THE BORE

General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: Squiddy on September 14, 2014, 01:16:17 PM

Title: The best country in the world is having an election right now
Post by: Squiddy on September 14, 2014, 01:16:17 PM: (http://i.imgur.com/WAXMDFp.jpg)

Check wikipedia for their platforms.

Basically, the blues are good, the red-greens are bad, and the "Sverigedemokraterna" are nazis (and "Feministist Initiativ" are feminazis)

Latest poll:

(http://i.imgur.com/w8BjKHD.png)
Title: Re: The best country in the world is having an election right now
Post by: Squiddy on September 14, 2014, 01:20:04 PM: Swedish finance minister:

(http://cdn.tempi.it/wp-content/uploads/old_post/borg_picnik-jpg-crop_display.jpg)

:bow
Title: Re: The best country in the world is having an election right now
Post by: Himu on September 14, 2014, 01:23:05 PM: all of those options :tocry

I fucking hate you
Title: Re: The best country in the world is having an election right now
Post by: Squiddy on September 14, 2014, 01:27:55 PM: Quote from: Queen of Ice on September 14, 2014, 01:23:05 PM
all of those options :tocry

I fucking hate you

Options are pretty awesome :-*

Incidentally, I voted for Folkpartiet (The People's Party)
Title: Re: The best country in the world is having an election right now
Post by: Momo on September 14, 2014, 01:28:56 PM: This isnt about Norway
Title: Re: The best country in the world is having an election right now
Post by: Himu on September 14, 2014, 01:29:33 PM: list all the viable voting options you have in YOUR home country :tocry
Title: Re: The best country in the world is having an election right now
Post by: Kara on September 14, 2014, 01:36:12 PM: So who are you voting for, Squiddy.

e: NVM q answered.
Title: Re: The best country in the world is having an election right now
Post by: Squiddy on September 14, 2014, 01:38:16 PM: If someone could throw up a poll with all the options that'd be pretty great.
Curious to see who the Bore would vote for.

And it might be the only chance for some americans to have a taste of true democracy.
Title: Re: The best country in the world is having an election right now
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on September 14, 2014, 01:45:04 PM: Why would you vote for filthy capitalist
Title: Re: The best country in the world is having an election right now
Post by: Squiddy on September 14, 2014, 01:47:05 PM: Quote from: Premium Lager on September 14, 2014, 01:45:04 PM
Why would you vote for filthy capitalist

The People's Party care about education and giving Swedish research a better focus (rather than the general approach it has at the moment.)
Furthermore, they're okay with nuclear power and keeping our military.
Title: Re: The best country in the world is having an election right now
Post by: Kara on September 14, 2014, 01:48:10 PM: Quote from: Squiddy on September 14, 2014, 01:38:16 PM
If someone could throw up a poll with all the options that'd be pretty great.
Curious to see who the Bore would vote for.

And it might be the only chance for some americans to have a taste of true democracy.

The KP doesn't participate in national elections IIRC, so no one. :yeshrug
Title: Re: The best country in the world is having an election right now
Post by: Stoney Mason on September 14, 2014, 01:51:03 PM: Vote for the right party!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkRRdth8AHc

:mouf
Title: Re: The best country in the world is having an election right now
Post by: Himu on September 14, 2014, 01:52:15 PM: Quote from: Sovok on September 14, 2014, 01:48:10 PM
Quote from: Squiddy on September 14, 2014, 01:38:16 PM
If someone could throw up a poll with all the options that'd be pretty great.
Curious to see who the Bore would vote for.

And it might be the only chance for some americans to have a taste of true democracy.

The KP doesn't participate in national elections IIRC, so no one. :yeshrug

KP?
Title: Re: The best country in the world is having an election right now
Post by: Himu on September 14, 2014, 01:53:14 PM: Quote from: Stoney Mason on September 14, 2014, 01:51:03 PM
Vote for the right party!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkRRdth8AHc

:mouf

:rofl
Title: Re: The best country in the world is having an election right now
Post by: Rufus on September 14, 2014, 01:59:37 PM: Quote from: Queen of Ice on September 14, 2014, 01:52:15 PM
Quote from: Sovok on September 14, 2014, 01:48:10 PM
Quote from: Squiddy on September 14, 2014, 01:38:16 PM
If someone could throw up a poll with all the options that'd be pretty great.
Curious to see who the Bore would vote for.

And it might be the only chance for some americans to have a taste of true democracy.

The KP doesn't participate in national elections IIRC, so no one. :yeshrug

KP?
The commies.
Title: Re: The best country in the world is having an election right now
Post by: Himu on September 14, 2014, 02:03:20 PM: I figured, but still, I've never seen it referred to as that.

My party:

http://socialistparty-usa.net/principles.html

:hitler :beli
Title: Re: The best country in the world is having an election right now
Post by: Squiddy on September 14, 2014, 02:04:22 PM: First numbers are in, looks like the Swedish Democrats are pulling in 10%
Title: Re: The best country in the world is having an election right now
Post by: Squiddy on September 14, 2014, 02:15:06 PM: (http://i.gyazo.com/09e4d55058e93f4ec22deacf1e36512c.png)

Welp, we got ourselves a red-green clusterfuck mongrel alliance.
Title: Re: The best country in the world is having an election right now
Post by: Rufus on September 14, 2014, 02:20:09 PM: Quote from: Queen of Ice on September 14, 2014, 02:03:20 PM
I figured, but still, I've never seen it referred to as that.

