Because there’s literally nothing to gain and everything to lose. Not even “jobs” as the common narrative is for company tax breaks.

So yeah, it’s the pinnacle of how this isn’t a partisan war, but a class war. And the tech industry has done a shift job with PR trying to convince otherwise; the left are disillusioned and the right never trusted big tech coastal elites to begin with.

I think it’s funnier that they felt unsafe around a prop. Let the symbolism sink in.

It doesn’t mention anywhere that the guillotine was not functional.

I just looked at the social media post. It’s a tiny scale guillotine. It’d struggle to slice anything larger than a carrot. The blade probably isn’t even real, nor made to come down.

It’s not astroturfig. That’s the way a lot of local elections (and 1-2 statewide elections) work. It’s a system that has precedent, so it gets the most support.

But yes, there’s more than one way to shear a sheep. I’m open to any variety of choices not based on winner-take-all.

there isn’t a situation where voting for someone you want increases odds for someone you don’t.

RCV barely increases the odds for someone you don’t want. The whole idea is that it rewards moderate views so that “everyone’s 2nd choice” is better than a radical first choice. The Spoiler effect will almost always be there, but Nothing is worse than FPTP for that effect. Especially with Score based voting that can (and given experience with internet ratings, will) degenerate to “0 or max score”. Score based voting works best with high information electorate, and the US… hell, pretty much all global politics aren’t full of people laser focused on every little law.

I like Approval based voting, though. The issue lies more in excessive runoffs when we get the most popular candidates (or the worst case where none of the candidate are approved enough).

It’s not in the constitution, but the power of voting lies in the states. So we’d need state to slowly change their voting systems for this to happen properly.

The electoral college for nationals is a whole different ballpark. Also not in the constitution, but I think that still lies with states?

It’s a snowball’s chance in hell of actually happening, but this would be the best time for this to happen if it lead to proper new policy that changes how voted are counted.

Now I see what you mean about the idea of a big Left state splitting its electoral votes. Which would be bad in 2028. But the snowball’s chance is most/all states shifting to a non FPTP voting system and making a 3rd party viable.

a video shared on social media showed him having sex with a 17-year-old girl.

Even if he just turned 18 (and there are Romeo and Juliet laws protecting that), that is such a profoundly stupid idea. It’s already crass sharing it with a few friends, but you posted it online? Idiot.

I just post this everytime:

The unborn” are a convenient group of people to advocate for. They never make demands of you.
They are morally uncomplicated, unlike the incarcerated, addicted, or the chronically poor.
They don’t resent your condescension or complain that you are not politically correct.
Unlike widows, they don’t ask you to question patriarchy.
Unlike orphans, they don’t need money, education, or childcare.
Unlike aliens, they don’t bring all that racial, cultural, and religious baggage that you dislike.
They allow you to feel good about yourself without any work at creating or maintaining relationships; and when they are born, you can forget about them, because they cease to be unborn.
You can love the unborn and advocate for them without substantially challenging your own wealth, power, or privilege, without re-imagining social structures, apologizing, or making reparations to anyone.
They are, in short, the perfect people to love if you want to claim you love Jesus, but actually dislike people who breathe.
Prisoners? Immigrants? The sick? The poor? Widows? Orphans? All the groups that are specifically mentioned in the Bible? They all get thrown under the bus for the unborn."

-Methodist Pastor David Barnhart

In my eyes, any shred of legitimacy about pro-life in the US disappeared when the GOP told voters to forget about the Epstein Files and they collectively went along with it.

He really just said “the only legal abortion is my abortion” out loud. I bet he also complains about his healthcare too, huh?

There are lots of different ways to look at profit.

They claim “exposure” and “new marketing opportunities”.

I think they are just (literally) kissing the ring and getting in on the corruption train before it crashes.

There is definitely stuff (relatively) silently going through the courts about it. But we really won’t be able to do much about it until a new administration gets in.

It’ll be good reflection one day, but it doesn’t change much in the present.

Citizens United was a mistake. At this rate, 2026 might have more money put into it than general elections 1-2 decades prior.

what else are you trying to point out with this isolated statistic?

People are slowly, but finally waking up.

It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.

Now if they aren’t even AIPAC funded… well that’s just sad. Even a reddit mod gets a delusion of power when on a trip.

you are framing this as republicans looking to split the dems using propoganda.

Yes, and it’s working. Splitting the vote with couch isn’t as effective as winning over a vote, but still effective for an unpopular party. And when we’re in a low trust society, doing nothing feels more appealing than picking a poison.

The issue is two fold here: 1) you’re mad at 2 poisons to pick at election day but 2) do not want to put the work in primaries or before primaries to make a better pick. Someone like Mamdami doesn’t just appear from the ether. And it feels defeatist an outright lazy that your preferre candidate didn’t make it if you did nothing to support it.

Your lowest effort civic duty is to vote on November, and if you can’t even do that I don’t know why you’re in this country. We tore it apart centuries ago over lack of representation and we want to throw that away? For what? Faux doomerism disguised as perfomative protest? What’s really your goal here?

It’s a fact that traditional Dem voters are far past focussing solely on republicans as the root of all of our problems.

Yes. We can realize that we are in quicksand and focus on getting outselves out while also realizing we later need to stop dinner from burning. But one is clearly more immediate than the other. Dinner will be the least of our worries if we sink here in 2026.

“Flood the zone” they say. With a mix of “The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent”

I could wake up in the middle of the desert with no electronics on me the day he dies and I’m sure I’d be able to hear the wind tell me _{“Trump is dead"}It.'ll be that obvious.

More likely, I’ll probably hear fireworks outside on a random day and be woken up by partying in the streets before checking my phone.

This was the Democrat’s war.

If you use this lens of thinking for pre-70’s america, you won’t ever really understand that culture.

Thing is, Americans weren’t anywhere near as polarized as today. So republicans and democrats probably agreed on a lot of things even on the campaign trail. A vice president would be a president from the *opposite * party as a sign of cooperation.

People wouldn’t be pointing fingers at any party over this because odds are both parties wanted the war to happen for various reasons. It was simply “America’s war”.

In the big picture 1950-2026, Nixon was not as bad a President as people want to believe.

1. That just shows how far standards fell in America

2. That doesn’t ubdo the evils done beforehand

He wasn’t impeached over tariffs in 2018.

well, my info was horribly wrong. I thought I might have confused one of the failed attempts at impeachment from the first term, but it wasn’t that either.

70s from within your own party, especially Republicans, is pretty freaking bad.

Bad for these hyerpartisans times, yes. But this wasn’t the norm, even as far back as 15 years ago.

But it’s part of why GOP congress is still spineless. A lot of their constituents still think Trump is doing a “good job”. Or at least that’s what they say out loud.

This isn’t nationals. There’s too many races here (every House seat and 33 Senate seats) for them to fight every progressive candidate. That’s why you occasionally see them give up and endorse a few progressives here and there.

Also, most of their work is done in the primaries. They tend to just accept the D candidate once that is done and over with. That’s what happened with Mamdmi. Mostly because that’s honestly more important than the real election, and also because they kind of have to to keep the ruse up.