meeeeetch
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- Comment on Can Trump still run for president now that he's a convicted felon? 4 weeks ago:
Debs ran from prison (for the high crime of telling people that WWI was none of our business and people shouldn’t enlist to get turned toa pink mist in Belgium) in 1920
As for voting as a felon, that varies state to state. I don’t think there’s anyplace that allows people to vote from prison, but quite a few states let convicted felons vote once they’ve completed their sentence and any parole that follows it (and in some states, pay additional fines, which sounds a bit like a poll tax to me, but I’m not one of our nine kritarchs, so what do I know about that sort of thing?)
As for people running for office when they couldn’t vote, Elizabeth Cady Stanton ran for office well before she could have voted, and the first woman elected to Congress (Jeanette Rankin) was elected in 1916, several years before women’s suffrage was added to the constitution, though her state, Montana, had allowed women to vote already.
- Comment on Implications 5 weeks ago:
News of his attendance at someone else’s party made all future time travelers give him a wide berth.
- Comment on Corvids 2 months ago:
Steller’s Jay fits in with the family and makes sure the blue jay doesn’t get lonely
- Comment on Who knew 1989 was an uneventful year in China 10 months ago:
The CPC doesn’t deserve defense. The most reactionary Tiananmen protester was more communist than any Dengist since then was.
- Comment on Organic, huh? 11 months ago:
X USDA Organic
✓ IUPAC Organic