As a public school teacher, $60k per year will be more than my average salary for my entire career. If that career spans 50 years, that comes out to be $3 million dollars (and that’s as a college graduate, not a dropout).

That’s a great point, it further exacerbates the problem.

A large number of substitutes are retirees (either former teachers or other professionals looking to ‘give back’ to their communities), my district (I’m a high school Physics teacher in Texas) struggles to keep enough subs in a ‘normal’ year. There would not be enough subs to cover half of the teacher absences if we…

The 2000 election was decided over the Supreme Court case over the vote in Florida.

I was born in 1984 and I played Oregon Trail on an Apple IIe in school. I looked it up and the most common version was released in 1985, with a 1990 release in DOS.

C8's are all automatics, seems a bit redundant.

Obviously this is a mistake of a car that no one should have ever bought. It isn’t a real Porsche and should be erased from the storied history of the brand. Anyone who owns a 4cyl Porsche is just driving around a Volkswagen and should be ashamed of themselves.

You’ve stumbled upon Poe’s Law, which basically says that when you go to the extremities of any topic you can no longer distinguish between parody and sincerity.

In 10 years Nissan will still be making the 370z but might finally announce plans for its replacement in the form of a CUV.

Imagine how bad the average driver is, now realize that half of all drivers are worse than that. 

For SCCA at least, a vehicle must be wider than it is tall to pass tech, so that behemoth would be ineligible.

I’m working from this definition of violence: “behavior involving physical force intended to hurt, damage, or kill someone or something.” In this definition I could physically restrain or impede someone and it wouldn’t be violence as long as my intention isn’t to hurt the individual.

Or personal revenge against Trump (I was hoping that Republicans like Romney would run against Trump, I guess they still could as Independents in the general which could have a bigger effect). Either way, we’ll never know if he’d have voted the same if he didn’t know that his vote was only symbolic.

That’s only true if you lack resolve or imagination. Just because non-violent solutions are more difficult don’t mean they don’t exist. And failed attempts (often halfhearted ones) at non-violent solutions don’t preclude non-violent solutions from existing.

“using violence to stop other violent acts on innocents is morally justified”, what if I don’t believe that? That sounds more like a justification than justice.

I just don’t believe that the ends justify the means. And I don’t want to support politicians whose first and often only concern is how what they are doing now ill impact them in the next election.

No one knows what will make a difference in the 2020 election. Abandoning duty and playing the game could turnoff or fail to motivate some of the majority of Americans who don’t vote.

You’re talking in moral relativism while I’m sitting here in absolutism.

I understand the sentiment; however, doing the wrong thing for the right reasons is still wrong (or, the lesser of two evils is still evil).

You nailed a bunch of very key points that are more important than most people realize.