“Unconstitutional redistricting” yep it sure is. But totally OK for Texas and Indiana to find more seats for the fascists. /s
Pot, meet kettle.
Epstein’s Law: every accusation from a Conservative [of being guilty of a thing] is a confession [of being guilty of the thing]
Remember, every accusation is a confession.
Yeah. Ask them if they care though. They’re not hiding their hypocrisy. They’re proud of it.
Yeah they laugh at us for caring about it
California got to vote on it AND it’s only temporary.
Gerrymandering should be deeply and severely illegal. Until then, California is at least doing it democratically and only in a last ditch effort to save democracy in the US.
Gerrymandering only exists because we don’t do proportional representation.
I’d love a system where you vote for a party first to gauge how many of the party will hold office and then a vote for who represents them.
But I suspect both Republicans and Democrats would reject this because it disrupts their status quo.
Just like a pool with a ranked vote or individuals for districts or…?
Genuinely curious how that works
You vote for the party first and foremost, not for any individual politician. Instead of voting for a local representative, you vote for a single party to represent you at a national level. That party then gets a certain number of seats based on how many votes it got. As a result, voting for a minor party that only gets 10% of the votes actually makes sense, as it then gets 10% of the seats in the parliament. In such systems there usually aren’t single parties with a majority, but coalitions of parties with varying viewpoints.
There are many mixed systems that use party voting, but also link parties to specific candidates. However, the system the previous comment described sounded more like party-list proportional representation.
For a large federal system like the US that has both local needs and far less regional differences than people realize, replacing the House and Senate with a party-list would both unify the country and destroy the power of duopolistic party elites. At the same time, the state and local elections could use any number of systems that focus more on candidates. It wouldn’t prevent a fascist like Trump from taking over, as Israel is a modern example of a party-list country under fascist control, but it would’ve required him to build a party as a politician rather than take over one of the big two.
Listen here, you libtard you. Republicans are the bastions of constitutionality. That’s why we have the BEST economy and ZERO dissent. Only crime in DEMOCRAT cities.
#TrumpWasRightAboutEverything
#WaitDidHeNotChoosePence
#WaitDidntHeNominateTheJudgeThatShutdownHisNationalGuardPushInOregon
When will people understand that they don’t care about their hypocrisy. Pointing out how they do the very thing they cry about- is a moot point.
It’s how things are now. You call them out for doing the very thing they complain about and they’ll just say,
“So?”
And move on with their day. They’re not bother by it.
It has basically become my personal crusade to try to explain this to people.
When you attack them on inconsistency or being hypocritical it’s essentially telling a child that their emotions are wrong and that santa isn’t real. You don’t make progress, they will consider whatever you say to be “propaganda from the enemy.” They’re bothered by it in the fact that you’re trying to shit on their sacred beliefs but it just makes them dismiss whatever you have to say even harder.
I’ve done this a lot and learned the best way to actually get through to a conservative stuck in their rut is to just ask them questions about their problems and listen to them. Seriously, that’s all. They almost do all the rest themselves much of the time. They desperately want approval, and if they start thinking you want to hear what they have to say, they will start wanting your respect, and then they will want your approval, and then they will want to please you.
Your challenge here is you’re not going to get the outcome you want, and again, it’s like wanting vindication and retribution against a small child, they won’t understand it enough to give you that satisfaction, meanwhile if we can just connect their emotional states to better outcomes in politics we can actually make the world better. You just have to be the adult in the room and you have to give them something nobody else in their lives gives them, which a chance to be heard.
You can take the place of their projected paternal fantasies and start influencing their feelings if you just give them that space.
We have a huge problem right now which is binary thinking, almost worse on the left than the right. At least the emotional conservatives can change their views if their feelings change. The left broadly needs to start trying new tactics instead of butting heads. Clickbait and sensational youtube bullshit has made us think that every interaction has to be a bitter fight.
Of course this doesn’t apply to deeply online, performative bullshit like going into 4chan or something and thinking you can flip people in /r/pol, I am talking about physical space, in interactions with family members and friends and acquaintances. And if you don’t have a social life, work on that too.
I know they have no shame. But I use it as a litmus test to see what kind of idiot I’m dealing with. If they can’t see the hypocrisy, they’re an idiot whose opinions should be ignored and actions should be countered.
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Hey fat ass, why not have Congress write a law to prevent it in the future. We will be waiting, in the meantime please shut the fuck up.
i can already see it: The Great Democratic Policy for Redistricting (GDPR), which prohibits any redistricting vote from passing unless it gets 60% approval from all sitting Republicans in the state.
Your probably right.
His probably right?
Our probably right
He is probably right about what would happen if they did pass a law to stop redistricting. Sorry if I wasn’t clear.
Apologies. I misunderstood. Thank you.
I might be in the minority here, but I’m just glad that the Trans Pigeons are finally able to express themselves.
That’s what the young people are calling homers now? Transportation pigeons? I think I’m past the point of no return with keeping up with youth lingo.
Did someone do a doodie in his diaper?
Unfortunately, Conservatives don’t understand sarcasm.
Fascists definitely don’t, but fuck em. The people have spoken. The fascists can’t be allowed to get away with election fraud. All these mofos getting served justice in the next few years.
Hey, I studied piano at a conservatory that was in a conservation area, and I resemble that remark!
This guy, in the conservatory, with the lead pipe.
My condolences.
This is so fucking embarrassing.
“Stay tuned” it’s all a fucking game show to this peado cunt
First reality show loser to become president.
One day all this shit is going to find its way into history books, and some kids are going to have to study it and probably get tested on it. I hope they see all the grown adults running a state/country as being as pathetic as it really is, and aspire to be better as a result. This is the only hope I have for the future.
If social media had existed in Nazi Germany, I’m convinced the Nazis would have done the same type of stupid shit. It seems to be baked into fascism.
No need to be convinced by some imaginary counterfactual - historians have already established that Hitler was incompetent, lazy, and his government did the same kind of stupid shit.
Hitler was incredibly lazy. According to his aide Fritz Wiedemann, even when he was in Berlin he wouldn’t get out of bed until after 11 a.m., and wouldn’t do much before lunch other than read what the newspapers had to say about him, the press cuttings being dutifully delivered to him by Dietrich.
Hitler Was Incompetent and Lazy—and His Nazi Government Was an Absolute Clown Show | Opinion - Newsweek - https://www.newsweek.com/hitler-incompetent-lazy-nazi-government-clown-show-opinion-1408136
I still prefer Hitler over Trump. Only because that guy is fucking dead.
The gall of that man to accuse anyone of doing something unconstitutional.
I may never in my life have the chance to share this song in a more relevant way: Soup for my Family by Pigeon Pit, a trans folk punk musician from the Pacific Northwest: https://youtu.be/2Do0MIq9GSw
How does someone read that and find trump even moderately palatable? It sounds like a senile news broadcast
He “tells it like it is” because he said something edgy and offensive once during his 4-hour rambling at a podium in Indiana.
I first read trans penguins and thought it’s fake since penguins can’t fly but now it seems legit
ah there it is I was wondering why he did not start wailing and flailing
I’m reminded of the Kellis-Amberley virus in Feed by Mira Grant, that was partly a mutated cure for influenza (also a coronavirus).
I’m such a nerd.
What does “Fan Account” mean in this case (under Newsome’s name)?
It’s just a rando account who recreates the manner in which Newsom’s office tweets.
Ahh okay that makes sense. If only there was some sort of checkmark (maybe blue?) that could indicate that an account is official or not
Probably a tag since it’s Newsom’s press office and not Newsom himself
Edit: eh maybe not
It’s not Newsom’s press office.
Ah good call
