Sock Puppets United
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@ReasonedCenter @ADigressions From your tweet it seems like you could use some training in the subject.
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You can’t concede an inch to these people. In fact the reason we’re in the mess we’re in is because we conceded far more than that already.
alex bronzini-vender@alexbronzini
The goalposts on viewpoint diversity are moving. Harvard says it’ll hire conservative faculty. “Okay, now we want our own department of anti-woke studies so we don’t feel unpopular.” Wait, what?
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The 3 people who read my tweets are about to get reallll tired of me saying "one of the most dangerous things about a guy like Trump is the reaction to a guy like Trump."
Look at this nonsense. "We must lie to public about our 'temporary' map of 'fairness' to save Democracy!"
Nancy Pelosi@TeamPelosi
Every day brings a new outrage from the occupant of the White House — and Virginia voters have a chance to fight back NOW at the ballot box. We don’t agonize — we organize. #VoteYESVirginia by April 21st!
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@Econ_Marshall @ADigressions The, uhm, academic discipline of seeing the world through a lens critical of the cisheteronormative patriarchy? The field of "study" is neither academic nor requires discipline. It requires certainty in pre- conceived conclusions.
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@ADigressions I think the evidence instead suggests conservatives aren't capable of carrying out rigorous scholarship up to the standards of that discipline.
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Sock Puppets United रीट्वीट किया
The bigger problem Democrats face is not really political -- at least, as far as I can tell, having interviewed many Democratic office-holders, office-seekers, donors, influencers, and rank and file voters across the country.
The Democrats' fundamental challenge is psychological, or philosophical. They do not believe that, to the extent that one calls oneself progressive, one can be a bad person. They believe that their progressivism inoculates them against hatred, backwardness and so forth. They imagine that, to the extent that one is in possession of unfortunate opinions, one has simply strayed from one's progressive bearings -- forgotten oneself.
They are wrong. They forget that antisemitism is not inherently political but psychological, and they forget that our contemporary political compartments are functions of the French Revolution, and they further forget that the storming of the Bastille comes long after the first dismal flickerings of the antisemitic impulse. In other words, they do not grasp that that impulse has nothing to do with one's political leanings, that it is much older, deeper, harder to extricate than that.
Once Democrats come to terms with this -- once they recognize that they may have better ideas than Republicans but are not at all morally superior to them -- they will be in a position to do something about the cancer consuming their party.
Josh Kraushaar@JoshKraushaar
NEW @J_Insider via @marcrod97: "Jewish Democratic disillusionment deepens over party’s direction" Former ADL chief Abe Foxman: "This is a calamity for the Democratic Party, if it will not be contained and stopped" jewishinsider.com/2026/04/jewish…
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@jdcmedlock Depends entirely on sector and position.
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"The most basic problem with the 'women are increasingly dominating the workplace' narrative is that they aren’t."
Mike Konczal@mtkonczal
A little late, but I dive into the wrong numbers here. Women's employment rates haven't increased since the 1990s, and even among young-college they still trail men. Industries have actually became more male within themselves; however female-dominated fields grew much faster. /1
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@robgoldbergo @TrueSlazac But the politics would change accordingly, so lbger term it's hard to say. We forget nothing is static. It may well be that you get a more evenly spread decision making class in time, as you suggest.
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@robgoldbergo @TrueSlazac Perhaps. More likely they would be small pockets of high volume districts. A national vote would shift DNC strategy even more toward urban get out the vote campaigns. The structural advantage of popular vote goes to the high population areas.
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Arguing about the electoral college is a baffling experience because none of the arguments people have against the popular vote is addressed by the electoral college, it's like they don't understand how their system works
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Correct that the GOP is not conservative. I correct that the DNC is trying to save the institutions.
George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸@gtconway3d
"This is not a conservative party. It's a nihilistic party ... This is mind-bending to some people, in that, people I think who are younger, may not understand it, but the conservative party today is the Democratic Party. Because as Democrats, we are trying to preserve, to conserve the things that we have created."
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Is Justice Jackson unaware the resf of us can read her decisions? If the future of American jurisprudence is led by the likes of her (and there is reason to believe it may well be) , the Constitution will be no more.
