halcyoncmdr

joined 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 hours ago

At this point I think I'd take my chances. More likely to die if an officer is on scene in this country now.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (5 children)

STIs have been a massive issue in nursing homes for decades. What's special about boomers? Just that they're now the largest generational influx?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

This post is on lemmy.ml

Unless you're posting radical left propaganda (actual radical, not what the Republicans say is radical) you'll be downvoted to hell and never get any actual conversation or discussion out of it. Trying to have an actual discussion here is a waste of time and effort that would be more effectively used elsewhere.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago

I still find it absolutely amazing that anyone appointed by an official isn't barred from being involved in any investigation or judicial proceeding involving that official.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 hours ago

That won't stop them either. They'll just use it anyway. These companies never delete anything they might be able to use. At least not willingly.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

The Green Party isn't doing shit to try to fix the system, and is just as hypocritical as the bigger parties.

It's a throwaway vote whether you want to admit it or not.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

You know that's 100% accurate. It's EA. If there's anything that seems good for players, it's a mistake.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

You think that will stop them? They'll just do it and pay a comparatively small fine to the government in a decade after they get around to investigating it. And that's the best case scenario. More realistically nothing will ever happen.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

The Satanic Temple is already recognized as a tax exempt religious institution by the IRS.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

And will continue to be as long as people refuse to vote third party out of fear.

No it will be that way as long as our FPTP system and Electoral College remains as it is. A third party in our election system will be a spoiler candidate. They will always take votes from another more popular candidate, and given enough third party votes will result in the least popular candidate winning.

That is the system we have, like it or not. Sticking your head in the sand and being an idiot about it doesn't help change reality.

We need to implement ranked choice voting and remove the FPTP system to actually start seeing candidates that reflect our beliefs instead of having the same two football teams.

So I'm voting third party. Proudly.

Good for you. Throwing away your vote and actively working against reality isn't the win you seem to think it is. But you're free to be an idiot, this country is built on allowing everyone to be an idiot, and it's exactly what the leaders of both large parties want to have happen. You vote, but your vote means less almost every other vote because of the system it was cast in.

Congratulations for accomplishing nothing, at best. At least you feel superior to others for it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

They're voting for who they want. That doesn't mean that the vote is smart or actually does anything near what they want to achieve. In our current system, it is a stupid vote that helps the person they don't want to win.

Given the context of how current US elections work, they are therefore stupid to vote that way. They have a right to, that doesn't mean it's a smart decision.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 hours ago (8 children)

In our first past the post system, as it stands, that's the same as not voting or just throwing the vote away.

While the intention is there for every vote to count, the sad reality is that a third party vote is useless at best, and helping the person you don't want at worst.

Unless we remove FPTP, two directly opposite parties with little crossover is the inevitable outcome, given enough time.

 

NASA and Boeing officials pushed back Friday on headlines that the commercial Starliner crew capsule is stranded at the International Space Station but said they need more time to analyze data before formally clearing the spacecraft for undocking and reentry.

view more: next ›