baronvonj

also, a black man was elected president. I think the rural racists without Internet still heard about it.

TIL fark.com is still around

And following them … Emma Watson all throughout the Harry Potter series.

Thanks, that’s where I was assuming. Like I want to believe, given the population spread throughout the state it seems reasonable to think there should be more left-leaning voters. But take for example this blurb from that site:

Texas voters do not register by party. However, when those voters participate in a partisan primary, that ballot choice is recorded and reported on the state voter file. In the absence of stronger indications (e.g. partisan political contributions or identification due to the holding of partisan public office) the most recent even-year partisan primary ballot is used .

But the 2024 primary turnout were 1.8M Republican ballots and 831k Democratic ballots. And that’s actually up vs the 725k Democratic primary ballots in 2020 (vs ~1.9M Republic ballots that year)! So that doesn’t add up.

We do know that there are otherwise-Democratic voters who vote in the Republican primaries because the districts are gerrymandered such that the primary is basically the real election (looking at me here).

This information is supplemented through the use of modeling analytics. Likely race in major urban areas plays a major role in that modeling.

I wish they would give more info than this.

Where did you get that number from? Texas doesn’t have party affiliation on voter registration. Affiliation is automatic when you vote in a primary and expires at the end of the calendar year, and I be surprised if we’ve ever had bigger turnout for the Democratic primaries during my voting-age life.

Things like this need to be prosecuted as negligent manslaughter.

Can’t really categorically say one way is best or worst. Depends on the individual arena (location relative to you and transportation options, suitability of the arena to the sport, concession prices, concession quality, weather if the arena is open), the teams playing, the personality of the other fans near you, your own personality. It’s all good.

These shitbags need to be impeached and removed.

Yeah, the Hanson song. People complaining about ‘mm bop’ as a chorus hook while unironically liking ‘ba wit da ba’.

Everything I’ve said is everybody is categorize as a teen unless the provide face/ID verification. So anonymous should still be allowed in general, just not to servers/channels set as age restricted.

I always chuckled over people liking that song while hating on Mm Bop.

More than he can count to

at least not without taking his shoes off.

Yes. Kristol clearly fears his might.

That can happen in privately run care, too. The point was more that a then-leading conservative admitted he doesn’t actually believe that socialized health care can be of good quality, but the common people just don’t deserve to have access to it.

During the first year of Obama’s first term, with the push for the ACA, conservative pundit Bill Kristol got trapped by Jon Stewart into admitting the US government can run a first class health care program, but only for the soldiers because the rest of the public doesn’t deserve it.

https://youtu.be/rRSZiWwiBuE

Swords!

Trump also shit his pants on love TV yesterday.

… what now?

It’s even crazier than that. If I remember right, every single law is a change to the Texas constitution.

No, changes to the state constitution have to pass a 2/3 vote in the state house and senate and then become a ballot measure for the public to vote on. We have a ridiculous number of incredibly specific things in it, though, so we tend to have like a dozen amendments to vote on every time. But we also have a regular statutory code that is altered by regular bills passing the legislature and gubernatorial signature.

Mierdas Touch

I already stated that unconditional support for Democratic nominees is not my position. I also already stated the circumstances under which I believe your vote can be effective when cast for a third party. I also never said to not vote based on your values and beliefs. I said that if you choose to not vote against the person who is least aligned with your values and beliefs, you’re making it easier for them to win. The winner of the election will be one of the candidates on the ballot, whether they’ve earned your individual vote or not. And it’s your only opportunity to pick which one of them it will be. Neither will align perfectly with your values and beliefs unless you yourself are running. Even with ranked choice voting. So you may as well take that opportunity to get as close to your values and beliefs as is possible given the choices.

Since you brought this up specifically, did a “no genocide” candidate win? Was there a “no genocide” candidate for president on the ballot in enough states to even be mathematically capable of winning enough EC votes? Not even likely to win but just mathematically able to? Did you then believe that Trump, who Netanyahu supported, would be better than Kamala on that issue? If you thought that were indistinguishable, were there any other issues besides that which mattered to you, for which there was a measurable difference between the Democratic and Republican candidates.

If you had an ounce of spine, then you would demand RCV, then you would say that you should only vote for those candidates who support it.

I have the spine to use my voice to strive for better rather than to silence myself in wait for perfect, because if I’m not helping to make the choice of who is in power, someone else will make it for me.