@atroll12345 @AndyTraenkner @ELuttwak Why do you waste our time with rehashed insults that are so fucking boring? Have you got nothing more interesting to say?
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@AndyTraenkner @ELuttwak Another short-sighted retard from California the place full of libtards with TDS. Be sure to vote for your master Newscum.
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Trump has many defects but he is lucky: now he is coming out the winner from a messy war with Iran ultimately made necessary by Obama's over-generous nuclear deal, whose covert purposes included side-lining Israel and Saudi Arabia. The Euro refusal to help was a bad mistake
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@instapundit Your use of the word "literally" is a tell that you may be too blithely self-confident about a subject you are likely completely ignorant on to argue with about this.
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Literally no one is too dumb for gender studies.
Steve McGuire@sfmcguire79
Conservatives are just too dumb to do gender studies. Why didn’t I think of that?
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@kontos_michael @carney The president keeps saying he speaks for the people. I guess you disagree.
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@carney Furthermore we are a republic which is meant to temper public opinion . The senate was meant to meant the saucer that cools the hot tea or the House of Representatives .
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The first amendment is anti-democratic in the same way: a structural restraint on majority rule.
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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@john23089884 @carney Right, except that the Founders also thought slavery was okay and that women should not vote, and that only electors should be able to vote for president, etc. etc. But it sounds like you think we have too many people being permitted to vote now.
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@carney By your logic, why not institute electoral colleges at the state level too, to prevent majorities from oppressing majorities within states?
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@wolftivy That's the opposite of the truth. It would be far more difficult to swing a national popular vote through fraud than in a state, where far more often the margin might be narrow enough that fraud could work.
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Actually the argument for the electoral college is that it puts a hard limit on the gains from election fraud. One state can pump their "popular vote" numbers way up with fraud, but can only affect their own electors.
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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@FacultyLeaks The right doesn't see liberalism or progressivism as competing viewpoints to be debated. They see them as moral failings, and speak of those who hold them as infections to be rooted out.
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The left doesn't see conservatism as a competing viewpoint to be debated. They see it as a moral failing to be quarantined. Harvard's gesture toward viewpoint diversity isn't a concession — it's a threat. That's not academic disagreement. That's a closed system defending itself.
Brandon Warmke@BrandonWarmke
I often say that many left-wing faculty see academia as their rightful domain and that even an inch of incursion from the "right" is illegitimate and must be crushed, even as they thoroughly politicize entire disciplines, but it's nice to have the view so explicitly stated.
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@Grunt2A Counterpoint: You would have preferred not to have expanded the franchise at any point in US history.
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Alow me to simplify why a national popular vote for the President is a bad idea and why the Electoral College is a feature, not a bug.
The Electoral College actively prevents us from being a true democracy because true democracies are really bad ideas and allow a low information electorate to simple take what it wants from anyone else. Property rights cease to exist in a true democracy. So do civil rights, minority rights, or any other rights that 50.1% of the people who show up to vote don't want you to have anymore.
The country would be run by New York, LA, Chicago, and Dallas. No one's opinions outside of those cities would matter.
By having the electoral system it forces Presidential candidates to cater to all 50 states, not just the most populated cities. This ensures that a farmer's rights in Bismark, North Dakota are as important as a homeless man's in New York City, thus making sure the entire nation is represented by the Executive Branch equally.
Remember in The Hunger Games where the people of the outlying cities existed only to feed and entertain the residents of the central city under threat of death?
That is what not having an electoral college would cause in the United States.
Additionally, removing it would require a Constitutional Amendment. And because it would require a Constitutional Amendment anything that attempts to change the process without an Amendment is an end run around the Constitution and is invalid on its face per Marbury v Madison.
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@neontaster @John_Lawlz @Sudsiii And a lot of people from red states, encouraged by Republicans who unlike Democrats love to divide us and who use the exact phrase, define the rest of as not being the "real America."
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@John_Lawlz @Sudsiii This depends on whether you view the US as one big entity or as a union of entities. Ironically, a lot of people who want our voting system to obey the former view people from red states as fully not their fellow countrymen.
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@neontaster @Sudsiii Trump won the national popular vote, running on exactly the policy against immigrants you favor.
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The best practical illustration of this argument was how New York and Chicago's mayors turned on a dime once immigrants from the border started getting bused to their cities. Different places in this country bear the brunt of certain policies more than other places, and their interest would be totally drowned out in a national popular vote system. Again - you might not agree, but that is the argument.
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@neontaster How can a popular vote in which everyone's vote counts the same be controlled by "a handful of apartment building residents"? That is nonsensical.
