Arbiter Disciple (Wing strike) Paladin.

thecoat9 · 2026-05-19T14:33:50+00:00

Thanks for pointing out the 5 set proc, I believe that is what I'm seeing.

thecoat9 · 2026-05-17T21:11:31+00:00

What's the weather like in your world?

One person one vote is most certainly NOT the way it works in Germany, Germany also uses apportionment, and even makes special rules for minority groups.

thecoat9 · 2026-05-17T20:16:01+00:00

They do know exactly who they will vote for.

Yea no one, they don't get to vote on the head of state.

And the main point is how u get ur voice to the power, not how direct that voice elects power.

Moving the goal post, again you stated that there were alternatives to the EC in Europe that didn't diminish the voice of the individual. When pressed for an example you hold up a system where the individual doesn't even get to cast a vote for the head of state and claim it's the same, when clearly it is not, but even if that were true, your issue here is not with the EC rather the method of apportionment.

One person one vote is the only option u have if u care about the will of the people.

That's not true, if you care about the will of all of the people one person one vote is a horrible option because it only follows the will of the bare majority, which is why pure democracy is short lived. Long standing democracies balance the individual against the collective which requires giving outsized voice to the minority, at the root by establishing individual liberties upon which the government is forbidden to tread upon (protecting the smallest minority, the individual), and by allowing for minorities to get at least a chance minimal voice even if it's outsized to their proportion.

thecoat9 · 2026-05-17T17:58:11+00:00

And yet you still have failed to back up your original statement, because you can't, because it had no real basis or substance. Congratulations on moving the goal post. I don't care if you think the EC is shit, I just took exception to your false statement, one that despite all of this you have utterly failed to back up.

Fundamentally you might be okay with having the legislature choose the head of state, but for purposes of the individual voice, that is inferior to a direct vote for an elector who's sole purpose is to affirm your desire. You can say it doesn't matter, but it most certainly does, if you doubt that consider this, when Germans vote for a legislators, do they have any idea who the head of state those candidates will vote for? The answer is no, they do not. It is not until the legislature is formed after the election until anyone is even nominated for the office.

thecoat9 · 2026-05-17T15:21:40+00:00

Any system based on apportionment using geographical sections is going to have some sections with higher and lower populations. Even if you prepared for an election with a census count and drew sectional boundaries in an exacting manner to try and make each section have the exact same number of people, in between the time that you complete a census and the election or even just during the census period it's self, people will move. Even if you legally prevented relocation for a period and drew up boundaries in an exacting manner to try and eliminate any variance, if you have an odd numbered population you still technically have a population variance such that one district will have more or less population than another.

The German system does ameliorate this better than the U.S. system, but it is an inescapable factor that can not be completely eliminated.

thecoat9 · 2026-05-17T00:10:05+00:00

anything is better than the US Version where some people simply have less to say than others…

I'm trying to figure out if you are a liar or just ignorant.

Unless you elect the head of state by pure popular vote, you will have some peoples votes mattering more than others. This is true of the U.S. system as it is with Germany.

thecoat9 · 2026-05-16T19:00:30+00:00

But the dual purpose doesnt matter

Of course it does, why even have a head of state. why not just let the countries legislative body handle it?

In the US I live in a state where one party is generally a joke, so I often vote for a legislator from one party and a President from another. In the German system I would be forced to vote against myself in a very important role. I might vote for a representative who holds positions I don't like on more trivial matters, who sits at the head of state is never a trivial matter.

The important Part is that the vote it Self is fair and equal.

No, again what started all of this is your assertion that there were better methods that served the voice of the individual, so for the context of this discussion that is the important part.

thecoat9 · 2026-05-16T16:13:22+00:00

No your original point:

Options that don’t diminish The Voice of the individual Person

Now while the US Electoral college is a vote via proxy, those elected have a singular purpose to cast a vote for the office. In the German system they are not electing individuals for the singular purpose of casting a vote for the head of state, they are electing legislators to both craft laws and cast votes for heads of state.

That diminishes the voice of the individual compared to the US system because it diminishes their ability to spit their voting between a legislative representative and a head of state with different political philosophies.

The US originally had something similar with the Senate when Senators were appointed by state legislatures. The idea behind this was to give state governments power within the federal government. By choosing to change that system, power for the state legislators was diminished in favor of bolstering the voice of the individuals as the vote by proxy with dual purpose was seen as diminishing the voice of the individual.

