Those clowns in Congress have done it again. What a bunch of clowns
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Individual politicians and political parties routinely use count a vote as approval. In that way, if no other, voting does serve to support the existing system.
I don't think that tracks.
The highest turnout in any US election since 1908 was 62% in 2020, and at no point has a party won an election and been like 'look at all the people who didn't vote, I guess we don't have a mandate to govern'
Parties win elections and govern in power with less than 50% of voters backing them all the time, it's literally the standard. A low turnout will not change the way any party acts once in power.
I love them all*, but the IT Crowd is at the top for me
(*Graham Linehan is a prick)
I never actually watched dead set, but I remember it was airing at the same time I had a Media Studies project at school about zombies so the tutors kept bringing it up
“It’s been going back and forth around the 270 line,” he told Fortune. “Right now, it’s a tossup according to the PredictIt numbers. The big question in my mind is, how much Republican bias is there in the prediction markets?”
According to this data person, Trump blew a huge lead to make it evens. Please vote
Jack was Biz Markie's only young friend
same thing lol
Except for immigrants, queer people, black people, Muslim people, and women. For those groups it is decidedly not the fucking same
But because the Democrats aren't going to reverse capitalism and it doesn't affect you personally, who gives a shit, right? Fuck everybody apart from you
God said to Abraham 'Kill me a son'
Abe said 'Man you must be putting me on'
God said 'No'
Abe said 'What'
God said 'You can do what you want Abe, but the next time you see me comin you better run'
- The Bible
Putting aside questions of ecosystems etc, I think the main reason is that we just can't - ironic since we seem to be extint-ing all the other animals
In South America they tried in the 50s and 60s, and more kept cropping up. They breed so quickly, if you miss an area they can just rebound. Then more can come in on ships and stuff
So you couldn't really localise it, it would have to be a huge global undertaking. And it would likely require widespread use of pesticides that are at best tricksy and at worst illegal, not to mention environmentally shitty
Bill is the pony that travels with the Fellowship from Bree to the Mines of Moria. I hope he has a good birthday
This book was funded and published by Uri Tzafon, an extremist fringe group that even the Israeli Government distance themselves from
I'm not pointing this out to try and downplay the genocide in Gaza or ignore illegal settlements, and of course there's a discussion to be had about the extent to which small radical factions can reflect and influence the political mainstream
But its a bit disingenuous to present this as just an 'Israeli Children's Book'. It's kinda like calling Nick Fuentes an 'American Journalist'
Absolutely
Global warming' gave us that senator with the snowball
In an ideal world we wouldn't have to moderate accurate terms to prevent bad actors making dumb arguments
But this is clearly not an ideal world