Terminator can’t run, because we haven’t passed the Schwarzenegger Amendment, and he was born in Austria.
Also, you left out Cthulhu, because why settle for the lesser of two evils? (Or is Cthulhu riding the Giant Meteor to victory?)
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Terminator comes from future. Only played by Schwarzenegger. Maybe disqualified due to the United States having ceased to exist by the time it was created though.
Vader is definitely ineligible; the shark would have to prove it was born in territorial waters.
Interesting that the three poll leaders are all at least mostly robotic. I’m suspicious of the polling methodology – did they reach a lot of answering machines that took it upon themselves to voice a preference?
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That canard again? The 3/5ths compromise was about counting population for purposes of taxation and Congressional districting. It was the slave-owning states that wanted them to be counted fully (although still not allowed to vote of course.)
Does Hamilton sound like someone who thought blacks aren’t fully human?
Much has been said of the impropriety of representing men who have no will of their own… They are men, though degraded to the condition of slavery. They are persons known to the municipal laws of the states which they inhabit, as well as to the laws of nature.
If I’d said ‘accepted black people as fractional people and thought women shouldn’t vote’ would that solve your quandry?
The point is that we’re talking about beliefs that are AWFUL in today’s context, and I’m just picking two obvious bits. There are lots of more subtle issues too.
It’s basically MS-DOS 2.1, and there’s nothing precious about it. Plus, it’s obviously not working well, even as a ‘living document’. A constitutional convention is long overdue, but they accidentally designed one that we’d trap ourselves in.
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I don’t have a quandry [sic.] It may be counterintuitive, but advocating that slaves be fully counted for census/representation purposes is taking the slavers’ position.
Oh, yeah, let me also add ‘And they thought a person could be a slave to another’
Both the existence of slavery AND the 3/5 rule were both written by people living in a context that we’ve moved far beyond.
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Same message, but on a shirt: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01GDET2LO I think its hilarious, “no candidates are good” and people are going crazy.
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Giant Meteor is being backed by Supermassive Black Hole, who’s only goal (deonstrated time and time again) Is to unify all under a singular cause so we can share the same space without fighting.
Given Supermassive Black Hole’s jurisdictional issues someone might argue forgien influance over candidates, but frankly. Giant Meteor has my vote. Hit the reset button and see what the ants, or wasps, or whatever will come up with after we’re gone. Just… can we get enough of a window to shoot a few things into space in a stable enough orbit that our knowledge won’t be completely lost by the time they peek out into the wider cosmos… and or aliens show up and wonder wtf is with all the metal debris parked in ultra stable orbits.
I suspect Cthuhlu is one of the other major backers of Giant Meteor. Then again I suspect he’ll be the Veep as a ‘in case there are survivors’ insurance. As Lovecraft demonstrated the Old Ones are neither Good nor Evil. Their morality is so different and alien from ours that they care not eithr that we exist or their awakening harms us.
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There’s hope. We just need a supreme being to save us…
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I wish that were true. We have found ways to make slaves less visible now though.
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