@Great_Chumpion @nazzobetweeting Liberals have a much stronger electoral track record than leftists.
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Bucky's Wrecking Ball
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Bucky's Wrecking Ball
@GeodesicForce
The present is better than the past, and the future will be better than the present.
Adirondack State Park शामिल हुए Temmuz 2017
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@nazzobetweeting Hey, nice try making this argument the 50000th time
It still didn't work? The 50001th time it is then!
Still did not work? Don't think about actually changing your strategy or anything productive; surely the 50002th attempt will work
Still no? What if, 50003th time
No? Try t-
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well i’m sure republicans were going to do this too because both sides are the same
Democrats Deliver@DemzDeliver
🚨HUGE: Democrats pass amendment guaranteeing reproductive rights in Virginia. It will go before voters in November.
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Many democracies give some weight to ritual votes in some way, but we are really an extreme case. Both cambers of Congress and the presidency are heavily weighted toward rural votes. The senate in particular is kind of nuts. WY has 67x the weight of CA in the senate!
Even if we switched to a popular vote for president we would be outlier.
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There is a good civic argument for the "electoral college".
Almost all western democracies give more weight to rural voters, for the same reason as the original compromise when ratifying the Constitution. Without some counterbalance, rural areas simply become "colonies" of urban areas, with government serving the interests of urban areas over the wishes of rural areas.
In almost all western democracies, the person leading the country is not chosen by a popular vote, but by representatives. Those representatives are in turn chosen primarily as local representatives for individual communities.
The electoral college giving more voting power to some is not a violation of democratic principles, but the norm in western liberal democracies.
James Surowiecki@JamesSurowiecki
There's no good civic argument for the electoral college. It was arguably necessary to ensure the ratification of the Constitution, but it's an anti-democratic device that gives some American citizens far more voting power than others, based purely on where they live.
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@JonBrown388 @SaveTheLibs @Vin_Diagram @JamesSurowiecki “The founders” disagreed with each other vehemently on these topics.
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@SaveTheLibs @Vin_Diagram @GeodesicForce @JamesSurowiecki I disagree. The founders just didn't really believe in equality or democracy. That's why we have the electoral college and the Senate and why originally they only wanted white land owning men to have the right to vote.
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There's no good civic argument for the electoral college. It was arguably necessary to ensure the ratification of the Constitution, but it's an anti-democratic device that gives some American citizens far more voting power than others, based purely on where they live.
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@ArcanesValor @Steve_Sailer @JamesSurowiecki @ElizabethGMat Thanks! This (along with some similar studies) is actually pretty convincing. There are confounding factors like education that push the other way, but conservative social views are petty clearly correlated with marriage duration when controlling for everything else.
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Brad Wilcox@BradWilcoxIFS
"Spouses who don’t share a surname divorce at about a 50% higher rate than those who do share a surname, and their divorces come about 30% earlier in their marriages." Striking new divorce research from @lymanstoneky reinforces my earlier research on marital quality & naming:
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When you get married, if it’s a marriage that means more to both of you than a legal merger, there’s no “his” and “mine” anymore. I would tell my sons not to marry any woman to who wasn’t eager to take his name. NOT because I care in theory whether they take his or hers. But because in practice it’s a sign that she has a view of marriage that’s something other than the kind of oneness on a single team that you should have with a spouse.
Jill Filipovic@JillFilipovic
I truly hate this argument, which assumes men simply have names but women’s are all somehow men’s. By this logic, it’s not your dad’s name either - it’s his dad’s. And not his either - his dad’s. Your name is actually your name. And yes of course women should have the legal right to change their names in marriage but let’s please not lie to ourselves that marital name-changing isn’t incredibly sexist and a very literal manifestation of patriarchal power. So is patrilineal naming for children, btw. One answer to “but it’s my dad’s name” might be to stop giving children dad’s name for a while.
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@SaveTheLibs @JamesSurowiecki It was really more about logistics and practical election integrity than high principles.
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No, it’s literally the logic behind what our founders did, and it’s literally the tyranny we’d live under if we lost the electoral college.
Perhaps electors should be awarded more proportionally than most states’ winner-take-all systems, but we must remain vigilant against the oppressive nature of unfettered democracy.
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@ArcanesValor @Steve_Sailer @JamesSurowiecki @ElizabethGMat Just my general sense from experience. Not a scientific claim. If you have data I’m open!
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@Steve_Sailer @JamesSurowiecki @ElizabethGMat Education is strongly coordinated with marital success and liberal social attitudes. Not a slam dunk, but a decent baseline.
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@GeodesicForce @JamesSurowiecki @ElizabethGMat Seems like an interesting social science topic for study, so I don't expect too many social scientists to rush into studying it.
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@JamesSurowiecki @ElizabethGMat C'mon, let's be realistic about how sexual attraction works in practice.
A man who wants his wife to take his surname is a man.