My party:

http://socialistparty-usa.net/principles.html

:hitler :beli
The Swedes spell it kommunist, hence KP (Kommunistiska Partiet).
Title: Re: The best country in the world is having an election right now
Post by: Stoney Mason on September 14, 2014, 03:07:27 PM: whoops wrong thread
Title: Re: The best country in the world is having an election right now
Post by: brob on September 14, 2014, 03:48:54 PM: Åkesson: men om invandrare röstar på SD, hur är vi rasister? :lenowned
Title: Re: The best country in the world is having an election right now
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on September 14, 2014, 04:18:26 PM: Good good
Title: Re: The best country in the world is having an election right now
Post by: Sman on September 14, 2014, 05:16:57 PM: That feminist party in Sweden and one of their slogans...

"Feminism without socialism"

I wonder what kind of feminism that could be.
Title: Re: The best country in the world is having an election right now
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on September 14, 2014, 06:03:09 PM: Quote from: Sman on September 14, 2014, 05:16:57 PM
That feminist party in Sweden and one of their slogans...

"Feminism without socialism"

I wonder what kind of feminism that could be.
American Feminism.
Title: Re: The best country in the world is having an election right now
Post by: Olivia Wilde Homo on September 14, 2014, 07:12:31 PM: http://www.val.se/val/val2014/valnatt/R/rike/index.html

Sweden Democrats got 12.9% Holy shit
Title: Re: The best country in the world is having an election right now
Post by: Kara on September 14, 2014, 08:12:45 PM: Quote from: Queen of Ice on September 14, 2014, 02:03:20 PM
I figured, but still, I've never seen it referred to as that.

My party:

http://socialistparty-usa.net/principles.html

:hitler :beli

I love the manifestos of multi-tendency parties that give as much ink to demeaning other socialist parties as they do capitalism. (http://i.imgur.com/Z0NnkXh.png)

Pedantry: someone should tell the author(s) of this that a big C Communist state is merely one that is ruled by a communist party and not one that necessarily displays the idealized qualities of a country building towards communism and ergo the air quotes around Communist in "'Communist' state" make them look (http://i.imgur.com/ff3g3dL.png).

e: I will usually refer to parties by their shorthand acronym (e.g. PCF, KKE) but the one in Sweden currently has no distinguishing appendages to "communist party" in its name and writing CP will get me on lists I don't belong on.
Title: Re: The best country in the world is having an election right now
Post by: Himu on September 14, 2014, 08:20:38 PM: Quote from: Sovok on September 14, 2014, 08:12:45 PM
Quote from: Queen of Ice on September 14, 2014, 02:03:20 PM
I figured, but still, I've never seen it referred to as that.

My party:

http://socialistparty-usa.net/principles.html

:hitler :beli

I love the manifestos of multi-tendency parties that give as much ink to demeaning other socialist parties as they do capitalism. (http://i.imgur.com/Z0NnkXh.png)

Pedantry: someone should tell the author(s) of this that a big C Communist state is merely one that is ruled by a communist party and not one that necessarily displays the idealized qualities of a country building towards communism and ergo the air quotes around Communist in "'Communist' state" make them look (http://i.imgur.com/ff3g3dL.png).

e: I will usually refer to parties by their shorthand acronym (e.g. PCF, KKE) but the one in Sweden currently has no distinguishing appendages to "communist party" in its name and writing CP will get me on lists I don't belong on.

I don't got a problem with it. It's pretty clear that what they're talking about is China or DRNK, so I don't see why you're offended.

Here's the platform, btw. I agree with pretty much most if not all of it. :yeshrug

http://socialistparty-usa.net/platform.html

You vote communist in US?
Title: Re: The best country in the world is having an election right now
Post by: Rufus on September 14, 2014, 08:21:32 PM: Quote from: Mary Tyler Whore on September 14, 2014, 07:12:31 PM
http://www.val.se/val/val2014/valnatt/R/rike/index.html

Sweden Democrats got 12.9% Holy shit
Boat's full, breh. :heh

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Title: Re: The best country in the world is having an election right now
Post by: seagrams hotsauce on September 14, 2014, 09:25:19 PM: lol @ best country in the world

not even top five in it's continent :heh
Title: Re: The best country in the world is having an election right now
Post by: jakefromstatefarm on September 14, 2014, 10:35:25 PM: Alright, things Sweden has going for it:

setpiece for approximately a third of Beowulf
the term "Stockholm Syndrome"
Gothenburg melo-death (this is pretty contentious, considering striking it completely)
one Civilization franchise appearance
shitting on Finland for ~300 years
universal health care/tertiary education with varied effectiveness
rampant islamophobia (I'm assuming)

