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OneOfTheOutOfFocusGuys

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  1. still though, voter enthusiasm is important. you can't hang out in the 75% for your party and expect to be reelected anymore imo. not sufficient turnout.
  2. Did this happen at a Whammyburger?
  3. probably college station is a good place to FAFO. lot of antivaxxers but with money.
  4. The more I hear about that guy, the less I care for him.
  5. I just pulled that up! I swore I'd never seen that before. Glad to know my memory wasn't that bad. (also, it is too over the top in his death wish even for LW)
  6. I love when Gibson's Aussie accent sneaks through.
  7. Yeah that a bio that screams for a Madison Cawthorn-electing district to eat up.
  8. https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2021/health/global-covid-vaccinations/ At some level is the political side of this much ado about nothing? Seems all developed nations are about the same in vaccine rates. We are laggards, but not freakishly. I've highlighted some of our notables in our peer group below. I feel like it is similar to people's professed beliefs being different from their actual behavior that we talk about all the time in politics. Ask them who is going to refuse to get a vaccine, you'll get a lot of 'hell yeah. freedom!' but when the time comes, the same number do it here anyway as do anywhere else. The actual hermancainaward behavior is a number who is just very loud about their stupidity because they are Americans and enjoy having loud stupidity and we amplify it. But their numbers aren't that out of line with what it seems like we should expect anywhere in the world. Netherlands 22,196,529 129 259 Cyprus 1,138,132 128 269 Cook Islands 22,456 128 127 Mauritius 1,625,865 128 239 Monaco 49,980 126 265 Germany 106,070,782 126 270 Falkland Islands 4,407 125 226 Turkey 106,066,262 125 252 Lithuania 3,339,375 124 269 Malaysia 40,664,674 124 210 Japan 154,971,886 123 217 Anguilla 18,565 123 229 Luxembourg 777,789 123 268 Andorra 93,430 121 245 Liechtenstein 45,718 120 247 Austria 10,750,025 119 269 Switzerland 10,158,674 117 273 Saudi Arabia 41,176,166 117 279 Ecuador 20,813,706 116 244 Sri Lanka 24,927,089 116 236 Panama 5,061,909 116 245 Greece 11,934,359 115 261 United States 386,780,816 115 282 Sint Maarten 49,159 113 212 Curaçao 185,751 113 210 South Korea 57,316,031 112 208 Hong Kong 8,423,251 112 208 El Salvador 7,184,406 110 217 Czech Republic 11,737,482 109 269 Argentina 49,331,494 108 267 Fiji 975,268 108 196 Dominican Republic 11,672,207 107 218 British Virgin Islands 32,229 106 223 Brazil 223,469,326 104 248 Morocco 38,436,040 103 237 Costa Rica 5,278,407 103 272 Estonia 1,338,040 101 269 French Polynesia 282,180 100 251 Slovenia 2,072,356 100 269 New Zealand
  9. Same. Numbers are too abstract. We need images.
  10. We’re all honoring Norm MacDonald in our own way.
  11. Only 13k died from covid and it looks like maybe a third of those are 2020. Went from probably 60k deaths to 64k or something. I label this a “potentially misleading”
  12. I've been eating lots of fresh fruit lately and can't help but notice I don't have COVID
  13. I don’t have much to add to this thread but every now and again I get so frustrated that we are probably looking at the least impactful United government at a time we desperately need a ton of impact.
  14. The divisiveness of this sucks. “Am I doing right by Natalie?” You are pushed to make horrible decisions because it’s a group identifier and you’d be betraying your group to align with the others.
  15. Sentencing guidelines don’t care much if the victim was Chinese.
  16. to be fair, many a lass has said the same about me.
  17. My heartless explanation would be “anecdotal” and not conducive to the normal type of conversation you see on Surly. The racism in sentencing is real of course, but my guess is you could line up 10,000 people with similar scores and see a range of penalties for either demographic. Maybe one was a pistola and one was a knife. Maybe one was part of a bigger heroin buy. Maybe some “affluenza” effect. but yeah, black people do get harsher sentences than whites. Just done know that is what happened here and making the judges number go viral doesn’t seem cool.
  18. Except in this case, truly. Crops are cheap. Beef is cheap.
  19. I couldn’t place the quote where he said this Tuesday will be the greatest day for her or something. I felt like it was fight club maybe?
  20. I enjoyed it up through about half of it. That was enough aimless chaos for me.
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