Sure, but that’s money that isn’t being taxed in the individuals home country. Additionally, while most countries have taxes, their rates may be lower than the rates under this proposal, providing a cost saving if you make a purchase somewhere other than your home country.
Another text asking me to vote in North Carolina, where I have never been.
Unless we get a record flood of early votes for Trump, Kamala will fly a record flood of migrants to your town. That’s the choice.
So… if more people are voting for Trump… Harris will get less votes… because she’ll cheat less, because why cheat in a state where you’d otherwise lose?
They are asking you to immigrate to NC. For a month. Not sure of the voting laws in NC and whether you can register there listing your residence as a Residence Inn.
From the ad in question:
“Bump up the party with our all-new Marion Berry Knots! Wanna know what you’re getting into?” the chain, &pizza, said in a press release of the limited-time item. “These delicious, doughy knots are stuffed with berries, drizzled with creamy vanilla icing and topped with powdered sugar. And then a little more powdered sugar. (Enough powder for you and a few friends!) It’s criminal how good these are.”
“For a good time, it’s the powder that’s the ultimate headline grabber. The Marion Berry Knots have enough powdered sugar that will have customers bumping elbows to order and even force the DEA to look twice,” &pizza announced in a press release.
This ad is 
a lot of things, especially since Marion Barry has been passed away for a while now. But how is it “racist”? Is it because of a possible perception that this ad would’ve been less likely to have been made if Barry had been white instead of black?
Crack is stereotypically associated with Black people, so I’d guess the perception is over repeatedly reminding people that a dead Black person had crack 30+ years ago.
But crack isn’t white powder, right? That’s the powdered cocaine variety stereotypically used by white people.
I’ve been near cocaine once to my knowledge and didn’t ask for details.
I just think it’s at best low-hanging fruit to beat on the dead like that, however awful a person they were in life. Basically an unforced error on the part of this pizza place.
Looked it up and Marion Barry was arrested & served time for using crack cocaine, not powdered cocaine.
So that fits the racial stereotype, but the powered sugar part doesn’t really fit…
lol, so they even got the “joke” wrong 
okay, then yeah I could see that ad being just them throwing spaghepithets at the refrigerator door hoping some racism sticks
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Closest i’ve knowingly been to what i assumed was cocaine was a zz top concert. Three different groups of folks sitting right by me snorted up.
I went to the chat gpt to get an explanation of “college” in electoral college…
The term “college” in this context does not refer to an educational institution but derives from the Latin collegium, meaning “a group of colleagues or a body of persons acting together.”
…and went down the rabbit hole…in one of my follow up questions it gave me this:
Checks and balances: The system would serve as a check on direct democracy, which some framers feared might lead to instability or demagoguery.
That’s a big word… explain “demagoguery”
…and then thought, “holy shit it’s talking about trump”
This is also applicable:
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The worst way to learn about who you might like to vote for is via political commercials.
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Candidate A wants to throw grandma off the cliff, so vote B.
Candidate B wants to trans her into grandpa, so vote A.
Just take me back to football, please and thank you.
An advantage of voting early is not being inundated with political calls and texts. BF and I are both registered in the same state, quasi neighboring communities of similar socioeconomic status. Both registered Republicans because we wanted to vote in the GOP primary.
He is getting inundated with calls and texts. I am not. He has not voted yet. I voted the second day early voting was open.
I don’t think it’s a coincidence.
How do “they” know who has already voted?
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Oh, they know…they know…
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Whether or not you voted is a matter of public record, as is your party affiliation (generally determined by which primary ballot you requested so potentially not reflecting your true political leanings).
When I volunteered with the Republican Party decades ago we would get daily lists of registered voters indicating which ones had and hadn’t turned in ballots. The data guy would filter them down to only Republicans whose ballots hadn’t yet been turned in and we’d call them and encourage them to turn in their ballots.
I’m quite sure that the Democrats did the exact same thing.
They do. If you are a registered voter, everything about you is known except for who you actually voted for.
Your name, party affiliation (which usually just means which primary did you most recently vote in), contact information, which elections you did and did not vote in, whether you’ve voted yet in the current election… none of that information is confidential.
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Wow. I don’t think either of those are public in Canada.
Actually if you officially ‘join’ a party and pay their fees, that’s public record. But most people don’t do that. And even if you do, it doesn’t dictate how you vote. Pretty sure you could join all the political parties if you wanted.
Either way nobody knows if I voted.