Thoughts on the American election: - it is a shame the meteor didn't run again - too many states start with M, not enough with E or Y, this strikes me as unfair - red and blue remain boring colours, why not try a nice fuschia?
- if we imagine time as non-linear, then Biden and Trump have both won and lost and should accept their defeat/victory with magnanimity/anger - Massachusetts is a challenging word to spell correctly
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- if the American election was held in Australia, a huge number of people would simply be arrested for trying to unfairly influence the result - this is a strong reason to hold the US election in Sydney, which would be very democratic but challenging logistically
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- I now know the names of more American states than Australian ones, which is somewhat disconcerting - this is perhaps an unsurprising fact, given that there are only 6 Australian states, but I am nevertheless disappointed in myself somehow
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- people keep complaining about the electoral college being confusing and antiquated, which is odd because that's true of the whole election really - as one of the pivotal states still counting, it is annoying that Pennsylvania has so many syllables in its name
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- American state lines are all drawn badly, except for Wyoming and Colorado, which are pleasingly regular and thus the Best States - there are either too many or too few counties in Georgia, depending on how you feel about pointless redundancy
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- people seem overly fond of chanting, given that votes are in fact on paper and thus cannot be changed by words alone - unless the chanting is some kind of wizardy, in which case there are more wizards in Arizona/Pennsylvania than I was expecting
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- too many people are saying the words "Joe Biden is on top" which raises disturbing imagery of a Trump/Biden embrace - this is, thankfully, better than saying "Trump is on the bottom" which is far more evocative a phrase
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- American accents elide the words "polls" and "Poles", giving the confusing impression that Polish people are pivotal to the election in some way - clearly the solution to this is to hire more Australians to comment on the US election
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- there is no particular magic in "calling" a vote, unless you are an electoral official - thus, I would like to call the presidential election in my favour, despite not running, and being Australian, because the gig pays somewhat better than an epidemiologists salary
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Suddenly struck me that Biden and Trump are both a good length for a bumper sticker. Would Washington have prospered in the modern era?
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