Eric Daugherty@EricLDaugh
🚨 JUST NOW: Liberal Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson is being CALLED OUT for BRAZENLY launching an attack on her fellow justices, going FULL anti-Trump "The Court's stay decisions can, at times, come across utterly irrational!!" 🤡 "We cannot expect the public to have faith in our judicial system if, without clear explanation, we consistently greenlight harmful acts that do real damage!" FOX LEGAL EDITOR: "The speech that she gave here, it took some serious chutzpah. She's only been on the court for a couple of years."' "She's the most junior member of the court, and yet she went to Yale and gave a speech where she says, basically, my colleagues are getting it all wrong, and I can be the catalyst for change!" "And you have to remember, Ketanji Brown Jackson has basically been a rubber stamp for the lower courts that are just blocking every single thing that the Trump administration is trying to do." @Kerri_Kupec
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Becoming Trump is not the moral high road. It's not even how you handle Trump. It is exactly the wrong way to go about this.
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Here is the former President advocating for the most grotesque act of gerrymandering in the recent history, and advocating the campaign lies supporting it.
Not great, Barack.
Barack Obama@BarackObama
Virginia, if you haven’t done it already, make a plan to vote YES on the redistricting referendum. You can vote early by April 18 or on Election Day, April 21. Find your polling place at IWillVote.com/VA.
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Sometimes the obvious consequences of our own actions come back to bite us. Too late to warn the GOP, but take heed, DNC midterm winners: your reaction to Trumpism will either save or destroy the nation. You're on the wrong path.
The Daily Beast@thedailybeast
CNN data expert Harry Enten has predicted a looming disaster for Trump’s GOP in November’s midterm elections. thedailybeast.com/cnn-data-guru-…
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@xwanyex The definition of "Democracy" now, as in the Founders day, is simply "that which advantages the outcome I prefer" - very rarely anything more or less.
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What percentage of electoral college opponents do you think would actually just prefer a single world government in which there were no borders and all the people on the planet got an equal say in every decision?
In a lot of these debates, there’s the narrow, immediate concern, but then there’s an underlying worldview that’s operative and controlling (and ultimately more interesting).
wanye@xwanyex
I just like the idea of states and state power and while it’s true that removing the electoral college wouldn’t have any of the big effects debunked in his tweet, it would just be another step toward federal government supremacy.
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@leftcoasther I think that Pride is still needed as long as laws like this are being passed
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“Your generation is so soft,” says the ones triggered by Pride Month enough to pass a law about it
Leading Report@LeadingReport
Tennessee Governor Bill Lee has signed a bill declaring June as ‘Nuclear Family Month’ and not ‘Pride Month.’
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I don't get the wierd obsession with "we labelled this past good thing as X, therefore everything we currently label X is good"
It's like Reaganomics for cultural do gooders.
🦅@JayZ0verrat3d
progressivism got him his white wife
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@TrueSlazac You are confusing, as most EC detractors do, systemic structure for vote distribution.
There is no system that won't result in some group of people being the functional decision makers. This is just how math works.
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"oh so you just want mob rule"
currently the electoral college is mob rule but for swing states
"oh so California and NY would decide everything"
they would have 18% of the power, right now the seven swing states with an equal population combined have 100% of the power
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Sock Puppets United रीट्वीट किया
there are in fact good civic arguments for the electoral college but they hinge on the fact that the united states is a union of states so things like the president (and in its original conception the senate) should be decided by state which, yes, may have different populations.
but today no one understands anything so everyone thinks it should just be popular national vote for everything.
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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@StatisticUrban You have confused "vote distribution" with "voting system." Generally this is done intentionally.
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This is an argument for the Senate, not the Electoral College.
The EC functionally makes the wishes of everyone but the swing states totally irrelevant. Are there rural voters in the *current* swing states? Sure. But theres also Atlanta, Philly, Vegas, Milwaukee, Detroit.
Robert Graham@robertgraham
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.
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@JamesSurowiecki *coughs in English law*
*coughs in anti mob rule*
*coughs in common sense*
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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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Your regular reminder that there are 50 elections for president and your vote counts just as much as anyone else's - in the election you are voting in.
Amstyour regular reminder that "Democracy" and "results I want" have been and are *always* the same.
anyone_want_chips@anyonewantchips
Hillary Clinton beat Trump by nearly 3M votes, but because of the fucking electoral college Trump won. Scrap the damn electoral college - because every vote should carry the same weight.
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