Well and the structural dynamics of first past the post voting systems.

Your critique would be better received if Stein/Johnson/whomever made IRV or MPP voting a core element of their platform. Instead, they talk about the nonsense described above.

*psst* pharmaceutical companies would make a fuck-ton more money off the treatment of people with vaccine preventable diseases than they make off of vaccines themselves.

It’s one of the corollaries of Duverger’s Law: protest votes against a major party for being insufficiently leftward (or rightward) drives that party towards the center in successive elections, making the protest vote a counterproductive temper tantrum.

And the Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying, This man receiveth sinners, and eateth with them. (Luke 15:2)

No, this was a conversation at the rando-table at a wedding.

I interview for my alma mater. A parent of high school aged kids told me: “I can’t believe your rejection rates for a 3.3 student”

so you’ll be writing in yourself for every election in your life?

Whoa whoa whoa there’s a perfect, evil-free candidate out there?!?!?

Yes, but awareness of something being wrong does not necessarily lead to understanding and appreciating what your options are for stopping that wrong.

Yes, but it may have had a bearing on her ability to analyze and appreciate her options for stopping it beyond pleading with her husband. It may not have had any sort of bearing.

Counterpoint: there are a wide variety of learning disabilities, some of which would bear on this matter, others of which would not.

Example:

Well, and people whose wealthy parents die and bequeath them lots of money.

Well there’s an “and” in there so Kates.

Yeah but those kids are going to be the ones taking care of you in your old infirm age. Helping them out now is part of the social contract.

At the very least, I want someone to be able to read and understand dosages when I am old and infirm.

Admittedly about her parents:

Nerdy answer —I think the right to an abortion is more fertile ground for a challenge jurisprudentially than the first amendment, because there are limits to first amendment rights when providing services for money in the public sphere.

Though if the Board is considered governmental or quasi governmental, I think Garcetti would preclude a first amendment challenge.