it’s just we reached herd immunity
What? No we didn't.
It would take an income of hundreds of thousands of dollars PER MONTH to have child support that high. And regardless of how quickly they accumulated, that debt was generated in 2003. That's TWO DECADES of not paying a pretty significant childcare debt. There's no way to brush that aside as no big deal.
While it's true the lion's share is unpaid taxes, he owes $50k in child support. I'd still call that a deadbeat dad.
The point of my hypothetical is that communicable diseases have a tendency to evolve to be less pathogenic over time.
That's not actually a real thing. It was a theory by a guy in the 1800s that's been soundly debunked but spread because people want to believe it's true.
And notably they're not really two entirely unrelated things. "SARS" is SARS-CoV-1 and "COVID" is SARS-CoV-2.
Office buildings are test tubes, schools are petri dishes.
Polling generally showed Democrats supporting masking by a massive margin. The most recent poll I could find (April 2022) had support for mandatory masking on public transportation among Democrats as 80-5.
What's the point of this hypothetical? It's both not remotely close to where we are currently and has redefined the consequences to absurdity.
"Would you still wear a mask if the consequence of infection was a single light sneeze?"
"Would you wear a seat belt if the only consequence of car crashes was a small bruise?"
And those were the good old days when they were just trying to be subtly racist, rather than the now times where they're just straight up trying to smuggle Nazi dog whistles in.
Anyone who votes for a third party candidate gets no value from their vote in FPTP. They have effectively no impact on the outcome at all. This is no worse than that and not in any way a reason not to implement RCV.
And again, this is the slimmest of edge cases for a sliver of voters. Most voters will easily adapt to the system (particularly if any effort at all is made to educate them) and even those that don't will very rarely lose their vote due to not ranking lower candidates. And those voters that would are already throwing away their vote without impacting the result in FPTP. That this is a real issue that should block RCV implementation because it's in the interest of voting fairness is A LIE.
It's not really any more disenfranchising than FPTP. While RCV has tactical voting issues, so does FPTP, and in most cases someone who doesn't understand the system is just going to vote for someone they perceive to have a chance of winning, which is very likely to be in the final two candidates. And if they're instead the type to vote for a minor candidate, their vote would have just been meaningless in FPTP anyway.
All the trivia about the very rare cases where tactical voting matters in RCV is just that, trivia. No one really needs to try to game theory their vote out, because in most cases it just doesn't matter and RCV just gives some people the ability to first declare who they actually want before sending their vote to the preferred major candidate. And in the end, people who can't figure out basic voting instructions simply aren't thinking about their vote that deeply. We're lucky if they've even familiarized themselves with all the candidates.
It's really hard for any system to be worse than FPTP. The people spreading FUD about RCV are mostly doing it because the flaws in FPTP benefit them.
But undervoting isn't really a problem. No one is being disenfranchised by not casting a second vote (or ranking all options), they just aren't availing themselves of the full range of options. Even just voting for one person could be an intentional choice if you don't really care about the other options or want your first choice to have a better chance of winning an expected head-to-head.
This is at worst an indicator the government should run some informational campaigns, not a reason not to use multi-voting systems.
And pair that with the government saying it's mostly killing old people and those with health issues then just declaring it over. I wasn't expecting lockdown forever, but just like keeping it as an ongoing health concern. Instead they've been wiping their site of tracking, dropping funding, and abandoning workers to just hope their employer isn't going to get them sick. COVID being over is good politically and good for business, so COVID is over.
Federation only duplicates stuff an instance's users subscribe to, so if you're a single user instance it wouldn't copy anything you don't see (if you actually vet your subscriptions and regularly view their content).
Daddy Kavanaugh wouldn't warrant a complete refusal to answer. "My father paid my debts" isn't a scandalous statement at all and would put to bed a cloud that's been hanging over him since confirmation. That they're not saying such suggests the truth would be a worse look than just leaving the question open.
Unless this is a prelude to going third party, he's not spoiling anything in the Democratic primary. He's probably more of a play to deliver anti-Biden/anti-Democratic-Party messaging.
The US has worldwide taxation (so you can't just live somewhere else to avoid taxes) and an exit tax (so you can't just renounce your citizenship without paying up).
The exit tax would probably need to be increased to not make it an attractive choice, but it does already exist. I believe the current tax is basically "pay a 23.8% capital gains tax as if you sold everything".
Your original statement was that the lawyers on both sides have influence. Which they do, but only one side is responsible for all white juries. It's not a failure of the other side for allowing that to happen.
For a lot of people "unpaid time off" isn't a favor. You're asking them to pay to vote.
Plus the rules frequently only come into play if their work shift makes it literally impossible to make it to the polls. If they could wake up from their third shift job to get in line as polls open before making it to their other job at 7:45 sharp, then no time off for you. If you need to get your kids to school during that time slot? Too bad, that's time you could technically be voting, so it's not your employer's responsibility.
I have a hard time believing someone who throws both the "printed too much money" and "backed down on student loans" talking points at the wall is a real person with a coherent political ideology.