“I forgot one thing about the guy who had gained the ability to fly - it was actually only for a foot or two, and only an inch or so high”

• The Vandals, An Idea for a Movie

A health insurer being permitted to vertically integrate a pharmacy chain to get around profit margin caps.

Speaking on condition of anonymity, one officer stated that the current pool of suspects include anyone with any sort of knowledge of UHC’s method of making money. “We’ll proceed with the operation’s scheduling as soon as we receive pre-authorization, but of course,” he said, “pre-authorization is obviously not a guarantee that a given service will be covered.”

People who don’t admit it are a bunch of Pansies

Tbf, drain cleaning Australia’s synth wave music is pretty rockin but yeah the rest sucks

I was about to feel attacked but then I remembered i collected seeds from “probably asters” yesterday

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Something I like to do is to take their call scripts and mail them as signed letters. Phone calls can be useful, sure (when they’re answered or the answering machine isn’t full or disabled), but my understanding is that written letters are taken more seriously in those offices. The order of significance, as it was explained to me, goes email -> phone call -> letter.

Jones said he would move to a new studio, websites and social media accounts that were already set up.

Lawyers for the plaintiffs were too busy high-fiving over another set of seizable assets to respond prior to publication

Remember to move hornworms to your non-production/trap tomatoes to see more of them!

I believe that it’s vanishingly rare for it to be “too late” for anyone to change their behavior, on an individual level. If we can recognize the challenge, we can amend our approach and work to bring others into the fold. I’m still grieving as well, but defeatism will only strengthen their position by weakening ours.

Looks like Dark Arthur forgot his wings

With fptp, other better leverage points exist than dividing progressive voting share at the top. That’s our opportunity (as I see it) to state that we would like to keep the progress we’ve made, however small it might be. Downballot races all the way down to town boards are how we can push the legislation and policies we wish to see signed into law to achieve further progress. Success there also allows for more leftist/progressive people to be the pool for presidential candidates.

what would it take for you to vote third party?

^ that was your question, and telling me my reasoning behind the answer I gave isn’t relevant to what it would take me to vote third party is farcical and asinine, and that’s being generous

Firmly agreed. Too many people I know forget that social progress is measured in inches and social regression is measured in yards (cm’s and m’s for our other friends). I’ll gladly vote “no backsliding” on the top line, knowing that I can keep pressuring for progress in the interim.

I appreciate the self reflection in this comment, and hope others follow your example

This doesn’t quite apply to me, since I live somewhere with RCV and gladly use it. But:

A third party that doesn’t waste my time by only running top-line candidates while ignoring every other aspect of the necessary political gains to achieve their goals. Especially when the planks of their platform are overwhelmingly in the hands of the house and senate and not in the purview of the one position for which they decided to lackadaisically run. A third party presidential win with no support in the legislature would doom any real progress that third parties could hope to achieve - giving us a figurehead with no means to enact their agenda would only dissuade voters from seeing future candidates as viable and locking us back into the same dichotomy.

I agree, but if we let this sentiment bleed over and begin infighting with our allies and accomplices we weaken the coalition we need to fix this. Don’t let them blunt your ability to organize. Fascism thrives when we self-isolate and drive ourselves and each other apart