If he did, they’re probably buried away somewhere.
If he did, they’re probably buried away somewhere.
Somehow, the worst people you know will use it as an excuse to be even more misogynistic.
Well, that assumes Trump appointees are independent events. The type of people who get appointed by Trump are correlated so the chances are not as low.
You:
Cladistics ruined my goddamn life. Low IQ: “Whales are fish.” Mid IQ: “Whales aren’t fish, they’re mammals!” High IQ: “Whales are fish because they are mammals and mammals are fish.” Fucking bullshit 😡
Just simply ban algorithms lol
Found Hank Hill’s alt.
The Xbox 720 fan name was at least consistent.
Stolen valor from Jay-Z smh
Something something “It's easier to believe the end of American democracy than the end of the Sixth Party System”.
I mean, fwiw, Shor would probably argue that the donors disagree with him (Democratic donors are generally to left of Democratic voters specifically on social issues): academic.oup.com/poq/article-...
Though I do wonder what masochist would purposely take the J train to/from the AirTrain if they don’t live near the line.
Honestly, the AirTrain wouldn’t be too bad if it was way more frequent and a free transfer to/from the subway. A one-seat ride would be nice but it’s not the biggest priority transit-wise and Jamaica + Howard Beach do give you a mix of different lines to take.
Y’ALL SHOULD’VE POKÉMON GONE TO THE POLLS!!!
Oh shit…
Explained in the film.
Good ol’ Peter King (who used to be supportive of the Muslim community pre-9/11, giving speeches at an Islamic center).
So this is where the stereotype of UES snobbery of the UWS comes from?
Mamdani also took a good opportunity to emphasize this with the “Which country would you visit first as mayor?” question in the debate.
“What if we didn’t suck?” is a good message but it needs something behind it to be a winning message.
These margins are insane. Of course the last two Dems here became Republicans, Montgomery was very conservative, Espy is a well-known Black Dem, and Whitten was a New Deal liberal but also a segregationist until the later part of his tenure:
*Mississippi and Jesus, that’s wild. That had to have been the most ideologically polarized Dem-only state delegation.
Now this is shitposting!
Jews are famously a people that only exist in one place and don’t have a “diaspora” or anything (hmm, I wonder where that word comes from?).
Abundance in the context of housing supply is very much important and play an indirect part (allows people to stay in and move to blue states instead of lower cost red states).
It would only probably change the result of 2000 but not 2016 because the big thing causing EC-popular vote spilts is mostly the winner-take-all allocation of EC votes.
The Congressional District method is very vulnerable to gerrymandering though. The best (assuming no abolition) would be for states to proportionally allocate their EC votes based on each candidates votes share in the state (maybe limited to the top 2 candidates to avoid no one getting a majority).
IIRC, even making EC votes equal to the population of the state doesn’t change the results of 2016.
Ideally, you’d both do proportional representation and House expansion (the former might even require the latter to have buy-in with some incumbents) but if I had to choose, it’d be PR over House expansion and it’s not even close.
*and that
Mamdani still wins without a runoff under NYC’s old system. Now, there’s an argument that RCV changes who enters the race at that the cross-endorsements improved his standing while a regular primary would’ve been more cutthroat.
Expanding the House is good on the merits (more so with PR) but I think one still shouldn’t exaggerate it as an EC fix when it doesn’t do that much.
He also made sure that guy got killed so it’s 50/50 whether he’s good or not.
Denying a business a property they already agreed to buy in order to favor another one (based on technicality that’s also has questionable motives) is the type of local corrupt cronyism towns could use less of. It’s generally bad in principle regardless of their size.
They replaced a Church’s with a Burger King? Man, no wonder they had to enacted local reparations.
The Phase 2 plan already has it turning left at 125th St for a connection at the MNR station so it makes more sense to have it keep going for a 125th St crosstown line.
The DNC doesn’t handle the fundraising for congressional primaries. The DCCC and DSCC do.
