If a district is 80% African American, and African Americans generally vote one 70/30 for Dems, you can select specific districts and remove a large chunk of support for Dems by challenging registrations for that district. Does it also hit some Republican voters? Yes. But this is how packing and cracking works, too - using the marginal gains to swing elections. There are many ways to target demographics without actually having any single piece of demographic information.
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That was bait. They say something borderline reasonable now, and you listen. Eventually, they say something weird and you let it slide. These people weasel themselves into reasonable people's lives and ruin them, day after day.
Less than half of the Republicans voted to expel him. About 114 Republicans voted no. All but 4 Democrats voted to expel him (2 voted present, 2 voted against).
The majority of Republicans did not vote to expel him.
Bernie Sanders was the best-positioned potential third party candidate in probably the last 50-100 years. Why, then, didn't Bernie run as a third party candidate? Because it's not a viable strategy in the FPTP way we run elections here. He knew that it would be the worst option.
There isn't a viable "other way".
Yes. That's how no-fault divorce works. The point is, they don't want that at all, for anyone, regardless of assets or children. They want wives to be the property of men, unable to get a divorce.
You assume they could figure out that you'd be making fun of them. I think they probably lack the critical thinking and self-awareness for it to matter.
I've said many times that I can't get rich off of stuff like this because I have a soul and wouldn't be able to be ok with parting fools from their money. That might be you, too.
Just say whatever you want to say.
That's the point of the meme. I generally try to tailor my season's greetings to the person I'm talking to, if I can tell they might have a preference. Someone standing in front of me with a Jesus is the reason for the season sweatshirt on? Probably gonna get "Merry Christmas". The goth kid that was in line in front of them? Probably getting "Happy Holidays".
Would the goth kid complain to my boss about what I say to the other person? Almost certainly not. Will the "Christmas" person complain because they overheard someone say "Happy Holidays"? It's quite likely. Do I care what either of them say to me? Nope.
That's the thing. We'd like to be able to say whatever seems right, but for some fucking reason, "some people" get up in arms and pretend like they can't say "Merry Christmas" when literally no one cares what greeting you use, except the same people complaining about what they "can't say".
Also, sidenote: the venn diagram for people who complain that they can't say "Merry Christmas" and the people who intentionally misgender people is damn near a perfect circle.
I was curious about what you found, so I looked, too. I probably shouldn't have dove in. That's on me.
It's easy to do if it's a grift for paying kickbacks by paying well over market rate for services that you can pad the numbers on easily.
If they're anything like my Pathfinder group, yes. They might even be more likely to try cuz you get loot and XP.
What socialist country has restaurants that give an itemized bill in English with USD for the currency?
They're not cool. They're fast and good for giving lots of shots in a situation where you need to get a lot of people in a hurry - especially if you're giving multiple vaccinations at the same time.
I got one of those used on me in basic training - a place where you need to vaccinate a few thousand people in about 30 minutes. Each one could do 4 shots at a time, and they had them in multiple configurations so you could get up to 4 in each arm for each "injection" station. We stepped through the line, and you got whatever shots you were missing in your records.
It hurts, like you could imagine a high pressure power washer with a needle-point burst with 4 heads blasting vaccines in your arms. It works, in the machine-like way the military works, and it is highly effective for mass vaccinations. So, I guess it makes it cool, but also it sucks like you'd expect 4-30 vaccines at once would suck.