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I support ineffective altruism bc effective altruism makes the world a better place, and if the world is a better place you benefit from that, which is not very altruistic of you is it? it would clearly be more virtuous if you altruism was well meaning but made everything worse.
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It also killed his ability to legislate any more of his goals for the next 6 years. Demoralised the progressive wing of the Democrats and sent them spiralling into seeing Obama as the enemy. So it was a very successful election for the GOP
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It’s clear she has more first preferences, not clear what will happen after the bottom two candidates are eliminated.
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Why don’t they just petition Congress for the cap to be lifted so there’s 1 rep per 500k citizens or something? that would even up some of these cliffhangs, which are bound to exist somewhere.
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He was accused of being far-left, he didn’t end up nationalising the banks anyway, and none of that changes the fact that Melenchon is an unserious chancer whose program is unfundable and would cause a massive economic crisis if he brought it in.
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This sounds very fake. How would a private know there were 20 thousand men in the attack, and how would he know that 5 thousand died on the way over? That’s well beyond anything he would have direct experience of.
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Well I imagine “per their understanding of the 14th amendment” might end up before the Supreme Court, but I don’t know.
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The Dem vote has had a hard ceiling the past few decades because white Mississipians have refused to vote for Democrats.
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electoralvotemap.com/states/…
if you scroll to bottom you’ll find a list of presendential results and look at the percentage the Democrat gets. Since 1988 they get between 39-41%, the only exception being Obama who maxes out the Black vote and gets to 43.
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The thing you need to grasp is the court sees the crime as happening when a person in England accesses the content, and therefore considers it within their jurisdiction.
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No, it was an assumption about the racism of the white vote in the Deep South. Up to 2026 it used to be the case that the white vote was 90% R and notoriously un-swingy. Something changed this year to overcome that.
A constitutional amendment to the US constitution is needed. Something like: ban gerrymandering federally as a violation of the rights of the electorate, and then rely on the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment to extend this to the states.
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The completely exhausted state of the British state was the beginning of the rapid decline in British world status, and left British colonies in Asia as complete sitting duck targets for the Japanese and a country that could not survive a German attack w/o the USA.
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No they didn’t. They lost a million men dead and more disabled, and they were massively in debt to American banks at extortionate interest rates at a time when everyone was using the gold standard. Additionally WW1 awoke nationalist sentiment in colonies around the world.
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It’s not that it’s bad if ppl go along with it, it’s bad if the median person feels like they are being asked to commit an injustice by enforcing it. Yes, you need some degree of buy-in from the public that the behaviour is bad before you ban it.
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