs.de 20 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

I didn’t vote for her as I am not American. What is your excuse for supporting the criminal felon Trump?

[–] colmear@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 month ago

I don’t think the campaigns are about converting people, but more about getting people to care about voting for their candidate. At this point there is just no way people still don’t prefer one candidate over the other

[–] colmear@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 month ago

aNOthEr aTtAcK oN oUR rIGHtful LEaDer bY thE wOkE mOb

[–] colmear@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 month ago

As a German I have to say that do this kind of regularly. But only with alcohol free wheat beer and grapefruit juice. Really great drink after sport or a long hike

[–] colmear@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Depends on their wealth. I am not sure if you can sue someone if you’re poor. Attorneys are expensive

[–] colmear@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 month ago

Exactly. At this point it can’t be about convincing undecided voters (whoever is still undecided won’t pay attention to any of this and will still be undecided). It’s more about whether or not people can be arsed to go out of their homes to vote.

Saying this: Please vote (as long as you are not planning to vote for the convicted felon of course)

[–] colmear@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 months ago

From what I read is that republican led states usually make it harder to vote than democratic states, but I haven’t looked further into this.

Although maybe you technically actually are only voting for the elector in your state that then casts their vote on your behalf, I even read that there have been rare occasions where the state elector went against what their state voted for!?

This whole process of voting in the US seems very outdated to me (I am from Europe too). I know that it is hard to fundamentally change the system as long as nothing goes completely wrong. Germany had big loopholes in the constitution during the Republic of Weimar too. Changing this was easy after the total defeat during the Second World War. I have no idea how you could get through with updating the complete political system of a more or less „functional“ country. Even less if the country is as divided as the US is at the moment

[–] colmear@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 months ago (4 children)

whether they will bother to vote for their preferred candidate or just stay home

It’s more like vote or go to work. I really don’t get why this country doesn’t hold elections on a day where most people can participate. Actually I do get it, but I don’t get how people can still think of the USA as a democracy

[–] colmear@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Based on the etymology ‘Satanbye’ would be more correct. But that might not carry the same meaning as your proposal

[–] colmear@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 3 months ago

That is what I was hoping he is referring to. But if I’m completely honest, the “I will make myself King of Murica” approach sounds more realistic

[–] colmear@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Isn’t that exactly the reason for the second amendment? From what I learned, it is not to go to the gun range because it’s fun, it is to fight the government if it goes rogue

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