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http://www.cnbc.com/2015/08/24/caitlyn-jenner-halloween-costume-sparks-social-media-outrage-.html

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ne...een-costume-labeled-817515?utm_source=twitter

It's nowhere near October, but one ensemble is already on track to be named the most controversial Halloween costume of 2015.

Social media users were out in full force on Monday criticizing several Halloween retailers for offering a Caitlyn Jenner costume reminiscent of the former-athlete's Vanity Fair cover earlier this year.

While Jenner's supporters condemned the costume as "transphobic" and "disgusting" on Twitter, Spirit Halloween, a retailer that carries the costume, defended the getup.

"At Spirit Halloween, we create a wide range of costumes that are often based upon celebrities, public figures, heroes and superheroes," said Lisa Barr, senior director of marking at Spirit Halloween. "We feel that Caitlyn Jenner is all of the above and that she should be celebrated. The Caitlyn Jenner costume reflects just that."
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America has enough problems - I don't need places fucked up by communism / fascism like the EU and China dictating anything for me, let alone telling me what to do and how to live like they clearly are their own fucking people right now, all day, every day. Fuck right off - please and thank you, to the idiot(s) out there who even remotely think this is a good idea.

You're just mad Trump won and you still haven't gotten over it yet. Just... fuck right off. You're sick and you lack the moral stability required to lead, let alone function. Go get yourselves committed already.
 
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Big talk coming from some dingbat who's country is going through the most social upheaval since the 60s due to some Neolib Globalist Marie Antoinette fuckhead like Macron

Burn in hell, France. We should've left you to suffer at the hands of the Germans in the last century when we had the chance, especially since all we got as a thank you for saving you from that was your dumbasses crawling to us to clean up your mess in Vietnam
 
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Big talk coming from some dingbat who's country is going through the most social upheaval since the 60s due to some Neolib Globalist Marie Antoinette fuckhead like Macron

Burn in hell, France. We should've left you to suffer at the hands of the Germans in the last century when we had the chance, especially since all we got as a thank you for saving you from that was your dumbasses crawling to us to clean up your mess in Vietnam
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at least the Germans can be decent neighbors when they aren't trying to kill you.
 
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Ain't they scared of those 'Russian bots' invading their political sphere, to the point it is the new boogyman of this century? Have they think about this :If America really allows other countries to intervene with its voting system, then what is stopping USSA or China to fuck up the whole system?
 
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www.independent.co.uk

Opinion: America should allow other countries to vote in the 2020 election

This is a country which calls itself 'leader of the Free World' and has huge global influence in terms of foreign policy and economics. Now that Trump won't acknowledge basic things like climate change, it's time other countries had a say
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I was nine years old when I first seriously pondered the result of a US presidential election. It was 2000 and my father suggested we bet on who would win the 2000 vote – George W Bush or Al Gore. In the kitchen of our apartment in the Paris suburbs, I bet a piece of gum that it would be Gore. Two months later, the Supreme Court decided otherwise, and I didn’t realise until many years later how close I had come to being right.

Perhaps that’s when it originated: the idea that maybe other countries shouldn’t just be left wringing their hands every four years and waiting to see who US citizens had chosen to appoint as (to speak like a White House staffer on Scandal) the leader of the Free World.

And perhaps that seed of an idea continued to gestate in 2004, when we waited to find out whether John Kerry would deprive George W Bush of a second term; then in 2008, when T-shirts bearing Barack Obama’s red and blue “Hope” poster started cropping up on the streets of the French capital; and again in 2012, when we learned the names of his Republican challengers.

Then, of course, came November 2016, by which time I had moved from my native France to the US. I came home from work at approximately four the morning after the election and spent an hour or two on the phone with my mother (it was mid-morning in Paris) talking about Donald Trump’s ascent to power and what it meant for America as well as for the world.

One election after the next, we have seen how much the results of the US presidential vote impact not just the 50 states, but the rest of the planet too. And if the future of foreign countries is shaped to a significant extent by what goes on on US Election Day, shouldn’t they get a say in who gets to lead the most powerful nation in the world for the next four years?

In other words: shouldn’t foreign countries have a right to vote in the US presidential election?

I know, I know. The idea sounds so absurd, so outrageous that it’s hard to know where to begin your rebuttal. I have floated it around, timidly, in bars and at various dinner parties over the years, and let me tell you – it’s hard to get people to agree with me. And I get it: it’s never been done. I will probably never be done. But last week, a terrorist killed 50 people in two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand. The alleged gunman, who had referred to himself as a white nationalist, viewed Donald Trump as “a symbol of renewed white identity”. So, yes, I think it’s high time to acknowledge the fact that what happens in the US has immense, tangible consequences on the rest of the world, and I am tired of crossing my fingers hoping that American voters will do the right thing.

