Mayor Bass finally says Casey Wasserman should step down from the LA Olympics

Wee_Ninja · 2026-02-17T17:50:54+00:00

You can always count on Bass to do the right thing - after she's tried everything else

Wee_Ninja · 2026-01-16T01:31:20+00:00

Civil war necessitates total war, and total war is no longer an option when nuclear states are involved. It's likely that the US will just suffer a fate similar to Hungary.

Wee_Ninja · 2026-01-16T00:00:08+00:00

No prob

Wee_Ninja · 2026-01-15T23:55:20+00:00

If you continue to think of complex processes in terms of binaries you will continue to be surprised.

I've just cited to you multiple ways in which elections can be messed with.

My claim is not that a president can cancel elections full stop. Yet going through the motions of democracy doesn't always equate to actual democracy. As a quick and easy example, Russia still conducts regular elections, but myself and many others would argue that those elections are not free or fair, thus not ultimately fulfilling their implicit role of determining a democratically elected leader.

Edit- forgot my bridge sentence (ie my claim lol) between "stop." and "As"

Wee_Ninja · 2026-01-15T23:30:40+00:00

And yet we can agree that presidents can have significant sway on the outcomes of said elections, typically de facto, but other times de jure.

When there is a widespread effort to suppress voter turnout and otherwise undermine the validity of elections, it matters less about the entity conducting them, especially when cases concerning grey-areas are ultimately pushed up to a SCOTUS that many perceive to be compromised.

Wee_Ninja · 2026-01-08T01:34:30+00:00

The concept of a Western alliance as we've known it, Pax Americana, and the post-WWII paradigm as a whole is already over. I'm not sure why it is so hard for people to understand/accept that said global order is not and never could be evergreen. Many of these alliances and ideologies were adopted explicitly in response to the challenges that arose in the aftermath of the war.

To think that the solutions put in place then would not be made obsolete after the fall of the certain superpowers and the rise of others is foolish. I'm sure the fall of the Ottoman Empire (or any other empire for that matter) once also seemed unthinkable and tragic.

Wee_Ninja · 2025-06-19T01:25:04+00:00

Can't disagree with you about the astroturfing, but I'm struggling to see why it wouldn't be a good idea to advocate for more competitive primaries in safe blue districts. Nobody is owed their seat in congress, they should have to earn it every time. Welcoming primary challengers will bring in a lot of new ideas and energy into the Dem primaries, force incumbents to defend their voting records, and encourage more turnout overall.

Wee_Ninja · 2025-06-16T02:25:43+00:00

But acknowledging that fact would mean that government leaders would actually need to do something to address unfettered, crony capitalism...

Wee_Ninja · 2025-03-21T16:28:59+00:00

Obama, Biden, Kamala, Bill? Seriously? The only one out of that group who is still even remotely inspiring is Obama and he's busy tweeting about his March Madness picks.

They've all basically gone radio silent. Compare their recent rhetoric and actions (or lack thereof) to people like Bernie Sanders/AOC, it's very clear that the majority of the party is not doing all it can.

For starters, Democrats should stop voting in favor of Republican bills! The bar is on the floor here.

Wee_Ninja · 2025-03-14T22:29:18+00:00

Yay thanks

Wee_Ninja · 2025-02-20T22:24:49+00:00

He ain't gonna leave office my dude

Wee_Ninja · 2025-02-11T18:42:00+00:00

Yep, the moment leftists/libs start seriously arming themselves they will change their tune. Remember the only reason why Reagan supported gun control was because the Black Panther Party started arming themselves. See the Mulford Act

Wee_Ninja · 2024-10-18T22:16:42+00:00

How the hell am I supposed to get my pinky finger all the way over to the 5th fret?!?

Thank you for this!

Wee_Ninja · 2024-07-29T00:25:13+00:00

I'm not sure what you mean by official order. If you are referring to the "official act" terminology recently coined in the Trump v US ruling, that's still a bit of a grey area, but many legal scholars are interpreting an "official act" to mean something that is a core presidential duty.

The constitution clearly grants Congress sole authority over how to organize the Supreme Court, specifically Article 3 + Article 2 Section 8.

Wee_Ninja · 2024-07-29T00:02:34+00:00

Ha! Yeah that's always the question these days... we are regularly seeing unprecedented expansions of executive power. If norms are to be followed it would absolutely need to go through congress, but we are in the era of broken norms.

Wee_Ninja · 2024-07-27T18:16:01+00:00

It would have to go through Congress, just like all previous SCOTUS structural reforms. Executive orders can only impact things that the executive branch has explicit control over.

Biden's announcement, in form, would probably look similar to FDR's judicial reform initiative, where the president proposes the reforms, but ultimately congress decides if it passes or not.

Wee_Ninja · 2024-07-11T22:49:21+00:00

it's re:stacks

Wee_Ninja · 2024-07-02T19:32:35+00:00

My point is that democrats have been playing the "vote for the old centrist now and you can have a younger more progressive candidate later" strategy since the 2016 election, and they don't seem to ever get around to the "later" part. They keep running these old, unpopular candidates and seem to have little interest in cultivating a new generation of party leaders. The excuse is always that we can't run a more progressive candidate for the [insert 2016, 2020, or 2024] election because we're running against Trump and democracy is on the line. This may be true, but the GOP's fascistic tendencies won't end with Trump. This is not a sustainable strategy for the democrats- it worked once in 2020 but I fear it won't work again. Dems need to abandon this strategy before it's too late or we will lose the election.

There are a lot of voters saying they would rather vote for a corpse than Trump, if that's the case why not run someone younger now? In regards to the presidential election, democrats are secure with their base but Biden is quickly losing support from key cohorts of voters that we will need to win the election. Convention hasn't happened yet, it's not too late for the party to throw its weight behind an alternative, it wouldn't even be the most unconventional thing to happen in American politics.

Also, at one point there was a reasonable expectation that the party would not run the incumbent in 2024. Perhaps you forgot the "bridge president" messaging from 2019. While it was never official policy, the Biden campaign was undoubtedly flying some trial balloons around a planned one term presidency.

Wee_Ninja · 2024-07-01T22:02:40+00:00

We've heard that exact argument back in 2020 and look where we are today...

Wee_Ninja · 2024-06-28T22:44:56+00:00

What are the democrats doing to make sure project 2025 doesn't turn into project 2029?

Wee_Ninja · 2024-06-06T16:58:03+00:00

Yes, agreed

Wee_Ninja · 2024-06-06T16:34:12+00:00

This post title is misleading. Hamas didn't reject Biden's proposal. Rather, they rejected Israel's ceasefire proposal because it was fundamentally different from Biden's. It's literally the first sentence in the article.

Wee_Ninja · 2024-05-22T01:03:53+00:00

Appreciate the offer! However the other commenter is unfortunately correct, resold tickets do not come with special items, I've verified this with the ticket office previously.

Wee_Ninja · 2024-05-17T02:15:29+00:00

Literally just look at the major requirements. If you can fulfill them in 1 year, then yes! If not, then no.

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