That sounds reasonable until you remember that debtors prison is back, most states make people pay for their incarceration, and semi regular arrests are going to make sure you can’t keep a job to pay that “obligation”.

This is a backdoor into giving more people to the prison industry.

It does where they’re concerned.

That is also true. Another breakpoint coming up is Trump’s sentencing. Apparently focus groups report they’re less likely to vote for him if he gets a sentence including a jail or prison term.

It’s worth remembering that our elections are generally very close. It doesn’t take a ton of people in a battle state to change their minds.

RCV is leagues ahead of FPTP. Star is literally just FPTP with a run off. And Ranked Robin is complex.

That’s why RCV keeps getting the nod. It’s not the best scientific system, it’s the one at the crux of improvement and ease of understanding.

The debate winner. And yeah it’s different but also telling when Biden has won easily every other time.

Interesting, I didn’t notice anything like that. Maybe they screwed up the audio.

I’ve seen it a few times related to war stuff. Looks like it’s mostly arts coverage though, kind of like Smithsonian magazine or something.

Because we know from 2016 and 2020 that Trump’s craziness isn’t an impediment to him getting votes. We’re also in a bubble here on Lemmy. The CNN flash poll they conduct before/after the debate had a 12 point swing towards Trump.

More into here it looks like.

https://pragmatika.media/en/news/rosiiany-povnistiu-zrujnuvaly-khersones-tavrijskyj-v-krymu/

We won’t know until the tell all book is written in ten years.

Only if Chiquita actually failed miserably.

The same county that just tried to have a coup?

Hey NSA/CIA/FBI you guys might want to check that one out…

Israel is not the people. The people can continue to exist under different countries and governments.

We need about a week to see what happens with polling. Anyone right now is just reading tea leaves. But uh … This is the worst debate performance I’ve seen since Palin. So I can see why party insiders are suddenly discussing things like an open convention in hushed voices.

The mics were turned off when it wasn’t their turn.

They have missiles that cover the Black Sea. We could give them the tomahawk but we’re only just now getting AShM versions back out to our own fleet. The best we could probably do is support their production of Neptune missiles. Which are really actually pretty good. It puts them in a pretty small club as far anti-ship missiles go. Which is probably at least part of why the Russians can’t keep anything afloat in the Black Sea.

The operative measurement is flight distance. Which, with a dogleg to avoid Crimean Anti-Air sites would max out around 680Mi. Neptune flies 621 miles at max range.

They already have the Black Sea covered.

iirc they did build one for Admiral Kuznetsov. It also left that dry dock not that long ago so it’s open now. They’re having trouble funding anything larger than the Adm. Gorshkov class though. Which is about 50 meters shorter. So even if they did decide to throw down a 180M long guided missile cruiser they wouldn’t be able to fund it. In fact they’ve been trying to get something called the Lidar class going and the Russian Navy is just like, “Nyet.”

Yeah I can believe they’re getting 40 vessels in the next year if they include literally everything they’re getting. They certainly aren’t getting 40 corvettes.