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1. augustus pugin 🌖 (augustus@shitposter.world)'s status on Friday, 19-Jul-2024 15:29:57 JST augustus pugin 🌖
   Whoever wins the US election, the world wins. These are both GREAT candidates, and I'm sure whoever wins will do a bang up job. Matter of fact, I can't decide which candidate to support because I just love both of them so much I can't even choose! We're spoiled for choice here. What a great election
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   • of nothing (apropos@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Friday, 19-Jul-2024 15:30:16 JST of nothing

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     @augustus me, I'm content in knowing that the rest of the government is run so well that it hardly matters who the President is. We have a robust and loyal class of bureaucrats who will steadfastly serve any winning candidate and get his program done, while pushing back only as needed by law or good sense.
     
     And, we have a federal form of government, where the more local the government, the more it matters to our day-to-day lives and the more direct control we have over it. Why should an American care whether the oval office has a (D) or an (R) by it, any more than he should care if the Whitehouse Christmas tree has an odd or an even number of decorations on it?
     
     America isn't a dictatorship, after all! The elections are big and dramatic like this, first as a form of harmless entertainment, and second as a way for those unfortunates, who get a little steamed up and into politics, a way to safely vent that steam at the ballot box.
     
     For any doubters, I recommend the excellent South Park time travel episode, in which Cartman attends the constitutional convention and overhears our Founding Fathers lay out a comedically cynical plan: with two parties, one can engage in country-serving realpolitik while the other engages in moral grandstanding. We'll always have the moral highground, and we'll also always kill and destroy any enemies! God bless America!
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   • augustus pugin 🌖 (augustus@shitposter.world)'s status on Friday, 19-Jul-2024 15:45:12 JST augustus pugin 🌖

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     @apropos I thought the idea of someone loving both candidates is funny just because nobody is like that, but it is also unironically how I kinda feel. I don't care who wins and it doesn't matter, both options have good comedy upsides too, so I'm just enjoying the show
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