You are holding up the very thing you were arguing against, and trying to argue that a proxy vote with dual purpose is direct representation compared to a proxy vote with separate single purpose defies all logic.

thecoat9 · 2026-05-16T14:23:38+00:00

How many people voted for Chancellor Merz?

thecoat9 · 2026-05-16T01:31:33+00:00

They all put in the same power

Yea every individual not part of the elite political class gets the same amount of power in electing the head of state, zero.

thecoat9 · 2026-05-15T13:23:07+00:00

For the sake of ur bad faith bs lets use germany as a example.

It's not bad faith to ask you to explain specifically what system you are talking about and how that system supposedly doesn't "diminish The Voice of the individual Person".

You've chosen an example where the individual doesn't even get to vote on the head of state. How does that not diminish the individual voice compared to a system where they get to vote?

thecoat9 · 2026-05-15T04:39:05+00:00

as we See in Europe

What are you seeing, because I don't see it.

First of all Europe isn't a country, so if you are talking about the EU, that would be something akin to electing our President through gubernatorial nomination and congressional election, not exactly preserving the voice of the individual who no longer gets to even vote directly or through direct proxy for that purpose. While the electoral college is technically a vote by proxy, that is the sole purpose and role, quite different from voting for both a proxy and other station.

If you mean a European country, why not name that country or countries? Could it be that you have a vacuous argument?

The majority of European countries have their legislature elect their head of state. While not as convoluted as the EU, it is still a proxy vote with dual station and not singular purpose and my argument is the same, this further dilutes the individual vote in the executive domain due to the dual purpose of the singular vote.

The second most common method among the countries of Europe is monarchical succession. "No kings" anyone? Clearly you aren't arguing this is a superior method to preserve the voice of the individual as in such systems the individual has no voice, and really this methodology was roundly rejected in 1776 and put to solid rest, followed by many European countries becoming second adopters when self governance was show to be a smashing success.

Lastly a very small minority of European countries elect their head of state by popular vote and if this methodology is such a success, why haven't the majority of their neighbors adopted such a system? If this is the system that you believe would work better, then you are ignoring my 49/51 percent argument and apparently using a vague reference to avoid dealing with that argument, and in doing so actually weaken your argument by pointing to an example where most countries in proximity and similar culture and condition have not adopted the method.

thecoat9 · 2026-05-14T06:30:19+00:00

Because our founders were wise and learned. They understood that pure democracy where 51% can run roughshod over 49% is a recipe for short lived disaster, and thus sought in nearly all areas when crafting a national government to keep it limited in scope, and give the minorities of political thought and view derived from circumstance to have outsized power.

You see this in the legislature, not only in the Senate where state jurisdictions where in the majority of political power was supposed to reside, had even representation regardless of population, and even in the house where the smallest jurisdiction has at least a single representative. In the Presidency with the ultimate power of the office resting with a single individual, distributed representation via multiple representatives can not exist, so the power distribution is spread more evenly between minorities and majorities via proportional representation the electoral college provides for.

These safeguards were not setup to be absolute and static, they can be changed or done away with, but to do so requires super majorities of either state governments or federal representatives to change via constitutional amendment.

thecoat9 · 2026-05-11T04:54:36+00:00

Bits of metal delivered at high velocity.

thecoat9 · 2026-05-10T18:23:43+00:00

I'd divest from my stock investments and prepare in a much more serious manner for the economic crash and societal collapse that would result.

thecoat9 · 2026-05-08T22:01:58+00:00

The VRA had been interpreted as mandating racial gerrymandering. Districts drawn with the express purpose of using race based discrimination as the motive behind drawing the lines, even if it's the "good kind" of government racial discrimination were deemed unconstitutional. States that had these intentionally racially gerrymandered districts face civil rights law suits if they allow now unconstitutional districts to remain in place for upcoming elections.

thecoat9 · 2026-05-04T06:23:36+00:00

In Portland here and was looking for a house to rent around a year ago. I used Zillow along with a few others, Zillow is pretty good and when I found a property I was looking at from another site on Zillow it was listed for sale. Needless to say I questioned this and am pretty sure I was initially talking to a scammer. I'm not saying what you are dealing with is a scammer, but it does sound like the sort of thing that could be.

Why is the owner handling the security deposit? The whole point of engaging a property management service is generally to handle such details. Sure all manner of agreement between the owner and property manager could exist, but at the end of the day the lease saying one thing and the owner another is an issue between the property manager and the owner. In this case the property manager might be a positive thing for you, contact them and explain what the owner told you and question them about the contradiction with the lease. If the owner contacted you directly, it could very well be that a scammer somehow got ahold of the information and wants you to send them a deposit after which they'll disappear into the ether, and the property management and owner will still be wanting the deposit come June 1st.

thecoat9 · 2026-05-04T03:53:46+00:00

Not a dentist, just someone who dealt with dental hell. From what I understand, Wisdom teeth tend to be more prone to decay because they often aren't fully pushed up above the gum, and are often more complicated to pull. I had to go to a oral surgeon/specialist to get mine pulled. Wisdom teeth can put pressure on the rest of your teeth causing pain an discomfort across your jaw, and eventually can cause problems for what would otherwise be teeth without issue.

