【J】【u】【s】【t】【Z】 @ JustZ @lemmy.world

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Walking Dead - People should get shot accidentally.

Everyone carries all the time. There are guns everywhere. I get it. Zombies. But where all the accidental shootings? That many guns around, someone has to be shooting themselves in the leg or accidentally blasting their spouse through the kitchen wall. But that stuff never happens in the entire series.

It's not realistic.

Hang in there.

Audi.

You don't keep your Sega Genesis in an oaken cask?

He's already led two progressive movements.

Holy shit. Get em.

It was his dumbass and his sec def who organized the withdrawal.

If they can make it to my door I'll go with them.

It's civil rights.

From Britannica:

Civil rights are an essential component of democracy. They’re guarantees of equal social opportunities and protection under the law, regardless of race, religion, or other characteristics. Examples are the rights to vote, to a fair trial, to government services, and to a public education. In contrast to civil liberties, which are freedoms secured by placing restraints on government, civil rights are secured by positive government action, often in the form of legislation.

Please no.

Let’s stipulate something before we dive into this post so that there is no misunderstanding: the rise of the anti-vax movement did not begin with Donald Trump’s foray into American politics. It’s been around since well before 2016, slowly but surely gaining momentum among a strange combination of West Coast liberal elites and a certain portion of conservatives.

Okay cool. It hardened and became mainstream during Trump's administration directly because of Trump. If he were actually looking out for our country's national security and the health and safety of our people, he'd have gotten vaccinated for COVID on national TV, instead of in secret and never admitting it.

I'm not, thanks though.

I think they have an exception for driving on White House grounds.

If Trump even knew how to drive a car I'd be shocked.

Devils advocate: elections are always going to be imperfect ways of polling the masses. They're so big, with so many moving parts, supported and organized by humans: mistakes will be made. I'll go so far as to say that crimes will be committed, electioneering and voter fraud. These inherent features must be weighed against the ultimate goal of the election, which is to decide a winner with finality. Rarely is it going to be that close of a race where the quantity of mistakes and misdeeds are going to make a difference, but if it might there are avenues to take a case through the courts where the law and the interests at play will be weighed.

One of the interests weighed here, maybe even by the lawyers that might decide whether to bring a case, will certainly be the fact that the 21 ballots were not misplaced and later found, but thrown out with the trash. I don't know enough about it to know whether the 21 voters could be identified and asked to recast their votes, but I would think not.

In my jurisdiction, such a close race triggers an automatic hand recount. That's the due process. If 21 ballots are missed in both the first count and the recount, that's still a valid election.

I have this understanding of it sort of like, when the counters finish counting, for better or worse, "you get what you get and you don't get upset." Going in, you have to know that it's an imperfect process run by humans, and you have to know that 21 ballots might get thrown out. So as a candidate, if you could talk to every voter and get a certain promise that they would for sure vote one way or another, and you knew you had enough promises to win by exactly 21, you'd still continue to campaign because you know you don't just need one more than the other candidate to win, but as many more as possible to ensure that you to win the count. And on non election days, you work to improve the process, to train new people to help run the election, to lobby for better election laws.

Ultimately, leaving an election undecided, uncertified, in my opinion, is more damaging to the electrical process and to democracy than occasionally, in the most narrow of margins, maybe, very rarely, getting it wrong. My two cents on it.

They're trying to turn it into a right wing echo chamber.

Raise ticket prices to. $180 pp, build a hotel and conference center, install a theme park, cobalt mining.

Maybe he should do more Nazi salutes.

Bravo. Truly an exceptional meme.

Leave Facebook. Nobody will notice. If anyone does notice, text them the pics.