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What does his glabella have to do with anything?

This. Democrats sometimes fuck up, but we have processes in place to mitigate those fuckups, and Democrats generally engage with those processes.

Trump, on the other hand, lied, obfuscated, and seemed to purposefully make it as bad as feasible.

They've already got a better system than Hitler could have every hoped for: normal prison.

The US has the largest prison population per capita, plus migrant holding facilities, plus juvenile holding facilities.

All they need to do is capture the presidency and keep at least one chamber of Congress, and they can just expand the existing laws to target their enemies. The facilities are already in operation, they just need an excuse to grab the people they don't like.

Employers are limited in paying into 401ks for highly compensated employees, and are required to have a certain percentage of their normal employees putting money in if they want to go hog for their execs. That's why many give matches, to incentivize folks to contribute so that they can then funnel more to the C-suite.

Your coworker is right that the lack of match makes the 401k less appealing. That said, it's still the stock market, but you may have severely limited options.

You'll want to do what you're required to do, but then you should look into a ROTH IRA, which will give you a lot more control over that extra 5%.

If they advocate attacking a black person, they know they'll get immediate blowback.

Attacking the "race traitor" is a level of obfuscation. There are more people who believe that races shouldn't mix than believe that people of color should be targeted directly.

It's like water - they're going to find the path of least resistance and pick up as many as they can along the way.

I 100% disagree, but this is hilarious and I will definitely find myself repeating it. Good job.

This is a good idea in theory, but it doesn't really hold up when you look at what we ask reps to do.

They have to maintain two households, basically, and have a lot of travel expenses.

State legislatures are a great sandbox to review how pay impacts the folks who can afford to hold seats. Turns out, the less they're paid, the more likely they are to be independently wealthy. You will never "show them what it's like" to be poor by paying them less - you'll just ensure that actual normal people can't afford to take the position.

I think it was Maine that had a fully volunteer legislature? And had the richest legislature ever.

Ultimately, this is another problem of America trying to retain an agricultural mindset (part time legislature so that everyone could go home to farm), despite the world having changed.

So you're inferring something from a headline.

Any chance the target of these statements might infer the same?

That's how wannabe mob bosses work.

This. They mean "find one of us to start a family of you want us to be friendly."

This. Cryptofascism relies on being able to scream, "It was just a joke / I didn't know!"

Mistakes can happen and you might accidentally engage in a dog whistle as a normal person.

A dozen mistakes all pointing to the exact same thing are unlikely.

And to be fair, it could be one person at the top putting all these wink wink indicators in, and the majority involved might just be normal folks.

I still won't be buying the game.

Personally, I'm tired of media calling us idiots because they refused to write the stories when the rest of us saw pretty clearly what was happening.

Lol what?

There are no empty spots for them to claim, and I highly doubt you can draw a line anywhere that would work. They tried that with India/Pakistan and it was an absolute cluster.

This isn't like the civil war where it was regional. This is a lifestyle divide.