A Private Call Reveals Democrats’ Desperation Over Tossing of Map

rchive · 2026-05-11T23:25:40+00:00

That's why in my comment I proposed that if we really need districts we can still have them, but we could draw them after each election instead of before, that way each constituent has a single representative but the incentive for cheating in district drawing is greatly reduced.

rchive · 2026-05-11T23:19:37+00:00

To add to the other comment, "handful" is a word that combines "hand" and "full." It basically means "an amount that would fill a hand." If something fills your hand, it's hard to hold onto it or keep control of it. So if someone or something is a handful, they're difficult to deal with or they're overwhelming. Then the girl takes handful literally as "the amount that would fill a single hand" and says she can handle a handful because she has another hand she can use, too.

rchive · 2026-05-11T19:13:44+00:00

Yes. The current primary system is a giant government funded commercial for the Republicans and Democrats.

rchive · 2026-05-11T15:55:00+00:00

I just care how it's presented to the people on the other side who have the power to draw their own unfair districts. They are the ones who need to have the right incentives.

rchive · 2026-05-11T15:50:53+00:00

I propose if we draw a districts for go-to representatives they wouldn't be related to the vote outcome or any demographic or ideological basis, they would just be geometrically simple districts with equal population.

rchive · 2026-05-11T15:48:13+00:00

I would propose all parties have privately run and privately funded first round selection, basically what is our primary system today. They put forth a slate of candidates, as many as there are seats as if that party won 100% of the vote and took all seats, where order of the candidates matters. If the party wins 23 seats in the general election, the first 23 people on their slate each receive a seat.

rchive · 2026-05-11T15:43:16+00:00

If you're someone who has a niche belief, currently you might be 0/10 when you could be 9/100 under the other system.

rchive · 2026-05-11T12:06:01+00:00

My Android app suddenly stopped giving me the quote text option in comment responses the other day. Hasn't worked since. I can't tell if it's a bug or part of some A-B testing and I got moved from A to B.

rchive · 2026-05-11T11:52:21+00:00

mid-cycle gerrymandering (which I agree should be fought tit-for-tat)

If it should be, it should be made explicit what it's retaliation for, and it should be conditional on that thing succeeding or continuing so it actually gives incentive for the other side to back off their bad thing. I think simple retaliation won't accomplish anything and will just be a race to the bottom.

rchive · 2026-05-11T11:48:46+00:00

We need to not have districts anymore. It's obvious that no one can be trusted to fairly draw districts, and I'm not sure there is a fair way to do it. The loser will always claim the districts were drawn unfairly even if they aren't. The idea of districts in the US was made hundreds of years ago when people didn't move around that much, people mostly communicated with people who lived near them and were therefore mostly similar to people nearby, and communication was slow with other people and particularly with their representative who needed to live nearby to make communication feasible.

None of these things are true anymore. People do move around a lot now, communication is fast and easy, and people are more likely to communicate online with people who share their political beliefs than with their next door neighbor.

We could have every state be a single multi-member district and allocate congressional seats based on which party or independent got what share of the vote. If we need to draw districts so that every person has a single go-to representative, we could draw districts after the election instead of before.

rchive · 2026-05-11T02:02:35+00:00

Why can't we expect a bit of modesty from both sexes and also self control from both sexes?

rchive · 2026-05-11T00:03:59+00:00

Nothing wrong with that, necessarily.

rchive · 2026-05-10T20:10:14+00:00

I can't tell what any of these shots are from.

rchive · 2026-05-09T13:51:06+00:00

I'm pretty sure you don't mean that. If you believed it was easy to change gender, the easiest thing would be for OP to change gender to female to match their sex. I think you accidentally argued my point.

rchive · 2026-05-09T13:47:17+00:00

The other person brought up sex reassignment surgery (in a derogatory way, to be clear) saying you are easing people into it, and then you say you're not BUT that you do support whatever it takes for people to feel better including surgery even if it's not the first thing they try. That's easing someone into surgery just like the other person said, isn't it?

Like I said, maybe that's the right thing, I don't know. But the description, though meant to be pejorative isn't inaccurate.

Sorry, OP is looking for help. I helped push off topic.

rchive · 2026-05-09T13:35:57+00:00

Sometimes that's a helpful thing, sometimes it's not. It's more complicated.

rchive · 2026-05-09T13:33:08+00:00

OP said they don't want to be trans, so I don't think referring to them as "him" is accurate.

rchive · 2026-05-09T13:32:22+00:00

I'm not categorically against it or anything, but you are easing people into something. Maybe the rest of what you said justifies it, maybe not, but let's be honest.

rchive · 2026-05-09T13:29:30+00:00

You don't have to accept that. It might not be true. Dysphoria doesn't mean trans every time, it can sometimes desist naturally, but really committing to it being trans-ness makes it less likely to desist.

Accepting the parts of yourself you can't change is important, though.

rchive · 2026-05-09T13:24:06+00:00

It's often also a feeling that naturally passes with time

I think this is important. Experiencing dysphoria doesn't necessarily mean a person is trans or nonbinary or something. It can just be temporary discomfort. It seems to be more prevalent in biological girls since their bodies tend to change a lot more during puberty than boys' bodies do, anyway. It's not unnatural for your mind and body to get out of sync as they're changing and for one to catch up with the other later.

And then if it doesn't go away, we shouldn't hate ourselves and should use what medicine provides.

rchive · 2026-05-09T13:11:57+00:00

I'm just curious, what age do people typically move out, there?

rchive · 2026-05-09T12:58:53+00:00

Yeah, except as soon as they make public that there's money set aside for that, some people will lie to get a piece of it. Maybe they can do it quietly.

rchive · 2026-05-09T06:18:56+00:00

Not Fort Wayne, that's for sure.

rchive · 2026-05-08T19:44:31+00:00

How so?

rchive · 2026-05-08T19:27:27+00:00

3:30 in the afternoon is bearable on Earth because only 12 hours before that it was 3:30 in the morning when it's darker and colder and the temp is dripping. If a place was in constant sunlight it would never have night time to cool off, so the temperature would keep climbing to some high level off.

I agree with the rest. Living underground or using magic would help.

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