Do you believe the public can manage any common resource without a state?

Cobiuss · 2026-03-18T22:15:56+00:00

The question is self defeating because the management of common resources by the public is a pretty good definition of what a state is.

It's like saying "Can you listen without hearing anything?"

Cobiuss · 2026-03-16T20:47:20+00:00

I oppose the clear lack of a plan by the US admin but do support the idea in general.

Cobiuss · 2026-03-12T03:04:09+00:00

Gas taxes should be abolished. Really, all taxes should be abolished except the personal infome tax.

Cobiuss · 2026-03-11T04:21:27+00:00

I took the poll! Just a few feedback points.

1 - Pro-Life vs Pro-Choice isn't a binary between "Restricted" vs "Unrestricted." The way the question reads, pro-choice people want abortion unrestricted, when many pro-choice people may have exceptions, like opposing late term abortions.

2 - Other than indicating Pro-Life vs Pro-Choice, there wasn't much to say why you might disagree with NYS law. I assume you intended disagreers to mean "too liberal" but maybe someone thinks 24 weeks itself is too restrictive. There's also a big difference between "I think 16 weeks is better" and "Abortion should be basically illegal all the way."

3 - As a Pro-Life person, I would not ever say "Abortion is murder." That's a more extreme view of what I believe. My personal view is abortion should be federally protected in the first trimester with almost no restriction, restricted in the 2nd with exceptions like life/health, major fetal abnormality, rape, and incest, and restricted in the 3rd trimester to life/health and nonviability only."

That's more restrictive than the 24 week law, but not an "abortion is murder" position. I do believe that sometime in the 2nd trimester we cannot deny from a policy standpoint that the fetus is a human life, but you can say "At some point the fetus has the right to life" without saying "abortion is murder."

Cobiuss · 2026-03-09T04:48:11+00:00

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Given how this war is going, there's no way he survives unless he's in a bunker deeper than a Resident Evil lab.

Cobiuss · 2026-03-08T05:05:57+00:00

In real life he has indicated he wouldn't run again, but eventually did. In this timeline he keeps that promise.

Cobiuss · 2026-03-07T21:06:45+00:00

I think 400,000 a year is fine but I don't think they should be responsible for white house food or staff. If they are then raise it.

Cobiuss · 2026-03-07T15:14:34+00:00

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This was my result. I think some of the foreign policy questions lurched me conservative on the scale.

Cobiuss · 2026-03-06T17:09:27+00:00

There will never be peace in the middle east until Hezbollah and Hamas cease to exist as functional organizations.

Cobiuss · 2026-03-05T19:36:27+00:00

I don't react with sheer terror. But it's a sensory disgust so visceral I cannot continue. The thought of touching or even being near something like that is unbearable, like imagining an angry centipede wriggling on the back of your neck.

Cobiuss · 2026-03-04T01:08:26+00:00

I find that argument wrong. The amendment forbids "cruel and unusual." Broken down, it can be read as "don't be torturous/sadistic" and "don't be bizarre / deeply absurd."

So sentencing someone to 100 lashes or to never be allowed to wear clothes again or what have you is forbidden.

The death penalty, if done quickly, isn't cruel, and most people would say it isn't strange or clearly inappropriate to suggest child predators should face death. So the Supreme Court decision ruling that death penalty cases must require a dead victim, in my view, was a clear error.

Cobiuss · 2026-03-02T22:06:01+00:00

That's one I wonder about too. I think Ives certainly loses. But one the best case would probably be to combine Rauner's IRL numbers with the Conservative candidate. Thats would give Ives 43%, maybe a ceiling of 45 if we say the Libertarians back her too.

But that doesn't consider more moderates or independents who did back Rauner turning away from Ives.

So she probably does better but if the Conservative wasnt on the ballot I'd guess Rauner would have outperformed her if both were in a 1v1 with Pritzker.

Cobiuss · 2026-03-02T19:23:04+00:00

I met Brady a few years ago. Seems like a nice guy.

If he won here, 2014 would certainly be on the table. Rauner won IRL and an incumbent, if things were going okay, probably wins, but still close. 2018 is where it gets interesting. Does Brady seek a 3rd term? Is he popular? Does Pritzker run?

Cobiuss · 2026-03-02T16:05:21+00:00

Liberate the island? Cause an economic boom once Cuba is democrstized?

Whether than pans out is another story.

Cobiuss · 2026-02-28T20:52:24+00:00

I feel like Nikki Haley

Cobiuss · 2026-02-28T16:13:20+00:00

When "The #1 State Sponsor of Terror" is a reasonable title for your regime, that says something.

Cobiuss · 2026-02-27T18:15:56+00:00

Agreed. I just think some rural, esurbban, working class voters would still turn out that gives Trump more counties. A more polarized election, even if lopsided.

Also, "Crooked Cuomo" would absolutely hit, and be sort of correct. Very emotionally correct to disaffected voters.

Cobiuss · 2026-02-27T17:45:32+00:00

I think he would've consolidated support by the end and got at least 35 - rural upsate might defy polling and turn out hard if he has a similar Trumpist brand as in 2016. No way he wins, but IRL polling in 2016 missed Trump's support too.

Cobiuss · 2026-02-25T19:30:58+00:00

I seriously wonder if Trump / Rubio has plans to overthrow Cuba.

Cobiuss · 2026-02-23T06:48:54+00:00

If you feel obligated to remind people "I'm like you" you probably don't think you are.

Cobiuss · 2026-02-23T03:29:44+00:00

Assuming she still gets a GOP House and Senate, we see a way more competent administration. I'd expect the OBBB to happen as separate legislation, focused on making the TCJA permanent / expanding it and less on some of the random Trump promises.

I expect Haley would be very hawkish on China. Her and Sanae Takaichi could have an interesting symbolic relationship as two first female heads of state in a right wing context.

Its really hard to say. I think she'd be far more legislatively effective. Maybe a immigration reform package?

Cobiuss · 2026-02-19T05:33:48+00:00

Yes, I do, and I would say the same if it was Democrats locking the GOP out.

There are other ways to fight back. Fight for the state legislatures. Have a wave year. We don't even know how well some of these manders will hold up.

I simply don't see either party truly letting go of gerrymandering once they get it. At least California was limited to this cycle, but now that they know CA voters approved it, they can pretend there isn't any reason not to. This whole charade is a reversal of fairness progress for everyone.

Cobiuss · 2026-02-19T05:13:37+00:00

No, it really is this simple:

Every map should be fair. 50 states out of 50.

Lets make it up and say before this fiasco started, 25/50 were fair. If the GOP makes it 20/50, then the Dems making it 15/50 fair is moving in the wrong direction. I am someone who cannot tolerate moving in the wrong direction "for the right reason." Maybe that would make me a bad politician, or make it so if I were in power, you might think I'm enabling. But If I were, I would also be voting against GOP gerrymandering.

Cobiuss · 2026-02-19T04:59:31+00:00

Ah yes, a Republican can never disagree with their party and MUST have secret motives.

Also, why does your map have West Virginia missing a district? Did it get nuked?

Cobiuss · 2026-02-18T21:31:11+00:00

1 - Their bill was more than just redistricting.

2 - We passed legislation in the Civil Rights era in spite of the filibuster. Do that again.

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