That bill was a reasonable if painful compromise in 2024, with a Republican House majority.

It isn't 2024. Make them choke on their failure.

I vote my principles (destroying the Republican Party by any means necessary and immiserating their voter base for the rest of eternity).

Counterpoint: we should fuck over rural Virginia because it is hitlerite and deserves it

Alex Karp is if Uncle Ruckus were in the VnJ

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On old maps like that I think you're supposed to call them windrose lines

Rhumbline network - Wikipedia

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To expand on THIS:

A quality of constitutional adjudication is that there will always be reasonable disagreement about whether the Court got it right. That's just part of the whole pluralism thing. Democratic constitutionalism therefore requires that people be able to accept...

What this does is prevent the Republicans from creating a long term built in advantage similar to what they have in the Senate.

Again, I'm all for ending gerrymandering. But on the national level, compulsory, to ensure a level playing field. Not unilaterally, guaranteeing a GOP structural advantage

Idk man, as an econ guy I feel like you should understand the prisoners dilemma

Unilateral disarmament just means you lose. Politics is not a morality play, there are actual material stakes for real people.

By all means, let's ban gerrymandering. But, you know, nationally.

Found the guy with no kids

You either die a school shooter or live long enough to become a tech CEO

Who is he?

If someone trains AI to attend seminars and do the "this is more of a comment than a question" thing they might be able to free up some senior faculty spots

I think the big mistake was for social media companies to try to model moderation rules after the legal system.

Or maybe it's better to say that it's misdirected. "Encouraging mild violence" is against the rules, but "spreading wild misinformation" or "generally being an unpleasant asshole" are not, and that's got it totally backwards.

I know that this is an unpopular opinion around these parts but I actually think most social media moderation is too stringent. Like there are some ideas that you need to be able to express in a country where a secret police is abducting people off the street.

Opinion | New Hungarian PM says government was funding CPAC but won’t anymore “I believe the state should never have financed them in the first place,” Péter Magyar said this week. “It was a crime.”

I wonder how many right wing orgs in the US would go under if Putin were similarly ousted

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My kneejerk reaction to traffic violence is that it makes me cringe a bit, though that may be downstream of 10 years of eye rolling at the "everything is violence" class of activist. I do agree that traffic accident is too exculpatory though

Convention delegates are not necessarily party officials by the way. At a state convention they are mostly just regular people from local Dem organizations

Yeah, because I don't want to fucking dox myself, crazy right?

I think there's a pretty good-sized opportunity costs of the activist class spending their time jogging increasingly quickly on the euphemism treadmill instead of working to secure any material victories

Why? If you watch shooting videos you can regularly see the bullets in flight

fun fact: almost all Bluesky users can afford $600-700 in unexpected costs spread over many years, even as they pretend this represents some kind of dynastic wealth

Being a progressive is better for your image in California culture, but that's ultimately arbitrary.

And I don't mean to romanticize New England, it definitely has its problems, but I feel like California being a deep blue state is a contingent event. In a world where a butterfly flapped its wings wrong a half century ago it would be chock full of fascists.

FTR I lived there a while. It was a real culture shock moving there from New England, expecting to be surrounded by the same sorts of liberals I had grown up around, and instead being surrounded by people with a sort of self-indulgent faux-progressive politics that's primarily aesthetic.

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Apparently it's in the constitution since 2010.

I get a lot of hate for this, but I don't really like California. The state just seems like it's filled with dumbasses, regardless of their political leanings.

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They face this every election and for some reaosn never think to themselves "gee, maybe we should change this stupid fucking law"

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