The presidential primaries are in 2028 not 2026.
Should they just to let them cheat and rig the game for themselves and do nothing which feels like doomer talk. What’s the alternative?
Again, unfortunate, but now we have to deal with it and fight back.
Of course she wouldn’t. But unfortunately, she’s not president and Trump is, so now we have to deal with these redistricting wars (which were probably gonna happen regardless once SCOTUS neglected to ban partisan gerrymandering).
I’m not talking about presidential elections at all? I’m talking about the House.
You can’t reform the system if the GOP pass maps preventing you from winning elections in the first place. If TX passes maps eliminating 5 Dem seats, then California eliminating 5 GOP seats would make it a net-zero change.
The measure only applies if TX Republicans go ahead with their districting. It’s a corrective measure to make the results fair nationally until a ban can be passed by Congress.
This is based on standards enacted last year though.
*Irish-American
They can function as ethnicities in the U.S. Specifically, they are short for English-American, Irish-, Italian-American, etc.
Netanyahu would do the same thing more often to justify his occupation but he knows it would summon Israel Finkelstein and William Dever to have the largest discussion thread of all archaeology forums (shutdown after 2,000 pages of heated debate) over the low chronology theory of Iron Age Israel.
Property taxes, sales taxes, and bonds don’t go to war and the debt! They fund local governments!
Reflects the change in how more and more cabinet members are no longer semi-independent of the president and more partisan enactors of whatever he tells them to do like in majoritarian parliamentary cabinets.
Yeah, in retrospect many Dems would vote against his confirmation now but at the time, it was a small sigh of relief as he was a qualified colleague such that progressives Sanders and Warren were fine with not opposing him. Granted, him being a lap dog was something they should’ve saw coming.
I’m sure their former governor, now senator being a literal coal baron had nothing to do with that.
Another area where the IBX would make it so much easier to get to.
According to Biggie in “Going Back to Cali”, there’s also the women and weed (3 W’s), but yeah.
Unfortunately, I think Peltola probably runs for governor in Alaska and not senator.
Lost by 3.62% in a red year overperforming Harris by 2.6%. It’ll be tough and a long-shot but he could win with that performance in a strong blue year.
Yeah, if anything, Weimar Germany’s issue was that very few of the parties in parliament were liberal (or even neoliberal) and their vote share kept decreasing.
I’m convinced having all of them under one roof with 538 tampered down their bad takes.
France and the UK are also not federations unlike Germany and the U.S, so the regions are creations of the unitary government that can be changed by more simple legislation. This had led to some issues where the UK parliament has vetoed laws from the Scottish parliament.
Difference between states and electoral districts. Germany’s states are still unchanged from the 1949 West republic and 1990 addition of the East German states (Berlin did have a failed referendum to merge with Brandenburg). The U.S. constitution requires the consent of states to merge or spilt them
Though in a perfect world, I think DC state should get back the land retroceded to Virginia to complete the diamond again (will never happen).
Yeah, though one final referendum (for real this time) with the full backing of Congress is not a bad idea.
I think American Samoa is the only territory I can see voting for independence and more in a free association status. PR specifically had a 11.82% vote for independence, 29.57% for free association, and 58.61% for statehood last year, not counting blank ballots.
A Dem House had already passed DC statehood twice so it really is the Senate that’s the obstacle.
Filibuster plus you would need California’s consent to split it into multiple states.
Should be noted there was a lot of blank votes cast as protest votes: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Pu...
It’s mostly 2 and 1 that would cause issue (states like MA with all 9 seats Dem would probably lose about 3 to the GOP under PR). Rep. Bennie Thompson was the sole Dem to vote against the ban on gerrymandering because he fear the district changes would jeopardize his seat/allow a primary challenge.
“But my local Congressman!” “You don’t even know who that man is or if they’re even a man!”
