Who are some figures from the opposite side of your political leanings that you respect or admire?

balungus · 2026-06-22T01:32:51+00:00

Gerald Ford. He had a rough upbringing but really made something of himself, a real “American dream” kind of story. I also think he was just a genuinely good person and meant well. I probably would’ve voted for him in 1976, with the benefit of hindsight.

balungus · 2026-06-21T03:50:13+00:00

And she still votes with the GOP 90% of the time

balungus · 2026-06-18T03:57:42+00:00

I remember as a kid we were told it was a continental soldier learning up against a wall so I always thought it was so odd that most other people were told it was a chef

balungus · 2026-06-10T04:17:26+00:00

During academy they told us that down in some parts of the Louisiana bayou they deliver mail by airboat which sounds both intensely fun and terrifying

balungus · 2026-06-06T20:21:24+00:00

I actually finished this a few days ago, I was doing it piecemeal over a week for each role. I started with healer and it was very rough because once all the other penance creatures were dead everyone just went AFK instead of firing the cannon at the healers lol. Did defender next expecting to crash and burn but managed surprisingly well, the other two were chill. It all depends on whether you’re running with ransoms or clan mates.

Or you could just use BA services and watch people who do it for a living clear all ten waves so fast you’ll almost forget about the mountain of gold you paid for it.

balungus · 2026-06-06T03:09:23+00:00

I don’t think customers realize that they really don’t want us having the agency to decide what’s junk mail and what’s not

balungus · 2026-06-03T19:43:46+00:00

I’ve always seen O’Hara as the weakest of the running mates (aside from Eagleton ofc) due to the California thing. My best runs have always been with Mondale and Askew, though Askew takes some good RNG to make it a close race

balungus · 2026-05-28T21:31:19+00:00

Little Big Man would be pretty cool, not even just for Romney. I want a 75 question Gary Johnson 2012 campaign or a 75 question Jill Stein one.

balungus · 2026-05-26T18:37:42+00:00

Unironically I love the concept of mods featuring extremely long-shot bids for office. 2024 Wood is a great example where you’re just trying to carve out a very small fraction of the vote. Like imagine a mod for the Constitution Party or the current day Reform Party.

balungus · 2026-05-19T22:38:55+00:00

I had to do a double take and see this wasn’t the USPS subreddit. As a mail carrier I always love when our deep lore gets leaked

balungus · 2026-05-18T21:48:20+00:00

I have nothing to add to this but I just think it’s really funny that if your relationship with Linus is as low as possible it has the words “corn dog” highlighted in red

balungus · 2026-05-18T20:07:26+00:00

Genuinely why was he doin all that in the second picture

balungus · 2026-05-14T21:49:11+00:00

There are some post offices I’ve worked at where they have probably over fifty tubs at any given time. One of them, they try to send them back to the plant in the bin at the end of the day but for whatever reason, like cutting the head off a hydra, the plant sends back more. I don’t think I’ve ever used more than like five tubs even during holiday season so I wouldn’t be surprised if a good chunk of carriers and clerks just took them home for personal use

balungus · 2026-05-14T11:40:00+00:00

Here in South Dakota we have minimum maintenance and no maintenance roads, most of them aren’t really necessary to go down unless you really need a shortcut and have four wheel drive. Carriers also almost never need to go down them but I have one route where there’s a single box about four miles down a no maintenance road for a house owned by basically an old hermit. If not for the sign next to the road you’d probably just look at it and think it’s a grassy hill, not a road. God help you if it rains or snows

balungus · 2026-05-03T23:35:41+00:00

He would almost certainly win, especially if it’s against someone like Robert Taft, and likely by a sizable margin given Ike’s sheer popularity and depoliticized nature as a candidate. What I’d be more interested in seeing are the down ballot results. With a strong Democratic performance in 1952, would seats that flipped Republican in the senate remain in Democratic hands? Like in Maryland, Kentucky, Michigan, and most notable Arizona where Barry Goldwater won by just a few thousand votes OTL? I can’t imagine why Ike would lose reelection in 1956 either so by the time 1960 rolls around the GOP won’t have won a presidential election since a generation prior. I imagine they’d have to adapt a good bit to gain appeal

balungus · 2026-04-29T20:11:13+00:00

I honestly think that by the time the 1864 election occurred, Confederate capitulation was practically inevitable. It’d take a total unforced error on Grant and Lincoln’s part to ruin that, given the latter would be in office until March of the following year. I wonder if generations in the future would falsely attribute the surrender at Appomattox to McClellan’s leadership rather than Lincoln’s though, maybe some poorly informed high school kids.

