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BobbySeriousAlex Pareene
7/26/16 1:48pm
Keep in mind Alex, conventions weren’t created to be the slick bullshit advertising campaigns they are today. The process of nominating a candidate can be, and sometimes should be, a messy shit show that can take days.
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  butcherbakertoiletrymakerBobbySerious
  7/26/16 1:50pm
  Unless you happen to have been alive for, literally, the last 48 years.
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  Stig-a-saw-us-wrex's final tourBobbySerious
  7/26/16 1:58pm
  The Berniebots don’t have to make it the messy shit show that they are trying for. They just choose to be contrarian.
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Stig-a-saw-us-wrex's final tourAlex Pareene
7/26/16 1:53pm
And they should happen in the fall.

May want to rethink that one. The Sandernista/any other protests are going to wreck havoc getting kids home from school. I don’t want to be wondering where my kid is because someone just had to make a political statement when the buses are rolling.

Summer is better.
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  Sid and FinancyStig-a-saw-us-wrex's final tour
  7/26/16 2:00pm
  I, too, favor compromising our 200-year experiment in representational democracy for the relative comfort and convenience of Camryn, Deviin and Britnee.
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  Stig-a-saw-us-wrex's final tourSid and Financy
  7/26/16 2:06pm
  
  GIF
  
  ..
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╰(　´◔　ω　◔ `)╯< Woke and BokeAlex Pareene
7/26/16 1:54pm
Like the Olympics and the FIFA World Cup, these conventions should 1) only be held every four years 2) be held in the cities whose politicians have given the biggest bribes to the party committees, and 3) only allow participants who are all roided out and/or been selected due to easy competition schedules, with a token nod to smaller participants to make it seem like a fair competition. That’s just wishful thinking on my part though.
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  Sparky Polastry╰(　´◔　ω　◔ `)╯< Woke and Boke
  7/26/16 2:13pm
  You left out the part about awarding medals/trophies.
  
  Other than that, this is excellent Kinja Gaiden.
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  The Noble Renard╰(　´◔　ω　◔ `)╯< Woke and Boke
  7/26/16 2:31pm
  Also, like the ancient Olympics, all participants should be required to participate nude.
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pre-emptive sighAlex Pareene
7/26/16 1:48pm
Counterpoint: Make the conventions one full week and don’t have a year election bullshit leading up to them. All the debates will be during the convention. On day 6, there’s a nationwide simultaneous primary in all 50 states. On day 7 a nominee is chosen and we move on to the general.

Everything out on the open, no back room shenanigans, just people making their choice.
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gramercypoliceAlex Pareene
7/26/16 2:16pm
I say do away with primaries and caucuses entirely. Just go back to the smoke-filled room process for nominating candidates. Would save a lot of money and energy and it would cut down on the breathless horse race reporting. And the candidates wouldn’t be any worse because primary voters are no smarter and no more immune to persuasion than anyone else.

Let the parties pick whomever they want and voters can choose from the field of candidates. Simple, painless, cheap, and no worse than what we have now. I don’t need to know who’s running until Labor Day anyway. 8 or 9 weeks of campaigning and we vote. Done and done.
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  BCDFGgramercypolice
  7/26/16 3:47pm
  IMHO, two things really screw things up: allowing the states to have any role in picking the executive tilts national politics into a regionalist pandering game —hence the disproportionate federal subsidies that go to Iowa and South Carolina, because of their “kingmaker” status— and also, the whole shitshow of “open” primaries, which sound great but really foster bad-faith ginning up of votes to prolong the contest (as happened in Michigan).
  
  The president is the country’s single official voted on by the entirety of the country; it would make a lot more sense to just have a couple of really large scale elections and be done with it. But no, we insist on giving frickin’ *Guam* the ability to act as the deciding delegates.
  
  (For this matter, the big illness of American politics is having the lower chamber of the legislature artificially capped at 435 persons, or 1 legislator for every 700,000+ constituents. That is 10 times as many constituents per legislator as in the UK House of Commons —and people think they’re alienated from their constituents).
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  gramercypoliceBCDFG
  7/26/16 3:49pm
  I like your thinking.
  
  (tho, let's be honest, we'll probably have a big fight over something entirely different by the end of the week, and that's fine too)
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ThatGuy524Alex Pareene
7/26/16 3:15pm
Priorities- How about we get to the 4 day work week already? If technology has made every process more efficient then why is it still normal to work the same number of hours?
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  KinglyCitrusThatGuy524
  7/27/16 9:23am
  Because it turns out profits are more important to most companies than worker happiness (shocking, right?) The economy looked at rising worker productivity and weighed its potential benefits to the worker against their bottom line. The bottom line won.
  
  Remember: if they weren't required to pay us time and a half for it, most of us would still work 7 days a week.
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  ThatGuy524KinglyCitrus
  7/27/16 9:51am
  First point agreed but the ironic part is that it’s counter productive for the same reason your second point is wrong.
  
  This blog post explain part of the history
  
  How the 40-hour work week came to be
  
  During the Industrial Revolution, factories needed to be running around the clock so employees during this era frequently worked between 10-16 hour days.
  
  In the 1920s however, it was Henry Ford, founder of Ford Motor Company, that established the 5-day, 40-hour work week.
  
  Henry Ford next to a 1921 Model-T
  
  Surprisingly, Ford didn’t do it for scientific reasons (or solely for the health of his employees). Rather, one of the main reasons he came up with the idea to reduce the working hours of his staff was so employees would have enough free time to go out and realize they needed to buy stuff.
  
  In an interview published in World’s Work magazine in 1926, Ford explains why he switched his workers from a 6-day, 48-hour workweek to a 5-day, 40-hour workweek but still paid employees the same wages:
  
  Leisure is an indispensable ingredient in a growing consumer market because working people need to have enough free time to find uses for consumer products, including automobiles.?’?Henry Ford
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Hang The HaberdasherAlex Pareene
7/26/16 1:52pm
Counterpoint: Party conventions are like the Super Bowl for people who are into politics, stop raining on my parade.

People are already too disengaged from the political workings of our country to make educated voting decisions, and you want to cut down their exposure to it?
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  BobbySeriousHang The Haberdasher
  7/26/16 2:17pm
  LOL, I literally just told my daughter last night, “You have to understand hun, this is like the Super Bowl for me”.
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  SemiReformedFangirlBobbySerious
  7/26/16 3:07pm
  I’ve been saying it to my friends for days. One offered to make me a silly hat to wear in my house while I watch CSPAN.
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ArkAlex Pareene
7/26/16 2:00pm
You missed the real purpose.

The DNC and RNC conventions tie up the media for two solid weeks so the powers that be can get shit done without being watched by reporters.
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IhpsdmAlex Pareene
7/26/16 1:56pm
I can only imagine what they’ll be charging for bottled water on Thursday:

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SpringSprungAlex Pareene
7/26/16 1:52pm
Assuming there are any future elections, Trump’s nuclear winter will solve your overheating problems.
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How the 40-hour work week came to be