Sapient liberation now.
The Senate not being population-based is part of the problem too. As are gerrymandering and not having universal adult suffrage or federal holidays for voting days. But a Constitutional Convention would be state-based, too, so we’d end up with something even worse than we have now.
Modern US conservative policy isn’t a complex question. The answer is always money or sadism.
I don’t want to do-over the Civil War.
Both 9/11s were pretty freaking real, but you’re right on the US orchestrating the 1973 one.
Might have something to do with the slavery, imperialism, and genocide. Or the fact that French Canadians are primarily of French descent. It’s simply not comparable. Also, while people say French Canadian to describe an ethnicity and culture (again, one primarily made up of French immigrants), I’ve never heard someone call Quebec French Canada in seriousness.
That’s valid.
It may be Francophone, but it’s as fucked up to call this “French Africa” as it would be to call India/Pakistan/Bangladesh “British India.”
If they really want less of a rush to NATO, maybe they should stop invading their neighbors?
If you hear of a reasonable source with actual info on North Korean news, leave a link here. Otherwise, your concern is noted. Believe me, in the face of radio silence, most people are imagining much worse things of the regime than a shorts ban.
Auth-left calls it decadence, auth-right calls it degeneracy. Authoritarians hate any deviance from their norms.
Kind of pathetic that it’s the first big one, given our economic structure and the fact that we’re nearly a quarter into the century.
They’re rich, but it also makes them stand out, gets them extra headlines.
What are they afraid of? Country matters? Nothing?
Basic rights for people who aren’t white dudes were mostly imposed by court order. That’s the reality. We have laws, it’s just that those laws were written at a time when personhood didn’t really apply to anyone who wasn’t a white man. And if no one who you consider a full person is capable of being pregnant, you’re not going to think to put in a right to abortion explicitly, even if it’s a basic requirement for equal citizenship for the female sex, because women (and trans people) aren’t really people…and so on.
Edit: I realize this is mostly due to the weird semi-religious fervor Americans have for our Constitution and government system.
TL; DR: We’re running Modern Democracy 1.0 with a Frankenstein covering of patches, while other countries just upgrade whenever they need you.
Let’s not mince words. Pro-gestational slavery.
Watch 2 minutes of her speaking, you’ll understand. She’s a GrandKaren.
The left doesn’t have the money to prop up a decent counterpropaganda apparatus.