Carter was president long before I had any interest in politics, but I remember my dad (who was pretty conservative) being somewhat supportive of him.  I think he appealed to wide range of people due to his humble peanut farming roots and all.  Then there was the Gerald Ford factor...  At least Carter had some hair, so he was definitely prettier.

What about that dude who invented the internets?  He sure was prettier than Dubbaya, at least by my uninitiated perspective.

That would mean most Democrats superficial and prejudiced wouldn't it?

Don’t feed the troll bones, he’s just looking for a reaction. Everybody knows you’re a highly trusted, respected member of the community.

Losers like that need to get a life. Seriously it’s not worth the time it takes you to respond.

WO thread is the tip of the iceberg. Merit is the most dangerous and damaging thing ever introduced to this forum.  
It's design, as a member previously mentioned is  very similar to fiat that powers the central banking system.
Source, by trading or cycling merits with other sources and their close allies who vote each other on to Default Trust, control the eligibility of members to generate revenue here and therefore control their free speech.
There could be tweaks to mitigate the negative impact of merit. Those have been ignored and further destructive power given to the merit metric over time.

The results are as you would expect. Merit sources and mates stacked with merit, entrenched  in default trust wearing the highest paying signatures. Other members kissing up supporting their every word not daring to step out of line dreaming of their chip mixer day in the sun. On route to one large echo chamber

Don't expect any support for moving towards a useful fair and sensible distribution of merits in meta. This is the nest of the vipers. Their power and advantage would dissipate almost immediately if the playing field was made level.

WO sees a crazy amount of merits cycled for memes and garbage. One could go there and play human centipede between Bob and bones261.  You first mate. I'll enjoy my red tags and no merits if you won't mind.

Maybe it should also be noted that he was sending it in huge lots of 25/50 (IIRC) merits for each single post. And, AFAIK, even that was not considered abuse (there were clearly no ill intention or collusion), but Theymos just decided that it was not appropriate usage of the sourced merits.

The merit system was implemented by the forum mod in other to force and increase post quality by this forum users which is the reason why some campaign managers also included it as one of the major requirements when selecting campaign participants. But merit misuse is so many these days especially in the Wall Observer BTC/USD (Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion) and some local thread where people would post absolutely nothing worth to be merited.

Note : I understand that I'm not the first person to complain about merit been abused. But
the question is, what are the forum mods doing about all this?

This is an interesting change of heart:

I know that nearly all forum members are in that picture. I am not sure if we have any astronaut forum members, so I don’t if if all of them are in that picture.

It is.  He doxxed himself: https://humanrights.foundation/founder.html

Thanks for trying to convince him he could get me banned from the forum TECSHARE.

I got that impression, but it was not explicitly mentioned so I figured it would be good to ask. To be clear I am not planning to dox anyone, I find it to be a repugnant act unless there is rock solid evidence of theft. Even then, it may be questionable under certain circumstances.

Anyone who gets disgusted at

old white haired men up

on silly clown stage...

Can vote orange hair.

Elizabeth Warren HAS NOW DROPPED OUT OF THE PRIMARY. Though she has not signaled for who she will endorse at this time. Both Biden and Sanders have spoken to her.

The way things have been going I feel like the least likely scenario is Biden keeps his momentum and it's smooth sailing to the convention.

~snip

Bernie wins:  CO (not sure how they call it so early - only 20% counted)

Yeah I don't think it was supposed to be this bad, but at the end of the day -- a large majority of people were making the decision in who they were voting for in the final days, and with Pete and Amy dropping out it really saved Bidens campaign. I think the real way to prove if these last minute endorsements really did something is for all of us to watch Minnesota. Before Amy dropped out, the race was a two way race b/w Bernie and Amy, with Biden being FAR behind. If Biden is able to win or get the race very close in Minnesota -- it shows that the center lane clearing theory is working and these endorsements worked.

Tomorrow is already Super Tuesday, and all these candidates who've dropped out yesterday and today will still have their names on the ballot.  Then there are all the absentee ballots that were cast weeks ago (like mine.)  What happens to the votes that are cast for candidates that have dropped out?  

Biden got the win that he needed in South Carolina, and because of that the chances of a contested convention has went up substantially. Sanders is going to have the most delegates by the time the convention will come around, but as of right now he's not going to have the 50 percent needed to clinch the nomination.

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2020-primary-forecast/

This is going to get very interesting very fast. There's a couple roads that we can go down here.

1. Bidens finish means nothing, Bernie is still going to crush it in Super Tuesday. This is Bernies best shot to getting over the 50 percent number, still going to be tough though.

2. Bidens finish makes the moderates rally around him. He's their last chance to winning and they rally around him to ensure that he's the nominee instead of Bernie. Bernie still gets the most delegates but not by much.

538 is a pretty good one to read though, very interesting.

I've seen estimates from 1.75-3.5 trillion.