Oh, What a Cake is great! Wonderful owner and staff, and their cakes are so tasty and pretty.

I feel very safe here, and have felt that way since I moved to the area around 2005. I feel safe at night on local streets and often go for night walks.

All in favor of adding “Pro-Signs” to the subreddit’s description? Cast your vote! /s

Ok

No you don't hate signs, you just called out Linfeng Chen only. Then you suggested he won because he "bought" votes... All without evidence.

Sounds a lot like people who claim an election is rigged without evidence...

You then changed your post to backtrack on all of this.

If you just went out and said "I'm upset that Linfeng Chen won" I would respect that a lot more.

I sent you one

It was never about the signs or litter. It was always about someone not liking a particular candidate.

I knew there’d be at least one. I hate them all. But that’s what I get for Having Opinions on the Internet.

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Go for it.

Give it a day or two lol. This probably isn’t your first election and you know the signs don’t immediately go down but they do go down.

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Looks like somebody didn’t benefit from the education of the Howard County Public School System

LOL ... your edit obfuscates that you called out Linfeng Chen's signs in particular and not all signs.

And your problem is?

Said with the confidence of a true libertarian.

Right. Republic is what we have not a democracy. The word slip that people use on this issue is annoying at least and is more likely to be nefarious. This country is not founded on the majority determining the rights of the minority: that would be a direct democracy and honestly what one of the two major parties would live to see. The Founding fathers set us up as a Republic to protect the rights of the minority because they knew the result of mob rule and it’s never pretty.

We are using the correct word, and everyone knew exactly what was meant by it until like 10 years ago when a bunch of dweebs on the internet pushed up their fedoras and said “actually….”

What does “republic” mean, by the way? What is the principle upon which “republic, not a democracy” is founded? Or is it just semantics?

A republic is a form of democracy - a representative democracy.

And as far as shoving issues down people’s throats. Let’s start with abortion on the Republican side and gun rights on the Democrat side. So sorry, but there are many authoritarians all too happy to gavage citizens with their garbage.

Just like elections, words matter. Use the correct ones.

And actually, those that advocate for getting rid of the filibuster in Congress for their pet issues are doing just that.

This is a silly meme of an argument. Democracy, broadly, is government based upon and responsive to the will of the people. That’s what people are referring to when we talk about preserving democracy. No one is suggesting that we should restructure into a direct democracy.

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I want to DM you too

We have a Republic, not a Democracy.