Dems just need to have a primary. In a perfect world, some kind of ranked choice or popular vote. AOC wins the primary, great. If Walz wins, also great. We just need a primary dude

You can do both. However local engagement typically brings a better ROI because divide and conquer.

No, 50% of America failed the test. The rest of us did our part

This is what I think as well. I understand there are people out there with that opinion, but I think their message is getting signal boosted by people trying to sway the election.

Believe it or not, McConnell is elected by popular vote in the state. Crazy, right?

As someone from Kentucky, I could’ve sworn that I saw reports coming out that the margin McConnell was winning by in some rural counties was higher than the ratio of registered Republicans to Democrats. Implying that a large swath of rural democrats were voting for McConnell. Now, I don’t claim to know every democrat in the state. However, every democrat I met hates the guy and a lot of republicans hold their nose voting for him.

Also as quickly as I saw those reports, they vanished. Myriad of reasons to explain things, but sure seems odd, right?

Corn Dog Sonnet No. 7 [Remix] in my ass

Not only losers, they are weird

Purely Mail, yes; so long as you’re comfortable with one guy running the service.

Thunderbird for desktop and K-9 for Andriod. Only because they were the most recommended and completely fit my needs.

Have you looked into Purely mail? This is what I use for my custom email needs. I don’t remember all the pros and cons, but the big one that scares most people off is it’s run by one guy. So if something happens to him, you’re potentially SOL. You could probably migrate to a new service, but could potentially be a huge pain.

I volunteered as tribute to be one of these ‘Friends’

I’m not as well read as you, so I’m not entirely sure how these stack up against your list, but I enjoyed:

• Steelheart by Brandon Sanderson. It’s a YA-Sci-Fi book mostly about what if superheroes were real. Similar vein to The Boys, but not as graphic imo. It’s pretty good and you might enjoy that. It also apart of a series called the reckoners

• To Sleep in a Sea of Stars by Christopher Paolini. Paolini wrote the fantasy series “Inheritance” which I though was great and gave this a shot. It’s was pretty good, a little slow, but I think that was more to show how slow would be in space even at >C travel.

• Probably missed it, but have you tried any of Andy Weir’s books? I really enjoyed Artemis and Project Hail Mary has been in my queue.

Didn’t Facebook build infrastructure and give out free phones in India and other developing nations to get them online? I’m sure it was more to harvest their data, but I’m sure that counts pretty solidly for them

That comes down to your state. For Instance, in KY, we have closed primaries so you can only vote with the party you have registered. The general election are open, of course, but the intent is to keep people from voting for the best candidate in their party and the worst for the competing parties.

Every state does it a little different though. Some states like Iowa don’t even have primaries, they have caucuses. That’s you go into a room (typically a school gym) with a bunch of other people and move from side. Being on a certain side counts as a vote. The main drawal to this approach is it encourages people to discuss their thoughts on matters.

Typically though, Dems will have a primary. Even if all the other candidates drop and Biden is the only option.

If you’re interested in the Dems, I wouldn’t recommend voting in other parties primaries. In the lead up to Trump vs. Hillary, many democratic analysist hoped that Trump his primaries. Thinking that it would be a slam dunk for Hilary to win. We all saw how that turned out…

For real. Only two other people have officially stepped forward, but I didn’t learn about that until I seeked that information out.

Imo seemed like they don’t have a ton of funding and that could be that the powers that have money see Biden as having the best chance.