This is one of those “an unstoppable force meets an immovable object” sort of situations.

They’ll try anything except solving the real problem.

They’ll get deported on their way out of the stadium.

Considering they’re just looking for a pretext to arrest someone, I think it’s accurate enough for them.

Being some flavor of evangelical who raves about “groomers” seems to be the best predictor of being an actual groomer I’ve seen so far.

Every time we think the bar can’t get lower, they go ahead and prove us wrong.

I just finished Oryx and Crake the first of a trilogy by Margaret Atwood, I quite enjoyed it. It’s a short of dystopian sci-fi. I was put off by her at first because I was forced to read her in high school but I’m glad I gave her another chance.

I’m starting Les Misérables in French in the hopes of improving my written French.

Also working my way through Weapons of the weak which is about forms of peasant resistance.

My hypothesis is they deputized a bunch of random who answered internet ads and offered them a fixed amount per person they bring in. They get paid the same, so why bother checking?

The word gets used so often as a pejorative it’s weird to see it used accurately by that crowd.

So the vaccine is the government implanting a tracker into me, but watches that track my vitals and send them God knows where is hunky dory?

These anti government types always have such a hard time when they become the government.

Right? The surprise would be if they weren’t doing that.

Because they wouldn’t get to that position if they were just plain stupid. But it’s amazing what someone can fail to understand when their livelihood depends on it.

It’s not stupidity. It’s willful blindness.

I’ve heard the same. Women are the majority of readers these days, so they’re just chasing the market.

Trump and Co don’t even think about feeding soldiers, let alone poor children.

In my case the scrutineers were volunteers from the political parties and didn’t have to stay if they didn’t want to, but I was a deputy returning officer and I couldn’t leave until the count of ballots matched the number of ballots I had given out to people.

All of this talk about election fraud is just power hungry psychopaths inventing reasons they lost. Large scale cheating with paper ballots is much harder than digital systems.

One difference I’ve seen between out elections is we have more polling stations. It’s unusual for people to wait longer than 15 minutes to vote.

We always have results that evening. Polls close at eight pm and results are finalized by midnight.

Yes cause so much harder to modify a paper ballot, especially the mailed ones

Correct. It is. Because to do enough to change the result you need to do it alot, and that’s really hard to get away with.

In Canada we count the ballots with witnesses (called scutineers) to validate.

Agreed. Stop subsidizing it. This will obviously hurt the farmers in the area but hey, free market. Insurance isn’t a charity.

It probably would. Just wear your most tacti-cool gear and join a group. You’d need several people on board to make a difference though.

Those assholes don’t show name or insignia. Show them the problem with that.

I’ve heard of places organizing many small protests, like a few hundred people, in many nearby neighborhoods. It forces the police to spread out too much to be effective.