That's not what OP is doing.
He's buy a "brand new" phone the store opened and unlocked.
Completely different, and if a store is doing that, they're probably doing other shady adjacent shit.
I wouldn't buy any "brand new" expensive electronic that's already been opened and had shit done to it
Kamala won't be perfect, and we need to keep pressure on her from the left....
But at the end of the day, she's able to beat trump where Biden likely couldn't, and she'll sure as shit be a better president than Biden or trump could be
You can "unlock" a locked phone.
You can buy a factory unlocked phone.
I wouldn't buy a "brand new" manually unlocked phone.
You're also going to spend a lot of money at once, where a provider would do interest free over two years plus likely a discount, and your not leaving till the contract is over.
I always take interest free deals, and so should you.
Do you think cops like prosecutors or AGs?
Cops want to be the end all and be all of the justice system, it's not even unheard of for them to stop doing their jobs to protest the DA/AG/prosecutor who tries to hold a cop accountable or not do something they want.
They'll still arrest and hassle people, even lock them up. But when it goes to trial, they don't. And in our justice system often the only proof of a crime is what a cop says. So if they don't show the case is lost and that hurts the careers of DAs, AGs, and prosecutors.
They 100% identify with a corrupt politicians more than a prosecutor.
is obvious that they are going to spend a lot of money,
That is about raising money...
I'm talking about how they can spend that much money.
Most of the actual work on voter outreach is done by volunteers. Are they spending it on radio/TV ads no one see? Spam calls and texts asking for donations? Fancy fundraisers to get moreoney?
We spend money to make money, and it just keeps going in a loop and they never really get around to trying to get votes.
It's like infinite unnecessary middle men...
Cost over a billion to beat trump last time and this time is going break the record again.
I don't understand how they're spending this much money, like I understand the answer is corruption, but I'm just amazed they have the balls to claim that much is legitimately spent on campaigning.
Most of it is probably the salaries of the people in charge of collecting donations. They're just after a commission, but Jamie Harrison got the DNC chair because he ran against a nationally hated Republican in a seat he had no chance of winning
Biden didn't care he lost the election, just that he broke records for donations. Everyone ignored the donations weren't so much for Harrison, they were against his opponent.
Most countries can kick out a PM, hold a national popular vote election. And have a replacement PM in office in like 2-3 months.
For a fraction of the cost of what we do.
But having the primary start so early and called after 5-10 states vote gives this huge election where fundraising happens nonstop. Which is insane because most people don't see TV/radio commercials anymore. We learn about candidates from what the media says about candidates more than anything, have for decades.
Even in person campaign stops, who goes to one of those if they aren't already voting for them?
It's costing each party over a billion for presidential campaigns these days, and for the life of me I can't understand how they could spend that much if they tried.
It's literally Brewster's Millions, but if someone's team is raising the most, they act like it's a good thing.
Everything about American elections is inflated because there's so much money that can be made in what's essentially legalized bribery. And 99.9% of Americans are priced out of the system. With the "victory fund" nonsense, an individual can give like 960k this year. Why would they waste time with average Americans who might give $20?
Great.
So the social media site is older than I thought, and the person who made the comment on that site is a lot stupider than it seemed.
Like, Facebooks been around for about 20 years. Would you take a link to a Facebook comment over PBS?
And that linked accounts last comment was advocating for Biden to stage a pre-emptive coup before this election...
https://www.metafilter.com/activity/306302/comments/mefi/
It doesn't matter if it was created before Ask Yahoo or if it's older.
It's random people making random social media comments, sometimes stupid people make the rare comment that sounds like they know what they're talking about. And I already agreed no one had to take my word on it either.
But that PBS video does a really fucking good job explaining it.
Cuz if I can't explain to you why a random social media comment isn't a good source, I'm sure as shit not going to be able to explain anything like Penrose's theory on consciousness to you.
That's a social media comment from some Ask Yahoo knockoff...
Like, this isn't something no one is talking about, you don't have to solely learn about that from unpopular social media sites (including my comment).
I don't usually like linking videos, but I'm feeling like that might work better here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xa2Kpkksf3k
But that PBS video gives a really good background and then talks about the recent discovery.
Your source literally started out by saying it's not happening...
This election is important man, just take a second before posting to vet what you're saying. It honestly seems like you have good intentions, but that's not enough bro.
You need to make sure what you're saying is factual. Even people making innocent mistakes can cause issues down the line. Just added confusion about the voting process has been shown to depress turnout.
It ain't about what voters want, it's about what donors want...
Hopefully that changes after the election, but I'd be very surprised
Considering Kamala made the tie breaking vote to expand fracking, I'd be really surprised