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The logical conclusion of this is that we should treat each individual as their own fiefdom, and, rather than organizing votes by geography, simply decide everything by popular vote.
You are advocating for a parliamentary democracy and election of the president by popular vote.
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This is nonsense. This person readily admits in the comments that retrocession to Maryland would be legal. If DC can be annexed by MD, it can become a state of its own. And to the extent it's "bad faith," it is no more so entire concept of the U.S. Senate.
I oppose Puerto Rico statehood, but it’s not unreasonable to support it. I would respect Puerto Rico statehood as legitimate.
D.C. statehood is a nakedly illegal and bad faith power grab and if some future administration tried it, I’d consider it a genuine coup d’état.
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The last time Republicans lost a presidential election, the executive branch attacked the legislative branch with a mob. If you can't be serious, I'm going to have to ask you to leave.
I have voted Dem all my life, and only in this most recent cycle voted Republican.
I have to say, Republican voters handle total annihilation way better than dem voters. The discussion is about how badly the GOP fucked up, not about wanting people to die or anything like that. And nothing gonna be set on fire.
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Truly unhinged levels of cope happening on the American right. Just delicious.
The Dems are flooding prediction markets with bad bets to shift perceptions of reality.
It only would cost $200,000 to change Talarico’s odds from 50 to 67%
That’s a fraction of the 114 million spent on Talaricos campaign and more effective than road signs.
People don’t believe polls but prediction markets create more certainty, because who would throw away money right?
The best we can do is make their marketing stunt as expensive as possible by placing more bets on Paxton and collecting.
Once election results hit the odds will be revealed to have been way off base and the Dems will use it as a call to regulate prediction markets.
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"The laws of supply and demand do not apply to landlords" is just fundamentally unserious. Like, if you want to nationalize the housing supply, fine—let's talk about that. You want to build more public housing? Sure, let's go FDR-mode on it.
But this shit is just delusional.
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The more apt comparison here is Comm Ave, which rocks.
Boston already has this and it basically sucks. It sits cold and empty for a whole half of the year, and even in fair weather is among the worst-utilized land in downtown. A swathe of prime land not used for living, working, commerce, transportation or infrastructure.
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another midwit one-shotted by some middle-school civics slop he does not understand. In a popular vote election, large states would not be “favored,” because states would no longer be voting as blocs. Each individual American would vote independently of the other 330 million.
And I would rather have a system that favors swing states when that is a category that can change than a system that only favors large population states that never change.
In the current system, if Wyoming was a swing state, it would be a state that's fought over. If the electoral college were removed, Wyoming would never matter. Ever.
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You are dunking on a magazine that I do not work for instead of addressing the substance of my argument. Your little tie does not make you a serious man.
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The citizens of Wyoming are free to get together with the citizens of Texas, and Alabama, and other citizens from within California for that matter—and vote however they choose. But the principle that their votes ought to count for more than anyone else's is plainly immoral.
These guys can't get around the fundamental math here, which is that they are defending a system in which some Americans are afforded dramatically more representation in their government than others—simply because of where they live. We revolted against England for far less.
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That the online nazis in my country want so desperately to live in an advertisement is pure poetry. They are soulless in a way that is uniquely American.
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Periodic reminder that a great many people on this website have absolutely no fucking idea what they're talking about. Almost every single line of "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised" is an indictment of the narcotizing power of American media.
Periodic reminder that the saying “the revolution will not be televised” had nothing to do with television/media/entertainment. It referred to the revolution in your own mind, inside our brains.
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