h a l f b a k e r yBaker Street Irregulars
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The losing side gets to burn down [whatever % of the votes] of the [seat of government].
That part is not rebuilt until the next elections as an anti-hubris mechanism.
Elected officials casting your votes for you.
https://www.youtube...watch?v=hfhO38CPlAI
[2 fries shy of a happy meal, Jan 15 2017]
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But the winning side gets to prosecute, convict and imprison all voters who voted for the losing side,,, |
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Oh no, going on the British Parliamentary system someone will
be the Official Fire-Starter, who (following in a 400 year tradition) probably has a strange hat, a large stick to hammer on the door 3 times while declaiming "Oh bugger, oh bugger, oh bugger, where did I putteth thee matches?" |
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//imprison all voters who voted for the losing side,,, |
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Well, short of leaving the country, then the losing side are imprisoned in a country which has policies they don't agree with. |
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// the losing side are imprisoned in a country which has policies they don't agree with// In the UK at least, that generally applies to people who voted for the winning side too. |
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It is quite remarkable how, out of a population of over 300,000,000 they whittled it down to two of the worst possible candidates, and then picked the worse of the two. |
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Does it really make a difference who we vote for?
[link] |
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That is hilarious, [2fries]. Technically, though, they're casting votes on behalf of other representatives, reprehensibly, rather than on behalf of the man in the street directly. |
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Perhaps the person overseeing that process could come up with some sort of advanced fraud detection algorithm along the lines of "IF {number of votes > number of people} THEN {something is fucked up} ELSE {something may or may not be fucked up}. |
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So which side is the standing government ? |
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Can they stand for election, if they already are standing ? |
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