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@hpmcd1 During the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Piker, in partnership with CARE, raised over $200,000 for Ukrainian relief funds while playing Elden Ring, with an average of over 70,000 people watching his coverage of the conflict.
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Between Hasan and Fuentes/Tucker, we're watching the emergence of a new Podcast Consensus:
- Russia and China are good
- America is evil
- Islam is good
- Israel runs America
What separates the "left" from the "right" is, as far as I can tell, how you feel about trans people
The Nation@thenation
At Yale, Hasan Piker quoted Lenin. He quoted Mao. He said Benjamin Netanyahu was the real American president. Then he called the fall of the Soviet Union one of the greatest catastrophes of the twentieth century. bit.ly/4vylh6X
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Take a look at this video. It's a lot. @propublica
A Protester Threw a Snowball. Federal Agents Responded With Tear Gas and Pepper Balls. — ProPublica propublica.org/article/caught…
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@JamesWHankins1 As well as monastics in Monte Cassino, St. Gallen, Lindisfarne, etc., and if one counts Justinian's legal code, Byzantium too, no?
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It was preserved by the Carolingians, considered barbarians by the Greeks.
Antigone Journal@AntigoneJournal
It's truly amazing what can happen to you if you begin with the conclusion you want to believe in and blind yourself to the titanic amount of evidence to the contrary. Today's case in point: someone who believes that *Latin* literature was preserved primarily by Byzantine Greeks:
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@lalalainsd @mike_frags Lisa, there were two recounts of Georgia's votes (by the Republican Secretary of State), one by hand, the other by machine. Trump lost both.
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The election was stolen, but that is beside the point. They recounted ballots in Florida for Gore; in fact, they hand-counted them. For some reason, they would not do the same for Trump in Georgia. No one got disbarred or went to jail for questioning the results in Florida. That was the difference because a red state acted honorably and satisfied Gore. I thought the whole thing from the outside seemed to be done honorably.
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Yes, Al Gore eventually ended his efforts to steal the 2000 election when they were no longer tenable. The idea that Democrats therefore conceded the legitimacy of the 2000 election, however, is a ridiculous post-Trump retconning. Miguel Estrada may have thoughts about it.
Robert A. George@RobGeorge
This point does not get emphasized enough: Gore not only fully conceded after the Supreme Court ruled, but as the sitting vice president, he oversaw the electoral college vote AND shut down any statements from Democrats wanting to contest Florida. In that regard, Mike Pence followed in Gore‘s footsteps. Meanwhile, Pence‘s boss Donald Trump twisted his arm to overturn the electoral college — and encouraged a riot to upend the congressional vote. So, points to Gore, points to Pence, ashes on the head of Donald Trump.
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@mike_frags When the Supreme Court rules 5-4 along partisan lines to peremptorily stop a recount in progress, with the majority saying their ruling is valid only for this particular case, it is impossible to avoid questioning the legitimacy of the result.
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@paleonormie @MonicaBaumann California is 10% of the total vote. Also, Trump won the national popular vote in 2024, and there's no reason to think the R candidates in future elections couldn't win. Unless of course they have shitty candidates and shitty policies.
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@MonicaBaumann the alternative is California voter supremacy where the corruption is even worse. Doesn't sound like an improvement to me
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@paleonormie The EC does not favor small states. It favors swing states. Big difference.
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@Marxon1134x The 3/5 compromise was not "away from the electoral college". It was part of the overall deal. 2 out of the top 4 states with illegal immigrants are Texas and Florida. But it seems you want to go back to the original EC without you or me having any right to vote.
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@LarryRothfield 3/5ths compromise was a distinct part away from the electoral college and was remedied by emancipation.
Saying this also means you have to acknowledge that democrats stuffing their cities with illegal migrants who can't vote, is the same immoral rigging of the system.
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The electoral college literally exists to prevent tyranny of the masses.
The irony that the left actually WANTS to disenfranchise the minorities the moment they think differently.
"Beverly Hills has more people so their lawns deserve the water more than the farms" level logic.
Micah@micah_erfan
🚨 Virginia has joined the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact. This brings America one step closer to a national popular vote for President.
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@vjoshuaadams You do know that Trump slapped an 8% endowment tax on Harvard and other based on per-tuition-paying-student endowment, right?
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I look forward to them including viewpoints that propose redistributing the $60 billion endowment
The Harvard Crimson@thecrimson
SCOOP: Harvard is quietly asking donors for $10 million gifts to establish endowed professorships in a bid to reshape faculty under the banner of “viewpoint diversity,” according to two people familiar. @HugoChiassonn and @EliseSpenner report. thecrimson.com/article/2026/4…
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