Bro I can’t finish getting myself into it

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Do an inside job.

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Holy shit that’s a sick burn

Lesser evil pot, meet lesser evil kettle.

I’m fairness, I think after Ratzinger they did end up with the lesser evil. Still very pot and kettle though.

At the first read, I assumed he would buy and gift a child and I can’t decide if that’s better or worse.

You might not want whatever answer you get.

At that price point and size you are getting a junk TV. Probably of the “buy again in 2 to 4 years” kind of variety. You’re going to have to pick price, size, or quality, and I hope you’re aware you’ve kinda eliminated quality from the start. If you already know that, kick butt go do your thing. If you’re trying to get a good TV at 70 inches for less than $1000, you’re on a fools errand.

More like choosing names like Fae Wilds.

What does this even mean? What fraction of men do you presume are abusers for one, and for two, are you assuming every man knows every other man and we just bulk regulate?

This is some “all black people know each other” kind of stupid.

Peace. Don’t associate with men. We will all be happier the fewer people you associate with.

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I’ll take a shot but I’m not a die hard X-Men guy. If someone has a little more precision please correct me.

Basically magnetos driving idea is that people (and their governments) are out to get mutants and won’t ever change, so it’s up to him to lead mutants to fight back. Basically if they want respect and fair treatment, they have to take it for themselves. He tries many times in many ways to pull down the establishment by, for example, attempting to convert all people to mutants.

The premise of the post is basically that, since Reagan, social support is diminishing and power and wealth are concentrating in such a way in the upper class. Ergo, taking an… uh… active approach in advocating for ourselves is looking increasingly like a good idea.

I preferred to do Windows as a VM personally. Dual boot cost me a year before my Linux switch BC it was easier to boot Windows when I needed it. With VM I could do mostly Linux with maybe just vm to open a word doc if I needed it.

W7 was fine. I cut the cord and went Linux before W10. It sucked for a year, and now I look at the trash they sell and everyone pays actual money for… And I laugh XD.

JD Vance licks his envelopes to seal them… and also to open them. Pass it on.

I think the perspective you’re coming from makes a lot of sense, which is why I think that generally speaking it’s better to have rules written explicitly and try to minimize interpretation.

RE Justices on the court: Yeah anything and everything has to be a constitutional amendment. It would be smart, for example, to make a ruling saying the SC may not take up cases about the SC, and outline cases in which justices must recuse. My argument about size is only true for random selection from a pool, not to appoint 25 justices; of course that can be an unbalanced court as easily as 9 justices.

RE break it to fix it: I agree the source problem is voting method (and by extension money in politics), but I don’t think you can do it from the ground up. Consider even recent laws in FL (HB433) where the state disallows counties and municipalities from requiring water breaks etc to workers in high temperatures. If the rot is already in the state house, they legislate down and prevent it from happening. I think you have to pass clever master-stroke legislation to fix this problem, and there will probably not be many chances to do it. I say do it.

RE representing people: People do not and are not obliged to vote in their own best interests unfortunately. But poll testing can be weaponized. A good start to addressing the problem (besides changing voting method) is to make it easier for people to vote. But making election day a holiday is one of those things Mitch says is a blatant power grab by dems lol. While I’m all for a meritocracy, that is absolutely not what a democratic republic is. Especially not in the US (See MTG since you’re a georgian).

RE EC: I don’t see you arguing FOR the EC, only justifying why it originally existed. The big picture of the EC is resolved by the senate: all states are represented equally. I don’t think you need to equally represent states in every branch of government. Why SHOULDN’T the people choose the executive if the EC isn’t going to be independent of the state or party? At present, the EC disenfranchises everyone not in a swing state.

Did you by chance watch the video? It’s a goody. Only 18 minutes or so.

There’s some common ground here and some… not so common ground.

• If you go back to the talking filibuster, you’ve essentially eliminated the filibuster as it exists today, but with the added benefit of potentially bringing attention to issues. It’s not possible to just kill progress with an email. So on that we’re agreed.

• For packing the court, I could go one of two ways: Either just do it so that we codify how many justices and the rules for appointments (which I think is good) and potentially term limits OR pivot and leave justices as serving for life, appoint them into the federal court circuit. Every new case–or new term-- select 7, 9, or 13 justices and let’s go for that term. The more justices sit the bench, but more likely they are to reach non-extreme outcomes.

• With respect to fair play and hyperpartisan politics I think you missed the point. We are currently in a two party system with a penchant for minority rule. We don’t get back to a good place by trying to be nice guys and all play together again. What we do instead is overhaul the voting system in such a way that ranked choice or proportional representation or some other more modern approach is used instead of FPTP. We got here by groups coalescing into two polarized super-parties, and that need not be the case. But we have to break it to fix it.

• RE adding states and capping the house, your opinions are at odds. Apportionment is totally busted right now with a lower cap. Either we have to write off states with low population, or you have to up the cap so that voters in LA and Boseman are approximately equally represented. It sounds weird to say “hey DC doesn’t get 2 senators, but CA gets 750k people per congressional rep and Montana gets 500k people per rep.” I’m seeing quick facts here of DC with about 60% the population of Montana. It’s small, but it’s not beyond compare.

• RE electoral college: The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact is already well on the way. The EC doesn’t make sense to me. Using the senate makes sense with states being equal, but land doesn’t vote, people do. The idea originally is just to let the more “sophisticated” delegates overrule the populace if necessary, and also make it easier to count votes in the days before the telegraph. The EC should have prevented Trump, it shouldn’t have enabled him. It’s busted. Since the EC votes are managed by the states as well, we have arrived at a position where only swing states really matter and that means I don’t get to see candidates in Indiana because they’re going to MI and PA instead and the message is not balanced: it’s only for those competitive areas. IMO it’s doing more harm than good. I see the intent of balancing out the desires of all the parts of the country, but instead of doing that, it allows gaming the system. See also gerrymandering for this, because that’s also busted AF.

Your last paragraph almost deserves its own reply. Rather than write it in full, I’m going to leave this video which does a great job. If you haven’t seen it, please watch it in full. The left isn’t that good at messaging I agree, but their job is much MUCH harder than the right.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAbab8aP4_A

And that’s how we keep scooting to the right.

People think there’s a sense of fair play involved here and a dislike for hypocrisy, but it isn’t the case. Look at what happened for appointments to the supreme Court under Obama vs trump as an example. I understand why you might feel this way considering that the nuclear option for ending cloture wasn’t used by Republicans until Harry Reid did it, but 20 years later honor and decorum are no longer foundational to government.

Anymore, I think the best thing to do is use tools available to terrible effect, then with any luck all the “honor system” stuff can be written into law.

Bring back the talking filibuster, and pack the court to fix it’s rules, ethics, and enforcement (the court doesn’t even respect stare decisis anymore), add states, expand the cap on the house, blow the electoral college. No more gentlemen’s agreements.

At least that’s how I see it.

That game was hard AF.

People can do all those things, then if they are less than 30 with moobs they should be looking down the barrel of a lifestyle change. Or, whatever, grow some man tits. If you get question marks it’s on you for not taking care of yourself.