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Posted May 22, 2014
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wolfsrain: In and thanks
I'm in for wolfsrain~! *whistles* One good turn deserves another~! :D
Posted May 22, 2014
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truhlik77: Thanks for giveaway. Original idea :)
I'd like to be in. But since I'm not planning to go vote, not sure if can be in.
Czech candidates have European Parliament only as opportunity to secure their life for next five years. Nothing else :( I am ashamed of them.
no need to be European= for Europeans no need to be a voter,

Anyway, it's not who votes or for whom one votes that's counts, but who counts the votes. (Sarcasm)


In short you're registered as a participant
Posted May 22, 2014
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iphgix: I am in thank you kindly.

As for elections...I think it is quaint that so many of us actually think our vote has meaning. The person elected only has the power given to them by the team of backers and the money train behind them. FOr the most part the money train is the same no matter who wins the elections...politics depress me.
In the UK at least there are rules about how much money you're allowed to spend at election time. It's far from perfect but it does at least stop it being purely about money.
Posted May 22, 2014
Not in, but thanks!

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Thespian*: I see no real difference between our Spanish politicians, so I ain't going to lose my time voting one of them...
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Phc7006: Have you noticed that it is now a common feature to all countries : left/right/center are so close that you cannot distinguish them anymore ? They align themselves with Big business and banks. .
It's the same here. The big parties have become nearly indistinguishable. It's all the same shit with slightly different flavor and a little taste free food dye. To think that the Green party (the self-acclaimed "pacifists") were in power when Germany went to war for the first time since WW2. The Social party made the biggest cuts (slash-and-burn, really) to the welfare systems. The Liberal party pressed protectionist laws (like reduced VAT for hotels). And let's not talk about the so-called "Christian" parties.
Posted May 22, 2014
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iphgix: I am in thank you kindly.

As for elections...I think it is quaint that so many of us actually think our vote has meaning. The person elected only has the power given to them by the team of backers and the money train behind them. FOr the most part the money train is the same no matter who wins the elections...politics depress me.
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ChrisSD: In the UK at least there are rules about how much money you're allowed to spend at election time. It's far from perfect but it does at least stop it being purely about money.
I am kind of referring to the lobbyists, you know the people who actually get what they want.
Posted May 22, 2014
I'm in. +1
Posted May 22, 2014
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ChrisSD:
We had a choice of ten in York - and aside from the usual three main parties and the greens, they were ALL far right nutters / closet far right nutters. Pretty disgusted really, though hopefully anyone idiotic enough to vote for one of them will get confused by the throng of them, and paranoid that the ballot pencil was "made in china" and run before casting their vote.
Posted May 22, 2014
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Thespian*: I see no real difference between our Spanish politicians, so I ain't going to lose my time voting one of them...
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Phc7006: Have you noticed that it is now a common feature to all countries : left/right/center are so close that you cannot distinguish them anymore ? They align themselves with Big business and banks. .
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toxicTom: It's the same here. The big parties have become nearly indistinguishable. It's all the same shit with slightly different flavor and a little taste free food dye. [...]
A friend of mine told me this very morning he'd prefer to vote to the Forty Thieves of the "Ali Babá" story, that would mean we'd just need to stand forty of them, instead of four hundred thousand. :D

(yep, the number of politicians here in Spain is just unbelievable...)
Post edited May 22, 2014 by Thespian*
Posted May 22, 2014
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Thespian*:
i'm sure you can always recycle some of them into bankers
Posted May 22, 2014
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Sachys: i'm sure you can always recycle some of them into bankers
No need, they do it by themselves as soon they lost their offices (they're "misteriously" selected as chairmans and such by big companies as soon as that occurs). :D
Post edited May 22, 2014 by Thespian*
Posted May 22, 2014
Not in but +1
Posted May 22, 2014
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Thespian*:
...sorry, slip of the tongue - I meant put them all in a vault and forget about them...
Posted May 22, 2014
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Sachys: ...sorry, slip of the tongue - I meant put them all in a vault and forget about them...
That'd be only a temporal solution, they'd reappear safe and sound after some nuclear war (like in the Fallout series), to bring grief to the scarce survivors once more...
Posted May 22, 2014
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Sachys: ...sorry, slip of the tongue - I meant put them all in a vault and forget about them...
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Thespian*: That'd be only a temporal solution, they'd reappear safe and sound after some nuclear war (like in the Fallout series), to bring grief to the scarce survivors once more...
no... because then you launch the vault into the sun, or drop it into an active volcano
Posted May 22, 2014
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Sachys: no... because then you launch the vault into the sun, or drop it into an active volcano
It doesn't matter, politicians are like entropy, you always may count on them to ruin things. :D
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