Right. As a practical matter in our current system the vote from a resident of Wyoming gets vastly more weight than a resident of California. So in that sense, for the Senate and Presidency, we already have weighted voting. It doesn't invalidate our democracy.

Look, there are plenty of totally valid objections to this viewpoint. I like to think I'm familiar with ~all of them. But "that's not liberalism!" isn't one of them. Liberalism predates universal suffrage. They are separate things.

No white people in the former Confederacy are allowed to vote anymore. Get in bitch, we're bringing back the solid south.

journalism is cooked at CBS. i’d be packed up tonight. even if you could do your job, you’d still be propping up whatever this is. just walk out. you can leave. if it sucks, hit da bricks. real winners quit.

I will say that Trump has really shaken my belief in democracy. I'm not totally convinced that suffrage should be universal

There is an undeniable shared understanding in humanity. When people see "I hope this year it will happen" there is not a slightest doubt what "it" means.

I made a point before the election that people are responsible for what their government does in their name whether they like it or not, in the sense that they will ultimately bare the consequences. It pissed a lot of people off! I think because they thought my main point was about Gaza.

I’m sorry but all the states hosting their primaries in march? loser behavior, get a job, touch grass, nobody asked, etc etc we just do not need 8 months of general election and we shouldn’t be hosting primaries when supermajorities of the electorate are still tuned out

One sign things are going well is my Trump supporting Facebook friends are reposting “sit down and listen, white man” lived experience stuff on regime change

TIL Saladin was Kurdish

Trump is insane. His inner circle is insane. They want to burn the world so they can loot everyone else’s wealth, feel like big tough guys, and hurt all the groups they despise. But the thing breaking the whole world is how everyone feels obligated to avoid stating this fact directly.

Neoconservativism but domestic. Let's do it

We will crush our enemies and build a new republic atop their bones

I wish I saw less "oh no 😥" and more "we will destroy these people"

also it was an _infamously_ bad piece of CSAM. to the point people were advised by others to not even look up articles about it. like so bad it makes accidental viewers enter therapy.

A guy uploaded child porn and not only faced no legal liability, he had his account personally reinstated by Elon Musk

more seriously, I do genuinely think it was a mistake to go from: 'the project of bureaucratic rationality has at times been poorly implemented in biased ways, we must fix this' to 'the project of bureaucratic rationality is inherently unjust, we must replace it with [worse thing]'

Walz: "They're unwilling to stand with Melissa Hortman's children. And I want to tell you this: for those legislators who went and shed crocodile tears at her funeral, shame on you. Shame on you. Her children are asking you to do one thing in her name: tell the president to stop doing this."

he should be impeached for this alone

Woke CIA selling fent to the white community is 🧑‍🍳 💋

I love how Axios just pretends this is true

I'm not sure how much it would matter electorally but if nothing else it would just feel good to have leaders that aren't ashamed to take their own side in a fight

Yeah, this is true. They won't just parrot the White House/GOP, they'll invent a new version that's more convincing.

Eh... no it's pretty bad. Not to say you can't find good food, but the baseline is bad

Embrace presidential sedevacantism

Trump v. Anderson was wrongly decided, is my hottest take. And obviously wrongly decided. There.

Why bother? The media will repeat the claims in the interest of "balance" anyway

Lfg

I actually find this pretty heartening because as a practical matter there's a substantial upper limit to how high these numbers can get. Lots of Democrats live in red areas where they don't have much choice

also, the gop respondents are disingenuous, because there are a lot of republicans who are more than willing to be around dems or go to/work for a dem, and then spend all their time there loudly complaining about 'all this lib shit' around them until they get kicked out, then they grift on that.

You gotta get those numbers up; those are rookie numbers in this racket

lot of things i could say here but mostly i guess i would like to implore everyone to find a personality other than "least favorite roommate during a house meeting in portland, oregon"

This is just "AI" as it's been used in games for decades

Sky Marcini was treated badly and I hope they come back. Parker Malloy is very much a revolution eating its own children situation

One of the big takeaways from January 6th is that it wouldn't really take that many sufficiently dedicated people to put an end to this

So do we know why Walz dropped out?

I'm trying to figure out how they could possibly obtain a conviction under American law and I understand it

A deeply disappointing party lead by deeply disappointing Senators

kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life

they're doing it for gender, imo

The idea that taking Greenland is vital for US security is absurd when you consider that doing it would cost us our alliance with the rest of the developed world, including our northern neighbor.

It's extremely important for global security that every member of the Trump administration be hanged when this is over

"I needlessly killed my own child" is tough to swallow, so the either deny the needless part or the I killed part

It's true. Parents of kids who die of SSPE are more likely to blame Jewish space lasers than themselves

Broken record: The obsession with "kitchen table issues" imagines an electorate too obtuse or amoral to be reached by any appeal to abstract principle, morality, or any longer-term consideration than the immediate health of their bank account. If that's accurate, the game's already over.

Most of Will Stancil's takes are Good, Actually

Some very small percentage of the kids who get measles today will die in ~10 years of an irreversible degenerative neurological condition called SSPE. It has an approximately 100% fatality rate.

Lots of people showing up to complain about my thin skin. Folks, I'm still here. I can deal with your bullshit. The people I want to read are not here. They did not want to deal with your bullshit.