Beaver

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago

It only takes one faithless elector to completely overturn the result of a 270-268 election!

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It would be incredibly funny if the right-wing immigration into Texas and Florida shifted the electoral college towards Democrat's favor.

Other funny possibilities: Harris wins two turns, Thomas, Alito and Roberts retire or die from the supreme court, and the Democrats secure a durable supermajority on the court. Republicans proceed to have a meltdown about how we need to reform all these shitty, undemocratic systems. Democrats already worship institutions, so it's easy to imagine Lin Manuel Miranda writing bars about the wisdom of the founding fathers.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Harris gets to 270, but then Nebraska changes the rules to after the election to change the electoral college allotment to winner takes all, throwing the election to a Republican controlled House of Representatives. Even more chaotic if the Supreme Court intervenes to allow it.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 week ago

This is why there's so much exuberance on the stock market stonks-up

Porky sleeps soundly knowing that any potential leadership of the US is completely captured by the interests of capital.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

If there is one thing that the USA is about, it is not giving a shit about what the English think.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

matt this shit's gonna give Matt another stroke

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It's not Nazi heraldry unless it comes from the National Socialist region of Bavaria!

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Especially when talking about air pollution, the literal textbook case of negative externalities. Just throwing bad sounding terms at things you don't like.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Controversial statement: Noon on the clock should correspond to solar noon.

That also means not having timezones that are completely out of whack with solar time.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

I don't like spooky movies, I get freaked out too easily.

...but The Thing is so good.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

This is flippant of me, but I think it's obvious that Libertarianism is just what happens when you would otherwise arrive Liberalism or Anarchism, but don't do the homework.

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