You need to be a citizen for at least 7 years to be eligible to hold office, but Santos may have just lied on the paperwork, and the people in charge of checking that shit have little incentive to actually check, because Santos is a Republican who blindly supported the agenda, until he became a liability to the party.
Because he’s a republican who is pro-Trump, so the screaming maga don’t care as much about his crimes or lies, afterall they say “every politician lies” and then vote for the liars who say the shit that the maga like.
So the republicans in power cover for him, until it became too much for them.
You jest, but we don’t actually know if he’s a citizen at all.
He has claimed at various times to have been born in the US and in Brazil. He’s lived in both locations, and is wanted for questioning for crimes in Brazil.
5th pin down on the far left side in the picture.
There’s no solder on the pin.
Most of the joints are questionable, that one is flat out bad.
There are a bunch of questionable solder joints.
Like half the pins.
But the absolute worst is the 5th pin down on the far left side. There’s so little solder used that you can see into the hole.
A few others are also a bit lacking as well. Almost all of the joints are ugly as sin…
Part of the effort to keep third parties off the ballot is that you make shit infinitely worse.
It’s called the spoiler effect, and it fucks us over all the god-damn time.
Do not vote third party under our current electoral system.
You need to either work within the current system like the Progressives do, or work to change the system to one that doesn’t fuck people over if they vote third party.
If you want to get involved with actually doing that second thing, here’s a great place to start.
I grew up in Wyoming. We didn’t get most of that well…
We did hear about lynching and Malcolm X. Not much in details about either, mind, but we were told that both had existed. They glossed over anything that Malcolm X stood for, or actually said, or did…
As for lynching… We learned the word.
$40 per child per month.
That’s still not much, but with a little budgeting and meal planning it goes further than you’d think, if not as far as it sometimes needs to.
I’ve lived on not much more than that per month.
It does mean zero luxuries, and that might be the worst part of it.
So I do agree with you that it should be more. We should all have a bit more. No one should ever have to scrip and save in order to eat each month.
Every man woman and child should be guaranteed food, water, and housing as a minimum.
The only place I see liquid fuel being used is in commercial transportation, particularly in shipping and rail. Anhydrous ammonia would be perfect for shipping, and a nightmare anywhere else. That shit will fucking kill you in an instant, and those who survive just wish they were dead.
So it should only be used in highly regulated professional settings.
That said, it’s still a wonderful fuel option for those settings.
This electrolyte swaps shit? I see it as an attempt to reuse all that gas station infrastructure all over the place.
EV chargers are all over as well these days, but they’re still not anything near as ubiquitous and gas stations.
Israel and Hamas, working together to hurt the Palestinian people.
That’s how it’s been since Hamas was founded with Israeli aid, and how it’s been ever since.
Hyperloop didn’t fail, it did exactly what Musk wanted. It killed the California high speed rail plan. At least for a few years.
It’s the only thing that works. Shouting Nazis into silence is the best early way to deal with them. Show up to protest in huge numbers, deplatform them, force them to scurry back into the shadows.
Most importantly of all, keep them from recruiting more.
Once these efforts fail, all you’re left with is violence, and violence will come, because the Nazis love it.
Actually, no.
Bullet voting is just a thing people do.
Even in places that have been using versions of RCV for decades, about 30% of any given population will bullet vote.
That’s info from FairVote themselves (The main proponents of RCV, even if they’re sort of scummy in their advocacy)
Ranked Choice is actually (much) worse overall than the modified Score that OP is describing, even with bullet voting.
As a note, Ranked Choice still has bullet voting. About 30% of voters in a ranked choice election bullet vote.
This video goes into a deep dive about Ranked Choice (and some other systems) and talks about how Ranked Choice might actually be worse than simple plurality. (which is already pretty bad)
A slight misconception in your comment, what OP is describing is much closer to a slightly limited version of Score. Or possibly an expanded Approval.
It’s nothing like Ranked Choice.
To break things down, Ranked Choice is an Ordinal voting system. You rank candidates A then B then C.
The actual mechanics of the election are a series of First Past the Post elections all on a single ballot.
To contrast, Approval and Score are both Cardinal voting systems. You express preference for A, but that doesn’t mean anything about your preference for B. The votes per candidate are counted independently of the votes for any other candidate. This means that Cardinal voting systems are 100% immune to the spoiler effect. They’re also almost completely immune to clone candidates and other such attacks.
Ordinal systems will always fall victim to the spoiler effect, although the more complex ordinal voting systems like Ranked Choice mitigate it somewhat (while making things so much worse when it does crop up)
I’m against the dumping of garbage into the Mariana Trench, there are perfectly find landfills here in the US that he could live in.
I’m sure someone in Alabama will donate a lightly used meth trailer for him to live in.
The thing is, we already know how this goes, because Argentina has had right-wing fanatics in charge before.
The economy is done. That’s how it goes. Everyone except the super rich will be reintroduced to extreme poverty, and anyone who leans even slightly left-wing will have to fear for their lives.
When you rat someone out, you’re breaking trust. You were part of whatever was going on, and now you’re trying to save yourself.
When you snitch on someone, there’s not that element of betrayal, because you might not have ever been part of the crime, just stumbled across it.
Think of it this way.
You and your brother are stealing cookies. If your brother fesses up to save himself, he’s a rat, if your sister catches you and tells, she’s a snitch.
The medical science on it says that two years of hormone therapy are enough to lose any sort of competitive advantage in trans athletes.
Four years is overkill, and is part of why this policy is considered one of the strictest in professional sports.