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You know what's fucked? It looks like Trump is going to win, and the Republicans are going to retain the Senate. But the Democrats will have won the popular vote in FIVE OF THE LAST SIX ELECTIONS, and still lost in four of them.

Don't hatch your chickens until you count them or whatever.

I've also realized there's no point (for me, at least) buying huge games like AC until after all of the DLC is out, because after that I'll just play through the whole thing again and I ain't got time for that. I just did a rerun of AC Odyssey and it took me like 120 hours with all of the DLC. I did the same thing with The Witcher 3 last year, it was a little over 100 hours. With Valhalla, I think I'll just wait this time and play through it once. No need to be in a hurry.

Depends on how many people voted early, I suppose. And how close the race is.

I mean, it's still possible, but California, New York, and Ilinois are already pretty safely blue. Texas and Florida are battleground states (Florida pretty much always has been, this is kind of a first for Texas). If Texas flips and turns into a blue state, I don't see any avenue for the Republicans winning another election in the foreseeable future. But even if Texas votes Biden this year, I wouldn't be ready to call them a blue state just yet. They could easily flip back in 2 or 4 years.

So: - We won't know who won Alaska for at least a week unless Trump wins handily (probably safe to assume) - If Arizona is really close, we might not know who won for a couple days - Indiana's two biggest counties can't start processing absentee ballots until today - absentee ballots in Maryland aren't due until Nov. 13 - Michigan expects not to have all of their votes counted until Friday - Nevada only requires that mail-in ballots be postmarked by election day, and this is their first time using mail-in voting (in Oregon, mail-in ballots have to be received by election day) - New Jersey, for some reason, isn't going to start counting in-person votes until *after* they've already counted their mail-in votes, which they can't start counting until today, so they're a mess - New York doesn't start to count absentee ballots until Nov. 6 - Some counties in Pennsylvania won't start counting absentee votes until tomorrow, the state plans to know who won by Friday - Utah won't know for a few days, probably - Washington (another vote-by-mail state) allows ballots to be counted as late as Nov. 23. I'm assuming most people have already voted there, though. So Arizona, Michigan, Nevada, and Pennsylvania might not know who won for a few days. The rest of the states we'll probably know/assume by the morning.

I went D for all the national stuff. There were a couple down ballot things that I voted green/progressive, simply because they were races no Republican stood a chance of winning in my area.

I have it on my Steam profile, but it's cut off. It's easy enough to just make another one, though. I'm just lazy. Back when I still cooked all the time. Those were the days.

16 states, including California and New York, have signed the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, wherein states who signed the compact would pledge to place all of their votes to whoever won the national popular vote, regardless of who won in their state. It would effectively nullify the electoral college if enough states signed onto it. It's pending in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and South Carolina. If, theoretically, it passed in all of those states, you would only need 1 or 2 more before you hit 270 electoral votes. Alternatively, states could choose to switch to a popular vote system and pledge their votes based on that, but that is harder to pull off and comes with its own problems. edit: I forgot to mention the Compact would only actually become a thing IF enough states sign it. Right now things stay as they are.

Apparently I made a few posts here a couple years ago, but before that it had been years.

Also try putting wasabi and pickled daikon on a hot dog. It's awesome. There's a place by me that does it with nori flakes on top, it's dope.

That was tongue in cheek. Though it is true that Trump only won Wisconsin by 20k votes and Michigan by 10k. Bernie beat Hillary in both of those states during the primary. However, voter turnout in those states was actually higher than the national average so it's hard to make a determination that people who would have preferred Bernie just stayed home. And, at any rate, even if he lost those states he still would have won. Hillary would have needed Ohio, Pennsylvania, or North Carolina, too. It's hard to see Pennsylvania going full Bernie. At any rate, it doesn't matter anymore.

Trump's climate plan: "People say I have the best climate plan. We have clean, tremendous air, all over the country. The air has never been cleaner. People say we've done a great job, the greatest job on climate." Biden's climate plan: "uhhhh... fracking? Here's the deal, I love solar. Solar is great. I won't end fracking, but we need to seriously look into fracking." It's not much, but it's something. edit: On climate, you're choosing between someone who has a wishy-washy "eehhhh, MAYBE I'll THINK about a carbon tax, but probably not, but maybe, but probably not, but you never know!" solution to a problem, vs. someone who denies there even is a problem. It's... something.

Maybe we should have a political candidate who wants healthcare for all, free education, and also hates gays and fetuses. Gaslight the religious base into being liberals before they know what hit them.

Whatever. KATANA FUCK. Speaking of katanas, does trish not post here anymore?

Fuck the fact that "climate change is real and is something we should do something about" is a radical opinion in America.

Shit, Joe might not even make it all 4 years, so we might see it anyway. Fun fact: Woodrow Wilson suffered a massive stroke in 1919 while in office. For the last year and a half or so of his term, his wife Edith basically ran the country. So we already have had a defacto woman president.

I'm very well aware of all of that, that was kind of my point. "You think America sucks now? Imagine how gay and Mexican it will be if the Democrats win!"

FUCK

sure can recognize someone as that, but I can also try to convince them to my way of thinking. Most people are at least somewhat convertible if you come at them from the right angle. My girlfriend was a 9/11 truther when I met her, not kidding. Turns out she's a wonderful person outside of that, but the point is you can reason with people if you're just patient. If you just tell everyone they're a basket of deplorables, they tend to not listen to what you have to say. The vast majority of Trump supporters are real people who have real problems that Biden doesn't acknowledge. Bernie does.

I just don't believe that anyone is worthless. If someone has a toxic opinion, it's a symptom of a greater disease that we don't treat by cutting them off. We should understand why they feel that way and what we can do to help it.

I kind of feel like your mindset is what resulted in germany having Hitler. Or maybe it was mine. Who knows.

Fuckin' A, you spelled it out better than I could.

Again, I disagree. I come from white trash, they basically feel like the political establishment has told them to fuck off (this was basically how Jim Crow started, kinda like "yeah you know your life sucks but at least you're better than black people"), so there's this opinion that they're ignored. Donald Trump at least acknowledges they exist. I'm not saying that it's right, but the lower class white people in this country have this idea that they're outcasts, and they tend to sway elections.

It's sad to hear that. No one is above redemption.