[–] 1 point 1 hour ago

These are the types of Karens that will never let their butthurt go. They were upset about Covid, about masks, about donnie's precious market being impacted by a pandemic, about social distancing, about schools being closed, about vaccines, about Fauci, and the cherry on top for the insult?

Biden beat their stupid clown. And on top of all the Qanon bullshit and the Covid bullshit and mask denialism and vaccine denialism and Karening the fuck out all during the pandemic, they had to concoct a bunch of bullshit to explain how their party's massive failure led to their failure in the election. And then their J6 terrorism and coup attempt failed.

And they are so very salty about it.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 hour ago

    It is absolutely absurd that people in Wyoming get 2 Senators, while California has the same.

    California has ~66x more people in it.

    Yes, I realize back in colonial times, the idea of having a state and its interests considered as "equal" with each other was a thing, but this is a sadly dated notion. Back in those times, they were against the idea of parties, too, but we see how that's gone. Now we have a bunch of red states with hardly any people in it overpowering the representation of huge populations in states like California in a body like the Senate.

    If you consider the cluster of mostly flyover areas having almost no one in them, but huge swathes of land and carved up into several states, they have 18 Senators to California's two. If you add up all the people in: Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho and Utah...it's ~18 million, which is still less than half of the population of California, which is ~39 million.

    Somewhere there needs to be some kind of notion of rebalancing things and bringing some kind of sanity to the situation. I don't know the best answer, and I definitely don't think abolishing the Senate is the answer, but as it stands, it is completely ridiculous. Maybe for every X million you get an extra Senator, say something like every 5 million.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 hours ago

    I would hope most states would do just that combined with huge period of time to drop it off. Colorado typically has about 4 weeks to do so, IIRC (and if the stupid conservative monkeys have not managed to fuck anything up about our system).

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