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a half dozen participants were so drunk that they couldn't even participate in the training scenarios.

as for the chief of police;

"No one will ever look at Chief Eynon the same. He did not represent the city of North Ogden in a professional manner.'

he was reinstated the following month.

rump pissed off the factory of the world and now the country with the highest population in the world is also letting him know he's in some shit.

heartwarming.

Nova Scotia lobster emoji sure looks like a ding dong

I was in the same boat and read a lot of different books and watched videos on how to draw, and the number one thing that helped me was the frequency with which I drew.

techniques made a difference certainly, but the amount that I drew was the primary factor in how satisfied I became with my art.

if I can share purely anecdotal evidence, something that seems to help me was not drawing the next line until I could see the next line in my head, and project that mental next line onto the paper that I was drawing.

I didn't read that or watch that anywhere, I just thought that if I could picture what I wanted to draw in my head, I could probably draw it, and until that point I wasnt clearly picturing what I wanted to draw in my head.

this is so great to hear!

I am fully in support of this move, great great to hear.

damn thank you I really appreciate that explanation and will check out those videos.

I understand half of enough of that to know what you mean by context, and you really tied a lot of it together for me just now.

I don't have tiktok so I'm sure I'm sitting out a lot of cultural tides at the moment.

wow, yes I appreciate you adding that context, that's some important information to know

yup, I was speaking to the US context of the post.

aa for the "standard expectation", maybe in a perfect world, but unfortunately not in this one.

universal healthcare, education, housing, and the protection and maintenance of fundamental civil rights must be "part of the debate" because they are not guaranteed in most, and arguably all, countries.

"Bernie is a centrist at best."

Plainly incorrect:

Bernie fights for universal healthcare, universal education, strong unions, higher taxes for the wealthy.

These are radically progressive positions in the US and most other countries.

"I believe Bernie is more based than centrism in his real views"

Your belief has no basis in reality, while his political track record is filled with the introduction of legislation and his public advocacy for the causes above and many more.

"you need corporate backing to win an election in the US by design."

this is also incorrect, the design was for anyone to be able to enter politics in the US. At a local level, this is still largely possible.

Corporate backing determining higher-level political outcome is a recent consequence of Citizens United, the ruling by the US Supreme Court that allowed unlimited political funding by the wealthy. That ruling is a corruption of the US political process, not "by design".

Bernie has also proposed legislation repealing CU and regularly advocates for repealing CU so that the "design" of political entry in the US can be reestablished.

wow, that's crazy. thanks for the video, i just watched it.

if thatchers goal was to close the mines, wouldn't miners voluntarily not working play into that?

or does strike in this context mean general protest rather than specifically not working?

got it, thanks for the broad strokes and context

your comment is incorrect because:

1. those who do not survive cannot speak up at all

2. it's far more difficult to live for a cause than to die for it.