[ SECRET POST #3355 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3355 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[The Lord of the Rings]



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[Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth]


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[Partners in Crime]


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[The 100]


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08. [SPOILERS for Undertale]




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09. [SPOILERS for The 100]













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Comments

Re: Politics Containment Thread

[(Anonymous)]

It gets longer and longer every cycle.

The basic thing is that, in each election year, there are two parts. You have the primary season, when each side chooses their candidates. This is the part that's happening now, and the part that's happening in many different states - it's so spread out for... well, really pretty dumb historical reasons, but basically because this all started out as very ad hoc, state-based stuff, so each state would just do it whenever was convenient for them. The first primary is usually in January and it's usually pretty well decided by May or so.

The second part is the actual election. This is all held on one day (Tuesday after the first Monday in November) and has just the two candidates running against each other. Both parties will start it off by holding conventions in the summer where they'll officially nominate their candidates - historically this was often where the candidates were actually decided and you would have dramatic floor votes, but recently it's been a formality (although that might change this year). Then the election season would get started proper in late summer leading up to the election in November.

What's changed is that more and more people care earlier and earlier every year. I think a lot of it is increase in partisanship, but other than that I'm not really sure. So this time it was already getting pretty intense by, like, early fall last year even though the first primary wasn't till February.

How do we deal with it? Mostly by going insane.

Re: Politics Containment Thread

[dethtoll]

It's not just partisanship, it's also Citizens United. It used to be that just a few participants in the primaries would fight it out, and most of them would bail before the primaries even happen. We still see this with the Democrats. Ever since Citizens United allowed huge amounts of cash into campaigns, primary races (especially the Republican races since that's who most of the politically-active rich fucks who want to peddle influence support) have exploded with participants who are no longer being shut out and they jump in earlier and earlier because there's more people they have to elbow aside.