Are you sure? Next time you get your mail ballot check the extra sheets papers and information pamphlets for a sticker.

I know that initial ballot envelopes in some other vote by mail states do include that sticker, along with other election information, but I have no idea how universal that approach it.

I’m usually pretty shit at guessing the era of specific meme behavior, but this feels like a callback to early 2010’s and I don’t think anything can ever top the Dub the Dew contest.

I mean, at least part of what he said isn’t technically wrong… School shootings are a “fact of life” in America.

And honestly, if we’re not going to address the actual issue, which is guns at a national level, I wouldn’t mind seeing every single school turned into a miniature 1980s Beirut.

Why not? Let’s assign a Meal Team Six to every school. We’ll get snipers on the roof, and random strip searches going on in K-12 education.

Maybe we can empower groups of students within each school to be miniature deputies who are tasked with keeping order among the other inmates, I mean students. We can call this the trustee program.

Oh, and by I wouldn’t mind, I mean I would be horrified and it would traumatize at least an entire generation of children before the program was scrapped, but if we’re already on this death drive and refuse to do anything meaningful, a part of me wants to see just how dumb we can really get.

Not sure if you were intentionally making a joke knowing it’s spread via contact/mosquitos, or just really dumb.

Either way, I chuckled.

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Throws down? She might as well have said:

who you going to believe, me? Or you’re lying eyes?

What’s crazy is that your comment isn’t even endorsing any position, just stating a fact:

Michigan has a large and diverse Muslim community and without them, Biden is unlikely to win the state.

His policy on Israel’s war has lost him those votes, and that has been reflected in the polling since long before the debate.

This isn’t a new development.

Losing one artist isn’t the implication…it’s losing all your independent venues because they won’t financially survive being blacklisted by every artist that hopes to tour anywhere else because LN is a monopoly…

So goodbye independent venues and hello to exponentially higher prices, because that’s what monopolies do…

Correct, they rigged it: past tense.

I don’t mean by literally stuffing ballots, but via mostly boring administrative and bureaucratic maneuvering. Although, some state Democratic parties did actually cancel their Presidential primaries entirely, which frankly should be illegal.

Nothing I’m saying is breaking news. This was covered at the time, and has seen a small resurgence in coverage since the debate.

I think The Lever actually just republished the reporting they ran at the time.

Trump isn’t some mythical Boogeyman who only Biden can beat. That’s not my gut feeling, that’s what the recent electoral results and polling data shows us.

But putting that aside, that doesn’t mean the DNC should be rigging primaries because they think they know best. That’s how Trump won in 2016, and why we just witnessed Biden sun downing on a debate stage.

That’s what primaries are for.

Unfortunately, Biden and the DNC didn’t feel that aspect of party democracy was convenient for them this year, so…well, here we are.

You should really read up on how they operate.

Here’s just one hypothetical based off available reporting, court cases, and leaked documents:

Artist A has a history of performing at independent Portland venues but also tours the country and therefore has to use LN venues and TM services.

When LN opens their Portland location, Artist A will have to either start using the LN venue, or find that the rest of their tour has suddenly run into financial issues with LN pricing and rebate schemes.

So Artist A switches to Portland LN venue, and magically those issues start to go away.

And that’s just the artist side, LN pulls variations of this monopoly abuse with local venues who refuse to Ticket Master, or sign with LN.

I’m not even doing their criminal behavior justice and the real examples are significantly worse then what I quickly typed out. This will only harm artists, local venues, and Portland, if allowed.

Unions should always back the due process rights of their members…

Of all the things to shit on Police Unions for, this one actually requires a conviction to be valid.

Until then, it is every union’s moral and ethic obligation to support their members as they go through the legal process.

Prior to his FAA appointment, Whitaker was a long time airline industry lawyer and executive.

Don’t confuse the job description on the FAA website, with the actual role he’s been appointed to fill.

…you realize that other users can see both your account creation date, and old comments…right?

Your account is literally a day old…or rather, the account you’re using at this moment.

You probably shouldn’t make these ambiguous comments with your brand new alt/Smurf/shill account.

Without a post history I can’t tell if you’re recommending McKinsey in good faith, which would be hilarious btw.

Or if you’re trying to make a sarcastic recommendation because you think McKinsey would have some adverse affect on the efficacy, or posture, of the US DOD. Which would also be funny, as it would imply that you made that joke while being unaware that McKinsey already does quite a lot work within the US MIC.

Anyways, while I found you use of a brand new account to leave that specific comment amusing…still, fuck McKinsey and anyone who’s ever worked for them cough Mayor Pete.

The Democrats abandoned the Unions long before Union members largerly abandoned the Democrats.

You’re not wrong, but the appointment of Lina Khan to head the FTC is easily one of the only good things Biden has done while in office.

So, at least she’ll go down kicking and screaming before they finally snuff her out, metaphorically speaking.

Anti-steroid propaganda was probably the only effective messaging from the war on drugs, but like all drugs, it’s relative, and not that simple.

Not to go on too long of a tangent here, but the complete restriction of these classes of drugs actually can cause a lot of unnecessary harm to athletes. For example, in helping athletes heal and recover from injuries, or surgeries.

Recovery time is really important in pro-sports where the ability to earn money is limited to a relatively short window e.g. professional fighting. Often time fighters will return before they’re fully healed, because they need to earn a living. In many of those cases, steroids could have significantly shortened their recovery time and reduced the risk of further injury.

I’m not here pretending that steroid use can’t also cause undo harm to athletes, just that it’s not as black and white as many people believe.

Edit: to be clear, steroids are some of the most complicated drugs to use correctly in order minimize long-term health effects, such as destroying your endocrine system. Professional or amateur, they should only be used under the close supervision of a specialized doctor.