A man who takes his wife's surname is either a social-climbing bounder like Barry Lyndon or a feminist dweeb. Neither marriage will last.
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@matt__okc @gaulicsmith @Meritocrating Every year? There is literally only one year you could even hypothetically blame on Trump.
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@spqr_sulla @Meritocrating They aren’t and no amount of lying is going to convince who aren’t mindless cult zombies.
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@Meritocrating Mass deportations are happening as we speak. I will grant you that no one voted for the Iran War. That being said, it cannot explain the dropoff in Zoomer support for Trump because that happened in March 2025, long before the Iran conflict began
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@fluorinespark @markburgess_osl Rainforest deforestation is driven by agriculture, not fuel production…
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@markburgess_osl "We invented a machine that carries you from point A to point B. We just need to feed it about 1 acre of Amazon rainforest a day. But is it safe? Oh my goodness, no, that machine kills over a million people a year worldwide." See how stupid you sound? Don't fucking drive then.
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@MarkusQ @SpaceKoala @Electrikhan_ I’m a big fan of you leaving our country and building your libertarian hellhole somewhere else.
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@SpaceKoala @Electrikhan_ See, you are doing it again.
To be clear, I'm a fan of good government, of civilization in general, and of this society in particular. But these are three different things, and conflating them is either bad logic or cheap rhetoric.
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Libertarians out here reinventing the Tragedy of the Commons from first principles.
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@mattyglesias It is of course true that Trump was banned from all forms of social media for a bit too, right? Accepting that there are some differences?
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I hear the people saying "how authoritarian can Orban have been if he lost an election?" but part of the answer is "he banned the opposition leading from appearing on television."
Jay in Kyiv@JayinKyiv
Long unofficially banned from appearing on state TV, incoming Hungarian Prime Minister Peter Magyar appears on a channel to which he was previously not allowed only to announce an end of "North Korean" style Orban media monopoly.
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@LLCodyJ @Century_Toad @ArmedEducator @fawwazanvilen Nation defense, police, fire, EMS, roads, courts/dispute resolution, air traffic control, efficient use natural resource, clean air, clean water….
This is an extremely well documented economic phenomenon. Completely economically illiterate to claim it’s not real.
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@Century_Toad @ArmedEducator @fawwazanvilen Can you name some market failures that aren't caused by the government?
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The chart notably has no answer (ie. a loop) for those things that are important & no one would be willing to pay unforced
Bojan Tunguz@tunguz
A very useful flowchart.
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@ArmedEducator @fawwazanvilen So we’re just going to pretend that tragedy of the commons / free rider problems aren’t real?
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@fawwazanvilen The answer is that you should reevaluate its importance. If people are unwilling to pay for that service, it’s a good signal that it may not be important.
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@KimAffirms @jdcmedlock You can make a lot of money and be bad at math.
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@GeodesicForce @jdcmedlock Most of the panicky misinformation about tax brackets I've seen comes from people in the higher brackets.
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We desperately need a national educational campaign on how marginal tax brackets work
lesbians for stewbrina@lezzymcgu1re
"This is so silly of her" no y'all its just legal tax evasion
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@Biz4Ever @sunrisemvmt Why would a Republican organization like sunrise protest Republicans?
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Do the Republicans next:
Nick LaLota 1st 515 Route 111, Suite 3B, Hauppauge, NY 11788
Andrew Garbarino 2nd 31 Oak Street, Suite 20, Patchogue, NY 11772
Nicole Malliotakis 11th 1698 Victory Blvd, Suite 2L, Staten Island, NY 10314
Mike Lawler 17th One Blue Hill Plaza, Third Floor, Pearl River, NY 10965
Elise Stefanik 21st 137 Margaret Street, Suite 100, Plattsburgh, NY 12901
Nick Langworthy 23rd 8201 Main Street, Suite 13, Williamsville, NY 14221
Claudia Tenney 24th 169 Niagara Street, Lockport, NY 14094
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BREAKING: Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand had 90+ NEW YORKERS ARRESTED demanding NO MORE WEAPONS for Israel.
Right now, U.S. weapons are being used to bomb south Lebanon, displace families in the West Bank, and continue the assault on Gaza. And still, our government wants to send more.
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@HistoryBoomer I’m not sure how these fellows get through a week without moving some toy soldiers on a map.
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Friend of mine is 55 years old, married and doesn’t want modern strategy board games.
His household income is roughly $63k/yearly and he's only one month behind on the rent.
He has 4 figures saved for retirement, and visits Coney Island multiple times a year.
I think people like this are going to regret not having modern strategy board games in their future.
One day, when he’s old, all he will have to look back on is a decent credit rating and a healthy retirement fund.
Instead of putting that money towards having modern strategy board games and building a closet full of cardboard and meeples, he’s choosing practicality.
This just seems so wasteful and boring to me.
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