Australia has ranked choice voting but to deal with the inevitable cavalcade of candidates, the process and parties are prepared and offer cheat sheets for their ideologically aligned supporters who are lazy, apathetic or conscientious but less than ideally informed. A candidate and/or their party (there are many, many minority parties) will hand out “How to vote” pamphlets which basically explains to supporters who wish to vote for them, how they recommend ranking the other parties (or candidates for Independents) in the race. In the AUS version of the House of Reps they do this per candidate (many fewer options).
For the senate race with many times more candidates, they have a split on the voting form with a line drawn between the top and bottom of the ballot. Above the line the parties are listed and below the line, each candidate from each party is listed. States all get 12 senators with half up for election each cycle. Ie in an election 6 senators per state are being chosen. There may be 10 or 12 or more columns to choose from but since only 6 senators are getting elected, in order to cast a vote one can number at least 6 parties in order of preference ABOVE the line, or BELOW the line, you may select at least 12 of the potentially dozens of candidates.
Basically it helps your average Joe Blow navigate the process if they have a general alignment with at least one of the parties, or often people find themselves ranking backwards based on the lesser of evils.
I’ma hafta go ahead and say this is ok. Vibe I’m getting is kid is ND and perhaps has a learning disability. Maybe this is an immersive way to participate in an activity with his family.
No concern if I’m wrong, just love learning about new ways of showing my fellow humans that they have an impact on me.
He’s saying “I was paid to hold the opinions I espoused.” He didn’t speak them in good faith and didn’t come by them honestly. I think your comment is being seen as a distinction without a difference.
His name is Johan. You are his human now. You may call him Joey or “yoyo” or many other familiar terms of endearment (assuming you are familiar with the European soft ‘j’ sound. 🪀)
You must feed him nutritious and delicious meals, give him affection and love and reverence, and do his every bidding. This is the will of our (sectarian cat over-)lord.
I wish you a happpy and harmonious life together. I now pronounce you Johan, and “Johan-adjacent, subservient sycophantic lackey”. You may now scoop his litter.
Is the undercurrent here that if these wealthy and powerful Russian oligarchs lose all their frozen assets because of this war, that Putin may find himself at risk of his own defenestration as the whole class of wealth bands together and buys his military and security staff out from underneath him?
I’m enjoying the clear belly fat on display. The very same fat he has criticised career service members for having, those much older than him with far more distinguished service records and the respect of those they command. Wonder if Kegsbreath and Boof Kavanaugh shotgunned bears together back in the day.
Surely Anon is gonna show up to make a point about this. Some conservative politicians from red states are going to have their viewing preferences outed. Hopefully there is enough kink in their web history to embarrass them into rolling back these draconian attempts to control the populace. The few who have a staffer who’s shown them how to use a vpn will be exposed as hypocrites (not that their constituents will care) “vpn for me, not for thee”.
I can’t imagine another group of people who probably have more controversial viewing tastes than conservative politicians. For all I know they’ll get off on having their kinks exposed, let’s find out.
Oooofff, thanks for pointing that out!! Yikes - Birth of a Nation, dead in the water, terrible suggestion, strike it from the record, definitely don’t use that.
The horse hasn’t just bolted. He destroyed the freaking stable and curb-stomped the farmer.