I don't know if appealing to his humanity is the way. He never started protecting people suffering from AIDS because there was money to be made by lieing for a decade.
By my membering, their religious practices weren't a minor consideration, but several of the earliest groups were given grants of lands to get them out of the king's hair. They did not support the king's political decisions, nor were they silent about their considerations.
A few hundred square miles that were in the prime cropping areas and three months away with no means of easy communication to the periodicals at the time was a small price to pay.
American roots stem from these groups' pragmatism and efforts to establish a more perfect union within the constraints of British law. When that finally failed, we achieved separation.
That spirit still lives strong in most of us.
As Patrick Henry wrote, "Is life so dear and peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!"
Adams County has it's certification online: https://www.adamsvotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Adams-2020-General-Certification-of-Election_signed.pdf
It was always about the hammer and sickle virus.
I voted twice for Bernie! Match me!
When will the NFA be struck down as unconstitutional?
Calling it now after the Etsy buy rush:
Vox.com - Here's why Jesus' multiplying fish to feed the hungry was bad.
According to the lessons of 2016, we should hold it against the candidate for four years while burning the country to the ground.
So, why didn't you support yourself at 1 year old? Do you say you needed knowledge and training? I'd say you did....probably motor skills, too.
Now, what if all of your knowledge comes from Joe Biden and Kamala Harris? Do you suddenly feel like you can be a great individual?
Abandoning people and acting like they should just be automatically able to ignore the core teachings they've been given all their life is why everyone 16 to 29 thinks they can solve the world's problems and give us Venezuela and California over and over again.
If it's not your problem, who's problem is it for everyone that doesn't know how to be an individual?
We either defeat socialism or we just let it hide for a few years.
I don't support welfare, either. But blaming the individual for the government engineering them into sheeple is a bit like saying "I don't vote because it doesn't matter" followed by "It's not my fault because I didn't vote".
Your government is, on the one hand, teaching people exclusively how to fail through public education and on the other, giving them just enough money to fail with and need more reliance on the state. Do some escape this? Yes, through family support and dedication. Oh, right.... Guess what those third and fourth hands have been sabotaging for the last 80 years?
Inaction led here and now constant action with actual understanding of the root causes is required to get us back to where we came from and not "well, they are just stupid people not willing to do anything, so we should do nothing."
As for the junk food versus healthy food, that's middle class - maybe "lower" middle class. I'm talking the actual poor.
That people make poor choices I don't dispute, but they also don't have the option to make better choices. The choice is "terrible or shitty". Not "terrible and help you get back on your feet."
The reason the government wastes so much money is because the government designed the system specifically to keep poor people just fucked enough that they give up and vote in their new master, same as the old master.
Back when I was poor, the first bit of advice I was always given was to "stop going to Starbucks everyday". The first time I was given that particular pearl of wisdom, I'd had Starbucks precisely once in my life and some coworker had brought it to work.
You want people to not be poor but fat? Provide useful tools to get back on their feet that isn't guided by government and industry to keep a perpetual anf viable underclass of serfs.
Here's a perspective from someone who was dirt poor. What you said is a misconception. The poor are eating the wrong things because food stamps are finite and those wrong things lead to terrible places, including obesity.
You get around $200 for a family of three per month (obviously varied by area). A current food budget for a healthy family of three is around $200 per week. This means you cover the staples - proteins and fresh vegetables for most meals with some carbs scattered to and fro.
To get away with most of your groceries for the month costing 1/4 of that, you are eating almost exclusively carbs. Beans, noodles, and that sort of thing. With that sort of diet comes poor nutrition and further binging on carbs to try and feed the persistent internal knock from the body asking for proper vitamins and minerals.
Poor people are fat because the government decided to pay them just enough to buy the worst possible foods - foods that leave them in a permanent state of poor nutrition with the highest energy content possible.
My views are old-school liberal. Essential government only with states wielding most of the power, and every individual treated equally under the law and no corporate/individual conflation. Where, exactly, you draw the line of "essential" I understand rests on the people, and it'll vary between areas.
My largest radical viewpoint is that people should be able to claim independence from a state and join another state or even form a new state with a house-district vote versus the convoluted process we have now. I believe this would keep states from moving away from their people or the people could leave......and maybe require like 600 stars on the flag.
Anyway, in 2016 I had a tough choice to make, Gary Johnson - who said the right things to my ears - or Trump -who had no record at all and was an obnoxious loud mouth. Johnson's voting record always bothered me but Trump sounded like a typical rabble-rousing bag of air.
I changed my vote in-line to drop my vote off. I eavesdropped on a couple wrestling with the same issues I was and the woman had gone Trump over Johnson for one reason: He was an outsider and was less likely to be part of the machine (aka swamp), and he'd be dead in 8 years after the presidency sucked the life out of him, so he wouldn't benefit from anything he did.
Those 5 minutes changed how I viewed the election and the parties running, and I went Trump. Since then, he's actually succeeded in doing things Johnson said he'd just be starting.
I'm sold on Trump, now. My only complaint is that he relies too heavily on swamp creatures in his administration. He should knock that off.
If the account was hacked, wouldn't they have said something like "send money to this xcoin link and save puppies from saw mills!"
They aren't hired for positions of authority or visibility, anymore.
Or, loan forgiveness by recovering it from any institution that charges insane amounts of money to children with the promise that they'll get marketable skills and jobs.
Harvard's endowment seems like a great place to start.
I would be willing.
South Dakota's economy took a beating with all of the voluntary shutting down (sales tax only state). I wouldn't be surprised if this was as much about responsible fiscal policy as it was about how much recovery happened.
Can....can the government pay me for my diarrhea? I need new underpants.
Criticism accepted.
...You bastard.