Short version: weird internet weebs have decided that "loli" means something dramatically different than the vast majority of people who've been using the term and have been particularly annoying about it since the cyberpunk anime came out
Forgive my ignorance but I'm assuming the presidential election has a significantly higher turn out? I dunno, Ireland's president is essentially a mascot who can't really do much so no one really cares.
Ha ha, the game's up, we now know you've never actually met a catholic priest.
No, that's from Truth Social. It's Twitter, but right-wing, with a legally distinct red verified check.
Rank and file Republicans don't expect them to be tax cuts for us due to a progressive tax rate in which a large portion of the populace pays no net taxes, including many of them and many more of them that do pay, do not pay very much net either. But they do think this lowers the cost of doing business while putting more $ into the pockets of private sector investors, who will handle their own finances better than would the government resulting in a growing economy and rising wages, which we did appear to get for the first time since 1970.
It's barbaric to make everyone pay their fair share? I thought places like Sweden have very high tax rates on nearly everyone taken and used by local governments and have a very generous social safety net in exchange. They pay for a lot of government and get a lot of government and like it that way.
Oh, geez, I was aware that it existed but I had no idea it had literally the same layout as twitter.
You could probably make it look exactly like Twitter with a userscript without it being overly complex.
"Disallow everyone who doesn't vote the way I do from voting."
Here's your homework exercise: Define "fair share". And then tell me how spending $50 (ballpark figure) on collecting $1 is anything but spiteful.
Literally nobody doesn't pay taxes. Your income might not be taxed but every penny you spend a portion of it is taxes.
Not even sure how someone could possibly reach this conclusion, it's so outlandish.
You didn't answer the question: "You don't think you can corrupt people telling them to expect something for nothing?" because I do. The fear is that democracies die when 51% realize they can just vote for free stuff, or, I would add, exploit the other 49%. That in part is because economics work with minorities providing the majority almost everything. There will always be more clients than lawyers, more tenants than land lords, patients than doctors, etc. Vote that you pay less than a market price and you get shortages.
As noted before, some taxes (cigarette/gas) are even regressive when viewed as a % of a person's income.
Sore punk ass, biatch ass, rotten losers.
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About that...One "defense" the Republicans are using in light of their luke war "win" in these terrible times is that their candidates sucked.
Starting to think quality of the candidate is not an issue. Example:
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Late Pennsylvania State Rep. Tony DeLuca wins re-election one month after passing
(WHTM/AP) — The late Pennsylvania State Representative Tony DeLuca won re-election Tuesday night, one month after he passed away after a brief battle with lymphoma. According to the Pennsylva…
AP’S ASSESSMENT: Missing context. DeLuca, 85, died a month before Tuesday’s midterm elections. State law stipulates that substitutes, in the case of the death of a candidate, cannot be submitted after ballots have started printing — late September, in this case. A special election will be held to fill his seat.
THE FACTS: As of Wednesday afternoon, DeLuca had received nearly 86% of the vote, according to state election results, beating Green Party candidate Queonia “Zarah” Livingston.
Some social media posts, however, are suggesting the election of a deceased candidate is indicative of shoddy elections or even fraud.
“You got dead people voting and dead people winning…” reads one tweet, which was then followed by a screenshot of a headline about DeLuca’s reelection. “You can’t make this up, America’s elections are a hot mess.”
Another user on Twitter responded to the news by stating: “Exactly what happens when massive amounts of fake ballots blindly checking democrats are received. No other explanation in Pennsylvania.”
DeLuca was an Allegheny County Democrat who represented the state’s 32nd Legislative District for 39 years. He died of cancer Oct. 9, with less than a month to go before the election.
If a candidate dies, Pennsylvania state law only allows replacement candidates to be submitted if ballots have not yet started printing.
In Allegheny County, officials sent data for the ballots to the printer on Sept. 28, county spokesperson Amie Downs told The Associated Press.
“The state has an election calendar that outlines dates for withdrawals, substitutions, etc. and all of those dates had passed when the Representative died,” Downs wrote in an email. “This is not the first time this has happened either.”
Trevor Southerland, executive director of the Pennsylvania House Democratic Campaign Committee, told the AP that “under Pennsylvania law, there was no way to remove Rep. DeLuca from the ballot." He also said the deadline is when ballots begin printing.
Southerland confirmed that DeLuca’s win simply means that the seat will be vacant until a special election is held. The date of that election has yet to be determined.
“While we’re incredibly saddened by the loss of Representative Tony DeLuca, we are proud to see the voters to continue to show their confidence in him and his commitment to Democratic values by re-electing him posthumously,” the committee wrote in a tweet. “A special election will follow soon.”
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This is part of AP’s effort to address widely shared misinformation, including work with outside companies and organizations to add factual context to misleading content that is circulating online. Learn more about fact-checking at AP.
I would not think fraud, but leaving a dead man on the ballot on election day? Shoddy. That 86% voted well before the end of an election. Troubling. But those 86% were voting for something, maybe not the candidate themselves so quality may not matter.
Correct. Even with this high turnout, it still wasn't as high as the 2020 election.
What makes you say that? Fetterman ran a strong campaign with a popular platform. Oz ran on his celebrity almost exclusively. He was a nothing candidate.
