You’re technically right but the real issue is electoral college. For ranked choice to work on national level you would have to get rid of if. Which would require constitutional reform. Without it ranked choice and winner-take-all electoral college would result in a big mess. The most likely scenario would be for Republicans to organize and vote for one candidate while Democrats would split the vote between establishment Dem and some DSA candidate. To actually end 2-party system without giving the presidency to Republicans forever you would need ranked choice popular vote or 2-turn elections.

This can be done on local level but on national level you would need constitutional reform which is extremely unlikely.

Interesting. Everyone expected him to retire to secure the seat for another fascist for couple more decades. Especially with the midterms looking really bad for Republicans he should step down so they can appoint someone quickly. I see two options here:

1. Just like most of those fuckers he just can’t let go of power. He thinks no one will be able to replace him and he will hold on to the seat until he dies.
2. He thinks the midterms are in the bag or he thinks he will be able to secure them for Trump. Basically he thinks there’s no need to retire just now because they will still be able to appoint Republican judge in a year or two.

It’s probably 1.

Wait, this guy is supposed to be a Democrat? Since when?

Exactly. Who are they talking to?

I tried hosting the bridge and it was hard to set up and unreliable. Right now I have WhatsApp installed on Graphene OS in a work profile so it doesn’t get access to all my contacts, only the ones I had to specifically add in this profile. In theory you can restrict it even more using labels but managing this was a pain in the ass.

WhatApp will still know who are you talking to and you still have to run their app somewhere so in my opinion setting up the bridge just so I don’t have their app on my phone is simply not worth the hassle.

When will Biden do something about it!?!?

They are, white ninja told me that.

Eggs are not animals.

Women’s rights!

Why? WHY??? Oh, right, corruption.

Yeah, looking at the statistics after Trump won for the second time US citizens started emigrating at record numbers. Good for them.

“If Trump wins I’m leaving US!” was also a thing.

Can an Amish use US constitution if it was invented in 1789?

I meant that I also should have time for it in about a year :) Right now all I read is school related.

The article is a short summary of the book. It’s the summary that’s worth reading. You will get way more out of it than just the title of the book. It’s not “click here to see the title” type of an article so not really a clickbait.

I think the part about money was about current situation. IMO before social media the difference wasn’t as crucial. We had left leaning and right leaning media and all of them had funding. Fox did have huge impact on politics in US but outside of US I think it was more balanced. Fox News was more a symptom of a rotting American system than the cause. It started in 1996 when American right was already braindead and easy to manipulate. The game changed with social media where getting millions of dollars from some billionaire backers or as part of disinformation campaign by Russia or Israel makes a huge difference. Right wing influencers have access to more funding and are dominating that space everywhere. So…

They [the right] are not more organised or more ideologically coherent or more strategic; they are just better funded – which puts quite a lot on the shoulders of capital itself as the overarching organising principle of global politics. Money might not be the only thing talking, but it’s the only thing getting what it wants.

is spot on IMO.

OMG, same. 0 time for books recently. The article is very interesting in itself though.

Of course. Why do you think I consider it worth sharing? Because of the pictures?

The second war started after the first one. It’s all in the link.

Been a forever war since day 1.

This war already ended. It’s a completely different war now.

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/07/13/trump-notifies-congress-of-new-war-against-iran-00995170