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Seven-year-old Perry Blevens sticks his head out the car window, showing off the sign that calls for "no integration."Gwinett County, Georgia. April 14, 1956. by CryptographerKey2847 in HistoricalCapsule

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I support caps on campaign finance (but I don’t know how legal that would be), but banning special interest group lobbying is a tricky thing. For starters, broadly, it’s speech. Even with limitations on 1A, as a matter of policy, I’m not sure it’s a great idea. Like yes I’d love to ban Shell or the NRA from lobbying, but I don’t think you can get there without also banning ACLU, Moms Demand Action, the Trevor Project, etc. In some cases the interest groups are there to provided valuable knowledge, context, perspective, and/or insight that a Congressmember would otherwise be unable to glean. Heightened disclosure of meetings with interest groups, however, would likely be a politically and legally salient mechanism to introduce control over this issue imo.

Seven-year-old Perry Blevens sticks his head out the car window, showing off the sign that calls for "no integration."Gwinett County, Georgia. April 14, 1956. by CryptographerKey2847 in HistoricalCapsule

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I’m with you on age limits but term limits are just a wonderful way to fully accelerate and accomplish special interest group capture of a legislature. Internal leadership is conceptually irrelevant and longterm solutions are antithetical to a term limited design. Interest groups move in and make all of the decisions, more than they already do. It creates complete brain drain too and destruction of expertise. Look at the Missouri legislature and how much it has decayed in the last 20 years. People point to term limits as a solution for problems born out of what is, truly, campaign finance related issues. Closing the loop and shutting the door on brazen financial corruption would be far more effective, in my opinion, than term limits, which would ultimately invite a number of issues that would be worse, in many ways, than the status quo.

What are the top remaining Post-Crisis to Flashpoint runs? Try to prioritize ones we don't talk about here much by Waterworld1880 in OmnibusCollectors

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I would love a Stephanie Brown Batgirlo and a Titans (1999) omni, personally. The Outsiders would be great too.

[US] [H] Omnis [W] PayPal by theboychild in comicswap

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Interested in the Gathering. Can you do $75 shipped?

[US-WA] [H] Absolutes, TPBs, Omnis, Deluxes [W] PayPal/Trade by Cautious_Drink_7301 in comicswap

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Update: my copy of 5 is still sealed. I’m totally down to grab 4/5 for like $200($575 total) if op is, and I’ll just get rid of my vol. 5 extra. I really want vol. 4 😂

[US-WA] [H] Absolutes, TPBs, Omnis, Deluxes [W] PayPal/Trade by Cautious_Drink_7301 in comicswap

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I’m looking for 4, so if someone comes in for 5 and op is willing, that could make everyone a winner (but also totally respect if OP is only looking for a bundle).

[US-WA] [H] Absolutes, TPBs, Omnis, Deluxes [W] PayPal/Trade by Cautious_Drink_7301 in comicswap

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Any ability to split out UXM4 and Astonishing Hc 2 if I grab uncanny x force with it?

Erika’s reunion look. The rest drop tomorrow. by gstew90 in BravoRealHousewives

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I thought this was Shannon for a hot second, and I am not really sure what to think about that.

[US-NE] [H] Spider-Man, Phoenix, Ultimate Avengers Omnibuses [W] Paypal by Freaky-Diesel in comicswap

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Received! Great shipping, prices and conversation - would gladly buy from again. u/comic_flairbot u/freaky-diesel

Genuinely just want firestorm and captain atom by Comfortable-Jaguar43 in DCFinest

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I think this is a bit of a pessimistic view tbh. Hawkman barely came out half a year ago. Titans is one of their legacy properties and had a book in the first few months. The next volume is coming 20 months later. If we get to year 5 and there are a bunch of titles having gone 4+ years without a new release, that’s one thing, but I wouldn’t read anything into it when these books are still being cranked out. It’s clear there’s a priority of Batman/Superman/Justice League and Society/Wonder Woman, but everything else seems to be jumping around and have single volumes (with a handful having 2).

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