1968? There were literally riots
The loss was perceived to be the result of Johnson and Daley influencing behind the scenes. Humphrey, who had not entered any of the thirteen state primary elections, won the Democratic nomination shortly after midnight, and many delegates shouted, “No! No!” when his victory was announced
law forbids Christians from following Christ’s example
These people have really just reimagined everything about Jesus, and it’s nuts
But the downside is that technically, regardless of what mechanism would trigger the dissolution of parliament, this has to be requested to and accepted by the King, who then sends out Writs of Electors
Of course in practice this is a rubber stamp tradition with no chance of not happening - if Charles went mad and tried to prevent this we would likely still have an election just with a side order of constitutional crisis and a wave of republicanism
But it’s still dumb
That is a very specific usage: ‘The Government’ as a proposer of law, Parliament as approvers. Outside of a PPE course it isn’t how the term is used and I think you know this.
In day to day use the government (small g) can be talked about as comprising anyone involved in governance, from the PM down to local councillors, depending on context
Calling people out on this based on a technicality is like correcting people when they say ‘speed’ instead of ‘velocity’, and it’s super irrelevant in a thread about MPs acting in a political capacity
You seem to be confused. The phrase ‘government official’ refers to anyone acting on behalf of the government, including backbenchers. This could even include unelected aides, spokespeople or some civil servants.
You’re thinking of the cabinet. You do not have to be in the cabinet to be a ‘government official’.
As a fellow brit, these Americans correcting you are right.
“what is a personal pronoun”
These 100 year old Kentuckians are far too woke
Just in case you’re not joking, that’s the point of this meme. That the big reveal and emotional moment at the end of the film has been misunderstood and reduced to a plot hole
I hate everyone on lemmy but at least I’m hating people
100% there’s a culture of gatekeeping and elitism all too common around classical music - but it’s not the music’s fault
These potatos are woke, not enough salt
It’s just a missing word, it should say ‘who are part computer’. Most likely a typo
Yes I mean, he’s not wrong but his thing about Ukraine is driven by his Churchill obsession, not by real world ethics
Individual politicians and political parties routinely use count a vote as approval. In that way, if no other, voting does serve to support the existing system.
I don’t think that tracks.
The highest turnout in any US election since 1908 was 62% in 2020, and at no point has a party won an election and been like ‘look at all the people who didn’t vote, I guess we don’t have a mandate to govern’
Parties win elections and govern in power with less than 50% of voters backing them all the time, it’s literally the standard. A low turnout will not change the way any party acts once in power.
Bill is the pony that travels with the Fellowship from Bree to the Mines of Moria. I hope he has a good birthday
I think it means + more than zero but less than one
So like, +(between 0.01 and 0.99)
They’re using it as (+0<1), there’s no - here bc that would be + (the other candidate)
‘There’s no point voting against Hitler right now because the opposition is right leaning and may one day grow into Hitler’
I don’t know why you are using in person community praxis as a refutation of an online space being toxic
Real life isn’t online, the issue is an online space being shitty
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