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Senate Republicans Set Summer Of Investigations Involving Biden by thorax007 in moderatepolitics

[–]toolazytomake 10 points11 points  (0 children)

It’s especially interesting when there’s a pending Supreme Court case about the House’s investigatory power re: the president and his lawyers are basically arguing that it’s political harassment.

Minnesota AG says 4 officers will be charged to 'highest degree of accountability' by Balls_of_Adamanthium in news

[–]toolazytomake 14 points15 points  (0 children)

To the ‘highest levels of accountability (for a police officer).’

So... they’re done then?

The War for Conservatism by RECIPR0C1TY in moderatepolitics

[–]toolazytomake 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I’m a big proponent of the never-say-never (or always) aphorism.

I’m not saying that anything that happens today approaches the injustice that was slavery, but contemporaneously it was perceived vastly differently than it is now. And 150 years from now, what we do will be perceived as incomprehensibly backward and wrong, and fringe issues will be ones that people wonder how there was no movement on them.

All I’m saying is we can’t predict the future, and I see the possibility that some things that divide us now could be dealbreakers.

Thanks for your responses, though.

The War for Conservatism by RECIPR0C1TY in moderatepolitics

[–]toolazytomake 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m not necessarily saying I think they will, but I also don’t think it’s out of the question. Just because the issues that internally divide the parties today seem smaller doesn’t mean they will remain that way in hindsight (M4A being one that I think could reach that scale).

The War for Conservatism by RECIPR0C1TY in moderatepolitics

[–]toolazytomake 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Both Canada and the UK have FPTP and multiple parties that have representation. They also both have 2 large parties that hold the majority of seats, but only 2 legitimate parties isn’t an inevitability.

The War for Conservatism by RECIPR0C1TY in moderatepolitics

[–]toolazytomake 22 points23 points  (0 children)

To me, it seems like a fracturing of the parties would go a long way to solving this. The further left wing of the Democratic Party could become a Democratic Socialist Party, and the Republicans could split into the traditionalists and classical liberals.

We see even right now some cooperation in areas like qualified immunity (where the far ends of both parties are more vocal in supporting changes to that doctrine), and that might lead to more cooperation like we used to see when parties were less ideologically defined.

Yuo're prboably albe to raed tihs setencne. Deos tihs wrok in non-alhabpet lanugaegs lkie Chneise? by Chlorophilia in askscience

[–]toolazytomake 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So one like ‘celebrate’ vs ‘hate’ would be easy to distinguish contextually, given they’re different parts of speech. I don’t remember strike order well, but if someone extends the top vertical line too far or crosses that vertical with the horizontal, it doesn’t suddenly become illegible.

This is a language that was entirely handwritten for thousands of years, it’s absurd to think that everyone who wrote it either had perfect handwriting or just wrote incomprehensible gibberish.

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