I'm not saying you're wrong breh, but if this is the standard... (http://www.thecoli.com/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/patrice.png)
Title: Re: The best country in the world is having an election right now
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on September 14, 2014, 10:44:51 PM: most of these should be emoticons, especially Jonas Sjöstedt
Title: Re: The best country in the world is having an election right now
Post by: Kara on September 14, 2014, 10:47:46 PM: Quote from: recursivelyenumerable on September 14, 2014, 10:44:51 PM
most of these should be emoticons, especially Jonas Sjöstedt

IAWTP

A Goran emoticon. :aah
Title: Re: The best country in the world is having an election right now
Post by: Squiddy on September 15, 2014, 03:47:05 AM: Well, fuck our politics, I'm glad I'm leaving this godforsaken place :lol
Title: Re: The best country in the world is having an election right now
Post by: Rufus on September 15, 2014, 06:56:36 AM: Where to?
Title: Re: The best country in the world is having an election right now
Post by: benjipwns on September 17, 2014, 12:40:37 AM: I was going to vote for Liberala partiet but then I read some Svenskarnas parti literature and decided instead to vote Sveriges pensionärers intresseparti.

But apparently my vote doesn't count because I'm not a registered voter or citizen or something of Sweden. It's like, my great grandfather or somebody came from there maybe.

This is why democracy doesn't work.
Title: Re: The best country in the world is having an election right now
Post by: Kara on September 17, 2014, 02:42:16 AM: Quote from: Queen of Ice on September 14, 2014, 08:20:38 PM
You vote communist in US?

There's no one to really vote for.

CPUSA: While it'd be loads of ironic fun to vote for the FBI's political party, they just endorse Democratic candidates now.
APL: AFAIK anti-electoral.
RCPUSA: Bob Avakian personality cult.
SEP, SWP, SA, the other SA: lol Trots
PLP: Anti-electoral and out there.
WWP: Batshit fucking insane.

The PSL is my only possible choice and I find them unpalatable for a variety of reasons.

Anyway, I'm not opposed to multi-tendency parties, if I actually like the candidate I'll vote Peace and Freedom sometimes and if I was German I'd likely be a card carrying member of Die Linke (and not just because it's the successor to the SED), I just find ones that purport to be as such but actually aren't unhelpful.
Title: Re: The best country in the world is having an election right now
Post by: Himu on September 17, 2014, 02:47:49 AM: So do you vote at all?
Title: Re: The best country in the world is having an election right now
Post by: benjipwns on September 17, 2014, 02:55:32 AM: They don't even make the ballot in Michigan, the Libertarians, Greens and Constitution (under the old U.S. Taxpayers name so they keep ballot status) are there obviously, but the only odd group that gets on is the Natural Law Party because Doug Dern must have photos of someone. The national party disbanded like ten years ago or something, he doesn't even seem to be a political transcendentalist or whatever they called themselves.

http://votesmart.org/candidate/political-courage-test/37454/douglas-dern/

I voted Libertarian in 2012 because the state GOP changed their own internal rules to disallow Gary Johnson from withdrawing from their primary so he couldn't appear on the general election ballot. So I did one of four write-ins for him in my precinct and then voted Libertarian for Senate since it was the ballot status office then. And then I jammed up the machine with my ballot because they didn't empty it out despite the warnings of "FULL FULL FULL" so I pretend like I had secretly taken revolutionary action against the state and it's illegitimate faux-democracy.

I only vote when I take someone else who wants to, and then just for ballot status and referenda, for a while I voted for this local sometimes GOP candidate I knew who has schizophrenia or something but he hasn't been running anymore.

I should try to get BA's party on the ballot. SYNTHESIS.
Title: Re: The best country in the world is having an election right now
Post by: Kara on September 17, 2014, 03:00:13 AM: :dead Benji-kun electioneering for Bob Avakian.

Quote from: Queen of Ice on September 17, 2014, 02:47:49 AM
So do you vote at all?

Oh yeah, in California there's always 2-5 propositions on the ballot that could fuck everything up right good and statewide offices.
Title: Re: The best country in the world is having an election right now
Post by: benjipwns on September 17, 2014, 03:08:59 AM: The Michigan Libertarian Party actually is one of the more sane LP's. It's also one of the poorest for whatever reason. (What do you mean there might be a connection?)

If I was rich I'd waste the time getting BA on the ballot:
http://www.michigan.gov/documents/sos/New_Political_Party_Qualification_424178_7.pdf

lol at the people who deny there being major hurdles for non-duopoly campaigns, they've somehow made this document twice as long as last time I looked at it in 2010.
Title: Re: The best country in the world is having an election right now
Post by: Kara on September 17, 2014, 06:43:50 PM: Popular fronts with libertarians. :lawd
Title: Re: The best country in the world is having an election right now
Post by: Squiddy on October 06, 2014, 05:15:29 PM: So yeah, it looks like we're going to have a re-election next year :lol
Title: Re: The best country in the world is having an election right now
Post by: Squiddy on October 06, 2014, 05:18:22 PM: @Demi I have a business proposal for you, 20 american bucks you can spend on some quality hairy bear porn.