It’s unsettling to me how few people seem to remember the bruhaha over GOP ties to voting machine manufacturers back in 2002 or whenever, when we were all told, “nah, it’ll be fine”.

The conspiracy theorist in me thinks that the insecurity is there to both let the republicans win the elections through fraud, but ALSO there so that if they lose the election they can roll out all these vulnerabilities that “cost them the election” and demand a do-over.

Yep. We’re currently enjoying the decline of a society and the death of a democracy. I was hoping for more Robocops but what can ya do?

The vulnerability of electronic voting is the quietest scandal going. I believe that vulnerability was purposely “back doored” in to those machines at the behest of the republican party in order to preserve their tyranny of the minority. Making that back door means those machines are vulnerable to any determined…

The police officers were not only more than happy to comply, the fucking mayor thinks its disturbing that people blame the police here. Law and order as we know it is being thrown out the window and a depressingly small number of people care at all.

These police officers should be charged with conspiracy. At the very least they should be fired. Police staging a phony sting to arrest a sex worker plying her trade legally because of a petty grievance is not only a waste of tax dollars, it shows where they stand ethically.

I wish I could say I was surprised to see th…

And I don’t want my grandkids growing up in a theocratic totalitarian corporate fascist dystopian industrial wasteland police state. So... where do we go from here?

She’s just sticking around a while to prove she didn’t quit cause of the press dinner smokey eye insults and the restaurant humiliation thing. But she is.

That photo is 100% true as a kid that first visited LA in 1970 and steadily since about 2000. The difference is nothing short of amazing.  when I was 12 and we’d go to Disneyland, it meant a couple days of coughing afterwards.  Now, I can visit LA and have no problems during or after my visit - at least from the air…

You are dumb bud.

Communism is an economic system. Not a legal system. 

Great question, because as we know the only possible economic models are full-blown capitalism and full-blown communism.

I’m becoming frustrated with how the medical profession handles antibiotics.

I said this in another comment, but I’ll say it here again because I’m gray on Splinter:

Another HERO! Don’t let these fucks have one peaceful moment!

I have friends that are writers that say they were without their machines/hard drives for 5+ days

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No, he is entirely serious and wants people to bow in his presence. He’s just smart enough to know that everyone else would be appalled by the statement.

Remember when Barack was President and we didn’t have to worry about who anyone was fucking and what porn they were watching?

When someone is deep in depression, they feel that they are making their loved ones’ lives worse by being there, that they would all be better off without them around. In their mind, they are doing everyone else a favor by going. It’s not just escaping their own pain, but sparing everyone else as well. It’s not…