The real answer is you can't actually contract for illegal things, the contract is void from the start.

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You will never get your hours back, and you'll still be happy about it.

And the article points out that the new group he is associated with is partially owned by Peter thiel

If the Republicans steal the election according to that nightmare house vote scenario, it will not end well for the country.

Democrats have taken the L on the presidency too many times despite having the popular vote. They will not take winning the popular vote AND winning the electoral college, but having it stolen by electors intentionally corrupting the process. There will be riots, in almost every city.

The lack of faith in the electoral system federally would collapse, and you'd see a lot more talk and probably even some action towards independence in certain states.

USSR 2.0

The party candidate selection process has nothing to do with Democracy.

The parties themselves have nothing to do with democracy. There's nothing in the constitution about Democrats or Republicans, or their parties.

All the parties are is a group of people that agree to put one name forward for their candidate. How they choose the candidate is entirely up to them, it didn't used to be done via state wide primaries, it used to just be a bunch of old dudes at a convention picking someone.

The democracy part is that anyone is allowed to put their name on the ballot for president if they meet the basic criteria, usually a minimum number of voter signatures and a filing fee. This is done for each state they want their name to be on the ballot for.

Your 92 year old aunt voted for the policies that led to this. She got all the benefits and now gets to check just as the bill needs to be paid.

Theres a massive cohort of baby boomers trying to vote for policies to benefit them until they die. That continue screwing over the youth in the meantime. They simply don't care because the long term effects won't hurt them.

I actually read the article,

Dude was completely stable (no fever, vitals stable, etc.) while staying in the emergency room for multiple days from a normal illness. Then he suddenly died overnight after saying he was going to the night before to his daughter.

"Zammit doesn't know what caused her father's death but pointed to the lack of resources at the hospital as significant factors."

That doesn't sound like the hospital failed him, that sounds like he was 88 and people die around that age from natural causes all the time. I'm not saying hospitals can't save people, but people do die eventually, even in hospitals.

Technically the US supreme court can stick their dick in anything, there's a legal option that allows them to just cut in whenever they feel like it.

There's no regular appeals process that reaches the US federal supreme court for a New York state criminal case though.

Generally when you commit a crime, you get convicted, complete your sentence, and then you get all of your rights back unless you're deemed a risk to the public in which case you may have additional restrictions on your freedom.

Not everyone re-offends. In fact, for many types of crimes, the recidivism rate is fairly low. Your assumption that this person is going to put women at risk is short sighted, especially given the fact that a person is FAR more likely to be sexually assaulted by their own romantic partner than a random person.

The problem with banning someone from any sort of employment where they have contact with the other gender, is that that essentially prevents them from working in any capacity. There are no industries with only a single gender across the entire organization. If they hired only men, it would be considered discriminatory and they could be sued.

It also doesn't in any way reflect the fact that this person will encounter women everywhere, from the grocery store to the gas station. Work is hardly the only place where people encounter others.

I think these only go down the center based on the photo.

She's smiling because she's being paid to smile.

You're assuming the booster is giving you the same (or anywhere even close) to the vascular damage caused by catching the virus. As far as the studies I've read, the vascular impact from catching COVID is dozens of times worse than a booster.

You say "Maybe it didn't affect me as intensely as if I had not been vaccinated, who knows" The doctors know, that's why boosters are being offered to everyone for free in Canada.

This is one of the reasons why Canada, which has a much higher vaccination and now booster rate than the US is doing better than the US with it's abysmally low booster rate. Canada is losing about 50 people per week right now, the US is still at around 2000 (40 times higher, despite only having a little over 8 times the population)

What the world does or doesn't do is completely irrelevant to your personal choices. If they all jumped off a bridge to their death, would you do it too? I've continued masking in crowded public areas, boosted regularly (last Monday was my most recent dose), kept my kids masked at school, boosted them regularly too, none of us have had COVID at all. Make your own choices.

Adjust our economic system to disallow inherited wealth beyond a lavish amount. I don't mind a person getting rich for starting and succeeding with a massive company. I do mind the 100B being passed to their children, who will never have done anything to earn it.

Let the kids have $10 million each or something, the government should take the rest. If they try to "leave" the country the same thing should apply.

This will also adjust the incentive for billionaires to just make more money since they know they won't be able to pass it on maybe they will start actually spending it to keep the