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Could have been one of them newfangled Libertarians, who align 100% with Republicans, but are independent thinkers because they consume "alt" media instead of Fox News.

They might even be mildly against Trump because they're such independent thinkers (translation: contrarian), and may vote 3rd party. That way all of the worlds problems are someone else's fault.

Yep. He doesn't give a shit. It's just that the leopard is currently eating his (state's constituent's) face, so he has to go against the party narrative. That's it.

Ok. Why don't we just stop sending you more tax money than we receive? We'll just pay for shit ourselves and not pay federal taxes anymore.

We're cool with that.

Your federal tax brackets are reaming us while our cost of living is way higher than the national median anyway.

You might have just triggered someone to kill someone. How dare you say those aggressive triggering words.

You see how dumb that sounds?

For the first half year, I had to escort my now-wife down my hallway with a broom or towel to fend of my cat who did not like sharing me.

And she had several cats of her own. When I warned her up front about my crazy cat, she was so cocky.

Problem is that RCV will only have a chance in deep blue states, and all it would accomplish is reducing the blue representation in congress.

To put it bluntly, all it would accomplish is more in fighting and contributing to the reputation that Dems are ineffective. Except, it would be the "blue aligned coalition" instead of "Dems"

The only real path to making this change is to give Dems a super majority so they can amend the constitution.

And, well, the minority of Red voters have a majority of power thanks to the electoral college, so a super majority is absolutely impossible for the foreseeable future.

Edit - it'd also cause disruptions in States that don't adopt RCV, as "progressives" protest vote 3rd party and sandbag the Dems

Republicans also love to volunteer / run for local elections that oversee these logistics purely because they want to manipulate it in bad faith. It's SOP for them.

Hell, they have even been caught multiple times putting up fake ballot areas, and "helping" non-native English speakers fill out their ballots, and being in full control of delivering those ballots.

Both sides are not the same.

And numerous. A new ship docking would set a town into a flurry, bringing in trade and money for services. Now at today's scale of everything, one ship is meaningless unless it's something like a giant tourist ship to a small tourist town.

That's a pretty rosy interpretation. Another would be that, unless you were wealthy, no one really gave a shit. I'm sure a lot of autistic people just died in the gutters because they weren't able to find steady employment.

I'm sure plenty were able to contribute to family trades like farming, etc. But human history is full of death and despair.

You could tell she had those zingers locked and loaded and was just waiting for the right time to drop each of them.

You could also see her when she decided to chamber the round. Where her stern disapproval face had brief flickers of delight as she decided she was going to use one when she had her next chance to speak.

I think they were surprised at how unhinged he got, and looked impotent with rage.

He's usually surrounded by sycophants that he can bully around and they get linched by his mob if they don't fall in line. Or he just gets up and leaves any interview that challenges his bullshit, and can leave with the last word. His childish tantrums can get reduced to soundbites that make him look like the winner to his followers who are also petty adult children.

But here, Harris was in frame laughing at his meltdowns and clearly easily pushing his buttons where it hurt, and he could do nothing but stomp over the so called moderation to steal airtime, just to look like a petulant child who needed a nap.

And the Genocide Joe canvassers on lemmy