Hildegarde

1 cosponsor. Ok sure. This bill goes nowhere, like the rest of them.

Any outlet that covers legislation at the point of introduction is just trying to scare you. Well over 90% of bills never even leave the committee stage. Without signs of support from others in congress, an introduced bill has less weight than a press release.

If you see the words “introduces bill” in a headline just ignore it the article is trash, solely intended to mislead.

All bees are female, except the drones which are only grown when needed.

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did you read what I wrote?

I was in a jury recently, and they were clear in the instructions that we were to make decisions on the basis of the law as it is, not one what we think it should be. Some of the questions during jury selected were specifically tailored to identifying those who might consider nullification.

Juries still exist in civil cases. They are there to make findings of fact, just like a criminal case. Bench trials are those without a material dispute of the facts.

Nullification is a side effect, a consequence of the process. Nullification is not the primary reason for a jury.

Juries exist to determine facts, and check the work of the prosecutor to make sure they proved the case to the standards required by law. They are an essential part of the legal process, and the possibility of nullification is an interesting byproduct.

This case was not nullification. He was charged with theft for towing a car, which is not theft anywhere, and is standard practice for tow truck operators. The vehicle was returned less than 20 minutes later.

Not guilty was a reasonable conclusion, not a case of a jury nullifying an otherwise solid case.

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voting takes one day. It doesn’t prevent you also doing direct action, or general strikes, or whatever more forceful actions may be needed. Its not an either or situation. Use all the tools available to you including your vote

The progressive ones voted against this. Bernie Sanders, Elisabeth Warren, Ron Wyden and 17 others did vote against this. Voting has an effect. It does move the needle.

Voting is not enough on its own. You can do more. You should do more. Your have power over the government goes beyond the ballot box, but its best to use both.

How will democrats react when a democrat democrats?

You can only feel what it feels like to be you, and since you’ve only ever been yourself you have no point of comparison.

I don’t think gender feels like anything. I am trans, I have been both a man and a woman and in my experience they don’t feel different. In this moment I feel like myself, just as I did a decade ago.

The things that have changed is that I no longer suffer from a crippling depression with an unclear cause. I have a range of emotions, and can feel emotions correctly. I consider my body to be part of myself.

All the above are now clearly signs of gender dysphoria, but at the time were hard to identify. The depression always has a more plausible explanation. The other two, I barely noticed I had because I experienced that my entire life.

It took me a very long time to discover that I am trans. It took a lot of self reflection to figure it out. Feelings were useless. I did think I would be happier as a woman, but that always seemed more of a logical deduction than a feeling.

I’ve gone back to physical cookbooks from the last century. SEO slop has made the the internet useless for recipes for years, and now this.

You do not understand the concept of time.

Go back to school. You clearly need more of it.

I delivered on the part that is relevant to the article that we are commenting on.

You can learn to research things yourself. Ask a librarian if you need help. You can do it!

evidently not

Ok, pay my consultancy fee and I’ll get you a report in a week.

This article is discussing the socialist candidates who won elections in November of this year. None of them take office until January.

It is currently December. None of them are in office yet. They cannot deliver anything from the office until they are in the office.

Its weird you keep asking.

patience child

In the us commas are the thousands separator not the decimal. The number is 12,000 or 12 thousand. The one point the article that said “12,00” is a mistake where they left off the trailing zero.

Or using a case where a government employee refused to follow rules she disagreed with is not the precedent they want to set while banning gay marriage nationwide.

the court declines the vast majority of appeals. The executive branch wasn’t behind this appeal. It means a lot less than you or many in this thread think.