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"immediately remove from office any people that profess their adherence to a foreign power over their actual constituents and this Constitution" really should've been an obvious rule to put in there, and yet, they missed it.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
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this is apparently an inexperienced Trump pick in Michael Whatley




as a resident of north carolina, my response upon hearing his name was "literally who?"


No debate, everything seemed to be attack ads on Cooper's record on releasing criminals, hardly anything positive anywhere. Cooper of course has decades of name recognition to build on, absolute shoe-in.




And then people can joke about how once Mississippi got a little educated they stopped being red.




oh god the idiots will be insufferable.




Pick another protein? I'd rather pick another senator" is the best political ad of the year.




ok yeah that was good.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of November 2, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Voters are very clear that they don't like trans people participating in their preferred sports, but in general they actually trust Democrats more on the overall topic!




Voters are inconsistent and nonsensical is hardly news.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
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The public's mood will almost certainly be let's just move on and forget the last 4 years ever happened.




it's Trump, not something easy to forget like a year of suspended civil rights and riots and extreme progressive racism.


a significant subset of the public and a massive supermajority of content creators will want to see him behind bars.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
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Does it suit the Democrats to give him the boot, though?




they've been trying for 10 years and to backtrack now for political shitbag gamesmanship reasons might be its own failure mode according to their supporters.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
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polls are braindead and useless but yeah overindexing here is never a good idea.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
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i would read a whole book about trump's quirky language. it's such a funny signoff.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
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made me slightly more optimistic about direct democracy initiatives, which feels like a dangerous mood. excellent way for the representatives to avoid having to take an actual stand, kind of like with making abortion a state ballot issue too.


i'm sure Colorado's state government will find a way to mess it up and commit a bunch of bigotry in the process.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
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not sure how you shake off the abortion albatross though




you can get away with leaving abortion to the states and doing some mealymouthed "moderation" on it.


immigration's tougher. good luck getting bleeding hearts to stop that, short of the meme about providing special visas to huge numbers of Latinas and pretty East Asians.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of November 2, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
i think they are, like most people, constitutionally incapable of seeing the logs in their own eyes, and see no possible downsides to what they see as progress.


if such a downside becomes apparent (like BLM's reversal on bodycams), suddenly they've always been at war with Eastasia.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of November 2, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


there is no logical way to allocate limited national campaign funds to candidates, and funds would be wasted on helping someone win who didn't need any extra advertising.




This ignores that parties aren't perfectly logical and the Iron Law of Bureaucracies.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of November 2, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
the whole 2020/21 debacle driving every left-of-center into completely batshit racism means that anyone to the right of AOC quite reasonably distrusts the "but we were all crazy, shouldn't you just forget?" bullshit that they all try to pull.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of November 2, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


is a mindset that modern western nations have no desire to go back to.




and that's why they won't survive the next 50 years.


i'm still relatively optimistic about the US but Europe as Europe has existed for 1000 or 1500 years has been dying for 80 years now, and has seemingly no interest in recovering.


fascinating lesson for future civilizations. tl;dw "don't half-ass dominance."


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of November 2, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


My guess is he’s that type that still has a big chip on his shoulder




He's 5'6 and did research about Arab women will have lower birthweight babies with non-Arab fathers.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
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I got what you meant, I probably didn't make that clear enough, sorry. Like a siloed thread and an observer's thread.


The catch is the rest of the time! Like- at the risk of consensus building, take blank slate ideology as quite unpopular here.


The kind of person that earnestly believes and wants to defend that is unlikely to participate long enough to even be asked to do a debate thread. They're not going to want to stick around long enough to be treated like regular people, because they'll get dogpiled when they bring up the topic of disagreement. Blank slate people have historically showed up briefly and either nope out because they dislike too many people and don't want to deal, or they flame out and get banned because they start insulting everyone.


I can imagine a more complex system where people could submit their controversial positions privately, and rarely talk about them (avoiding dogpiles), and occasionally one of the mods picks a pair of controversies to do the 1v1?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
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Moderation that would ban Darwin is also going to ban the sleazy tacticians, bad faith propositions, and devil's advocates for your side.




Yes.Chad.


But I understand why the mods don't want to take on that responsibility and annoyance.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
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yeah pretty much.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
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he played devil's advocate




sure jan. he was just a devil.


A policy that ultimately made all these forums worse for anyone vaguely on his side, because they were outnumbered and the perception that Darwin got extreme leeway poisoned the well against them; it generated so much guilt-by-association because he was prolific and hated. "Being a baity piece of shit but technically if you squint it's not personal insults" wins the Battle For Free Speech but loses the War For An Interesting Community. "Be creative with your insults" is a bad compromise but maybe an inevitable one given the higher-priority principles at play.


I don't have a solution here, and the hour is too late anyways. So it goes. Sic transit gloria interrete.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
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Efforts that look like affirmative action probably won't be popular with existing users, and probably won't be popular with the mods since it would create more work and they've been accused of AA for protected posters well before we moved here (perhaps most infamously, Darwin).


Speaking of, contrarians in these spaces tend to be... abrasive. Forcing people to not respond to them does not a good situation make.


For those that aren't abrasive, what's the point? Would it be fun to be a polite token advocate, where people are restricted in replying to you, where you know they can't reply because your position is unpopular? Or would you rather go spend time where everyone likes you and agrees with you?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
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community has completely changed too.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 26, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
that only applies to one particularly limited subset of the population. virtually meaningless to women directly, at least in Western countries.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 26, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


(1) are generally pursued by the Republicans; and (2) are detrimental to Non-European immigrants?




given the Count, restricting H1Bs?


basically irrelevant to latinos though.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 26, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


let teachers and social workers anonymously blacklist specific children they think shouldn't be trusted with a gun when they grow up.




this would put an interesting twist on Oregon's equity problem.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 19, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


So do the people of Ohio




not, infamously, the people of virginia


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 12, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
it wasn't reclaimed to nearly the same extent as slut, i agree, but there are some subcultures where it's more acceptable, like Aella et al or The Misbehavin' Maidens using it in lyrics where it's at most playfully offensive (since they're singing about each other or at least each other's personas).