MyNameIsNobody

Arguing about the electoral college is a baffling experience because none of the arguments people have against the popular vote is addressed by the electoral college, it's like they don't understand how their system works

this will not be up for discussion left: golden retriever border colli st. bernard dachshund springer spaniel beagle english sheepdog komondor irish setter great dane italian greyhound french bulldog australian shepherd sharpei centralist: labrador retriever right: german shepherd chinese crested pitbull corgi boxer poodle doberman pomeranian bernese mountain dog jack russel chow chow airedale terrier husky yorkshire terrier dalmation rottweiler any of those crusty white rat dogs fascist: chihuahua

There's no good civic argument for the electoral college. It was arguably necessary to ensure the ratification of the Constitution, but it's an anti-democratic device that gives some American citizens far more voting power than others, based purely on where they live.

Driving is the MOST government-dependent form of transportation. You’re using a state-issued license to operate a state-registered machine on 100% state-owned land, subsidized by taxpayers. Freedom is not needing a government permission slip & 40k machine to get around.

My partner and I used to be private chefs for a billionaire and his family. He told us we were the best chefs he’d ever had. At the end of our season he helped us find an apartment in a building he owned in Denver. We set up a trade deal for lower rent- we would teach a community cooking class once a month. The classes became very popular, filled up quickly and often had waitlists. We continued them for 2 years, planning the classes, taking off work, shopping for supplies, teaching and cleanup was at least a full day commitment for both of us. Then in chatting with a neighbor one day we found out…. they paid the exact same rent as us, with no labor in return. We were never given a rent discount, we were tricked into thinking we were so that we would provide free services. Which we did, for years. We moved out when we found out. All this to say billionaires are a specific and fucked up breed of people. We were nothing but kind to him and his family, we did not have one complaint. I made fresh juice in the morning and left them with pies and cookies at night. We had a GOOD RELATIONSHIP and this is how he fucked us over.

That's the beauty of being the "Big Dog". That's why we pay the taxes we pay -- so we have a military that can back up the demand "Zero Enrichment" against a regime that has killed a thousand or more active duty military personnel. That's why we make a "Zero Enrichment" demand against a theocratic suicidal death cult regime that wants to turn a stalwart ally into a desert of paved glass. Or are you on-board with that idea?

My thoughts on the Swalwell stuff. Notice how Democrats always hold their own accountable and Republicans just yell fake news, no matter how vile the evidence is?

Why can't white people work in the fields ?

Be honest… is this a 10/10 meal or what’s missing?

You also still have to wait in line because they don’t start making your food until you’re there

Let me explain exactly why In-N-Out refusing mobile ordering is the smartest fast food decision in a decade, because everyone's calling it backwards. Every major chain added mobile ordering to increase throughput. It worked. McDonald's, Starbucks, Chipotle all saw digital orders hit 30-40% of sales. Then something happened that nobody talks about: average visit frequency went up but brand loyalty went down. Mobile ordering turned food into a logistics transaction. You're not choosing Chipotle because you love Chipotle. You're choosing whichever app loads fastest while you're walking to your car. In-N-Out does $4.5 million per store. McDonald's does $2.7 million. In-N-Out does it with 15 menu items, zero franchises, no freezers, no microwaves, and now no mobile ordering. McDonald's needs 13,000+ locations to be McDonald's. In-N-Out needs 400. The line IS the product. That 20-minute wait with the smell of fresh-cut fries is doing more marketing work than any app notification ever could. Lynsi Snyder figured out something the entire QSR industry keeps forgetting: scarcity and inconvenience are features when your product is good enough. Chick-fil-A gets this too. Closed on Sundays. Everyone said it was leaving money on the table. They now do $7.5 million per store, more than any fast food chain in America, open 6 days a week. The companies winning in fast food right now are the ones saying no to things. No to franchising. No to 50-item menus. No to mobile ordering. The rest are optimizing themselves into commodities.

There’s two answers to this: 1. Many Americans like a little space and to have a little plot of land to call their own. They don’t want to share walls. Given the choice, all other things being equal, a significant portion choose space over walkability. 2. A subset of Americans enjoy walkable urban living, and many cities offer this. Most cities in America are run by a political party that chooses to demur on prosecuting criminality and fixing obvious quality of life issues. Despite this, there’s still plenty of takers for urban living in the US. Some people who would choose urban walkability were it not accompanied by criminal elements instead choose to live in suburbs where local government cares more about their taxpayers than their criminals. There was a big push to re-urbanize starting in the mid-00s. It worked fairly well. Cities still cleaned up the streets and millennials started reclaiming urban land. This was met with a lot of resistance about “gentrification” and forcing poor urban residents out of cities, as well as policy shifts that erred on the side of giving criminals infinite chances rather than removing them. We aren’t as backwards as Europeans would like to believe, but we have structural and governance problems that hinder re-urbanization.