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Truck driver leads NJ Senate president after spending $153 on campaign

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Post by iammisc »

soperj wrote: post #132
jterrys wrote: post #114

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I'm not up to date on city politics, but I had a friend that used to live in Seattle for a while. She kind of hightailed it outta there once she found a remote job because of the homelessness/drug problem. Told me people protested the museum downtown for installing architecture that made setting up homeless tents hostile, and that the city's solution to the drug problem (induced by already decriminalizing hard drugs)…

You say that like the war on drugs is the solution? Do you think that any of these people don't use drugs because it's a crime? It's just making their life worse.

> It's just making their life worse.

That's quite literally the point. If you talk to any ex-addict, you'll notice they all say that they quit once something that made their life worse forced them to reconsider. At some point you hit rock bottom and then can get your life together.

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Post by greenburger »

WillPostForFood wrote: post #126
reaperducer wrote: post #88

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The vast majority of elected offices in the United States are unpaid.

Do you have a citation for that? Interesting if true, however 100% of State and Federal legislators are paid.

Serval states only pay a small amounts. New Hampshire is the smallest I’m aware of at $100/ year.

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Post by busymom0 »

davidw wrote: post #134
themgt wrote: post #131

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Fully vaccinated people no longer need to wear a mask in most settings. The choice is yours: get vaccinated or wear a mask until you do. - The White House, May 14, 2021 https://www.facebook.com/WhiteHouse/videos/its-vaxxed-or-mas...

'When the facts change, I change my mind - what do you do, sir?' It looked like things were improving, and the more contagious Delta variant (or, as the airline likes to write, B.1.617.2) turned up. Where I live in Oregon, our hospital was overflowing with people towards the end of summer, to the point where people have died because they couldn't get 'elective' surgery. In that kind of situation, you use a 'defense i…

> 'When the facts change, I change my mind - what do you do, sir?'

That's not the problem. The problem is that those who were saying the "now correct" thing prior to the "experts" changing their minds were first called misinformation. The "experts" make definitive statements without any nuance and when they get proven wrong, they don't apologize.

For example the Press Secretary said "this is the pandemic of the unvaccinated" a week ago and then couple days later, she tested positive.

Here's another example:

> “We don't talk enough to you about this, I don't think. One last thing that's really important is, we're not in the position where we think that any virus, including the Delta virus, which is much more transmissible and more deadly in terms of unvaccinated people, the -- the various shots that people are getting now cover that. You're OK. You're not going to -- you're not going to get COVID if you have these vaccinations.” - Biden said on Jul 22.

I posted in July on HN that Israel's data shows this statement is literally not true. But I was called misinformation.

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Post by davidw »

irthomasthomas wrote: post #236
davidw wrote: post #38

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> And mandating something which neither prevents catching, nor transmitting the virus is definitely not a "minor inconvenience". They have studied this though. Actual scientists, not people on Youtube or Facebook, and they have found that masks diminish the transmission of COVID-19. This is kind of what you'd expect with something airborne.

"Penetration of cloth masks by particles was almost 97% and medical masks 44%" (For medical professionals) https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/5/4/e006577.long Why does everyone promote cloth masks, instead of proper N95 masks?

In Italy (we visited relatives this summer), everyone was wearing surgical masks, with some N95 here and there. No one had cloth masks. Surgical masks are cheap and easy to make and a country as wealthy as the US could ensure that everyone has an ample supply. We could probably even do that with N95's at this point.

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Post by moffkalast »

caseysoftware wrote: post #135
stickyricky wrote: post #5

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There is an interesting story about Madigan in Chicago. Ran the Illinois machine. Corrupt as all hell. A college student decided to run against him and collected enough signatures to get on the ballot. Madigan typically ran unopposed. Well come to find about, of the 500 people who signed the petition to get this kid on the ballot, 1200 rescinded their support. You do the math. These people aren't loved. They just kno…

Grew up near Chicago but long gone before this happened so I looked it up: > Krupa needed 473 valid signatures of ward residents to get on the ballot. He filed 1,729 signatures with the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners. He earlier said he filed 1,703 but missed a page of signatures. > A crew of mysterious political workers — perhaps they were Buddhist monks, or the gentle sun people known as the Eloi, or maybe…

And I assume those 2,609 were then charged and went to prison right? Right?

