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You are a master's class in argumentative fallacy. Your evidence of cheating is an incorrect and uneducated assumption on risk/reward? Manipulating an election on the scale required to affect the outcome would require a multiple person conspiracy to commit fraud. The fraud itself is a felony, the act of conspiracy is a separate, much more serious felony that the DOJ has a pretty good track record of obtaining long sentences for. So it is not, as you baselessly claim, "low risk." Regarding your assertion of high reward, for who? The individuals capable of attempting the crime are clerks, volunteers and minor appointed officials. "Jim, you've done a good job serving the people of Michigan as a country registrar. We appreciate the time you've taken away from your insurance sales job to help us conduct a fair and impartial election. If you'd be willing to help Joe Biden win by asking your peers to help falsify data, here's a big bag of un-laundered cash you can share. I promise I'm not a cop and promise I'm not wearing a wire." 🙄 Say, maybe the Apollo mission were faked and 9/11 was an inside job. Also, just because you're dishonest doesn't mean that other people are too. You're the anomaly. Most of us play by the rules. If you want to see the proof of this being a fair election, simply read what Trump's legal team has argued in court. No Fraud, no evidence of anything.

My recruiter reached out to me about 10 days after my selection with some medical screening/MEPS forms for me to complete. The holidays will make things harder, but if it takes too much longer, I'd reach out the your POC with the hiring squadron and get clarification on what to expect. It shouldn't take a month to send a few emails. Throughout my process, I tried not to "bother" the pilot they told me would be my POC and trust recruiting to do their jobs. If I'd reached out to my POC when things weren't passing the smell test, I'd have gotten to OTS and UPT about 6 months earlier than I did. Don't call every day, but annoy the recruiter and make them get your shit done. If you're getting no movement, get your hiring squadron involved. Sure, it might rub the recruiters the wrong way, but it's better than sitting on your thumbs for 2-3 months waiting for them to finish something that should take 2-3 days. Bottom line, no one cares about your process more than you do. This process is long enough without added delays created by the recruiters being lazy. Sent from my SM-N975U using Baseops Network mobile app

showed my wife the Senna documentary last night, then this happened today. It's amazing how far they've come to protect drivers. A wonderfully engineered miracle.

I don't know man, without the engineering, the impact would have killed him regardless of the fire. I mean look at the halo after the crash. That right there is a big part of what saved him. His car was in 3 pieces, but the survival cell stayed in tact and let him walk away from the incident with minor injuries after a 56G crash. Sent from my SM-N975U using Baseops Network mobile app

Li'l Kim's situation is looking good because we smashed the last regime to GIVE UP its WMD program...Libya. Kinda ironic that you think the guy pulling troops out of the Middle East is the warhawk. Seems to me actions like killing Iran's top terrorist demonstrate reasons why Iran should NOT poke the bear, while giving them pallets of cash encourage them to rattle the saber any time the treasury looks empty...kind of like North Korea.

So you get to pick between a deal that delays their program or what is likely certain war, and you choose warhawk. Countries act in their own self interest, and if you threaten them with destruction, and turn the cheek to Israel doing the same shit and sabre rattling then you are only encouraging them to amp up their program. This is essentially the policy we have set with Iran and NK in the past...and how has that turned out? Lil Kim's situation is likely looking pretty nice to Iran right now.

Nah. The best deal is a simple and clear foreign policy that states "You can't have nuclear weapons. And if you build them, we'll take them away from you and destroy your government."

Unbelievable. Haven’t seen a shunt like that in F1 in a long time. Really glad Grosjean is ok.

He can thank Niki Lauda for that! Racing Firesuit

Johns Hopkins University newspaper article. Published, then quickly deleted. https://web.archive.org/web/20201126223119/https://www.jhunewsletter.com/article/2020/11/a-closer-look-at-u-s-deaths-due-to-covid-19 The unlisted and likely soon to not exist YouTube vid of the webinar by by Dr. Genevieve Briand, MS in Applied Economics Assistant Program Director, that explains the numbers.

So, let's talk about when Biden is POTUS. We are back in Paris Climate deal, Iran deal, Green new deal etc? $200 tax for so called "assault weapons and mags" he's flip flopped on oil drilling/fracking,Expect pump prices to be $4 a gallon. How much manufacturing will go back to China?

@FLEA 1300 proven single instances of fraud is still not even close to what you need to influence the overall outcome of an election. The closest swing state in this election has 10 times that margin. And to swing the whole election you'd need fraud at least 2-3 orders of magnitude greater. No one is disagreeing with you that people suck and sometimes commit fraud. But you need real evidence that the fraud is similar in scale to the margin of victory if you want to throw out an election or declare the system a lost cause. So far, that evidence does not exist. You don't have it, and the trump legal team definitely doesn't have it or we would have seen it by now.

