Given that in most places in the US you’re required to have auto and home insurance, somehow I think people would find them. Knowing that some NFL player stans for Progressive doesn’t give me any information on the quality of the company.
Pretty sure those are either already dead, or guarding Vlad.
The good old Nazi Germany plan - get your rich cronies to pay for everything and assure everyone that the spoils of war will more than pay them back.
I never understand this. Most of the time when I see this it’s a low-throughput business like a pawn shop trying to entice people to come inside. But why would I get any closer to your loud-as-fuck speaker that you’ve propped the door open with blaring shitty trap music?
So either you really dont get how things work, or you’re kind of racist/xenophobic.
It’s both. It’s always both. People are afraid and angry and hungry, and that brings fascism like flies to shit. I really don’t want to believe that people were always this hateful, and that it’s mostly because times are tough for everyone. Doesn’t help that you have Fox News and their cronies whipping everyone into a frenzy about every little thing.
Oh well. Now we’ll see them put their plan into action and hope that they somehow self-implode before they do too much damage.
I’m not blaming it on cabin fever or anything like that. I think people are just angry.
That’s just because they live in the 21st century.
I’ve certainly seen an uptick in anti-social behavior since Covid. Whether or not it’s because of the economic situation or being cooped up inside, it really seems to have done a number on some people.
If it costs the NYT money and buys the workers some bargaining power, I’m all for it.
You’re not wrong. We have a representative democracy because the Founders thought the same way. I guess I prefer not to believe that it’s impossible for people to be well-informed enough to make a good decision on these things. I’ve certainly seen some new lows in the past 10 years.
I’m asking for the individual candidates to lay out their specific political goals. The party can continue to publish its platform and planks.
Then people vote based on whether they want to see those goals met. When those politicians are up for re-election, it’s fairly easy for someone to tabulate whether or not those goals were met. If there are extenuating circumstances (overwhelming opposition, for example), then they can use that to defend themselves. This would help hold their feet to the fire.
As for voting ideologically, I attribute that mostly to FPTP - people feel as though they cannot do anything but vote ideologically because there are no real alternatives. That’s why RCV is extremely important.
shrug Where I live, cars feel (and know) that they’re invincible and likely to suffer no punishment if they kill someone.
Drivers like to think that they can do no wrong all the time, not just when it suits their purpose.
I think he should. He’d be much more interesting that way.
An ex-coworker of mine recommended Mango Languages, which is supposed to be much better and also if you have a library card, you can usually get a subscription for free through them! The lessons are probably a little longer than 30 seconds, but not too much longer. I’d say a minute tops.
This might be survivorship bias. If you get hit by a cyclist, you might - worst case Ontario - break a limb or something if they send you flying into something else. If you get hit by a driver, you are definitely going to break something and you will most likely die.
As for how likely it is that you actually get hit - do you think it’s easier to avoid a 2’ x 6’ object moving at 15 mph or a 8’ x 16’ object moving at 45 mph?
You’ve waited years for this moment, haven’t you?
I imagine they don’t want people telling them what to do, which is hilarious given, you know, chain of command.
I will say that I’ve met very few actual ex-military personnel who truck with any of this Oathekeepers, III’ers, etc. bullshit. I still remember how kitted out the insurrectionists were on January 6th, looking like they’d purchased half of a Cabela’s on the way to DC.
If 2A maniacs seriously thought that its purpose was to establish a militia for local defense, they would a) shut the fuck up and b) go enlist in the National Guard.
Moving away from FPTP is, for democracy, the crucial first step that very few seem to have taken.
I understand how advertising works, I’m saying that I would like to choose for myself instead of having name recognition forced into my brain cells.