During the first year of Obama’s first term, with the push for the ACA, conservative pundit Bill Kristol got trapped by Jon Stewart into admitting the US government can run a first class health care program, but only for the soldiers because the rest of the public doesn’t deserve it.
“James Ryan is enormous” … 😅 well he’s not wrong!
Ireland finally found some fire!
looks gorgeous!
When he does eventually close off the wait list, I hope he does it based on inventory so he can say that if you’re on the list already you will get your chance.
Trump also shit his pants on love TV yesterday.
… what now?
Andiamo azzurri!
It’s even crazier than that. If I remember right, every single law is a change to the Texas constitution.
No, changes to the state constitution have to pass a 2/3 vote in the state house and senate and then become a ballot measure for the public to vote on. We have a ridiculous number of incredibly specific things in it, though, so we tend to have like a dozen amendments to vote on every time. But we also have a regular statutory code that is altered by regular bills passing the legislature and gubernatorial signature.
Mierdas Touch
I already stated that unconditional support for Democratic nominees is not my position. I also already stated the circumstances under which I believe your vote can be effective when cast for a third party. I also never said to not vote based on your values and beliefs. I said that if you choose to not vote against the person who is least aligned with your values and beliefs, you’re making it easier for them to win. The winner of the election will be one of the candidates on the ballot, whether they’ve earned your individual vote or not. And it’s your only opportunity to pick which one of them it will be. Neither will align perfectly with your values and beliefs unless you yourself are running. Even with ranked choice voting. So you may as well take that opportunity to get as close to your values and beliefs as is possible given the choices.
Since you brought this up specifically, did a “no genocide” candidate win? Was there a “no genocide” candidate for president on the ballot in enough states to even be mathematically capable of winning enough EC votes? Not even likely to win but just mathematically able to? Did you then believe that Trump, who Netanyahu supported, would be better than Kamala on that issue? If you thought that were indistinguishable, were there any other issues besides that which mattered to you, for which there was a measurable difference between the Democratic and Republican candidates.
If you had an ounce of spine, then you would demand RCV, then you would say that you should only vote for those candidates who support it.
I have the spine to use my voice to strive for better rather than to silence myself in wait for perfect, because if I’m not helping to make the choice of who is in power, someone else will make it for me.
If they do away with primaries we can discuss what to do at that time, but they haven’t at this time and they’ve actually reduced the power of super delegates since 2016 (before the 2018 primaries they made it so super delegates don’t even get a vote at the convention unless the pledged delegates can’t elect a nominee in the initial round).
I never said to unconditionally vote for the Democratic candidates to begin with so the rest of your response to this imagined position is moot.
I’m advocating for maximizing the power of your vote in the system we currently have. If you’re living in a district in a state with any kind of ranked choice voting, absolutely vote third party if that’s where your alignment falls. Otherwise you need to accept that the winner will be either the Democratic or Republican nominee so your chance to influence that is in either of those primaries and not voting for one of them in the general means the one with whom you least align has one fewer votes to overcome to win. For your one vote against them, they need two votes to get the lead.
Third parties just aren’t viable in districts without ranked choice, so to get ranked choice we the voters need to put candidates who support election reform in power thru the major party primaries. Which is exactly what I’m advocating for.
Third parties haven’t grown, though. Only 3 were on the ballot in more than 10 states in 2024, and none were all 51 states. Over 99% of state and federal legislative seats are held be either Democratic or Republican nominee. Zero current governors, with only 4 in total in the last 25 years. Not a single electoral college vote since 1968, and Perot received 18.9% of the national popular vote in 1992. Current third party candidates and voters should generally be trying to shift the Democratic party via the primaries instead, due to the stacked ballot access in most states.
Agree on the calendar. In particular would like to find one with map integration.
good managers don’t care.
Looks great! I saw some of your progress shots on Pixelfed, nice to see it here too!
Well, she does have the high ground …
But he was successful at inciting a violent insurrection.
That can happen in privately run care, too. The point was more that a then-leading conservative admitted he doesn’t actually believe that socialized health care can be of good quality, but the common people just don’t deserve to have access to it.