Yeah — the basic problem is that public preferences in America are just incoherent. If you want affordable, plentiful housing where everyone has a detached house with a lawn but can walk to a coffee shop five minutes away, you basically need large-scale spatial magic.

You really need something like proportional representation if you want to have a more reliable way to keep the Nazis from capturing one of the two parties in a FPTP country.

I think too that without an example like this it’s hard to motivate the changes to make backsliding harder next time. It’s one thing to theoretically know that a given reform would be better and another for it to actually get widespread support.

Bluesky: “I can’t wait for discovery!”

Ken: *eye begins to twitch more vigorously*

It does actually work a lot of the time.

Sexy “yes in my backyard”

Those are screenshots from Bloomberg terminals.

I just choose to believe that this is what Holden would have posted.

Absolutely. There’s another desperate struggle among people in the top couple percent of the income distribution to still view themselves as middle class instead of rich.

Still would require constitutional amendments, but marginalization due to coalition fracture seems the best way to handle the fact that 30% of the electorate seems to prefer fascism.

The best approach I’ve seen would be to try to shift to a parliamentary system:

- Allow House races to be based on proportional representation by state.
- Reduce the power and significance of the Senate.
- Allow a simple majority of the House to appoint a new President and VP.

I would love to see him in a lot of Turkish Airlines ads.

I’m not as familiar with it — would it mean they could start using the military to carry out arrests for deportations?

Cornado is no place for a mighty warrior!

If you’re going to say that, the least you can do is be logically consistent and oppose nominating him on the grounds that you might accidentally make Kavanaugh’s evil doppelgänger a Supreme Court justice.

If you’re going to say that, the least you can do is be logically consistent and oppose nominating him on the grounds that you might accidentally make Kavanaugh’s evil doppelgänger a Supreme Court justice.

Which deeply troubling conservative Internet subcultures are you oddly familiar with that have not yet prominently featured in the Trump administration?

It’s such a comparatively low level of risk too — the very small probability of being nuked in the US doesn’t compare with the certainty that Ukrainians face of cruise missile strikes or drone trainees murdering senior citizens.