"None of you have Christian values," a kid trick or treating as Naruto to the rest of his group

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ordinary Iranians did revolt! they revolted in January, before the war, and the regime massacred tens of thousands of them!

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My daughter just walked up the longest driveway in the world to find a bowl full of little slips of paper that said, "Jesus loves you." More trick than treat, really.

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The normal term for a vote-splitting candidate is "spoiler." A usual way to refer to enticing such a candidate into the race is that they are a "plant." "Ballot stacking" is a made-up label they just came up with to give it the more scandalous connotation of cheating and tampering with ballots.

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I poked into it a bit more and confirmed my anecdotal impression: "ballot stacking" (not the tactic itself, but using that term for it) was basically invented or at least suddenly popularized by NYT, and now media outlets are blindly copying it as if it's the long-established term of art. It isn't.

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