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  • history rhymes, or something

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  • Let's see...

    • Nazism
    • McCarthyism
    • Vietnam War
    • Racial Injustice
    • South African Apartheid
    • Occupy Wall Street
    • Gaza Genocide
    • etc.

    I am curious. Has there ever been a wide-scale student protest movement that WASN'T unequivocally vindicated by history?

  • AOC condemns Chuck Schumer for caving to Republicans on funding bill

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  • Yes, I agree, any kind of ranked choice voting system would help to end the two-party duopoly. If you are lucky enough to have your state consider a ballot measure to introduce such a system, do everything in your power to help it pass.

    Unfortunately, it will not be easy; for obvious reasons, there are many powerful political forces opposing such reform. Here is a page showing how well such measures have done in recent elections: https://ballotpedia.org/History_of_ranked-choice_voting_(RCV)_ballot_measures

    By the way, if you liked the CGP Grey Animal Kingdom video, it continues as a short series: https://www.cgpgrey.com/politics-in-the-animal-kingdom/

  • AOC condemns Chuck Schumer for caving to Republicans on funding bill

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  • You're not arguing against Democrats, you are arguing against basic math. Here is a primer for why going third party is a complete non-starter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7tWHJfhiyo

    The way forward is to transform the Democratic party from the inside out. It's not impossible, Trump did it to the entire Republican party in the span of less than a decade. Vote in PRIMARY elections.

  • Rahm Emanuel Is Gearing Up to Run for President

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  • Trump. Who won specifically because of people who decided to ineffectively vote for letters other than D.

  • AOC condemns Chuck Schumer for caving to Republicans on funding bill

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  • Primary Schumer, of course, but his term is up in 2028. AOC herself might be more focused on a separate race that particular year.

  • Rahm Emanuel Is Gearing Up to Run for President

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  • The framing isn't false. A two-party duopoly is a simple, straightforward, and inevitable consequence of a first-past-the-post plurality voting system.

    The other letters are not an option. Voting for any other letter just helps the party you hate the most to win. Yes, it fucking sucks.

  • Mark Carney to replace Justin Trudeau as the next prime minister of Canada

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  • If your rents doubled while your population increase was only 4%, it sounds like immigration wasn't the issue, now was it?

    Blaming poor people for the housing bubble is like blaming a fish for the rain. Look up.

  • Pete Hegseth tells NATO that a return to Ukraine's 2014 borders is 'unrealistic'

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  • Oh great, another Putinbot spouting reams of misinformation.

    Trying to clean up the whole mess from your firehose of bullshit is a fool's errand, but here are a couple counterpoints for the benefit of anyone not already familiar with the relevant history:

    1. The war in Ukraine was not "civil." It was being waged by Russian troops acting as "separatists," a disguise so thin that the only ones to buy it were on Russian state TV.
    2. Every single escalation in the conflict was by Russia, ever since the hostile takeover of Crimea.
    3. The military strength of Russia compared to NATO is so ridiculously lopsided that the only way Russia could possibly "win" is if they're able to sabotage NATO from the inside, for instance by manipulating foreign elections enough to put a Russian puppet in charge.

  • Google fixes flaw that could unmask YouTube users' email addresses

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  • Leaking the email of any YouTube user for $10,000.

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  • I'll leak the email address of my YouTube user account for the bargain price of just $9,999

  • Pete Hegseth tells NATO that a return to Ukraine's 2014 borders is 'unrealistic'

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  • "Putin's puppet administration says NATO should cede everything to Putin, news at 11."

  • Google officially changes the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America on Maps

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  • The "big issue" with this it that it is being done entirely to appease the vain whims of an egocentric wannabe dictator, and for no other reason.

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  • Trump pardons Ross Ulbricht, founder of Silk Road drug marketplace

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  • Side note: does he get his bitcoin wallet back?

    Dude was deep into Bitcoin back when it was less than a dollar. If he diversified and stashed just a fraction of his holdings, he might now be one of the richest people on the planet.

    Who says crime doesn't pay? :/

  • Apple, Costco stand behind DEI programs

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  • DEI is basically "you know that thing we do where we only hire from the old boys club at our favorite ivy league university? Let's hold off on that."

    Companies benefit from DEI policies because they expand their hiring pool, so the company ends up with better talent. They're still aiming to hire the best out of that pool, of course. Companies are motivated by profit, not by reparations.

    I know its effect won’t be more equality.

    Its effect will be more equality. Unfortunately that is not a good thing for the old boys club, which is what motivates the FUD and disinformation you've heard regarding DEI as a buzzword.

  • Trump says DoJ will ‘vigorously’ pursue death penalty after Biden commutations

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  • No platform whatsoever. Literally his only game plan is to antagonize every single policy the Democrats make the world a tiny bit better with.

    If Biden made a PSA about how playing Russian roulette is bad, we'd get President-elect Vance tomorrow. And given how blindly these lemmings follow, perhaps President-elect Johnson the day after that, etc.

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  • 20 years ago I would have said "what's that, an egg roll or something?"

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    The diplomatic crisis between Israel and Ireland

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  • More of a diplomatic crisis between Israel and the entire rest of world, really.

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    London Bridge

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  • We are all normal people and realize that blowing up a bridge with cars or people on it is not allowed

    This is the internet. Everyone is here, even the not-normal people. Even the not-normal people inclined to actually blow up bridges, who will interpret your "cars kill hundreds of people" statement as some kind of twisted casus belli. Everyone is here, even the carbrains looking for reasons to discredit urbanists.

    I don't think posting "art" like this is constructive, to put it mildly.