Idk, I find this type of system (parallel voting/Mixed Member Majoritarian if I understanding it correctly) to be somewhat the worst of both worlds as it has disproportionately while also not necessarily accomplishing the “stability” goal of FPTP.
Israel is not the only country in the world. Many if not most democracies use PR or some form of it.
An example is the infamous “earmuffs district” in Illinois that was created by the courts to connected two Hispanic communities in order to be compliant with the VRA.
This is the way.
Pre-20th century era but Fernando Wood should get a dishonorable mention for being a Confederate sympathizer and wannabe secessionist.
People were making a killing selling their house before that. There were countless stories during the pandemic of people from the city moving and buying houses in the suburbs and exburbs, driving up the price of homes there.
It’s barely 1% of single-family housing inventory IIRC. It’s happening but to act like it’s the big reason for the housing crisis is inaccurate.
It’s more since “you can’t take it with you”, you might as well give it to the less fortunate.
The Exodus is not historical nor written by Moses but it should be noted the story states they wandered for 40 years as punishment for disobeying God, not because it took them that long to cross into Israel.
The issue is that the letters are our earliest Christian writings and while some of the gospel sayings probably do go back to Jesus, the gospels were still composed decades later and by anonymous writers. Paul at least did interact with the disciple Peter and Jesus’ brother James.
The whole idea was that the kingdom was coming soon so there’s no point in dealing with mortal concerns like starting families or building wealth. Hence the emphasis on giving away your riches to the poor and spreading the gospel (“the good news”).
The celibacy was probably because he thought Jesus would return in his lifetime (an idea probably shared by most Christians based on the “this generation will not pass” saying in the synoptic gospels). But Paul was still fine with marriage saying that Jesus’ brothers were married and still preached.
Honestly, it’s more NYC and upstate cities like Albany and Buffalo vs rural Upstate (though there have been regional Dem feuds).
Even during the pre-Civil War era with pro-slavery Southern Dems, Dems also had urban political machines (the infamous Tammany Hall for example). Martin Van Buren who co-founded the party with Andrew Jackson established the Albany machine as well (he basically created the party system as we know it)
The 22nd specifically had a carve out for Truman. It wasn’t implied from it. That suggests it’s not a given term limits can’t apply to current incumbents (otherwise it’s redundant). And if an amendment specified it did apply to them, it’s be weird to say it’s unconstitutional. It’s an amendment!
I get the logic but I also see the issue with it especially since a lot college Dem groups struggle with attendance. I would think this would be easier for the DSA to deal with since members actually pay dues so going by active membership would work.
I remember going to a state College Dems convention where we ran into this issue. Every college group there had the same number of votes as the largest group as they fear this specific college from busing a bunch of members to have a bigger influence on the e-board elections.
Remember when people thought it was sacrilegious to even suggest that maybe Sotomayor should strategically retire so Biden can get another liberal appointee to serve long-term?
Germany technically doesn’t have MMP anymore because they changed the law so that winning a FPTP district seat no longer guarantees you a seat (done to stop their house from growing so large) so it’s solely based on the party vote now though it still functions similar to MMP voting-wise.
Mexico doesn’t have MMP but parallel voting where 300 seats are FPTP and 200 are PR but unlike MMP, the PR seats don’t adjust for the FPTP seats so there’s still distortion caused by the latter.
Several and statehood wins out around a range of 47-53% though it’s complicated because of middling turnout and the ballot options.
I rather transplants over native NYers who are just snowbird Floridians.
Jimmy Carter had the honor of being endorsed by Martin Luther King Sr. and George Wallace which tells you everything about his campaign.
Fwiw, it’s thought to have been Andrew’s idea.
Progressive Democratic candidates still lose big in WV. It’s populist but still a very conservative state.
*nonbinary fwiw
*Iron Man 3 but yeah, that was a weird era.
It’s fine for them to stall the redistricting as long as possible instead of just doing nothing.