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You don't think they compare prices from different vendors?

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I was thinking it was probably just an indication for how rural the state is.

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So much of political messaging these days is rooted in the average American voter not understanding basic economics.

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Oh and since people won't be able to afford to use a cashier, it would mean lots of workers would lose their jobs.

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This wouldn't give a discount for self checkout. This would just increase the cost if you go through the cashier. The price for self checkout would remain the same.

Nick @nwbvt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

On Fortinbras; he has my dying voice. So tell him, with th’ occurrents, more and less, Which have solicited—the rest is silence. FUCK!

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Nick @nwbvt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

One possibility would be insurance companies themselves creating fake customers and pocketing the subsidies.

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Turns out there were from Stephen saying he was coming home.

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What about a whole hog?

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He's going to have a hard time in prison.

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You are simultaneously so close but also an incalculable distance to seeing it.

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No, they agree with the other political positions he takes. And no, there were no allegations that Bob Hugin was corrupt with anything even coming close to the allegations against Memendez.

They agree with his political positions more than Talarico's.

I mean it's not enough for me to support them even if those dietary guidelines found cheesecake to be a critically neglected food group. But I'll give them credit when it's due.

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So I'm no Hegseth fan, but I'll give him the Fort Bragg thing as a win. He was able to keep the name everyone knew (seriously, Fort Liberty had a "Freedom Fries" vibe to it) but named it after a different Bragg who wasn't an incompetent traitor but an actual war hero.

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Also note that this isn't a whataboutism argument. I'm not criticizing the people of New Jersey who overwhelmingly voted for him. They made the rational choice to support the corrupt piece of shit who they agreed with politically more than his moderate Republican opponent.

Gold bars, cash-stuffed envelopes: New indictment of Sen. Menendez alleges vast corruption

Note he is currently serving an 11 year sentence after it was found that he accepted gold bars from Egypt to aid their authoritarian government in his position in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. apnews.com/article/sena...

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Democratic U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey has been indicted, accused of using his foreign affairs influence to help Egypt in return for bribes from the authoritarian regime.

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Ethics committee admonishes Sen. Bob Menendez over taking gifts and advocating for donor

And before you say "that would never happen with my political party" Bob Memendez won in 2018 by a double digit margin despite being "severely admonished" by the Senate ethics committee for corruption. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

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The Senate's ethics committee admonished Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., Thursday for accepting gifts and advocating for a donor's personal and business interests. "Your actions reflected discredit upon th...

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Most people with what I'm guessing is your political persuasion would vote for the obvious crook. Because political positions end up counting for more than personal failings.

Hypothetical situation. You have two candidates to vote for. One you know to be an obvious crook. And the other is a Trump acolyte who supports throwing Hispanics on concentration camps until they prove they are legal. Who do you vote for?

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Hopefully Paxton doesn't see that and decide to get a swastika tattoo and then go rape a college student... That started as a joke but the more I think about it, it is a real concern.

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That's lower than Platner was after it came out he was a rapist with a Nazi tattoo.

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Ok, but at least one said "amoral" and not "immoral".

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"Why didn't old TV shows like Star Trek cover controversial issues like modern shows such as Dancing With The Stars and The Great British Bake Off?"

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Ok, so if we reject the nicest interpretation, we end up with you just not knowing what you are talking about.

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Nick @nwbvt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The nicest interpretation of this is to say entertainment media didn't care about issues people today care about because they were too caring about issues people back then cared about. "Why are they dedicating so much time to the threat of nuclear war and not trans collegiate swimmers?"

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How is talking about old TV shows "attacking the left"?

Nick @nwbvt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Anyone:: uses hyperbole to make a joke Bluesky:: tHaTs A sTrAwMaN!

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Nick @nwbvt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is the sort of thing that someone who never watched any of those TV shows would think.

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Please tell me this was some sort of philological think piece where you are intentionally looking at a position from the point of view of the worst person possible in order to gain an interesting perspective.

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Don't forget his dad killed Kennedy!

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Who thinks there is an elemenopee letter? What would it look like?

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Nick @nwbvt.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

His fanboys will still whine about it.

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That's pretty common. "My economic situation" usually polls better than "the economy in general". Whether that's more because people are overly worried about what they see in the news or in denial about their own finances is an open question.

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Nick @nwbvt.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Agriculture uses several times more water than residential uses.

Nick @nwbvt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Oh wow, you speak for the entire Gen Z generation? Congratulations, how did you accomplish that?