No clue. I have been focused on California since 2016. In my experience it is easier to enact local change, to influence state level changes, and later federal changes. I’m not really focusing on anything but my local city council meetings, and the various elections, especially judges, city council, and school board. Other than that I pay attention to my representatives / assemblymen, and senators at both the state and federal level. I do pay some attention to the presidential race, but as a leftist I have to hold my nose and vote for the milquetoast democratic candidate every single time for the last 5 presidential elections, and probably the 6th time in my life in November. Not one presidential candidate that I voted for in the primaries has ever gotten the nomination.

The case in question, namely Grant’s Pass vs Johnson, originated in an Oregon town. Another blue state.

TBH I wouldn’t be at all surprised if most of these recent laws come from Washington, California, and Oregon. They have the worst homelessness problems, and that’s partially due to the fact that all three states have historically had robust social safety nets, so it was safer to be homeless on the west coast.

Not exactly. Sure it seems that way for all of us, but we really didn’t have the political weight that we have globally until after WWII.

Read the lyrics to Hook, by Blues Traveller. Dude hit the top 40 with a song that was literally saying that we wouldn’t listen to the words.

Not so certain about that last point about troops being put in harm’s way. The war in Ukraine has shown just how effective drone strikes are, and nothing has been able to consistently shoot down our fighter and reconnaissance aircraft. The F-15 is 108-0. Not sure what the stats on the 22 and 35 are, but those probably go down due to pilot error more often than anything else.

My point is that I’m pretty certain that we would have been fielding these tactics before Russia popped off and invaded Ukraine, and may have been successful enough to dissuade Putin, though that seems extremely unlikely.

There is a reason a Russian/Soviet warship showed up during Operation Praying Mantis, to “take pictures for history.” They were also seeing just how good our shit was, since no one had seen us in battle for long enough at that point that we had totally upgraded to a new generation of equipment.

It’s also the fact that Pluto doesn’t have its own orbital slot. It is clearly something that escaped Uranus at some point, that’s why their orbits intersect. A planet doesn’t just have to have a certain size, it also has to have its own distinct orbital path.

30+ planets should be pretty easy. They name them after mythology. The 50 states aren’t difficult to remember, and those don’t have any sort of naming convention.

This is the appropriate level of germ security one should worry about.

In high school, (mid 90s,) I tracked down when the odd globe we had at our house was produced. It must have been made in 1952 according to the encyclopedias. Tons of countries that no longer existed. Strangely enough this particular globe showed the major water bodies as black, not blue.

Wormwood, aka Artemisia absinthium, is the active ingredient in Absinthe.

In English the tool for chopping down trees is spelled axe. Just letting you know since you’re multilingual and I assume English isn’t your first language.

You can say all that but the fact remains that there was record turnout for the 2016 primary, and we got told to sit down and shut up.

I’m gen X, btw.

Seriously. Like I would absolutely love to see some sort of statistical analysis that proves that some specific field or fields of work are predominantly staffed by “black” people. Just because I have heard conservatives and liberals refer to certain jobs as black or brown people jobs, and I’m totally sick of that shit.

The real issue there is trying to define black people other than actual skin tone. Far too many people want definitions that are based on nebulous data, such as the person’s genetic bloodline, or the region their ancestors were from.

Far as I can tell, as a white person that damn near glows in the dark, your skin color is only partially tied to who your parents were. You might be the statistical outlier because of your genes.

Also skin color only seems to be indicative of how quickly, and how badly you’ll get a sunburn. White people are straight up allergic to the sun, unless we get a “sunburn” while fucked up on hallucinogens.

In many states we did. He took more of Virgina and West Virginia than Hillary did, and their delegates still voted for Hilary at the DNC national convention. This happened in a ton of states before California, the only state that the DNC electors “officially” gave to Bernie, even had their primary. It was so bad that almost 50% of the lifelong Californian Democrats left the party for NPP registration, which is better in California, in my opinion, since No Party Preference allows one to vote in all the primaries, as well as the general.

That bullshit “vote” was, and probably still is, rigged. They won’t let us vote for AOC if she ever runs for president. We need to destroy every political party and force candidates to run on policy and ideals.

Washington understood that direct democratic communism was the best method of choosing leaders, and laws, well before either concept was even available.

There was a game? Could you PM me? I’d like an copy honest review.

This one, and Kai Winn vs Delores Umbridge. I honestly want to see the second scenario more than the first, but that’s just because I’m firmly convinced that Kai Winn would, “My Child,” Umbridge into defeating herself.

Good FSM, I wish. It’s not technically impossible, just functionally, and systemically, impossible.

Moose doesn’t have a “U”

Food service as well.

San Diego has also passed a camping ban and has been violently clearing homeless camps

In San Diego they passed a camping ban last year, I’ve been protesting it since then. The Union Tribune probably.has some news stories, but they absolutely have been doing it, and I don’t have a subscription.