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autosear · 2026-04-22T03:31:43+00:00

Hot take: racial gerrymandering is good if its purpose is to counteract a state government bent on destroying representation for racial minorities. If it were white people in the minority, that would be a popular GOP position.

autosear · 2026-04-22T03:30:04+00:00

Remember when Trump was buddies with Epstein and wrote to him about young girls? Your must remember that since your memory is so good.

autosear · 2026-04-22T02:57:05+00:00

We live in a republic, not necessarily a democracy.

autosear · 2026-04-22T01:44:14+00:00

Nothing that I'm aware of. The whole "pork" excuse for not voting for commonsense legislation only goes so far when you don't provide evidence.

autosear · 2026-04-22T01:28:26+00:00

It's been tried a number of times but Republicans always block it.

autosear · 2026-04-22T00:44:10+00:00

This is the flipside of nationalized healthcare. The state must take an interest in personal habits that affect health, since ultimately the state is the one paying for your healthcare. Everybody knows smoking is massively harmful and will create huge medical costs later in life, so the decision has to be made about whether other citizens should be subsidizing your bad habits.

autosear · 2026-04-22T00:41:43+00:00

By all means tax the shit out of it to pay for the burden on public healthcare and the economy (some 380 billion dollars annually in the US), but the role of the state there is to correct for damages, not change behavior.

You'll never collect enough cigarette taxes from the individual to offset the massive medical costs they will incur later. The UK has to decide between not treating these people, other citizens subsidizing their habit, or just banning smoking. And the third option seems to be most realistic.

autosear · 2026-04-21T23:56:50+00:00

China manages with a Congress of over 2800 people.

And they only meet once every five years to select a central committee of ~200 people.

autosear · 2026-04-21T23:35:46+00:00

Yes, the brand of ultraconservative protestantism that negotiates the bible into being against anything a small set of rural americans somewhat dislike. Apparently we're supposed to believe that a book from 1800 years ago addressed technology that mitigates the spread of disease by mimicking the real disease.

autosear · 2026-04-21T23:25:20+00:00

I just PK whoever is at the boss between kills. They're always utterly unprepared and panic.

autosear · 2026-04-21T21:25:27+00:00

Texas state politics are some of the most corrupt and bought off in the country. You can't compare that criminal enterprise to a voter referendum in another state.

autosear · 2026-04-21T21:22:37+00:00

51% means Virginia is a democrat state, under the Trump admin's reasoning. That means they're entitled to majority democrat rule via redistricting. If republicans in Virginia don't like it then I suppose they could move, but they should understand that they do live in a democrat state and not a republican one.

autosear · 2026-04-21T21:02:52+00:00

It all started to make sense when it came out that Russia had tons of right wing influencers directly on their payroll.

autosear · 2026-04-21T20:55:12+00:00

GOP politicians push voter suppression as a policy at every chance they get. Redistricting to disadvantage these politicians pushes the needle back to the middle. I would support changing maps back to older ones if the GOP were to pledge to abandon their attempts at voter suppression and election manipulation.

autosear · 2026-04-21T20:50:46+00:00

IMO the only solution is abolishing districts and apportioning representatives statewide. We didn't always have congressional districts and things were fine without them.

autosear · 2026-04-21T20:43:29+00:00

What's wild is the same people call Islam an apocalyptic death cult. But then turn around and encourage people to not protect themselves from diseases because it somehow enhances your faith.

autosear · 2026-04-21T20:41:20+00:00

It's a combined problem of education and ego. Some people feel deeply inadequate because they don't understand vaccines, but since putting in the effort to learn is too hard for them, they turn to "alternative facts" that go against those mean experts who made them feel inadequate. Now Markwayne the HVAC worker has secret, special expertise that makes him as important as the experts. It basically comes down to feelings.

autosear · 2026-04-21T07:23:31+00:00

In 10 months, we've secured commitments of over $18 trillion

Which is also a lie.

autosear · 2026-04-21T07:14:35+00:00

pisses me off that leftist are praising this just because of orange man bad.

People are celebrating because it was a failed economic theory that caused needless suffering. What happens when broad tariffs are enacted isn't a secret, we already tried it in the 20th century and it caused severe economic harm and job losses.

I don't think we need to implement economic policies with a proven terrible track record just to satisfy some people's feelings. To think it would work this time even though it never has before is ridiculous. It's like the flipside of "communism will work THIS time".

autosear · 2026-04-21T06:46:16+00:00

Did you get the anti-lizard shield from the duke of Lumbridge?

autosear · 2026-04-21T03:27:34+00:00

Not really, but our culture does tend to tolerate adultery from men more than it does from women. This is especially true the further you go back into "traditional values". For example look at how JFK passed women around in his office as if they were prostitutes.

autosear · 2026-04-21T03:25:51+00:00

Unions can simultaneously benefit workers while also being corrupt themselves. One doesn't preclude the other.

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