GLORIOUS OFFICIAL IWAKU ELECTION 2016 THREAD | ALL OTHER THREADS INFERIOR

[Hecatoncheires]

HEY FUCKERS, I HEAR THERE'S AN ELECTION HAPPENING SOON.

So lemme get out ahead of this, before General Chat turns into Iwaku's own version of The Purge.

Y'know, more than it fucking is already.

Politics threads tend to go to hell in a hand-basket faster than you can scream "HITLER WAS RIGHT", and with this current election cycle that's never been more true. At the end of the day, we're a roleplaying forum and we really don't need politics coming into spoil everyone's nice time: this is a place folks come to for escapism, after all, so having the election cycle chase them here is less than ideal.

BUT WAIT, I'M NOT FINISHED.

At the same time, we also don't want to go laying down blanket statements about what you can and can't say on Iwaku. Goes against that whole "flexibility of speech" thing we have written down somewhere that @Jorick and @Astaroth keep yelling at me about whenever I suggest we just ban all of you and have done with it. With that in mind, we're gonna try and find ourselves a middle ground solution that allows folks to have their say without the entire forum descending into a clusterfuck of angry, bipartisan bullshit.

Again, more than it already is.

SO HEY, YOU GOBSHITES WANNA TALK ELECTION 2K16?

YOU DO IT IN THIS THREAD AND THIS THREAD ALONE.

To prevent me from rambling, lemme bullet-point how this is gonna work:

• WE'RE KEEPING THINGS LIGHT. NO BIG RANTS ABOUT HOW HILLARY'S A FUCKING LIZARDWOMAN AND/OR HOW TRUMP IS HITLER 2.0.
• We're keeping shit civil, too. Discussions are cool, but if you start slinging insults about (or, given how you fuckers tend to work, passive-aggressive sniping) you will get spanked.
• Any overtly rant-like/insulting/snipey posts will get edited by our lovely security team to be more user-friendly. We will insert butterflies, rainbows and other nice suggestions so you all maybe calm the fuck down or something. You'll know they've edited a post cos it'll be all red. Like the blood of our enemies.
• Gary Johnson is my husbando. You can't have him. He's mine.
• Seriously. Mine.

Hopefully that clears everything up about the purpose of this thread. Now go fucking kill each other.

Or don't, actually. I think that's why I got asked to write this.

 

[VerbalAbuse]

Bernie Sanders is not a real socialist.

As someone who is a wonderful hugmuffin, let us hug and share the best of platonic internet bonds.

Let the workers be exploited, by all means, it's none of our business.

So as to avoid ad hominem, I'm vomiting rainbows and kittens!

There is not a single country on Earth which practices socialism and has retained its liberties.

I find it funny that we are not hugging right now.

 

[Kagayours]

*raises hand* At this point I'm just going to say that I like Bernie Sanders and I like the European democracies that Verbal mentioned and I really don't care anymore whether either of those entities can be called "socialist" because I don't think anything about them would change based on that label existing or not existing. :D

 

[Banana-senpai]

Coming from a country that survived a messy elections
...now with a president who keeps making headlines
I sincerely wish all the best for America. You must survive! ;u;

When I worked as a market researcher, I spoke to a lot of people who didn't like Obama (or his healthcare thing). I never understood US politics, but those days seemed like simpler times.

 

[Absyinthe_Artica]

Now let me tell you!
A solicitor knocked on our APARTMENT door for 5 minutes straight before putting a voting sticker on our door telling us where the.....ONE voting place is in our whole town. Probably our whole fucking county because they decided to close 212 polling locations in Arizona. Yay for my first year of voting. I DON'T EVEN WANT TO VOTE. But my hand is forced to vote for someone other than TRUMPKIN. I don't want a gourd for president.

 

[junebug]

I had three democrats randomly text me, then a pair of two old ladies who were also part of the democrat party knock on my door and ask for a "insert my name here" because they wanted to know if I was voting and if I was voting for Hillary (I'm not even affiliated with any party so why and how)

 

[Jovian]

..... TRUMPKIN. I don't want a gourd for president.

I never thought of Trump as a gourd until you mentioned it. Now I'm too amused.

 

[Absyinthe_Artica]

I never thought of Trump as a gourd until you mentioned it. Now I'm too amused.

TRUMPKIN IS A BUMPKIN AND SHOULD BE CARVED UP!

 

[Daz]

If I was in America I'd vote for Hilary over Trump... IF I didn't think some of her policies risked starting a war with Russia. Which I think they do.

So who would I vote for? I guess third party. Unlikely to win, but third parties are never going to become an option until people start voting for them.

At least the President doesn't have as much power as equivalent positions (such as prime minister) due needing support of the senate to do many things. Bright side I guess?

Why am I even here I don't even like politics?

 

[Lusterine]

Now let me tell you!
A solicitor knocked on our APARTMENT door for 5 minutes straight before putting a voting sticker on our door telling us where the.....ONE voting place is in our whole town. Probably our whole fucking county because they decided to close 212 polling locations in Arizona. Yay for my first year of voting. I DON'T EVEN WANT TO VOTE. But my hand is forced to vote for someone other than TRUMPKIN. I don't want a gourd for president.

Holy. mother. You have to deal with the BS that is Arizona politics too? ugh. I swear, between everything I'm so done. I remember the ridiculousness that was the primaries where all sorts of issues were happening, like long time democrats suddenly coming up as independents.

 

[Absyinthe_Artica]

Yes v.v My first real year I'm allowed to express my right to vote and I am suppressed.

 

[Nemopedia]

In it for the laughs, because too many people around me rage and I got to keep the blood pressure down.

Good luck from Europe. Whatever luck there is left for you.

 

[Sir Salty]

I voted, like any sensible person should. For Jill Stein. And I'll keep it to that.

I was born and raised for half of my life in Liverpool and raised upon British policies. Politics shouldn't be about showmanship, it should be about who has the best policies, who has the best interest of the nation in mind, and most importantly someone who doesn't treat politics like a Shakespearan play and that they are on display to entertain.

And I'll leave that also at that.

 

[Yatagarasu]

Either way, I really do hope they get kicked out of office within the first year : |

 

[Arcadia]

Meme Queen 2k16 XD

 

[Noctis the Devious]

...I'm moving to Canada.

 

[Hecatoncheires]

Fun fact: by "sunshine and rainbows" we meant Kitti's horrible slashfic between Trump and Kaine.

Because we are monsters like that.

 

[DefinitelyNotGuns]

" I hate to come off this way." Kaine ran his fingers tenderly over Trump's cheek. "But it saddens me deeply that we can't be more open about the love that we share for one another. We have to use harsh words and mudflinging as a means to cover up what we really want to say and how we say it."

Trump looked away, traces of tears shimmering in his eyes. "Everything that we say promotes very little in the way of discussion and I wish we as human beings and as a people with mature minds can have a discussion without insulting one or another."

Continue.

 

[ᴛᴏᴄᴋᴀ]

Continue.

No, please don't. I can handle some things, but my stomach just cannot take the idea of Kaine and Trump. Or Trump with anyone to be honest....the guy looks like melted play doh formed into a person. =/

I voted! I'm officially done with this nightmare. To celebrate I'm spending the day with my daughter watching movies and baking cookies after I take her to the doctors, then tonight my hubby and I are going to watch Stephen Colbert and hope that the whole world isn't crying hysterically.

 

[Dervish]

 

[Lyric]

That's already been posted >.>