nxdefiant

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[–] nxdefiant@startrek.website 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (6 children)

No primary this year

Well yeah, they already have an incumbent and no one was dumb enough to burn piles of money running a campaign to try and primary that candidate.

DNC influence

Yes, political parties are basically private clubs, you join them, donate money, pledge support etc. They aren't public entities any more than the Dallas Cowboys are. They exist to aggregate money and votes, and they elect their own leaders to manage those resources. If they decide to choose their candidate via tea leaves or throwing bones, no one could stop them, save to elect new party leaders.

I don't know how parties are run elsewhere, but thats how they work in the U.S. They aren't constitutionally codified or defended in any way. They're a shortcut for voters and super popular because they save people time and effort. If someone came up with a better way to all but guarantee votes for a candidate, it would instantly replace parties.

[–] nxdefiant@startrek.website 13 points 10 months ago (10 children)

You are 100% allowed to join the DNC, run a campaign against Biden, and spend tons of time and money trying to convince the DNC to give you all their money instead of Biden for a presidential campaign. It won't work, but you can try.

Here's an article about 5 incumbent presidents that got primaried. Spoiler: they all won their primaries

https://time.com/5682760/incumbent-presidents-primary-challenges/

[–] nxdefiant@startrek.website 62 points 10 months ago

That's a load bearing "done right".

[–] nxdefiant@startrek.website 4 points 10 months ago

It's the little things that make it special.

[–] nxdefiant@startrek.website 19 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

I do not want to be a CFA defender, because they really are shitty, but they have the logistics down to a science. The volume they push through a drive through puts other drive throughs to shame. To directly answer your question, the more they know about what orders are coming, the better prepared they can be. If they know the next 5 cars are ordering nuggets, they can put more nuggets and less patties in the deep fry (for example).

It's terrible of them to make their employees do this shit in the cold and rain though. Just let the line be inefficient for a little bit, it's not like the chicken craving cultists are going to leave the line.

[–] nxdefiant@startrek.website 23 points 10 months ago (1 children)

And Popeye's spicy actually is.

[–] nxdefiant@startrek.website 16 points 10 months ago

Clarence Thomas's Patreon is quite well funded, so it'd be dishonest if he didn't.

[–] nxdefiant@startrek.website 23 points 10 months ago

Me with enough Doritos and maybe a beer: Never, that's pedantic.

Other me: Roll a damage d4, you missed breathing for two rounds.

[–] nxdefiant@startrek.website 74 points 10 months ago

"We're all in this boat together!" - a celebrity on their private yacht

[–] nxdefiant@startrek.website 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Bad picture for an article advocating communication and de escalation.The entire plot with Azula is that she's so incredibly inflexible and self absorbed that she cannot be reasoned with. Her character arc ends with her literally screaming in chains.

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