Smart girl.
Teams are for sports. Who am I kidding, Iâll raise no Trekkie.
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Resistance is futile
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Victory is life.
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Diamonds are forever.
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20 footballs
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Little bit late comment, but personally I never voted in my life and not planning to start.
Makes my life easier and saves me bit of time 
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Much as I hate to admit it, thereâs really not a lot of good options to vote for in the US. Youâve got one group of corporate stooges who pretend to care about marginalized people, at least when it helps them get votes, and another group of maniac cultists who actively hate marginalized people, at least when it helps them get votes. While one side is weak and the other is nuts, there is unfortunately no âlesser evilâ in this situation, because both sides ultimately answer to the same evil: money.
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And power⌠thatâs enough in and of itself sometimes.
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Wrong. There is a lesser evil. And there is a much, much greater evil.
These statements might have made sense 20, even 10 years ago. But they do not apply anymore.
Are Dems in the hands of corporate interests? Yes.
Are they also the ONLY ones working for affordable healthcare, housing, living wages, workersâ rights, womenâs rights, minority rights, freedom of thought, freedom of expression, and, yes actually, limits on corporate greed and the power of money in politics. YES.
There is very, very, very fucking exceedingly clearly a lesser evil in 2024. There was a lesser evil in 2020 and there was a lesser evil in 2016.
Bothsideserism is BULLSHIT
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I believed that too⌠until Dems went all in for supporting Israel in its genocide attempts, and completely brush off any pushback or criticism from their constituents and label them as antisemites for it, all while feverishly using the boogeyman of a potential second Trump presidency to justify sticking to this course to the public and insisting on supporting the administration financing that genocide at any cost just to avoid it.
Not to mention literally stepping our First Amendment rights by banning TikTok using the boogeyman of Chinese influence despite all the other companies that donât just potentially use the information of American consumers but actually do it, and all because Mark Zuckerberg is upset that TikTok is taking traffic away from his platform and that the old, career politicians on both sides donât like that the younger generations use TikTok to report on things they donât want us to know about in real time like no other platform.
Not to mention all the empty and broken promises theyâve made for years that they never followed through on despite being in positions to do so, such as not codifying abortion rights into law when they had the majority, not passing universal healthcare and eliminating student loan debt. Sure, those things will be awful under Republican rule, but weâre currently under Democrat rule, and those things are still problems, but they do make things just better enough to get the rest of us to shrug and go âat least thatâs something, Iâll vote for them again and maybe this time theyâll actually give it to us how we want it.â
I believed bothsidesism was bullshit, until the most recent few months showed me what happens when you expect the âlesser evilâ side to actually live up to their rhetoric, but they showed their hand as the same war hawks who support suppression of information just like their counterparts on the right, while getting nothing meaningful done when they have the opportunity. They just use nicer words about it.
And I actually owe @Khakiasp a bit of an apology for trying to argue that same point last year.
Now, I do still hold out hope that all this can be turned around and they can show me Iâm wrong, but so far, doesnât appear to be on the horizon.
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Guess which age number is the winner 
Nobody can beat 47 
Political extremists love this trick
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Yeah, Iâll definitely be voting this year, even if my vote for is for Labour and I canât say Iâm terribly impressed by them. I live in a seat which is contested 3 ways by Labour, SNP, and Conservative, so I do know that my vote will count.
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My driving instructor said that I can book a test.
I am aiming for first dates of June.
Itâs not booked yet, but I hope there will be available slots then and I get back here with good news
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I am travelling to Brussels on a business trip for around three months. I am happy and sad at the same time as I am visiting europe for the first time and will miss my 18 months old daughter for these months.
Two of my colleagues will be with me and if possible we have plans to travel in and around Belgium during weekends.
I have a 13 hour long flight tonight, transit at Doha. Two of these 6 hour flights will be really boring as I will be travelling alone from a different location and flight than my colleagues.
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Unfortunately No 
as I will be working at clientâs office unless there is local holidays. But Saturday and Sunday is holiday - I get around 12 weekends. I am not sure with the Schengen visa, I can travel outside Belgium to neighbouring countries for vacation on weekends.
Is there any plan of your band at Brussels ?? Do let me know your band name, I can attend maybe 
If possible and visa allowed, I can also try to visit Copenhagen IOI office too. My european forum mates may suggest for travels and all.
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Looks like they ripped you off, the almost nonexistent amount of blueberries is a crime.
Hope you enjoyed it, either way.
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