I remember the Iraq war debate, and how George W Bush expressed his disappointment at my country and others for deciding not to align with US forces – while insisting that he was “not mad” we had decided to opt out of the invasion. I remember our collective bewilderment at the term “freedom fries”, and I remember lacking clarity on some of the details, on account of being 11 years old at the time. But the feeling that the US, more than any other nation, shapes our collective future has only grown clearer and stronger since.


Perhaps it helps to imagine America as the pot in which tomorrow’s ideas are brewed, for better or worse. Perhaps it helps, too, to look at the more tangible signs of how US politics contribute to shaping all of our lives. The most convincing example may be global warming, and Donald Trump’s overt skepticism when it comes to climate change. In January this year, the president of the world’s most powerful nation infamously tweeted: "In the beautiful Midwest, windchill temperatures are reaching minus 60 degrees, the coldest ever recorded. In coming days, expected to get even colder. People can't last outside even for minutes. What the hell is going on with Global Waming [sic]? Please come back fast, we need you!"


It goes without saying that whatever the US does or does not do to limit the effects of global warming impacts every single being, human or otherwise, on this planet.

Then comes the economy: in June last year, we were warned that tensions between the US and its main trading partners could precipitate global trade turmoil similar in scale to the 2008 financial crisis. Whoever gets to sit in the Oval Office, then, plays a major role in shaping the state of our wallets as well as the state of the planet. Is it really that outrageous that people around the world might want to have a say on who runs the show?

I am, of course, aware that the US is extremely unlikely to go along with my idea. This isn’t a country that’s particularly known for avidly seeking external input. And of course, there’s the idea that the right to vote is intrinsically tied to residence, and that those who don’t live in a given country aren’t qualified to make a call on what goes in said country.

Except things are more complicated, and more nuanced than that. Take, for example, the idea that living in a country is a condition to having the right to vote there. Permanent residents such as myself, also known as green card holders (also known as people who aren’t US citizens but live and work in the US full-time) pay the same income tax as US citizens, but don’t get to vote. Naturally, US citizens (like citizens of many other countries) still get to vote for their president even if they permanently move to a different country. All this to say: there is an established disequilibrium between who gets to vote in the US presidential election and who arguably has the most skin in the game.

How would it work, then? If the US were to entertain the possibility of letting foreigners participate in the presidential vote (and again, I’m not holding my breath), how would we make it happen? Does each foreign country get the same weight as each of the 50 states? Surely, that would be giving too much weight to the outside world. Do we restrict the vote to member states of NATO and/or historical allies? This seems slightly more realistic – as realistic as it gets in this purely hypothetical scenario – but also somewhat unfair to those whose voices would be left out.


I have clearly disclosed my status as a French citizen, so I know the question will be raised: how would I react if someone proposed to let other countries vote in the French presidential election? Well, France is currently about five spots behind the US in the ranking of the world’s most powerful nations, and its GDP is more than seven times lower. But sure, should France ever have the kind of political and cultural influence the US currently yields, then I’d be inclined to let others have a say. In fact, I might even vote in favour of it.
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so does that mean that as a citizen of the despised & disenfranchised Confederate States of America (some folks still whisper those dreaded words in secret, in attics, in closed vehicles), i will get to vote on the futures of DeBlasio, Pelosi & Feinstein?

because what is decided in the larger yankee states greatly impacts me & my family. these other states impact me lots more than the US impacts you.

so would you also give me permission to vote in other states/cities municipal & local elections? (should i be able to vote on a local park for a city i've never been to? should i vote on taxation issues for states i don't live in?)

if your answer is 'no'--then of course the answer would be no for you too.
 
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MadDamon said:
Ain't they scared of those 'Russian bots' invading their political sphere, to the point it is the new boogyman of this century? Have they think about this :If America really allows other countries to intervene with its voting system, then what is stopping USSA or China to fuck up the whole system?
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"It's okay when our candidate gets elected."
 
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Mlle Michallon, what you just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
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A simple "wrong" would have sufficed.

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We should allow Parthians, Gauls, Goths, Carthains, and Celts vote for Rome's consuls, as they are all effected by Rome as a superpower.
 
See, we voted well enough that our country isn't a festering shithole, so no, we're not going to let you idiots who vote so poorly your countries are now festering shitholes vote in our country, you fucking morons.

What you idiots ought to be asking for is for the clearly superior american voters to vote instead of you, in your shitty country's elections.
 
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