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Re: State of the Map 2026

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Post by Krasnol » Sun, Aug 30, 2026, 6:15 PM UTC

xp84 wrote: post #50

Krasnol wrote: post #35

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So the clever ones should just leave the damage the stupid one did and just wait for their term to run out so the stupid ones can cause more damage, the clever ones can ignore and repeat? Doesn't seem to be very clever to me.

"Stupid" = got way more votes than Harris Your team is the one who chose to run Harris. Was that clever? Current front runners for 2028 include AOC. Sure to be another banner year for these clever 'Democratic Socialists.'

It's not "my" team. I come from a civilised country.

The fact you didn't even touch the topic but went full MAGA instead, shines a proper light at your original comment now. You just wanted to play the 'ol both sides derailment.

What I didn't understand though was what point you tried to make with "more votes". Yes, a country may have more stupid people vote then non-stupid. It happens all the time. So what?

Re: State of the Map 2026

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Post by dspillett » Mon, Aug 31, 2026, 12:54 AM UTC

phainopepla2 wrote: post #32

dspillett wrote: post #10

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Just tell them they've lost the game. If they ask what the rules of the game are, they've just lost again. They didn't invent being deliberately obtuse.

Damn it, now I've lost the game

Heck, if we really want to kill them with confusion, ask them the way to Mornington Crescent!

Re: State of the Map 2026

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Post by beardyw » Mon, Aug 31, 2026, 6:51 AM UTC

mc32 wrote: post #60

beardyw wrote: post #59

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Refering to the whole as America is a thing. Perhaps not in America (whatever that means). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americas

Sure, and referring to the whole of the UK as England is also a thing. It’s confusing but people are people. Or as they say in some parts of “England” it’s queer as folk.

If you follow the link there are dictionary entries. It's not stupidity, it's completely reasonable. Amerigo Vespucci didn't name the USA, he named the entire continent.

"Britain" is widely used to refer to the UK, but Great Britain is the physical land mass which excludes Northern Ireland, so there is rarely confusion.

Re: State of the Map 2026

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Post by xp84 » Mon, Aug 31, 2026, 8:36 AM UTC

Krasnol wrote: post #61

xp84 wrote: post #50

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"Stupid" = got way more votes than Harris Your team is the one who chose to run Harris. Was that clever? Current front runners for 2028 include AOC. Sure to be another banner year for these clever 'Democratic Socialists.'

It's not "my" team. I come from a civilised country. The fact you didn't even touch the topic but went full MAGA instead, shines a proper light at your original comment now. You just wanted to play the 'ol both sides derailment. What I didn't understand though was what point you tried to make with "more votes". Yes, a country may have more stupid people vote then non-stupid. It happens all the time. So what?

In the USA, the left is currently obsessed with touting their intellectual superiority over their political opponents. It doesn't occur to them that whether they're smarter or not, they don't deserve to rule because they do not have the support of the people -- that's the very mathematical basis of any democratic country. You know what I call "A minority of highly-educated self-righteous elites get to pass all the laws to govern those stupid rural dummies"? An aristocracy.

Both parties let their crackpots take the wheel, with very different results. The cravelnly corrupt buffoonery of Trump is the right-wing result. On the left, their idiots has rendered the party incapable of being taken seriously by grownups -- to an even greater extent than Trump's Republicans. That's the point.

> went full MAGA instead

? I don't support either of the two idiotic "tribes" in our present system, MAGA vs. Woke.