Nah, they want your money and making the election a desperate struggle for survival is the best way to do that. They couldn’t care less about votes.

To assert dominance?

The governor didn’t call for their imprisonment but that they be returned to the state to perform their duties: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Oregon_Senate_Republican_walkout

Also did not call for them to loose their seats or that the FBI be sent after them.

I guess one should doubt any convictions coming from the holy spirit because how can you be certain it’s not your own convictions. /s

If Newsom is our best hope then we are fucked. The guy thinks if the throws enough minorities under the bus the rest of the country will forget he is a Democrat from California.

Ahh yes, we all remember that time the Democratic president asked a state to gerrymander away some oppositional seats. /s

We also remember when Republicans fled Oregon to deny quorum. (This one is not sarcastic)

I’m a contrarian so I must be an independent thinker.

• Some piss drinker on the internet

I wonder how many Republicans would be unseated with rank choice voting…

The more overworked people are the more willing they are to take intellectual shortcuts and not think independently. One of those shortcuts is to mistake a contrarian opinion as independent thought. Throw in a contrarian leader into an economy where people are overworked and this is the result.

And sometimes even little girls.

Judging from the YouTube comments they are hitting their mark. Lots of people mistaking being contrarian for being independent though, like in the case of COVID vaccines and makes wearing.

Reminds me of the adage:

No one chooses to be stupid

This video refines the idea to say stupidity isn’t a psychological phenomenon but a problem that is constructed by society.

If media bubbles didn’t dominate the landscape they would see common cause with the farm workers who also don’t like breathing pesticides when working in the fields.

As t the very least we are entitled to see the complete Epstein files.

But not by the white people.

They’re asking for access to the voting machines. I’m sure there is nothing to worry about here. /s

Imagine being married to someone who is openly a Nazi and you are like: “it’s not a deal breaker”. And then your neighbors reward you with a political office.

Acting with “unreasonable disproportionate aggression” is not going to make them safer.

So you are able to not be intentionally obnoxious. I honestly wasn’t sure.

There’s a difference between seeing and perceiving. If you see AI slop and don’t see how it is different than something crafted by a human expert, that is a problem of one’s perception.