Ah who am I kidding.

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Post by gumby »

travoc wrote: post #127
gumby wrote: post #87

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There is a minor way in which this situation can become a predicament. Outsiders who become governors don’t tend to have a network or know how the mechanisms work, so tend to either get nothing done or end up having little input into things being done by those who do know those things. But having an outsider as a legislative member is generally a good thing. In California we have term limits, so no member of the legi…

For those who think government has too much power, getting nothing done isn’t as bad as it seems.

I kinda like having speed limits, food safety rules, building codes, courts, free vaccines (removing barriers to your vaccination helps me, just as mine helps you) and a bunch of other things governments do.

Having lived in countries both with and without generally well meaning and competent government, in my experience the former is vastly better despite its manifold faults.

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Post by klyrs »

argomo wrote: post #202
voz_ wrote: post #130

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I don't want status quo, but I also don't want them housed. I want the ones that steal, rape, squat in parks, do drugs, sell drugs, defecate in public, and litter to all be thrown in jail.

Is jail appropriate for litterers? Seems extreme, but I might be able to get behind it. Let's start with the folks who throw fast food wrappers out on the interstate though, not the homeless we wish to criminalize. Throwing them in jail seems like the worst of both worlds... it burns my tax dollars and does nothing to rehabilitate anyone.

That's up to the police to decide. If they don't like a law, they don't enforce it.

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Post by jdavis703 »

spoonjim wrote: post #150
celtain wrote: post #72

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To be clear though, that was a somewhat unusual race, e.g. the incumbent progressive Democrat probably would have won if he hadn't been knocked out in the primary. The ex-Democrat, Obama/Clinton/Biden-voting Republican who won benefited greatly from the fact that her opponent had some pretty radical views, too radical even for Seattle.

The primary system is so corrosive. If American constitutional government is to survive the primary system needs to end. You need to be rich or a wingnut to win a primary.

Biden is not particularly rich. Yet he ran against two billionaires and defeated them. Nor is he far left. Bernie Sanders, Elizbeth Warren and Mike Gravel were all substantially more left leaning.

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Post by busymom0 »

tehjoker wrote: post #210
clarge1120 wrote: post #74

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The risk from infection is small enough to be considered zero. There is no reason to mask the children.

Explain that to the kids that died or the older relatives that got sick from the infected kids.

> Explain that to the kids that died

At least 9 out of 10 children in the ICUs in North Carolina were obese.

https://www.wfae.org/health/2021-09-30/novant-says-9-of-10-c...

The iron-fisted one-size-fits-all approach has never been used in medicine and health except COVID.

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Post by malcolmgreaves »

twofornone wrote: post #157
PaulDavisThe1st wrote: post #66

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What is the idea?

I'll say it. People are tired of progressive extremism, like at once insisting that "CRT isn't being taught in schools" while with the other hand supporting CRT inspired school programs that teach racial awareness to children, and in particular white guilt to white children. You can look it up on the VA website, where CRT is explicitly mentioned as a part of primary school curriculum. This is arguably the biggest ele…

From one white man to another white man: you're not being attacked, democrats aren't anti-white (have you looked at the leadership? very white indeed!), and you are still living in the system that our white ancestors made for us. Other people not being oppressed as much doesn't mean your liberties are at risk. It's OK to teach and learn about how racist people made racist systems.

You don't need to feel guilty, unless you are out here actively supporting racist systems? If you're trying to use the social privileges that come with being a white man in America to dismantle racist structures, then you're doing great! If you're tried and don't want to do that work, ok, understandable: just don't throw in your two cents I'd you see other people doing this intense labor.

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