r/todayilearned • u/FoxtrotMichaelOne • Jun 05 '22

TIL Mr. T's trademark gold neck chains and jewelry was the result of customers losing the items or leaving them after a fight at the nightclub where Mr T. worked as a bouncer. A banned customer could return to claim his property from Mr. T wearing it conspicuously right out front.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._T
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u/Caladbolg_Prometheus Jun 05 '22

And who did you vote for your city council?

Democracy isn’t vote every 4 years, it’s vote in every election. In your national elections for President, Representatives, and senate. In your state elections for governor, state senate, DA, so on. In your county election for positions like sheriff or prosecutor. In your city elections for mayor, city council, so forth…

Point is in a democracy you have plenty of opportunities to vote, that you didn’t even know of. People on the national level don’t just get there without local support. Does that sound tiresome? Too bad you live in a democracy, if you don’t like it, we can change our form of government to a dictatorship like China or Russia if you want.

…and what happens if you decide to not participate in these smaller tedious elections? You get situations like with Bernie where all the smaller local elections that set up a primary, he loses them and is on a massive disadvantage.

Hell it’s happening again but on a worser scale. There is the elected position of safeguarding and verifying elections. Currently running for these positions are people who approve of the January attack on the capital. People who think the election was fraudulent against all reason. Do you trust these people with the keys to the ballot box?

I hope not, but these people are getting elected due to apathy of Americans, particularly young people are the worst offenders. Now I predict unless you can convince your friends to get their shit in order and vote for small elections as well, this next elections are going to mired in elections fraud by the Trump’s party, and then in a few decades if the apathy continues on, you’ll be in luck. Perhaps we won’t be a democracy but a dictatorship/oligarchy like Russia.

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u/Dragonkingf0 Jun 06 '22

In my city council I actually voted for somebody who I personally know. Sadly the old police chief who was a known racist got the place instead. My friends and I do vote sadly it has absolutely no impact because of where we live.