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That was my response haha. Ignore what Putin has more or less turned it into and look at how it’s meant to run, with a president and a prime minister. It’s quite functional in theory.

Oh it completely is a generalization, I don’t disagree with that. I even said it was an oversimplification. My point though is that even if Republican voting would be your best interest you aren’t voting for them. Why? Because you are considering the ramifications of what their policies do that don’t directly affect you. So in this sample size of 1 my oversimplification is correct. There are 100% outliers but it has often been what I’ve seen.

Oh 100%, the current system isn’t perfect either, no system is. I just personally have never found ranked choice to be better. It just ends up with a middle ground and honestly middle ground politicians tend not to do much while they try to please everyone. My wife actually has a political science degree and I asked her one day what electoral and government system she’d put into place in the US if it was just about efficiency and no one would push back. Her response was Russia’s ironically enough. You should take a look at how their government is set up, it actually would work very well for the US.

Tbh ranked choice has its own set of problems. The main one being that basically no one gets what they want. People on either side will always put the candidate they like as #1 and the guy in the other side at the bottom. This splits both ways and ends up with everyone getting, at best, their second choice. Sounds fine on paper but ultimately means no one is happy with the choice, everyone just settles.

As an oversimplification of left and right politically I’ve always looked at it as Liberal leaning people are more likely to consider the experiences of others and conservative leaning people are more likely to consider only their own experiences. This is not strictly true all the time but is often how things end up going. For example, all the conservatives who will for Republican across the board every time because they are in the “pro life” camp. To them personally it doesn’t matter if abortion access is legal because they never plan to have one, so they will vote with their belief that it shouldn’t be allowed. The other side has plenty of people who don’t believe in abortion themselves, IE they would never choose to have one, but they are a ale to consider that someone else might require one and therefore should have that right.

It’s not just an issue with the 2 party system but how your system runs in general. First past the post that we have in Canada is not perfect by any stretch but at least you have a better shot at representation because you are voting for your local representative. My province has I think 13 seats so there’s no guarantee all of those will go to the same party, this would be the case even if we had only two parties. With the electoral college, however, majority in the state gets the entire state so what’s good for an individual county doesn’t necessarily get represented. You see this in stuff like Austen, TX that tends to lean blue but the state always goes red or Northern California that’s the opposite. The “all or nothing” mentality of the electoral college is more of a problem than just having two parties to vote for.

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What is this league and who are these teams you’re talking about?

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So did you send him one without the reigns that he just never showed the rest of us?

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It doesn't really. It was just that you were the only on that understood the site really and it blew up very shortly after you disappeared so I think people just jumped to the conclusion that the two were related when they completely weren't. TBH I don't think your reputation is as tarnished here as you think it is. Even if it were so few of our current active members were even around to know about it.

It will, which means either way I need to make a new cup banner template. *sigh*

The DDOS. First site we lost because Invisionfree apparently had a cap on how many posts a forum could have, which they didn’t advertise but we hit, so our old posts were being deleted. Second site we lost because someone DDOSed us, or at least that’s what it looked like to our host, so we were cut off.

Sterling lurks, mostly just to supply us with donation money when we need access to it. Knight (at least that Knight) and Jardy are gone. You’d be surprised how much past shit we’ll overlook haha. Yup, he is. There aren’t many of us old guard left but @Kendrick still is. Morbid curiosity because we’ve never really gotten to the bottom of it so blame got thrown on you potentially unfairly. Did you actually bring down the second site or just left us without anyone really understanding how it worked? I’m not gonna be upset if it was you, we’ve long moved on, just genuinely curious if we can get some closure on that weirdness.

We wrote you and Motza months ago and you both completely ghosted us....

About time!

Some of you may remember awhile ago @Motzaburger (where are you bud?) and @Da_Berr collaborated on a new logo for the Calgary Wranglers. Some of you may also remember that Bushito, the GM of Calgary at the time, didn't care for it. Well Bush is gone now and @Jubis happens to be quite fond of getting rid of what I have deemed the derp horse. So, even though you have mostly all seen it before, I present to you the new and improved Calgary Wranglers logo! Keeping the colour scheme and the overall theme of the wranglers logo, important for such a historical team, this new logo encompasses the best parts of the Wranglers while removing the slightly, shall we say, Family Guy esk nature of the old logo. The wranglers shall be sporting this new look starting in S75.

Congrats Vancouver. Crazy hard fought series by Toronto but that game 7 shot total was just too much

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