Thailand by way of Kansas. Just sent in my absentee ballot a couple days ago.

I agree that the idea of the video is to suggest that "protest votes" are either A) entirely counterproductive always, or B) particularly counterproductive in this election. And they chose to focus on Johnson because he fits their narrative of suggesting that policy-wise he is very different from Bernie Sanders, and they make the unspoken assumption that many people considering "protest votes" are Sanders fans that are disgruntled with Clinton.

I'm still very comfortable with my 3rd-party vote, and fully aware that there is a chance that it could "spoil" things for one of the main 2 candidates. Although realistically, since my vote will be counted in Kansas (very red track record, polling 47/36/17 Trump/Clinton/Undecided at the moment) that is incredibly unlikely to happen either way.

I understand people that would feel motivated to "hold their nose" and choose the lesser of two evils (whoever they determine that to be) if they were in a swing/tossup state, but personally I would stick with my vote even if I was in such a state.

If the election is "spoiled" one way or the other by 3rd party votes, it would send a pretty clear message to both parties: give us better choices, or face the consequences. Then again, maybe I'm being overly optimistic about the parties actually getting that message... Democrats should have been highly motivated to push for getting rid of the electoral college and/or considering a push for ranked-choice voting when Gore "lost" in 2000, but failed to do either.

Absolute must watch movie!

It's scary because there aren't any jump scares, and no over-the-top gore.
Instead it builds up a thick atmosphere of dread and despair.

Al Gore recently bought some beachfront property in Montecito, California, apparently of his own free will. I guess the price was right.

The great scientist Al Gore C02 correlation is is wrong min 22

The Sun is the driving force of global change. min 36

False Co2 correlation was driven by politics min 39

Interplanetary Climate Change NASA's Hottest Secret

Oh, fuck this nonsense. We've been here already:

Bush v. Gore: "It's the same shit over and over; I'm voting for change, I'm voting for NADER!"

How'd that shit work out for you?

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You're entitled to your opinion but the facts are what they are.

Gore lost Flordia by 537 votes. Nader had 97,421 votes in Florida. If you honestly think the Green's Party candidate votes would have gone to Bush if Nader wasn't there - then you're living in lala land. Sorry.

The claim that Nader cost Gore the election is based on the unproven assumption that Nader voters would have moved en-mass to Gore. It also rests on overlooking the real culprits, the US Supreme Court, who fucked with the counts and recounts just enough to give the election to Bush, when a full recount would have given Florida to Gore, -without- having to reassign Nader voters.

In short, the claim is utter bullshit. Yet more "fear" campaigning by the establishment.

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I don't think that "lesser of two evils" is the correct characterisation of voter behaviour over the last couple of decades. I'm sure you've seen Colbert's timely video on Nader. It's currently right over there in the sidebar ---->

Nader was an idealistic stand against the establishment for many people. The result was that it lost Gore the presidency and gave us Bush and Cheney for 8 years. In my opinion, the worst presidential period in my lifetime.

Vote idealistically if you want– me, I'll be holding my nose trying to fend off the apocalypse.

No surprise at all. There's been 0% confidence in election results since the day we switched to 'electronic voting machines'.
Tampering with them is easy and simple. Seeing the tampering is incredibly difficult. Proving the tampering is nearly impossible. Doing anything about a stolen election is absolutely impossible after the fact.

It sure sounds like this is probably one of the methods used to help Bush steal the election from Gore.
What do you know, we finally have some evidence of voter fraud...perpetrated by the Republicans and having nothing to do with voters committing fraud. Unfortunately, the Republicans won't be worried or surprised by THIS voter fraud and won't do a thing about it, because the companies that make and certify the machines are all owned by Republicans.

And another thing...!

I went back and watched the 18 minutes of singleplayer footage that's on Youtube. Everything about it looks heartbreakingly terrible.

