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The_Nybbler

If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.

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The_Nybbler

If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.

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Democracy cannot work unless you can convince the loser that they lost a fair game.

Unfortunately, it also works fine if you can cheat and use force to keep the loser down.

You count all the ballots because the law says to count all the ballots, not a convenience sample, even if they could be expected to look the same. There are plausible explanations for the later ballots leaning more Democratic than earlier ones. There are no plausible explanations for them to favor Raman more than the earlier ballots.

It's fraud.

There were two Democratic candidates. Why do the mail-ins support one particular Democratic candidate to a far greater extent than the in-person ballots?

It's fraud. It's obviously fraud.

More than that, the later batches favor Bass over Raman by a far lesser margin than earlier votes did. You can't explain this by Democratic votes coming in later.

No, it says that IF New Jersey is your domicile, you can avoid being a resident for tax purposes by not maintaining a permanent home in New Jersey, maintaining a permanent home somewhere else, and spending less than 30 days in New Jersey. This would apply mostly to students and military, I think, though possibly some people on temporary job assignments -- e.g. if you take a 1-year assignment in Dubai where you rent a place to live, but intend to return to New Jersey, you might be still domiciled in New Jersey, but not a resident for tax purposes.

Since you only have one domicile at a time, it's easy to satisfy the domicile test by setting up a domicile elsewhere.

But as the wise man said: “If you did it for a good reason, you'd do it for a bad one. You couldn't say 'We're the good guys' and do bad-guy things.”

The "wise man" is, in the general case, wrong, as the case of self defense illustrates to anyone this side of the schism.

The movie/TV equivalent is having a shot that draws attention to the gun. But Chekhov's gun is more suited to very tight productions (visual equivalents of short stories or novellas rather than novels); something like a movie or especially a TV series will have many things which are not directly relevant to plot but go to characterization or setting. For instance a movie has a barfight, the barfight itself may be completely unimportant other than to demonstrate it's the kind of place where barfights occur. And certain genres rely in misdirecting the audience and will deliberately focus on unimportant-to-plot details to do so.

It's not just the slow counting. It's the composition of the later votes. In this case the early votes put Spencer in second, and matched polling results pretty well, and the late votes are much more heavily Democratic -- enough to knock him out if trends continue. Further, the number of uncounted votes has at times gone UP, substantially.

It's the same picture. That sort of "respect" and fear are in fact the same thing. People who exhibit it call it "respect" to make themselves feel better.

Too much "respect" to ever get uppity, I suspect.

Avoiding having NJ as your domicile is easy; you just establish one somewhere else. You can do that without selling your house. What bites people is when they're domiciled somewhere else but have both residential property and business reasons to come to NJ (keeping in mind going through Newark Airport is sufficient)

It does not; for one thing, it's a civil doctrine.

I have an alternate theory, that Darwin runs a school of rhetoric and we're seeing some of his students.

Sorry, no. By both temperament and training, the thing police officer find most important in interactions with citizens is in making damned sure the citizens know who is boss. And they're quick to go to physical force if the citizen gets at all uppity.

Unfortunately this gives me the choice of two guardless folding knives, and the jawbone of an ass.

If people die when fighting cops, such is one of the risks of that course of action. But defiance is not a medical condition; that's "sluggish schizophrenia" by another name.

The NGOs are just more leftists.

Not after the verdict they didn't.

Or it's totally fake, and "excited delirium" is just a medicalization of people fighting cops.

It is becoming clear that the "Republicans" aren't really a solid entity; there's the Uniparty and there's the MAGA party. The Uniparty includes all the Democrats (including the DSA and Bernie) and the remaining old-guard Republicans.

Many denominations have been captured by progressiveness.

The modal white collar criminal is probably a homeowner knowingly paying a contractor cash under the table to help the contractor avoid taxation.

He was complaining about being unable to breathe before Chauvin put a knee on his neck.

And that's quite sufficient. The ones without power don't matter.