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Canada's immigration site is down due to volume. It won't happen, but it'd be hilarious if the Democrats planned to rig future elections by importing millions

Canada's immigration site is down due to volume. It won't happen, but it'd be hilarious if the Democrats planned to rig future elections by importing millions of immigrants to vote for them, and they instead end up emigrating by the millions to Canada thus swinging it in the opposite direction.

M_Grey 10y ago
At this point I'd almost welcome a truly rigged system, or even a secret service member who doesn't mind a lifetime in prison. Eight years of W. Bush was bad, and frankly I doubt the economy could withstand whatever Trump has in "mind".
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- Inconel 10y ago
  As someone who very much dislikes the prospect of a Trump presidency, and is in fact well to the left of the Democratic party and Hillary Clinton on most social and economic issues, I find this line of thinking quite troubling. Perhaps rather than hoping for assassinations or voter fraud, those of us who identify as "progressive" could instead channel that mental energy into finding ways to better appeal to large groups of working class people who are imo justifiably angry at the state of things in this country.
  - M_Grey 10y ago
    You know what? People as a group are just too stupid and easily manipulated to be helped, and given that Trump now gets to pick (probably) 3 SCOTUS seats? We're cooked. Basically, for most of us here, the rest of our lives will have this election hanging over us, for the implications on the SCOTUS alone. As I said, people who can afford it are going to leave in droves.
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    - throwanem 10y ago
      > People as a group are just too stupid and easily manipulated to be helped Do you want President Trump? Because this is how you get President Trump.
      - M_Grey 10y ago
        No, Evangelicals and uneducated whites are how we get President Trump, along with a majority of people who don't even vote, and a minority who "vote their conscience" with a fool like Johnson despite the lessons of 2000.
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- inimino 10y ago
  You should be ashamed of yourself for posting this.
  - M_Grey 10y ago
    Care to explain why exactly?
    - inimino 10y ago
      Do I really need to? If you think that your "I'd almost welcome" weasel wording makes what you're implying acceptable, you need to reconsider the responsibilities of citizenship in a democracy.
      - M_Grey 10y ago
        Show me a democracy and I'll consider it.
flukus 10y ago
I imagine it wasn't built to handle high volumes in the first place.

M_Grey 10y ago

At this point I'd almost welcome a truly rigged system, or even a secret service member who doesn't mind a lifetime in prison. Eight years of W. Bush was bad, and frankly I doubt the economy could withstand whatever Trump has in "mind".

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Inconel 10y ago
As someone who very much dislikes the prospect of a Trump presidency, and is in fact well to the left of the Democratic party and Hillary Clinton on most social and economic issues, I find this line of thinking quite troubling. Perhaps rather than hoping for assassinations or voter fraud, those of us who identify as "progressive" could instead channel that mental energy into finding ways to better appeal to large groups of working class people who are imo justifiably angry at the state of things in this country.
- M_Grey 10y ago
  You know what? People as a group are just too stupid and easily manipulated to be helped, and given that Trump now gets to pick (probably) 3 SCOTUS seats? We're cooked. Basically, for most of us here, the rest of our lives will have this election hanging over us, for the implications on the SCOTUS alone. As I said, people who can afford it are going to leave in droves.
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  - throwanem 10y ago
    > People as a group are just too stupid and easily manipulated to be helped Do you want President Trump? Because this is how you get President Trump.
    - M_Grey 10y ago
      No, Evangelicals and uneducated whites are how we get President Trump, along with a majority of people who don't even vote, and a minority who "vote their conscience" with a fool like Johnson despite the lessons of 2000.
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inimino 10y ago
You should be ashamed of yourself for posting this.
- M_Grey 10y ago
  Care to explain why exactly?
  - inimino 10y ago
    Do I really need to? If you think that your "I'd almost welcome" weasel wording makes what you're implying acceptable, you need to reconsider the responsibilities of citizenship in a democracy.
    - M_Grey 10y ago
      Show me a democracy and I'll consider it.

flukus 10y ago

I imagine it wasn't built to handle high volumes in the first place.