netstack
Texas is freedom land
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netstack
Texas is freedom land
18hr ago
future designated tops
I see that your pure and elegant category immediately starts getting caveats. This is because the category is bad.
Are you sure you aren’t just working through some mommy issues?
netstack
Texas is freedom land
18hr ago
@ZorbaTHut I assume this is a consequence of your recent robot changes.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
1d ago
Less of this, please.
Scare quotes and straw men do not make for a compelling argument.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
1d ago
I was a bit confused too, but they’re pointing out that 59% is more partisan than gun control.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
1d ago
Of course not.
I still wanted to know how it worked in his model.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
1d ago
Oh my god.
Has SS managed to earn a set of training wheels?
netstack
Texas is freedom land
1d ago
I’ve only pointed it out in response to people insisting otherwise, which happens more often than I’d expect.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
2d ago
If money is doing most or all of the work, then it can be done without Epstein, can’t it?
wouldn't prevent them from also using money
Oh, so it’s unfalsifiable, too.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
2d ago
I’m pretty sure a couple of Roman wars were settled this way.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
2d ago
Did…did you read the article?
But also, AIPAC fights hard. If some random Congressman is anti-Israel, AIPAC will swoop down on their race in Middle Of Nowhere, Missouri and pour $10 million into electing their opponent. By now everyone knows this, and the mere threat of AIPAC action is enough to keep politicians in line.
Other people can try the same playbook. Crypto billionaires just did. I don’t have any reason to believe they have unusual skill at “shady tactics.”
netstack
Texas is freedom land
2d ago
In my personal opinion, I think that’s stupid. If you could wave some Polaroids around and coerce Congress, why would you bother spending all the money?
Better yet. Scott gave an example of AIPAC deploying its money to win an election. Can you give me one where they did the same with their magical kid-diddling blackmail?
But I think we’ve had this argument before.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
3d ago
The Sergeant at Arms is badly in need of an update to modern law-enforcement standards, RoboCop style.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
3d ago
I’m confused about the stay on Callais v. Landry. It was 6-3, with Jackson pointing out that they’ve previously allowed redistricting with less lead time. Why did the rest of the court want a stay? Was it going to get mooted if the legislature workshopped an alternative to their 2024 map?
netstack
Texas is freedom land
3d ago
Nnnnnnno?
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In Robinson v. Ardoine, a court convinced the state that their 2022 map was going to be thrown out for racial gerrymandering. Given its tortured outlines, that was probably correct.
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Callais v. Landry challenged the subsequent 2024 map for racial gerrymandering. Given the statements made in the legislature, again, this was probably correct. A district court thought so, too, and threw it out…
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…until the Supreme Court stayed it 6-3. I don’t understand the politics here. Maybe the conservatives didn’t want it to get mooted?
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Now the SC is actually hearing it.
I wouldn’t describe any of those in your terms.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
3d ago
netstack
Texas is freedom land
4d ago
I’d consider myself financially literate, but I can’t tell what the hell you’re talking about.
The goal of housing policy should be something like “getting more citizens into their own housing.” I don’t see how you’d decouple that from real estate.
Would inflicting “swaptions” on the average family of four actually do anything to achieve that kind of goal?
netstack
Texas is freedom land
4d ago
Okay, but there is something in the Constitution which says black people deserve representation. That keeps the VRA constitutional even if subsequent tests were wrong. You’re not going to get a Dobbs-level reversal.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
4d ago
I more or less agree with those points.
I wanted to emphasize that the VRA has a clear basis in the 15th. Even if that’s the motte to a “special representation” bailey, it is enough to keep the Act constitutional. If there’s a reversal, it’s going to be limited to the subsequent layers of tests.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
4d ago
What’s wrong with the 15th Amendment? It specifically mentions race.
I suppose you could argue that it only says “vote” and that “votes” don’t have to mean “representation.” I’d say that’s splitting hairs. The postwar amendments were designed to secure the rights of freed slaves. Then they got a hundred years of stress tests by motivated Southerners. You’re not going to discover some fresh loophole.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
4d ago
I’m saying if he really cared about humiliating them he wouldn’t bother “dangling” aid.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
4d ago
No.
Trump doesn’t actually play 5D chess. I don’t see any reason he’d set up a gambit like that. No, trickling aid to Ukraine lets him score some points without actually committing much materiel.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
4d ago
The court didn’t find him guilty because he didn’t trust the police. They found him guilty because enacting a coverup makes more sense from a guilty party than an innocent one.
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