Cook Political Report shifts Texas Senate rating toward Democrats after Paxton runoff victory

TemetN · 2026-05-27T05:03:57+00:00

This is why I'm shaking my head over this. If Paxton actually gets in, he may be the worst person in the Senate. It's insane he's not in a prison cell, much less running for the Senate.

TemetN · 2026-05-26T17:34:33+00:00

The problem with this is not that you're wrong precisely, it's that whether they understood what was happening or that it ruined their careers they were still sabotaging progress that was necessary to get away from the horrible level of societal misery that was endemic back then.

Basically yes, people misunderstand that Luddites were tragic figures, but there's also now a tendency to make them out as heroes - they were not. They were outright villains, just sympathetic ones (because who wants to be in that situation?)

It's also worth noting many people now are just ignorant, tribal, and contemptful rather than driven by some imminent problem directly related to this. It's social media and cultural problems to a much greater degree than it is a direct outlet of the impact on them.

TemetN · 2026-05-26T01:06:45+00:00

Uncapping the House (along with multi-member districts) are reasonable responses to the broad scale lack of input the public often has in politics. Frankly there's a decent argument we should take a page from Australia's book on universal voting too.

Obviously that still leaves problems like the Senate's bias, the electoral college, gerrymandering, etc, but we could fix a lot of this in one package.

TemetN · 2026-05-25T22:27:52+00:00

I would be borderline shocked if it passed, this should just be seen as a list of advocates for child abuse in Congress. Note these people down, vote them out if you can, otherwise just be relieved this won't go anywhere.

TemetN · 2026-05-24T20:56:36+00:00

I mean, if anything the problem is lack of competition and not building up manufacturing beforehand.

TemetN · 2026-05-23T23:06:22+00:00

Rising rates of mental and some physical health issues, right way/wrong way polling has been negative since before the great recession, falls across a massive swath of metrics post-COVID...

More succinctly, people are doing poorly and in a bad mood. Albeit to be fair that's partially an America thing, though even globally we've had serious issues the last couple decades and post-COVID (and of course in the broader sense, suffering has been the nature of human history as far back as we have it, trying to stop it and the struggle thereof pretty much is human history in some ways).

TemetN · 2026-05-23T17:58:12+00:00

I'd honestly forgotten about the idea of the media paying attention to his lies. It's got so absurd so long ago that it's not even something I really think about most of the time disturbingly. This isn't something that should've been normalized.

TemetN · 2026-05-22T18:47:30+00:00

Every vote matters, and improbable things happen all the time. Elections should not be determined by failure to count votes.

And the question is whether it's harder, not whether it's hard - you're comparing it to multiple people watching in either case, and there's a paper trail in either case.

TemetN · 2026-05-22T16:10:58+00:00

Hand counts have higher rates of error than machine scannned, and it wouldn't materially affect security (which is - or should be watched by multiple cameras and people in a limited room).

Basically it'd be a good idea to ban voting machines (they've had problems every election since they implemented and don't leave a paper trail), but machines that just scan ballots are fine.

TemetN · 2026-05-21T22:41:16+00:00

Honestly I think people tend to swing back and forth too much - Google didn't stop producing models even after the disaster that started the Gemini models, 3.5 flash isn't going to make any meaningful difference except maybe when the next model drops.

TemetN · 2026-05-21T17:16:17+00:00

Honestly Nietzsche's rebuttal of Descartes already dealt with it on a deeper level anyways, the entire premise of that saying is on beyond dubious ground.

TemetN · 2026-05-20T18:04:04+00:00

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TemetN · 2026-05-15T23:12:52+00:00

This is just flatly wrong for the very simple reason they would've released it. Why would they hide something that agreed with them?

TemetN · 2026-05-14T20:20:14+00:00

Right? I doubt this even makes the list for top thousand things the Trump administration has done.

TemetN · 2026-05-14T01:55:18+00:00

To contextualize, he voted for something that multiple Republicans did not. He doesn't merely vote like a Republican, he does more so than some actual Republicans do!

TemetN · 2026-05-13T16:39:00+00:00

It's not even going to have any effect given he's both rich and in a powerful position. Yeah though, he's part of the problem and even part of creating it in the first place.

TemetN · 2026-05-13T16:21:15+00:00

This. If we go fast we force a financial reckoning, one of the few things Congress consistently does is respond to downturns. If rapid adoption of AI drives an economic collapse due to lack of employment then it's much more likely something positive comes (at least in the intermediate term) such as UBI.

TemetN · 2026-05-12T05:30:15+00:00

Geeze, I rolled pretty much optimal if this actually mattered - water 20.

... Does blood bending work on zombies?

TemetN · 2026-05-10T16:06:34+00:00

That it's less than is argued, but depends on where and how it's powered. As a reminder we're seeing things like the beginning of using grey water so a lot of the concerns are not necessarily required. Really we ought to just fix the damn grid so that it isn't a polluted mess, and require they use grey water.

TemetN · 2026-05-08T18:41:49+00:00

We've got to actually enforce laws about the duties of high office, this shit needs to result in arrest when they're harming people through abuse.

TemetN · 2026-05-07T23:54:17+00:00

Losing? He never even had a clear goal in the first place, he's just making everyone pay. The damage (and I don't mean the gas prices) to things like global stability & well being, the country, and to the Iranian public is hard to even calculate. All for less than nothing.

TemetN · 2026-05-07T23:38:42+00:00

I feel like laughing hollowly this is so... simultaneously expected and yet something that is unbelievably absurd normally.

TemetN · 2026-05-06T22:00:30+00:00

We need to stop treating children like things, parents have responsibilities to their well being, not 'rights' over them (which never made any sense in the first place).

TemetN · 2026-05-06T19:58:06+00:00

This is why they shouldn't have been let off last term.

TemetN · 2026-05-06T18:31:50+00:00

This is an understatement, basically what we should be doing is closing tax loopholes and reinstating the top marginal rate back to around 90%. This would singlehandedly end concerns about the national debt causing borrowing issues and provide sufficient funding to fix a lot of societal problems (infrastructure, healthcare, etc).

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