I 100% disagree, but this is hilarious and I will definitely find myself repeating it. Good job.
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This is a good idea in theory, but it doesn't really hold up when you look at what we ask reps to do.
They have to maintain two households, basically, and have a lot of travel expenses.
State legislatures are a great sandbox to review how pay impacts the folks who can afford to hold seats. Turns out, the less they're paid, the more likely they are to be independently wealthy. You will never "show them what it's like" to be poor by paying them less - you'll just ensure that actual normal people can't afford to take the position.
I think it was Maine that had a fully volunteer legislature? And had the richest legislature ever.
Ultimately, this is another problem of America trying to retain an agricultural mindset (part time legislature so that everyone could go home to farm), despite the world having changed.
This. They mean "find one of us to start a family of you want us to be friendly."
This. Cryptofascism relies on being able to scream, "It was just a joke / I didn't know!"
Mistakes can happen and you might accidentally engage in a dog whistle as a normal person.
A dozen mistakes all pointing to the exact same thing are unlikely.
And to be fair, it could be one person at the top putting all these wink wink indicators in, and the majority involved might just be normal folks.
I still won't be buying the game.
Lol what?
There are no empty spots for them to claim, and I highly doubt you can draw a line anywhere that would work. They tried that with India/Pakistan and it was an absolute cluster.
This isn't like the civil war where it was regional. This is a lifestyle divide.
I guess my point is that I don't trust half of our establishment to use such an ability at all, even if it would be valid/legal/morally correct to do so, and the other half will use it to punish their opponents regardless of reality.
There shouldn't be capital crimes at all, because the people deciding who committed a capital crime and should die are the ones who shoot people in the wrong house or speed drunk through red lights and blame the victims.
You need to stop giving regressives the benefit of the doubt. They will couch their rhetoric in as much plausible deniability as you're willing to extend them, exactly so that you'll go into the comments and carry water for them.
You and I both know beyond a shadow of a doubt that this will be prime fodder for AM talk radio, pulpits, and other bastions of the culture war. They are out there right now saying, "This is sad, but the boy [sic] was confused and was groomed by society." Framing it as grooming, dead naming, etc. is all a way for them to muddy the waters and poison the well. If it isn't blood libel, it's a single step away. Here's one example, I am sure you can find more if you look: https://twitter.com/Jermont_II
It was their children, engaging in terrorism they support (this is the natural consequence of the rhetoric they spew against LGBTQ+ people), against someone they consider subhuman.
If they haven't expressed their displeasure yet yet, it's because they're waiting for Fox to tell them which spin it needs to be "acceptable."
Remember Kyle Rittenhouse? The judge literally posed for pictures with him, and they turned him into a media darling and will probably run him for office if he can stay relevant and out of jail for a few more years.
They become the darling of regressive media. Even if that doesn't happen for them, they get to feel like an underground hero that is being repressed.
These people have literally built persecution fantasies into a religion.
As with all things regressive, their whole truck is to treat their own viewpoint as a default state, and then try to force everyone else to argue around it, which allows them to steer the discussion and eventual outcome.
When they're headed off on one avenue they pivot, but this is the consistent direction of almost all regressive talking points.
If they advocate attacking a black person, they know they'll get immediate blowback.
Attacking the "race traitor" is a level of obfuscation. There are more people who believe that races shouldn't mix than believe that people of color should be targeted directly.
It's like water - they're going to find the path of least resistance and pick up as many as they can along the way.