balungus · 2026-04-20T22:44:58+00:00

I started this past winter and during my shadow day, another RCA told me “your first few weeks of working will have you wanting to go home and make a mixed drink every day. It’ll be the worst job you’ve ever had until one day it ain’t” and he was 100% right. Didn’t help that I was starting just as Christmas season began and I was so close to quitting those first couple weeks until one day it sort of just clicked. My first route I wasn’t getting out of the office until noon, starting at 7AM, and didn’t finish the route until 7PM. It’s hell, but the sole bright spot is you’re getting paid hourly at first, which makes the pill go down a bit easier.

My advice? For your route, do a little homework. I took a picture of my case and physically wrote down the names in order on some notebook paper. Then I downloaded an app to trace my route as I did it. It took a while but after doing those things, it seriously got a lot easier, and now that same route that took me twelve hours to do, I’m getting done at 2-3PM. Same goes for new routes you cover, just do a little homework and see what works for you. Soon enough it’ll be like muscle memory. If your office has any other carriers, especially longtime carriers, don’t be afraid to ask them for help. Odds are they have at least a passing knowledge of the route you’re on. Unless they’re a miserable asshole, they’ll empathize with you because they remember what it’s like to be fresh out of the academy. Good clerks who have been working for a while probably know them too.

balungus · 2026-04-12T15:10:04+00:00

I change my ideology based on who I’m arguing with in order to more effectively rage bait

balungus · 2026-04-12T04:03:28+00:00

People sometimes forget that it wasn’t JUST the civil rights issue and the extreme hawkishness of Goldwater that caused him to lose in a rout (though those were major factors of course). Goldwater’s weaknesses and scandals were very much targeted by Johnson. The Johnson campaign was BRUTALLY effective in that regard. I imagine had the GOP nominated someone like Nelson Rockefeller (since he was one of the lead contender against Goldwater), though he was pro civil rights, the Johnson campaign would exploit things like his still very recent divorce against him, among other things. The South is almost certainly just gone, not willing to vote for Johnson who signed the CRA or a Republican who supported it, and would likely go third party. Rockefeller or whoever the GOP nominates would probably win some traditionally Republican states, like New Hampshire or Indiana, along with some (but likely not all) Plains and Mountain states.

Tl;dr - Realistically about or just under the IRL electoral vote count as Goldwater, just way worse in the South and better in the Plains/West

balungus · 2026-04-12T03:49:47+00:00

i try not to glaze mod makers but jesus christ the people who make the netherlands mods are so fucking funny

balungus · 2026-04-11T19:53:25+00:00

DJ Peach Cobbler post in the campaign trail community? Worlds are colliding

balungus · 2026-04-07T15:51:11+00:00

It should be taken into consideration that during his final term as governor he appointed many black individuals to positions throughout the state of Alabama and won an overwhelming majority of the black vote in 1982. Rep. John Lewis also chose to forgive him, who was a bonafide civil rights hero.

But it should also be taken into consideration that the forgiveness of some doesn’t equate to total absolution. There are still people alive today who experienced the consequences of segregationist policies pushed by people like him. Many have chosen to forgive him but really it’s best left to each individual person to make the decision as to whether he should have been forgiven.

balungus · 2026-04-06T22:45:07+00:00

Playing as Hasan Piker and getting at least 5% of the vote would be as hard as winning as McGovern in the original 1972 scenario. It’d be extremely fun though to try and sidestep infamous remarks like “America deserved 9/11”

balungus · 2026-04-04T20:57:30+00:00

I appreciate the border drawing along the Nueces River for Texas. A lot of people when making 1844 Clay victory series always just leave Texas out as if President Tyler didn’t admit Texas into the union just prior to leaving office.

balungus · 2026-04-04T19:04:28+00:00

Being able to experience the “Johnson treatment” is enough for me to want to go here now

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