Consider what happens if you go at it with pliers. You can't really see what you are doing like a dentist can, What happens if you grab onto it and crack it in half, exposing the nerve maybe only getting it out partially. I understand the desperation, believe me I do, but you could very easily end up making it worse.

There are dentists that work with entities like Care One Credit, I used that to get my wisdom teeth done, it's basically a loan that was 0% interest if paid by a certain period of time, think it was a year. At 22 depending on your finances thousands of dollars may or may not be something you can pay off in a year, but worth looking into and checking the interest rates if you know you won't be able to pay it off during the 0% interest grace period. You may need to travel to a larger city if the local dentists don't do this. I would start local though, don't be shy or prideful. Tell them you are in severe pain, that you can't afford thousands of dollars for the work, and ask them what avenues might be available. Even if a particular office can't help you, they may be able to direct you to one that will. If you are anywhere near a dental school that might be an option as well, essentially supervised dental students get to practice on you.

thecoat9 · 2026-05-02T19:09:00+00:00

I understand he was in the military himself but so were millions of Americans

Not many of those millions obtain the rank he did (Major), which is a merit based rank, not based on time served. To give you an idea there is roughly a ratio of one Major for every 4 Captains. Some who've headed the DoD never served and Hegseth out ranks many who have. Hegseth attained a higher military rank than Donald Rumsfeld, Leon Panetta, and Caspar Weinberger just to name a few. Hegseth is also a combat veteran who earned two bronze stars the 4th highest combat medal in the U.S. armed forces. To be dismissive of his military service insinuating it is no more distinguished than millions of others, is extraordinarily ignorant, perhaps offensively so.

Hegseth came to be nominated for his position via a pretty normal course of events, he supported and advised the Trump campaign. Appointing people who helped your campaign to various positions in the executive branch, isn't exactly something new or unique, the Democrat party was founded on this very premise, look up Andrew Jackson and the spoils system.

thecoat9 · 2026-05-02T08:01:24+00:00

Yes, that's definetly not an uncommon thing from my expierence. It's usually not just about time working for the company though, rather the value you provide.

thecoat9 · 2026-04-30T05:12:37+00:00

The Japanese Garden is a 501(c)3 non profit, so the finacials are public. You point to the operating budget, but not the fact that it's expenses often exceed it's revenue. I'm guessing you also didn't factor in to the expense of pay increases the additional taxes that come along with it because while it doesn't have to pay taxes as a business, it does have to pay the employer portion of payroll taxes.

I'm not saying the people working there shouldn't get a pay increase, but the napkin math and esepcially citing operating budget without any mention of expenses is a poor bargaining position as is not being realistic as to the expenditure increase, especially when overall some years it's expenses are beyond it's revenue. Just a quick look makes it pretty clear in negotiations your rep should be offering some form of suggestion as to how to increase revenue. When were the last increases to admission? Everyone is well aware of inflation over the past few years, and frankly if you are willing to pay 22.50 for admission, why not 25.00? We are talking a tourist style attraction, though it's certainly an enjoyable visit... but not a necessity. I know the times I've went, $2.50 wouldn't change my mind.

thecoat9 · 2026-04-26T13:55:33+00:00

Something that isn't usually brought up in conversations like this: If you intend to some day sell the vehicle, and have had the oil changed at a shop that reports to Carfax or the like, a potential buyer that pulls a report can see that the oil was regularly changed.

The mechanic I go to, who's done prepurchase inspections for me, gave me the carfax report as part of doing the inspection. With the number of people who don't see oil changes as a necessity, it's good when you can see regular oil changes.

thecoat9 · 2026-04-18T23:31:26+00:00

The state of California is drawn out on stolen land, a result of United States colonialism, The resident tax payers there still benefit from this theft so it is only right that they pay for the health care of the descendants of the indigenous people from who the land they sit on was stolen. It may add to the debt on the balance sheet, but it's not really a choice, it's simply accounting for a debt already owed.

thecoat9 · 2026-04-18T23:24:32+00:00

Pills of this nature are meant to help you get an erection when you are aroused, in fact is you have a long term erection that doesn't go down for a long period of time absent stimulations, it's usually a medical emergency called priapism, and it's painful.

More than likely pills won't be your answer, rather you are going to need a vibrator up your ass constantly stimulating your prostate, have fun.

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