I don’t think Bernie is getting cheque’s from aipac, think he may be more motivated by aipac dumping money into a rival candidate. Although his term isn’t up until 2030, and by then he’ll be 89, so hopefully he won’t be running for re-election anyway.
I agree, that’s why I hate shit like this, it just further entrenches the current system and allows both parties to continue ignoring calls for change. The democratic party have proven they’re not gonna be the ones to change the underlying structures of the current system as they benefit from them almost as much as the republicans.
That’s the line democrats always give whenever they want to force through an unpopular item. They said that would happen if trump got elected the first time, and when he got re elected but here we are saying that the second half of his second term is when hes actually going to destroy democracy. Don’t get me wrong it’s a shit situation, especially for the poor and minorities, but the system has not collapsed. This is because established powerful corporate interests don’t want the country to collapse, and they’re the ones who call the shots. It’s why trump chickened out on the tarriffs, they won’t let him run the country off a cliff.
Even if trump is an existential threat to democracy, 5 extra seats from California isn’t going to stop him. We’d need a supermajority in the senate to impeach him, and that’s not happening. If he is going to try to subvert the election then this sort of move only helps his case as it discredits California and allows him to call all the representatives from there invalid. In what case are these 5 reps going to save democracy?
That game theory assumes only two agents though, the republicans and the democrats, when there is a third agent that is losing if this escalates, the democratic will of the people. If Texas gerrymanders to win 5 seats and California gerrymanders to win 5 seats then it’s not just a wash as the people of California have lost there right to determine there districts democratically.
If anything both sides have a perverse incentive to gerrymander to further entrench there power in the areas they already have and make it harder for challengers, again at the cost of the people’s democratic will. Tit for tat assumes there’s some cost to the agents to incentivize stopping, but the democratic party of California may not necessarily care about Republicans getting elected in Texas, especially if there gonna get a majority in the house anyway, which all signs point to that outcome. They do care about getting democrats elected, and this tit for tat will help them with that, so they have an incentive to escalate.
Everyone a month ago:
gerrymandering sucks, the two party system sucks
Everyone now:
let’s let the democrats gerrymander all they want and further entrench their power to secure a “win” in 2026 that we’re almost definitely gonna get any way
$5 says this new map just happens to get rid of progressive districts too because “they have to spread out votes to cancel Republicans.”
Let the midterms go how they will. This is all premised on the idea that texas’ map change will secure the house in 2026, when all the signs point to a democratic blowout in 2026.
Born to early to get poisoned by lead
Born to late to get poisoned by microplastics
Born just in time to drive a forklift
The article says that even with just warnings speeding reduced by 31% on the monitored areas in general, and 64% on a specific stretch. So yeah they do reduce speeding, and like you said reducing speeding reduces accidents and fatalities.
This assumes you can see and recognize the camera. Driving in sf there’s so many other things you’re watching out for, and the streets/sidewalks have so much other shit going on that you’d be hard pressed to spot the camera.
Also like someone else mentioned it could increase overall incidents but if those are minor, like getting rear ended, it’s well worth reducing pedestrian fatalities.
I don’t think computers should be doing distracting. Minority communities deserve representation and an algorithm could easily divide those communities into separate districts taking away their ability to collectively organize and advocate for themselves. A lot of the horrible gerrymandering shaped districts are made to connect minority communities so they can have a say.
If were not gonna do proportional representation then I think Michigan has a good system where they have a non partisan independent distracting board that is randomly selected from citizens who apply.
That won’t work, there sick child seeking missiles will just hit this instead.
You forgot the first step of turning off your smoke alarm, and also leaving the room unless your a pack a day smoker with lungs of steel
I think I know what happened here. Curtis decided to sing “fucking problem” by A$AP rocky at karaoke because he can say
I’m the n*gga, the n*gga n*gga …
Like an edgy 15 year old. Then he heard A$AP rockies bar:
they say money make a n*gga act n*ggerish, at least a n*gga n*gga rich
Got mad at A$AP flexing on racist haters like him and then posted this.
N*gga rich is a term used by racists, and co-opted by rappers, to mean getting a small fortune and spending it on flashy ostentatious things.
Human here, and didn’t know what the post was about. Had the same thought process as the ai and couldn’t understand the gotcha.
I don’t see this going far in japan, idk what boogie man they’re going to point to. The guy likes to rant about immigration like all these other fascists, but japan just doesn’t have a large immigrant population to begin with. Even the people scared of foreigners who want them out probably recognize that the population is shrinking and aging and mass deportation will only make that worse.
Apparently he is also antisemitic but again not many jews in Japan to blame for its problems.
The appeal for these parties is to bring the country “back” to a homogenous ethnostate and that will magically fix all the problems, but japan already is one and still has a lot of issues.
Tradwife content is on the rise for women as well, more and more young people are buying into this mythical simpler past as the world gets more complex, alienating and difficult.
Why do you say she’s obviously unhealthily thin? Per the article:
The only evidence the article gives to there unhealthiness is the protruding collarbone. As someone who is naturally very thin I can assure you that you can be healthy and have a protruding collarbone.
I understand ads are setting beauty standards that are unachievable for a lot of girls and women which causes a lot of problems, but I don’t think ths solution is to mark certain body shapes as unhealthy and ban them, there is no universal healthy body shape, what is healthy for some is unhealthy for others. This isn’t even getting into issues of race and other unchangeable attributes someone else might have and feel bad for not matching a standard. The solution is to ban fashion advertising in general, or at least to teenage girls, so you don’t have to deal with these issues.