Enemies still spawn out of mid-air(?)
The animations throughout are lifeless and robotic, especially the first-person ones.
Gore is just... Particles and a lame excuse for early asset despawns. There's NO blood splatter anywhere unless it's part of the environments (I know why; I don't care). Some of the deaths are cool, but are still static directionally-irrelevant animations.
The game slows time when you switch weapons... >.>
The enemies have a generic getting-shot reaction.
There's little 'punch' behind the weapons
And then their little faux-FPS camera work makes you question the whole thing anyway. With that particular video in general it's pretty gross anyway, with the faked audience audio/cheering in the background.

At least their VFX and Environment teams seem on point.

Nothing about this says Doom to me. You wouldn't think this would be that hard, but I have yet to even see a reasonable revision of the cyberdemon that I really liked. How hard is it to make islands of ammo and stimpacks scattered throughout oceans of monsters and gore?

I agree with most of what he says.

Get rid of the electoral college? YES PLEASE. I was amazed that there was pretty close to zero push to scrap the system after Gore "lost" to Bush. Not even from Democrats. And it (popular vote winner not winning the electoral college) has happened FOUR times! Why wasn't there HUGE blowback in each of those instances, especially in 2000? Hell, why isn't there consistent resistance to this indefensible "system" ALL THE TIME? Instead, people periodically get reminded about it and say "wow, that's pretty fucked up ... meh".

Have primaries settled by actual VOTES instead of weird-ass caucuses / conventions / delegates / "super"delegates, etc.? Undoubtedly better than what goes on now.

Get rid of the senate? Nah. The house is good for being a reasonably-accurate division based on population, which is a good thing. But, there are some issues where regional concerns are better addressed by equal representation per state (farming, manufacturing, business, tourism, etc.). It has the unfortunate side-effect of making a "rogue" senator that does things against what their constituents want worse than in the house, but I think that is a good argument for term limits (possibly *term* limit, as in one and only one) but not scrapping the senate entirely.

I've got a confession to make, I voted for Nader in 2000. Gore seemed to be moving more towards the center, and I thought helping a 3rd party gain momentum was more important than choosing the lesser evil.

I was so wrong. After the horrors of the Bush years I don't have any doubt about how destructive an ill-qualified president can be. My only defense is that I live in the reddest state in the nation, and my vote didn't count anyway. But if I had lived in Florida that decision would have haunted me.

The problem is that sets up what reminds me of the 2000 election. It absolutely astounded me half the country thought George W. Bush was a valid candidate, let alone the better candidate than Al Gore, not that I liked Gore, but given the choice between the two, Gore had viable plans for the budget, a cohesive foreign policy, etc.

It shouldn't have been a close election, but not only was it razor close, Gore lost. Countless times there have been in world history leaders who came about who generally wouldn't and shouldn't have, but they did. All it takes is a bad recession or other event to tilt the odds in their favor at the right time. Hitler doesn't come to power without the Great Depression and the Treaty of Versailles leaving Germany dependent on US loans.

And to me, Trump is absolutely frightening. I honestly have absolutely no idea what he would do as President, and not in a good way. I quite honestly don't even know if he's actually in line with the Tea Party or not. It is terrifying to me that he's on a course where potentially a recession at the wrong time could make him president because so many voters are absolutely ignorant or stupid enough to support him.

Screw the entertainment value of it. I keep thinking back to the George W. Bush Iraqi occupation and the crapshow that was Katrina and realize people's lives are literally at stake by botching the selection of the next President, and when you make one option completely invalid before the election even starts, it doesn't help.

There's a saying about experiencing something a second time like it was your first, or whatnot. Can't think of it now. Doesn't matter.
If you haven't played "Brutal Doom", go do it. I can't express how amazing it was. It was like rediscovering doom all over again. I still remembered most of the stages and secrets and traps, but the Brutal mod just reinvigorates the entire thing. It has more satisfying "punch", and gore and action and just "aaaawwweeee shiiiiiit" than I could count. The best part is that it's just fluff. They didn't make custom levels or non-canon bullshit. It's just Doom and Doom 2, with just enough updates (mouselook) to be completely playable today, with an amazing attention to detail on new, and more, gore effects.
It. Is. Awesome. It's been years since I've laughed out loud because I was having so much fun with a game.