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Most likely a SAM with the latest tech supplied by Russia, which also supplies Iran with intel on US operations. And yet Trump remains a Russian asset. And so many here continue to defend him. Go figure.

Umm, if the constitution says it is your calf, then it is your calf. Did you miss that little hint? :)

A problem we all face with voluntary voting is the susceptibility to 'Get out and vote' campaigns. Bad actors can leverage this and have. Compulsory voting acts as a buffer. I chuckled when you wrote that rank-choice voting in Alaska led to unintended consequences. To whom were the outcomes...

Well at least we won't hear you complaining when a candidate you abhor wins with 30% of the vote.

So how do the sick or elderly or heavily pregnant or disabled or too busy or absent or unable-to-leave-work-on-Tuesday people get to vote? You're OK with them not being able to vote? If you're not much interested in making elections as fair as possible, then you're not much interested in fair...

No, ranked-choice is not stupid. 49% of voters put a total nutjob first, but 51% put him or her last. They don't get elected. This is good. With 'first past the post' elections, a winner could have only 20% or 30% of the vote. A big majority of voters didn't want them. That's dumb.

Here in Australia, we don't show ID. We say our name and address, this is checked against the electoral roll, we're asked if we've already voted, our attendance is recorded on the roll, we're handed our ballot papers or shown to a booth with a screen. Our elections are fair and well respected...

That local couple sound like obnoxious so and sos. But being open minded, I do wonder if there is background to their hostility. Have you asked? Being asked politely could cause them to rethink their lives. Years ago we had desperately severe fires sweeping through neighbourhoods. Many older...

Hello four. Clearly, you're interested in voting reform. Would you also agree to rank-choice voting, independent electoral commissions (setting boundaries and running elections), voting on Saturday, postal voting, absentee voting, compulsory voting? Or are you only interested in reforms...

Resorting to, 'Oh yeah? Prove it!' is a poor alternative to, 'Hmmm, that's interesting and unexpected, quite frankly. I'll keep thinking about that.' I'm seeing a lot of narrow thinking amongst members here. No need for specifics, but there have been times when I've found my views on important...

Your credentials suggest you should be an intelligent and open minded fellow (and I'm sure you are in some contexts) and yet in your words you can't help but dismiss out of hand information that doesn't line up with your established thinking. If you were interviewing candidates for a senior...

The analysis certainly was eye-opening and unexpected. I and others receiving it didn't dismiss it out of hand though. Let's reconvene in 30 years. :-)

I wrote 'US Marines'. You read 'US military.' It's not best practice to dismiss analysis not seen before or anticipated simply because it doesn't line up with prejudicial thinking. This analysis was not leftist whatever. It was a briefing prepared for senior government and military officials...

This thread is very useful as an insight to the variety of views out there, amongst folk with at least one, solid theme of like-mindedness. I've been away for a year; there's only so much a thinking person can observe without losing hope for the world. So I'm dipping my toe, to see if views have...

I'm sure you're right about that. But it's been a special relationship of mutual benefit. Despite the fact that you're always late ;-) . I saw formal analysis 20 years ago that in 50 years, a majority of US Marines would cite Islam as their religion.