1284: Charmed

[beerchick]

Wow that is good to know - I was sickly considering watching that thing because of how totally fucked up it is, but if it grosses out a nurse then I'm not touchin it.

Thanks!

Originally Posted by Dean from Australia

Seriously guys...

I would advise against anyone taking two hours out of their lives to sit down with that fucking travesty of a movie "The Human Centipede". It's two hours that you'll never get back and I'm still trying to get the nasty taste of it out of my fucking mouth after watching it against my better judgement.

I'm a nurse. The sickest thing I have seen in my career is an old lady riddled with cancer whose bowels literally fell out of her abdomen through a surgical wound that broke down (because of the cancer). This fucking movie made that look like a picnic by comparison.

Those pricks that made that movie owe me big time.

[bofadeeznizzles]

Originally Posted by DWarrior

This is pretty stupid fyi. If instead of voting for lesser of the two evils, you abstain,then you're effectively giving half a vote to the more evil side and half a vote to the less evil side. Thus, your abstaining actually yields a more evil net result.

Or if enough people do it, candidates will notice that the people don't care enough about any of the candidates to go to the polls. It might make a mainstream candidate realize needs aren't being met, or it might make a third party candidate more likely to win next time.

[Blitzgal]

Two and a Half Men -- loved by daughter rapists around the world:
Josef Fritzl - who raped daughter for 24 years - loves Charlie Sheen's 'Two and a Half Men'

[DWarrior]

Originally Posted by bofadeeznizzles

Or if enough people do it, candidates will notice that the people don't care enough about any of the candidates to go to the polls. It might make a mainstream candidate realize needs aren't being met, or it might make a third party candidate more likely to win next time.

Or, more likely, they'll notice increasing win margins and, combined with the fact that they won, will think they're doing a better job pandering to the people and will continue to do the same.

[Ansur]

Originally Posted by Dean from Australia

Seriously guys...

I would advise against anyone taking two hours out of their lives to sit down with that fucking travesty of a movie "The Human Centipede".

Just watch the cliff notes version:
Human Centipede Summary by Tosh

[kayepants]

Minnesota makes it really easy to research all the candidates running in your area (including Judges and, my favorite, Soil and Water supervisors - their bios are a little hilarious). If I didn't have that available, I wouldn't vote for a race where I didn't know anything about either candidate, or have a preference for one over another, which is why I rarely vote in primaries.

[Cretaceous Bob]

Originally Posted by DWarrior

This is pretty stupid fyi. If instead of voting for lesser of the two evils, you abstain,then you're effectively giving half a vote to the more evil side and half a vote to the less evil side. Thus, your abstaining actually yields a more evil net result.

What's pretty stupid is providing negative incentive for the government to move away from evil.

In fact, you've created a government where a healthy amount of evil is politically beneficial. I'm not joking here. In this stupid, stupid country, being a good candidate is political suicide, thanks to the "lesser of two evils" dickheads.

It's like if somebody told you to kill your kid with either a baseball bat or chloroform and you not only willingly smother the little fucker, but you act like a smug cockface about it too. "Hey, the kid was going to die," you tell me, "so you're stupid and irresponsible for not chloroforming your kid." And you might say, "but Bob, that's not the same". You're right. It's not. The nation is more important than any shitty offspring you might have, which means you're fucking up even worse.

The assumption by partisan slaves is always that if they can convince me that I have to choose between two evils, I'll grudgingly support them because they're not quite as evil. If somehow I was forced to pick an evil, I'm going to vote for the worst, most heinous kind not only so that you dicks that put me in this position suffer for it, but also letting the worst evil have the run of the place has the best chance of convincing its supporters maybe evil isn't something you should vote for.

The "lesser of two evils" business never makes any logical sense, it's just threats and mental gymnastics that is trying to divert your attention away from the fact that there is an evil consensus in politics.

[DWarrior]

Originally Posted by Cretaceous Bob

What's pretty stupid is providing negative incentive for the government to move away from evil.

In fact, you've created a government where a healthy amount of evil is politically beneficial. I'm not joking here. In this stupid, stupid country, being a good candidate is political suicide, thanks to the "lesser of two evils" dickheads.

It's like if somebody told you to kill your kid with either a baseball bat or chloroform and you not only willingly smother the little fucker, but you act like a smug cockface about it too. "Hey, the kid was going to die," you tell me, "so you're stupid and irresponsible for not chloroforming your kid." And you might say, "but Bob, that's not the same". You're right. It's not. The nation is more important than any shitty offspring you might have, which means you're fucking up even worse.

The assumption by partisan slaves is always that if they can convince me that I have to choose between two evils, I'll grudgingly support them because they're not quite as evil. If somehow I was forced to pick an evil, I'm going to vote for the worst, most heinous kind not only so that you dicks that put me in this position suffer for it, but also letting the worst evil have the run of the place has the best chance of convincing its supporters maybe evil isn't something you should vote for.

The "lesser of two evils" business never makes any logical sense, it's just threats and mental gymnastics that is trying to divert your attention away from the fact that there is an evil consensus in politics.

This is wrong, but masquerades as common sense so it'll take too much effort to disprove.

[Blitzgal]

He's basically saying the system as it stands is hopelessly corrupt, which it is. With an implication that we need to get away from our two party system, which we do.

Now I really want to know who he voted for.

[DWarrior]

Originally Posted by Blitzgal

He's basically saying the system as it stands is hopelessly corrupt, which it is. With an implication that we need to get away from our two party system, which we do.

Now I really want to know who he voted for.

Then it's his duty to help organize a revolution to overthrow the government. In the meantime, the correct move is to vote for the lesser of two evils in cases where no better options exist.