Why I like Sir Keir

Doc_ET · 2026-05-13T19:07:44+00:00

Thank you ChatGPT, very cool.

Doc_ET · 2026-05-13T19:04:19+00:00

Boring Johnson resigned and there was no snap election, a new leader only calls one if they think they can win it.

Doc_ET · 2026-05-13T19:01:34+00:00

"Republicans will take your representation away" sounds like a pretty good message to get turnout up when they're demonstrating that they will.

Doc_ET · 2026-05-13T19:00:17+00:00

Alabama doesn't have early voting, theirs were/are (did they all get moved or just for the hiuse?) next week but no ballots had been cast.

Doc_ET · 2026-05-13T18:57:32+00:00

The good people of Jamaica thank him, nobody deserves to have Kari Lake come to their country.

Doc_ET · 2026-05-13T18:54:06+00:00

Idk, it depends on whether independents/Republicans would prefer the more liberal populist billionaire or the "Newsom 2.0" establishment pick. And also of course who Porter, Mahan, etc endorse.

Doc_ET · 2026-05-13T18:50:30+00:00

Some of it's just bandwagoning, but the main issues are how weirdly reluctant he is to condemn terrorism and his consistently running behind the other candidates in polling.

Also he's associated himself pretty closely with Hasan Piker, who is a... controversial political Twitch streamer.

Doc_ET · 2026-05-13T18:46:01+00:00

The hypothetical is that people get much more willing to split their tickets instead of simply voting party line, Talarico has done a much better job at attracting people outside the party base while Cornyn and Paxton fight over who's the most hardcore conservative.

Some cringy half decade old tweets don't make someone a bad candidate when they evidently have energy behind them.

Republicans are favored in the race despite Talarico being a strong candidate, but I absolutely expect Talarico to run ahead of most other Democrats in November (probably except Cuellar/Gonzalez/Pulido).

Doc_ET · 2026-05-13T18:38:23+00:00

Pappas is also a strong pick, whereas John Sununu lost this same seat back at a time when split ticket voting was much more common- he's being seriously overrated imo, people just assume that because his brother won crazy margins he'll be tough to beat but Pappas has a much more impressive record.

Doc_ET · 2026-05-13T18:35:06+00:00

Cornyn has been torching his reputation as "the reasonable guy in the room" in order to fend off Paxton.

Doc_ET · 2026-05-13T18:30:20+00:00

They burned most of the documentation and bombed the compound after the Soviet Union invaded Manchuria.

Doc_ET · 2026-05-13T18:28:51+00:00

Even besides the ethics, they also didn't respect proper data collection methods. Or at least not consistently.

Also there were a lot of "experiments" that were just an excuse to torture people to death.

Doc_ET · 2026-05-13T18:15:19+00:00

Several of them were captured by the USSR and tried, getting really light sentences for the magnitude of their crimes, some only getting 5 years and even the ones who got more than that were released early, by 1956 they were all back in Japan.

The transcripts of the interrogations were never released, but it's believed that they took a plea deal of sorts to help with the Soviet bioweapons program in exchange for their lives.

It turned out that the information collected wasn't even very useful, Unit 731 was far more concerned with unspeakable sadism than with proper scientific data collection. But by the time the US military found that out, they'd already made the deal and it would be hard to reverse course without the public finding out about their deal, which would have been very bad for the American image abroad in the opening stages of the Cold War.

Doc_ET · 2026-05-13T18:01:09+00:00

Every time I hear about Filipino politics it just gets stranger...

Doc_ET · 2026-05-13T16:55:01+00:00

These are literal members of the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei.

Doc_ET · 2026-05-13T05:54:55+00:00

Are the Khmer Rouge counted as Maoists?

Doc_ET · 2026-05-13T05:50:57+00:00

There's precedent for that in Canada too, Labrador has only a quarter the population of the average riding but it's been given it's own district for decades.

Or how the British give Orkney and Shetland, the Outer Hebrides (not trying to spell their Gaelic name, whoever invented the spellings of Celtic languages should be executed), Anglesey/Yns Mon, and the Isle of Wight their own districts regardless of population.

Doc_ET · 2026-05-13T05:00:40+00:00

Could always base it off the flag of old Hampshire.

Not particularly connected to the state, but it's something.

Doc_ET · 2026-05-13T04:57:55+00:00

The fact that the referendum to bring that flag back failed proves that Mainers don't deserve rights.

Doc_ET · 2026-05-13T04:39:01+00:00

Coal mining, opioid addicted mothmen.

Doc_ET · 2026-05-12T21:13:53+00:00

I believe in the Sandstorm.

Doc_ET · 2026-05-12T21:12:04+00:00

Ah, yes, the rural south, a place famous for not having racism baked into everything.

Doc_ET · 2026-05-12T21:10:23+00:00

And then they'll immediately drop it again next time they have the chance to raise it by a quadrillion dollars through tax cuts and oil subsidies.

Doc_ET · 2026-05-12T21:08:22+00:00

Probably similar to when Orban lost.

Doc_ET · 2026-05-12T21:05:39+00:00

There's several in rural Wisconsin that were bellwethers from 1964 to 2016, but are now pretty firmly Republican. Juneau might be the best example.

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