You mean by granting it the most autonomy out of all the states when we made them into a state? They even get to set their own importation laws to maintain their ecosystem.

The annexation was a shit deal but statehood gave them more rights than most explicitly designated ethnic autonomous zones around the world have today.

Again, just gonna ignore the qualified majority rules huh?

I’d say my idea is less about equality and more about difference in purpose.

The Senate in my model only vets legislation, and even then, if they don’t do it within a reasonable time frame the law passes anyways, and even if they do take the issue up, it can only act by matching or beating the house’s vote to pass the law, and do so with a coalition representing a majority of all americans, so if there’s 3 senators per state, one californian senator would count for a third of California’s population towards this count, aaaaand just to make certain that we’re certain it isn’t becoming a cornfield court, while the senate can override by matching the house’s voting margin, the house can override by matching the population margin the Senate vetoed with.

It’s a veto that a wise senate leader would only try to invoke if they knew it could make it stick, or if they felt what had arrived on desk was so egregious it was worth picking the fight over regardless of certainty. As opposed to right now where the Senate just never does anything because of filibusters. Now just sitting on their hands actively reduces their ability to intercept policy or nominations and the theoretical state of debate only lasts as long as until the bill automatically becomes to law for lack of a veto passing under the described conditions.

Just gonna skip right on past that reduced threshold to overturn the Senate veto, the having to act on everything they want to halt, and the qualified majority bits huh? Also how in the hell does more senators automatically make small states more powerful? Giving more voice to minorities within small states would technically undermine state level bigwigs trying to have a partisan lock on their senate delegations.

Hawaii is a small state, DC would be a small state, Delaware and most of New England are small states. You really want a one off Republican Majority to be able to just smash Hawaiian autonomy and indigenous rights to pieces without any checks or balances?

This model of the Senate is basically a parliamentary takeover of the role of head of state, only more powerful than the king of england in the sense that it’d be able to invoke the right of veto without instantly causing a constitutional crisis and sparking a revolution.

I think the Senate would be fine if it was in charge of a Veto instead of having to also pass the legislation, also if it had a lot more senators to some multiple of 3 at a minimum.

IE doing nothing is just letting everything pass automatically and that cooling pan shit is something senate leaders have to pursue actively with (qualified) majority support.

My ideal procedure. House passes a law, Senate vetoes it with a majority meeting or beating the passing margin of the law in the house, but also representing a majority of all americans, house can override the veto by meeting or beating the population margin the senate’s Veto represented.

You may note that there is no president involved in this process. That is because I believe the independent executive is an inherent threat to democracy and that it should be subject to complete erasure and power division to save the republic.

Would be cheaper to take a visit to Astoria in NYC, comes with samples of non-palestinian Arabic culture as well, and, unless Trump Wins, it’s not the site of an active bombing campaign!

It wouldn’t do that though, the dems are the “not us” group so the evangelicals have already decided that everything they do is evil.

Morality by association rather than by actions is a hell of a drug.

I still think it was way too on the nose that Homelander got it on with the character that’s his biological father in the comics

Quiet Part out loud, if there’s one thing they hate more than the threat that women can say no to staying in abusive relationships, it’s that they can run away to escape abuse if they can’t take their safety at home.

I’ve got two.

• The US has arrived at the stage where an entirely new constitution/model of government, probably down to the very borders of the states themselves in the 48, needs to be implemented, just to let off the pressure of just how large a scale the US operates on in every dimension compared to what the original 13 were looking at.

• The two state solution has been rendered untenable by Israel’s settler shit, the best way to protect the interests of Palestinians is to break down the border entirely and make them voting citizens with a say in the Knesset, and at this point I am convinced the only way that can be established is with an occupation force from outside both nations ready and willing to haul off anyone doing anything to threaten the coexistence and execute them. They won’t coexist in peace, so let them coexist under the sword of Damocles. If I had my way honestly, Jerusalem would have a nuke installed under the temple mount, with a switch set to destroy the city entirely if they’re going to insist on continuing to try and total victory wipe eachother out.

If they can’t have the land together, they’ll have the ashes together.

Good thing I tried pegging for the first time tonight then! Ticked that one off the bucket list just in time!

Tried a new divider Saw this broken arrow symbol on Extra History’s Hiawatha episodes and apparently it’s an old peace symbol for the indigenous nations in the region.

Could also do a venice and have a war variant with the opposite symbol, two arrows pointing in opposite directions

Edit: I did a Venice

Ok but how funny would that subplot have been if she was pushing a fucking hotdog stand around king’s landing and exactly nobody was addressing it as if it wasn’t the most normal thing in the world?

So apparently that piss smell wasn’t actually from the open sewage.

It was because before cars took over horses were the primary mode of transport for people who could afford it, and horse piss is absolutely rancid smelling if it lands on something that doesn’t just absorb it like dirt or soil.

You joke with the sea bug jokes but apparently dishes that use bug meat actually are compared to crab and lobster in taste.

You may think you’re disgusting, but you ain’t “getting so into scat fetish that god themself makes an entire religious dictat about avoiding your nasty ass” disgusting

It’s funny because they compared themself to a picture of one of the worst people imagined to argue they’re a good person

You’d think so but the foot fetishists are in the same kind of space as furry porn commissioners.

Bidet gang

See the thing about the supposed cycle of violence is that it implies equal fault and innocence of both sides. It relies on toleration theory.

Toleration is a treaty, when you break it you are no longer protected by it. It is an entirely justifiable and moral act to instigate violence against fascists, because their very ideology is a violation of the treaty of toleration, and their organization is one which cannot sustain itself in the face of repeated attacks.

You often hear complaints about how enforcing internet rules against the fascists just leads to whackamole bans, but the thing is that every successive ban leaves the fascists less coordinated, less emboldened, and more isolated. There is a critical point of punitive and preventative acts where a fascist org is effectively atomized and anyone worth pulling out has been rock bottomed into a holding space where they can be rehabbed.

Peaceful methods are what can be achieved after you’ve destroyed them, either through hounding operations making it less and less possible for them to group up and act together, or by normalizing violence and intolerance against them to the extent that they are at least afraid enough to stop trying to not be sniveling cowards such as the fascist naturally is.

The true fascist is only kept quiet in an environment of fear, where they know that trying to stick their heads up will get it lopped off in short order. An environment where even peacible means of antifascism still include complete social ostracism and career destruction, and where persistent fascism is met with swift and appropriate violent rejection.

Don’t just punch the Nazis, dox them to their families and employers and communities, encourage others to be armed and ready to attack preemptively in their presence, organize around making that Nazi specifically know their rightful place is silent and afraid until they’ve cut the shit and stopped being a nazi, before someone ends up killing them in self defense.