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Monday, October 19, 2020
i'm just a hardcore gamer
there was a US congresswoman a few years ago who actually played WoW hardcore
huh
thats etremely metal
had to stop for the couple years she was in office, then went right back to raiding afterwards
from Maine iirc
yep
2012-2014
press releases condemning her for playing the online video game World of Warcraft, claiming her "disturbing alter-ego" and "time-consuming double life" made her unfit to hold public office
yeah just saw that part lol
she's also got an NPC in game iirc
ask Bopit, he might know better than I do
very cool either way
it's weird reading these local house district races
she was elected by a couple hundred people
in a district of <50k
that's how the country should be
well, im not american but
oh right, lol
having local elections is definatley a good thing
im not one for radical changes to political systems
I just like small cities, where you can genuinely know people
not even a political thing really
yeah true
the people who run institutions.. .are actual people, born and raised in the area, you go to school with them, grow up with them etc
id like to see a political system though one where you vote for like, someone from your neighourhod, who then votes for someone on the block, then someone in town, etc
the Russian Nesting doll approach
i didnt know it was called that
though they did have somethign like that in the soviet union right? which isnt a good sign, but, uh i think they did
oh
there were no elections in the Soviet Union
so....
well, technically
technically
Kappa but yeah
im actually writing an essay on the subject atm
yes, the soviet council of ministers elected the premier
but I wouldn't count that
it was just that the party nominated one nominee
so there were no alternatives
so there were no elections
the general people didn't vote was more what I meant
youre a wow player though?
i only play runescape
you and Turnip would get along
thank you
oh i thought you wrote trump lol
that's a classic, anyway Turnip's dumb PK video reminded me that he's a Runescape addict
anyways, the soviets had elections according to article 134 of their constitution
but they used article 141 to supress them
"The right to nominate candidates is secured to public organizations and societies of the working people: Communist Party organizations, trade unions, cooperatives, youth organizations and cultural societies."
do you mean the ones at the end of the USSR?
so there was only ever one candidate, the communist party candidate
in 88 or 89 or whenever
nope, thats from the 1936 onstitution
the stalin one
or do you mean "elections" insofar as people are bieng appointed to fill positions
well, they elected their deputies
who then elected people higher up
but then again, the party nominated the candidates
so there was no actual vote
singe party elections are always kind of weird like this
so it was actually just people being appointed yeah
just like with the pope, there's an "election" being held, and there's campaigning that goes on ahead of time. money influences it, etc.
it just doesn't feel like an election
but it's probably correct to say that they have a lot in common with a democratic election, minus the democracy
its a people's election
lmfao