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The gerrymandering shit is mega gay IMO, but I can't really think of a simple solution. Both sides do it and they probably will until I'm dead. I remember when Desantis and republicans actually un-gerrymandered Florida because doing so would help Reps and the Dems screeched, it was pretty funny. Dem's keep clamoring for "Independent and unbiased 3rd parties" to make the districts, like those people exist. Even if they did exist there will certainly be times where there are arguably good reasons for districts to be one way that supports Dems or another way that supports Rep. It's a tricky thing that honestly can't go away unless we completely re-haul the election system or base it solely on mathematical geograpy, which I don't think is realistic. I guess we will see what happens, maybe we will get 55D California after all.

I say you make an objective mathematical formula that tells a computer how many districts you need, and how many people, give or take, have to fit into the space to make it proportionally representative. The computer decides, based on what is the most elegant solution on which corner of the state to start from, and the computer draws it based on pure math. That way no one gets to bullshit stuff. Every state should be required to do it the same way so no one gets any advantage and it's fair. Since everyone hates math (except the weirdos, but they don't count), everyone can be equally pissed off and that's how you know you got it right.

How districts have to be drawn really should have been included in the constitution so we wouldn't have to deal with dumb shit like this.
 
The revolutionary war was decades of nothing and then something. The civil war was decades of nothing and then something. They'll make new TV shows out of the events we're living through.
Same as today as it was then, there is and has always been something happening in the background. If the events of today will lead to something else down the line who knows but with certainty it can be stated decisive moments in history often don't happen overnight, they are gradually built up to.

The American Revolution was preceded by failed calls to address what people in the 13 Colonies saw as wrongdoings. As for the American Civil War there were quite a few less then ideal compromises that had a tendency to enrage the parties involved and only inspire more political action.
 
Making relief for American citizens harmed by natural disasters conditional on support of a foreign government is fucking retarded.
It is from a slightly more enlightened perspective conditional on not openly defying the federal government's policies and attempting to conduct their own foreign policy against the interests of the United States.
 
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ALEX STEIN testifying in the TX House: “We SHOULD have trans in the military!”

“The suiclde rate is so incredibly high among transgender people… we could just use them like the Taliban uses suiclde bombers!”

Pretty based
Jesus fucking christ :story:
 
Actually there is an idea I’ve thought about, if we were able to convince the wealthiest Jews in the world to start backing and funding groups and orgs that align with our beliefs would you stop being antisemetic?
You can't. Jews lived as gypsies for over two thousand years so stopping the free movement of people is anathema to them, but they dislike the movement of non-Jews into Israel for the same reason nationalists/nativists/wignats dislike foreigners into their lands - it's theirs. Now, I can imagine Jews born and raised in Israel can at least empathise with the idea of limiting outsiders into your lands so they can be aboard with the whole anti-immigration stuff, but Jews outside of Israel can't because they see themselves as the perpetual other who can simultaneously be ethnic and culturally Jewish but also [insert nationality] here, and that's the best-case scenario (Shapiro-likes) where they'll be right-wing on everything except immigration because his group (the Jews) benefited from such movement. They might cite economic reasons for keeping to it but they know, principally, they can't oppose it completely or ask for the number to be reduced to 0.

If you take the most infamous contemporary Jew to the modern right-wing: George Soros; he went from Hungary, to France, England, and finally America (in-group Jewish nepotism enabled this ease of movement and jobs after his education in Paris but still) so he has only benefited from this ease of movement. If he were to support causes opposing it, he'd be seen as pulling the ladder up after him and a hypocrite. Non-American Jews who are billionaires typically have the same backstory, and they employ cognitive dissonance around the fact they largely benefited from helping members of their own race/religion because, ya know, admitting you got where you were off of anybody's effort/help but your own hard work is a blow to your company's PR/personal ego/people's analysis of your capabilities. You see this with non-Jewish billionaires too. They do feel a need to "give back" though, hence why they may throw considerable sums at NGOs and charities that make the world just a little bit worse every year.

I think @Catch The Rainbow is correct in that the loudest antisemites push their hatred to the point of fantasy, where I think the reasons to hate them are actually rather mundane and shared across every other foreign/minority group who specifically looks out for "their own". The more I've looked into them — the meme of "Racists researching other cultures so they can be more racist" — the more mundane I've come to view them. At a certain point, you push Jews into collectively being omnipresent, omnipotent, omniscient, and end up attributing any "good" that happens to your side as being the result of Jews slacking the rope a little, or some sort of trick to lull us into a false sense of security. In doing so you effectively make yourself perpetually blackpilled and make it impossible to have any hope for the future because "it's just a Jewish trick".
 
The current US border policy is to turn roasties away 😭
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This is interesting to me for 2 reasons:
1. Onlyfans almost shut down due to pressure from payment processors due to "'prostitution", I'm not familiar with what qualifies but another example of payment processors coming after your gaming/gooning time.
2. State supremacy used to be a thing, kinda wild how we threw that away for so many issues.
 
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If the flight from Texas is only a delay tactic for the Dems, why do it? It makes the Democratic congressmen look bad, and it doesn’t really solve their crisis.

They are morons and constantly looking for cheap wins for their own base, not to actually solve the issue. They want something to look nice on tweets and provide a quick "yas queen slay!" moment, and don't really care it won't work.
 
If the flight from Texas is only a delay tactic for the Dems, why do it? It makes the Democratic congressmen look bad, and it doesn’t really solve their crisis.
Maybe they want the people to rise up and do crimes over it. I dunno. It ended in a whimper last time this happened I expect the same here.
 
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