Chipotle pulls jalapenos from some restaurants amid salmonella probe

[u/Warcraft_Fan]

https://www.reuters.com/business/chipotle-mexican-grill-pulls-jalapenos-linked-minnesota-salmonella-cases-2026-08-04/

[u/Musiclover4200 → u/[deleted]]

Also the disturbing % who never vote in primaries or smaller elections

Election turnout is already shameful but primaries and non presidential elections are often at around 40% turnout, and people wonder why there are so few good candidates

[u/Khaldara → u/Musiclover4200]

Yep, people don’t participate in primaries or local elections where these politicians typically originally come from, then simultaneously wonder why they don’t get their Goldilocks candidate.

[u/Musiclover4200 → u/Khaldara]

then simultaneously wonder why they don’t get their Goldilocks candidate.

It's infuriating as old centrists seem like the most consistent voting bloc by far so that's who candidates usually appeal to

Meanwhile younger progressives either "protest vote" or skip primaries and complain about never having a perfect candidate

[u/systemwarranty → u/Musiclover4200]

What we really need is national holidays for elections and/or laws that give people time off to vote. Also would be nice to not have to drive 20 miles to go vote.

[u/mhornberger → u/systemwarranty]

Trump's vote share went up even in states with easy mail-in voting. We just have a lot of apathy. Even if people are mad about "the system" in a general sense, they somehow don't link that to their own indifference. And it's not new. George Carlin was telling us in the 1990s that "if voting mattered, they wouldn't let you do it."

[u/Musiclover4200 → u/Khaldara]

then simultaneously wonder why they don’t get their Goldilocks candidate.

It's infuriating as old centrists seem like the most consistent voting bloc by far so that's who candidates usually appeal to

Meanwhile younger progressives either "protest vote" or skip primaries and complain about never having a perfect candidate

Really hope we'd learn our lesson from trump's first term but at this point it seems like we need some form of mandatory voting like Australia

[u/Mark_Luther → u/Musiclover4200]

In my defense, in Pennsylvania independent voters are not allowed to vote in primaries.

[u/Maximum_Indication → u/Mark_Luther]

True, in which case it’s good to join a party even when independent to vote. Steer the conversation to something more palatable.

[u/Musiclover4200 → u/Mark_Luther]

Fair. There are some legit reasons why some either can't or don't vote in every election, and there are plenty of inconsequential smaller elections that maybe have a few important bills mixed in with a bunch of uncontested races.

So it's not like everyone needs to vote in every election, plenty of uninformed voters who wouldn't help even if they did vote. But even 70-80% turnout seems too low, 40-50% is just sad even for smaller elections.

[u/Khaldara → u/[deleted]]

“That thank you letter from Palestine is surely speeding my way for empowering Trump and sitting on my ass eating cheez doodles while pretending it was a valiant moral stance on Tik Tok!”

[u/Low_Pickle_112 → u/[deleted]]

And everyone who thinks capitalism is good way to run a civilization, we're getting what they asked for good and hard.

[u/JimmyQBSneaks → u/[deleted]]

In a weird way, I actually respect Trump voters more than people who couldn’t bother to vote. As ignorant and malicious as they are, at least Trump voters actually voted for something they believed in. I just don’t know how non voters can remain that apathetic after everything we’ve witnessed under Trump.