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Not being very well-traveled, I always wonder while driving around the city if other western countries have people standing at the end of every exit ramp with cardboard signs begging for money.

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Systems designed with their top priority being to provide services to citizens instead of to profit the investor class will save money. In a way it would be free compared to what we have now.

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Both points are true.

The populace is less likely to realize the fix is in if your winner takes the game by a hair.

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Do blow up dolls count?

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Boys trying to give you a shoeshine, old women trying to sell you lottery tickets, and musicians busking for change are more usual in Europe than straight-up beggars.

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What the hell is he doing? Trying to harness his double chin?

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Even they are unsatisfied.

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We have a mask mandate here and it seems that 90% of cashiers aren't wearing them at all now.

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The GOP is a calcified opposition party without any idea how to functionally govern, that’s a big part of why they’ve embraced division and lowest common denominator populism, and everything else that led to Trump.

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See: vaccines, for polio, measles, smallpox, rubella, diphtheria, mumps, pertus

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Favorite Trevor Noah interview of the month (re. Kamala, Cardi, and so much more...): https://www.youtube.com/wat...

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That's a fact. And in my opinion, one of the reasons that there are GOP members voting for Biden is because they're pretty sure that the Dems won't flip the Senate. So, they can act all "country over party" & still be reasonably confident that Joe won't get any legislative victories.

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Many have been known to impale themselves on pins and scissors rather than put up with Shapiro's 10 second grunt fest again.

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Universal health care brought to you by centrist dems:Obamacare Children's Health Care by Clintons (CHIPS)Medicare by LBJMedicaid by LBJVeteran's care by FDR

Why do you even work here? Less than 90 days, stop reflexively shitting on dems for five seconds.M4A is a bad policy because of all the reasons you know, including delivery issues.Universal health care != M4AThe Dems have always been for universal healthcare.

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And sexism and FBI's Comey and Bernie.

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That video from Dulcie is an absolute DEElight! "Got a taste and now I'm diabetic" works with HER name too.

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