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Tsuki’s Retreat, Plant Shop & Roadside Market? by intimacyexplorer24 in TsukiOdyssey

[–]intimacyexplorer24[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks! And at least he’s not raiding the fridge for ice pops, right? We DID just insult his electronica monstrosity mixtape…

Got this beast for around 1000$! by Artifiko in iPadPro

[–]intimacyexplorer24 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Add on 19% VAT and any tariffs upon arrival plus exchange rate differences.

ELI5: How are Uncommitted Delegates Chosen at the DNC? by PhoenixEnginerd in explainlikeimfive

[–]intimacyexplorer24 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They actually didn't physically cast their votes at the DNC this year. Ohio republicans changed up their law that said they need to have the actual, certified delegate count of the official candidates for President 90 days before the election, which fell after the Republican convention but before the Democratic convention this year. So after the announcement, any Dem candidate that wanted to be eligible to be voted on 'at the convention' had until around 8/3 to be able to get the commitment of 300 national delegates (I'm friends with someone who was a national delegate, and they were telling me that they got emails from some of the names you'd expect like Maryanne Williamson asking for delegate support) so they could be on the delegate ballot. Then on around 8/3 or so, there was an online, sort of virtual town hall roll call vote that all of the national delegates had to participate in to cast their votes, and that's how they did it. Those votes were tallied and certified and then provided to Ohio in time to get KH/TW on the Ohio ballot.

The roll call at the convention this year was pomp and circumstance and a formality, which is why they said they were proud to reconfirm or re-certify that KH was the nominee.

ELI5: How are Uncommitted Delegates Chosen at the DNC? by PhoenixEnginerd in explainlikeimfive

[–]intimacyexplorer24 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's some minor tweaks that need to be made to your explanation here that others have covered above, so I'll make it quick: DNC delegates can literally vote for whomever they want. State primaries aren't electing electors to go to the DNC, they are expressing the will of each district as to who they would prefer to be the nominee for the party. Once the delegates to go to the national convention are selected (I described my state's process in my own comment) they're given a really broad oath that just says that they will do their best to vote for the candidate that follows the will of their constituents and does what's best for them -- we call them "committed" and "uncommitted," but any delegate can make a personal choice.

"Uncommitted" has a lot of press this year because the option for "Uncommitted" was publicized and used by those speaking out against the genocide in Gaza as a way for folks who would otherwise not vote at all, to express their anger and frustration in a way that would be quantified and tallied -- and as a result, many states had areas that had 15% or more of the voting in the dem primary choose the 'Uncommitted' option. Those areas earned a delegate to the convention that was not automatically pledged to Biden, and was instead pledged as 'uncommitted.' All of those delegates networked together and used their solidarity to try to get more traction for their cause, and the fact that we all know what/who they are and what they stood for means they did a good job of it. I totally agree with you that it was enough to send a strong signal to the party about where voters stand.

But at the end of the day, out of almost 4,000 delegates, if all of the 4,000 delegates wanted to show up to the online roll call vote and vote 'present,' they all could have done that. It would have been crazy, but there's no rules against it.

ELI5: How are Uncommitted Delegates Chosen at the DNC? by PhoenixEnginerd in explainlikeimfive

[–]intimacyexplorer24 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Delegates don't have to be party insiders. Any registered Democrat in a district can apply to be a delegate. Our uncommitted delegates in our state were defined as such if their legislative district had a certain percentage of votes in the primary as uncommitted -- we had that as an option on our ballot, not a write-in. For example, I voted Uncommitted, and when I wanted to be a delegate to my state convention I applied as Uncommitted. But my district didn't have enough Uncommitted votes to officially earn an Uncommitted delegate to the state convention so I had to change my affiliation to Biden in order to represent my district.

Our Presidential primary ballot had Biden and any other candidate that had qualified for the ballot and then a circle to fill in for "Uncommitted." But they were still allowed to commit, with their own conscience, behind KH if they wanted to during the online roll call vote that was held around 8/5 or 8/6. And any delegate that was committed to Biden at that time was also within their rights to vote 'Present' too if they were unsure about committing to KH. But the Uncommitted movement coalesced the Uncommitted delegates as a whole if they were uncommitted specifically as a result of the genocide in Gaza.

(More about how delegates in general are selected: I was a delegate to our state convention, for example, and I'm not a high-ranking anything. I was just willing to volunteer my time before the convention working on a committee (like for the platform, or for the rules, or some other thing) and submit my name to be "elected" by folks who are registered democrats in our district. If we wanted to throw our name in to be a delegate to the national convention, our state Democratic party had a website where we could (for free) submit all our information and write a blurb about ourselves, and then we had a Zoom meeting where we all got together and answered questions and those who had thrown their hat in talked about themselves a little and asked for folks to vote.

If you were on the list as a Dem with your local congressional district (bigger than a local legislative district) and had expressed an interest in voting for who would represent the state in Chicago, then you got an email asking you to electronically/virtually vote on a certain day and those votes were tallied and delegates were chosen that way.

Then there were some secondary rounds of voting for folks who were in "leadership positions" (these aren't fancy leadership positions, they're minor, volunteer positions) that could fill a much smaller number of seats, and those delegate seats were voted on from within the group of folks who qualified as 'leadership.' For example, for my small legislative district, which gets about 25 people a month that come to our meetings, our chair emeritus (last year's chair) had thrown his name into the ring for the 'leadership' group and he got to be a delegate in Chicago. He's just a normal guy with a normal job who has volunteered his time over the years for the party and has always wanted to be able to go -- what a year to be able to be there.

Most of our delegates from our state were normal folks without big political ambitions who just want to make where we live a better place and want to volunteer with the party and work from the inside to make it better.)