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[cangetmad]

I think countries where politicians regularly and unironically say that "this is the greatest country in the world" are fundamentally different from countries where that doesn't happen. I'm beginning to think this is the root of my Not Getting US Politics to the extent that I don't. This whole "The world is looking to us! We must count every vote

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[tallycola]

This whole "The world is looking to us! We must count every vote!" thing: most of the rest of us on LJ (privileged Westerners that we for the most part are) live in countries where every vote is always counted.Yes! And everytime I hear about voting machine mishaps I just wonder why they don't have X-in-the-Box like normal people. :D

[biascut]

Great post - thank you!

[biascut]

Ah, damn, I clicked on the wrong link. Not that your response wasn't great tarynw, but I meant that as a response to Kate's original post!

[kasku]

This is a wonderful post. Thank you.

[yonmei]

If this wasn't friends-locked, I'd link to it.

[yiskah]

Yes, absolutely. Any chance you could unlock it so that I could link to it?

[cangetmad]

Oh, okay, just for you. And yonmei. But if you get me fired, you can support me for the rest of my life.

[yonmei]

Why would the Homosamurai fire you for this?

[blue_monday]

And I'm going to link to it too, because I agree, and you said it better.

[jeejeen]

Word.

The best thing to do now is to look inward and, as you say, not fuck up like that. Canada is in danger of fucking up now too, with a minority government and a neo-con fuckwit opposition leader. Time to make sure we separate ourselves from what's going on south of the border.