Obama ran on Change, closing Gitmo, and universal healthcare. That he governed as a neoliberal scared to change anything doesn't change what people actual voted for.
Electors are not granted proportionally. If the Democratic nominee gets 30% of the vote in a state, AOC gets 30% of the vote, and the Republican gets 35% of the vote, all the electors are Republican.
We absolutely don't know anything of the sort. Centrist assholes just cling to that excuse to avoid acknowledging that focusing on appealing to conservatives and pledging to maintain the status quo is a failure.
This piece seems premised on the idea that better campaign tactics would have won the race for a guy that resigned in disgrace and didn't live in the city. Maybe the problem was just him and his shitty insider politics.
New Zealand recently just punished three politicians harshly for doing the Haka. They were protesting a proposed law to strip special constitutional privileges for the Maori stemming from the original colonial treaties. Those old British colonizers were apparently too respectful to the rights of the indigenous people for modern conservatives.
And this is the issue that was worth having a meltdown over. Not any of the kidnapping, not Trump's tariffs and market manipulation, not Adams' corruption or Cuomo's COVID scandals. Their utter silence on everything else makes their current freak out transparently hollow. None of them are worried about NYC, they're worried about the idea of the uberwealthy getting taxed to make life better for everyone else catching on.
Of course there's a market for food! And for drugs! And for literally just medicine! There are black markets during war. That's why gangs raid trucks delivering free food rather than just waiting and taking their allocated share.
JFC, there have been reports of amputations being performed without painkillers and you guys are like "must be a devious plot to hook kids on oxy" rather than "yeah, I bet an opiate is a high-priority smuggling item".
Or... you can just kill them. The Israelis aren't subtle and don't need Palestinians to be drug addicts to dehumanize them. They're already calling them much worse.
This idea that it's definitely not smuggling, something that happens everywhere for very mundane reasons and is instead a plan to leave some as drug addicts just doesn't make sense.
Things that are "smoked" are destroyed by heat, that's how the smoke happens. You don't burn your drugs and then come back to eat the ashes, the good stuff is all gone by that point.
If you haven't previously seen Rogue One, it's also great. Watch it after Andor, as the story basically just continues directly. I love the originals, but Rogue One might be my favorite Star Wars movie. I'm much more captured by the idea of the rebellion as regular people striving for freedom than the light sabers and magic.
Yes, but you're talking about the current taxes. Is there a law saying they can't institute additional taxes themselves? Because the proposed tax is an entirely separate thing and unless that's precluded by law the existing tax doesn't really matter. Adams had to go through the state because he wanted to reduce the existing tax.
The existing one is set by the state, but I'm not aware of anything precluding the city for introducing its own. They wouldn't be set by the mayor's office as mayors don't actually make laws, but I don't see how this is a state matter. Certainly none of the coverage about it has said it's ultimately up to Hochul.
You didn't look it up, you copied some LLM text that may or may not be accurate. It's no more looked up than any random person on the forum typing a claim. Does that report even exist? Does it even say what the result claims? Who knows!
Holy crap, zero percent?? There was some iffy "not enough black support" conversations going on during 2020 that were warped by just how much black support Biden was getting, but you really should be getting more than zero.
It's shocking how much we had all just internalized seeing plastic bag litter. Our ban really did have a noticeable effect on the trash lying around. It's not just an invisible benefit "for the planet".
The linked article shows an image of full pills discovered and just mentions powder as reported by other sources. Those that were in powder form (how would they even be able to recognize powdered oxy in flour?) could just be destroyed or poorly solidified pills.
The core question stands, how would mixing oxy with a thing that's going to be baked be a viable plan? And why use oxy rather than something that is just a poison? There are so many more effective methods to kill an already vulnerable population than causing overdoses. And for the smuggling theory, there's a whole lot of reason to smuggle oxy. It's done all the time all over the world for abuse. And they're critically short on medicine. Seems like a very straightforward plan and motivation there.
There's no real solution for selection bias if you don't have other respondents of that group. With something like race or education, you have their demographics and can upsample those that do respond. But it the group is specifically defined by not wanting to respond to polls and that comes with biases to the poll questions, you don't have anything to upsample.
Now whether such a group is really a distinct entity out there that can't be kind of approximated by people who share other traits is the question. If white conservatives have a spectrum of trust in pollsters and the non-responders would just answer questions the same you're fine. But it those with low trust are also more anti-vax or some sort of distinct population like an insular community, you couldn't just approximate them with people who did respond.
I do wonder whether the story here is that the non-voting population largely mirrors the popular vote. This was the first time in their survey the Republican won the popular vote and the first time their non-voting respondents went toward the Republican candidate.
Which isn't entirely surprising, as both that's probably driving the vibes and many non-voters are not apolitical, but just don't vote because their elections are not competitive.
Obama ran on Change, closing Gitmo, and universal healthcare. That he governed as a neoliberal scared to change anything doesn't change what people actual voted for.