Interesting ideas, although there is one major issue with the pensions:

After all, most people in those circumstances would only be getting back the money they have paid in.

That’s not how National Insurance works - we’re not paying into a pot we can draw from later, we’re paying for current pensions with the expectation that when we get to retirement, the younger people will be paying for ours.

So that would be an interesting negotiation point.

Donald Trump owes more than $100m from lawsuits

No shit, he hasn’t paid the half a billion dollars from that single lawsuit yet, never mind any of the others…

It depends. If you own a second home just as an AirBnB, you’re part of the problem and should be eaten after the millionaires…

Apparently it’s literally in the standardised tests… that’s what’s causing the problems! 😉

You can’t eat the brain.

Shouldn’t

Is that Young Kevin Sorbo?

To demonstrate the lack of a “clear mandate”.

Yes, Trump will win if he gets one more vote than Biden, but the more he loses the popular vote by, the more justification people have for protesting.

So if he wins on electoral college votes but loses the popular vote by a landslide, at least it shows what The People are actually thinking.

I’m not an American. I don’t live in the US.

I can’t control who the DNC put forward as a candidate.

All I can do is go on the internet and tell Americans “when the choice is The Fascist or The Other One”, don’t vote for the fascist. Don’t take votes away from the one who’s not a fascist that could win, either by voting third party or by not voting.

Why do I care? Because the president of the US has a disproportionate amount of influence over the rest of the world. Leaving NATO, selling Ukraine down the river, appeasing Putin, none of this makes the rest of us safer.

So go and vote.

Cool, I’m sure a second Trump presidency will do way more for you, so enjoy that.

Kickstarter are the ones for me - I get spam unrelated to any projects I’ve backed, so somehow they got hold of that address…

Because it’s not made of cobalt…

In the latest general election there was a constituency decided by fifteen votes. And several decided by less than 100.

Terrifying to think an MP could be elected because their name was Aaron A Aaronson rather than their party or reputation or policies and some goobers just wanted to play at being a functional member of society…

Hahah, that is… well, terrifying.

While I don’t believe in disenfranchising people, how do you deal with the voters who are literally too dumb to understand the process…?

Guns dont mass murder people, mass murderers do.

Sure, but the guns help.

Try for a mass casualty event with some knives. It’s doable, but you have to work for it.

“Shut the door, things are gonna get weird”

The former Prime Minister had to stand next to this guy in a solemn legal proceeding while the vote counts were announced. Binface was never going to win, but by god he was going to make Sunak pay for it.

Is that a pine cone, or has AI gone nuts on the teeth again?

You know what? That’s fair. You’re actually mostly right.

I disagree that the position of president isn’t as important as people think - as you you found out during the Trump presidency, a president can potentially pick several Supreme Court justices, and given some recent rulings, it may already be too late to fix that arm of government. Plus as the head of state, they are one of the biggest symbols of national identity.

And as such, telling people they don’t necessarily need to worry about voting for them is dangerous, and I think it undermines your argument that there are other roles to vote for on the same ballot. If low voter turnout is a problem, and they don’t want to vote for arguably the important role, why would they bother going out and queuing at all?

You’re wrong, but it’s not your fault.

First Past The Post is a terrible system. We have it in the UK and we’ve had governments formed by a party that got less than 40% of the votes (as in, people ago actually voted, not including eligible voters who did not cast a ballot).

By any objective measure, “60% of people did not want these clowns in charge” is not really what I’d describe as “democratic”.

So that needs to change. But until it does, that’s the game. And unlike Wargames, you can’t win by not playing.

Not voting for Biden (however bad he is, he is objectively the lesser of two evils), whether not voting or voting third party, is giving Trump’s votes more weight. Yes, that’s shit, no, that’s not fair. But that’s the way the system is right here right now. Deal with it. Vote Biden or you are implicitly saying you’re OK with Trump.

I’ll take a personal day. Maybe I’ll watch, maybe I’ll just slob on the sofa, we’ll see…