Apparently I'm a bit naive then. I don't believe in massive amounts of cheating or fraud. 150 million votes were cast. Of course some dipshít voted twice, or stole his neighbors mail and sent in their ballot, etc. I just can't take anyone seriously when they allege that there is an organized effort, at any meaningful scale, in any jurisdiction at all, to commit fraud. Especially when they offer literally no evidence. It doesn't exist. This is just some mealy-mouthed way of trying to put an asterisk next to Trump's loss. Sadly, being a sore loser hurts everyone in the form of weakening our democracy.

Is it hand cranked?

If people were fundamentally evil, society would trend downward. It hasn't. There are evil people. There are more good people. Over time the good have beaten the evil. Our system protects the good from the evil to allow the good to flourish and continue doing good. If you've seen little evidence of altruism, you've been limiting your view to a TV screen. Look around, it's literally everywhere.

I think this demonstrates that you don’t.

I don't follow F1 but the engineering in this is incredible. The driver compartment went through a steel barrier and allowed the driver to egress under his own power.

Yeah, that’s all on the wishlist for Biden’s puppet masters. Hopefully the Republican Party will find their sack again and prevent most of those radical proposals from going through. I think the Green New Deal is virtually impossible considering the fact that the infamous hated AOC keeps parroting it...Paris climate accord and Iran deal may return and neither is in the best interest of this country.

Things like Paris climate and Iran nuclear deals the president has the power to do, although not to the level of signing a treaty so they could be overturned by a subsequent administration. Green New Deal, assault weapons tax, banning fracking, not really within the executive’s purview. Even if Dems win the senate, margins in congress will be razor thin and I wouldn’t expect anything like a Green New Deal to be passed. As far as manufacturing jobs go, the tide has favored them leaving since the 80s. Trump’s statements on bringing them back were largely bluster. How much will go back to China? I’m in the business of moving Chinese goods to North America and I can tell you that the volume of crap coming out of Chinese factories most certainly did not slow down over the last four years. That said, I hope we do realize that there are certain manufacturing segments that the US should retain/rebuild like medical equipment & PPE. I hope congress & the new administration can work together to make that happen.

The Iran deal was about as “good” and “effective” as the Paris climate one. All facade, no substance.

Interesting stuff. https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/06/now-is-the-time-for-a-great-reset/ "The COVID-19 crisis is affecting every facet of people’s lives in every corner of the world. But tragedy need not be its only legacy. On the contrary, the pandemic represents a rare but narrow window of opportunity to reflect, reimagine, and reset our world to create a healthier, more equitable, and more prosperous future." I've wondered if the WEF really has any influence over anything. When you hear of a person or company pushing a COVID related policy or restriction, google the parent company, once you find the top tier, find the CEO or prominent members of the board of directors. Search the WEF webpage here for that person or company: https://www.weforum.org/about/our-partners Here's a few I did: Quantas, Ticketmaster, Time Magazine, Facebook, Reuters, VISA.

Hobbes believed in complete monarchy and that government must have absolutely authority. If that’s what you’re advocating, readjust your tinfoil hat.

It is a growing tyranny rebranded in some ways. NR had a good article on what I believe is the growing threat: Davos Great Reset: The Culmination of Corporatism | National Review A collusion of economic, government, media and cultural interests not particularly interested in the maddening inefficiency of representative democracy with minority rights. I see your point as to private property and businesses having mask or vax policies, the current corollary of no firearms allowed in restaurant/store X doesn't drive me nuts as to some degree we are allowed to discriminate in our society and professional interactions but like pornography vs. art, you know the difference when you see it. When the government or private institutions/establishments have intruded too far onto the personal freedom & autonomy of the individual citizen. It's a free market only if choices are different or there is an alternative, with the coordination and monopolizing of the last 20 or so years you really can't say it is a truly free market. You can choose not to participate but that is not really different than being banned from the desired or essential service for the person who doesn't ascribe to policy or choice X. Freedom is not the anti-thesis of smartly, fairly administered societies but it is getting to be viewed that way I fear.

Both sides practice disenfranchisement. Democrats tried to disenfranchise the absentee vote in Florida in 2000 knowing a large majority of the Florida absentee ballots were overseas military. (Who typically vote more Conservative, especially back then) I think anyone who doesn't believe massive amounts of cheating or fraud are going on on our elections are a bit naive to how terrible the world we live in is. It 100% happens. The questions are the scale, how much organization is behind it, and to what degree is direction recieved from the top levels of each major party.

wait...I'm a bit lost, so bear with me...the republican party, who closes voting locations in democrat-heavy districts, installs fake ballot drop boxes, intentionally slowed the USPS to slow mail in voting, purged voter rolls, and imposed a poll tax on felons to vote...is claiming voter disenfranchisement...because people made it easier to vote during a pandemic?

Is it because they changed out the original Nintendos connected to crank pulleys for circa 1998 XBOXes? I knew it...

Which witch is Which?

A Maserati Levante...oh, good our internet troll is a soccer mom.

Nope, they've been the "Silver Arrows" since rejoining F1 in 2010-ish. Which is an homage to their original Silver Arrows of the 1930s. The cars were the familiar silver/black/turquoise in pre-season testing. They proudly announced they went full "woke" with the new paint job. Because virtue signaling...

Lol ok....