m certain this will accumulate into something so damning that their hand will be forced.

You can’t force the hands of the controlled opposition

Schumer and Jefferies exist to protect the Republicans, not to oppose them

It’s a recurring pattern in politics. People win and then just forget it’s even possible to lose, until it’s too late

Why is there no pressure to reform the EC then?

There’s plenty of pressure. Just not in the direction you’d prefer.

The GOP doesn’t have one “master plan” to rig the electoral college. Instead, lawmakers are considering a couple of different versions of a plan that would tie electoral votes to congressional districts.

This was an underreported part of Project 2025, which lead off with a new wave of unscheduled redistricting in red states… leading to the Dummymander of 2026.

There was also the attempt, in 2020, to award EC votes by state legislative fiat rather than statewide popular vote.

But the bottom line is that when you’re winning (and Republicans have had a built in EC / Senate advantage since 1968, thanks to their popularity in smaller rural states) there’s no big incentive to change the rules.

And when you’re losing, there’s no opportunity to change them.

Hopefully the court gets repaired before they have the chance to shoot it down.

You’d need a Democrat in the White House to do that. At that point, there’s no longer pressure to reform the EC.

Buc-ee’s is the height of MAGA brain rot culture.

The place college kids stop at in between home and college? The venue all those city kids eat at on the way to a camping trip or summer vacation? The spot RV driving liberals fill up at while visiting all the national monuments they can find on a map? The physical embodiment of urban gentrification of rural neighborhoods?

This Buccee’s?

The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact will make the EC follow the popular vote

No it won’t.

States with an opposition majority can simply exit the Compact. SCOTUS can rule the Compact invalid as soon as it becomes a hinge point for a presidential contest. State parties can send up electors that refuse to abide by the compact’s accords.

The only real solution is abolition. Any relic of the system that remains is a loaded gun left in the hands of a cynical bureaucracy.

Are we arresting more or less of the administration than after Joe Biden’s term on office?

What about Obama’s term?

Clinton’s?

Okay, but surely under Carter…

Kennedy? Ffs! Surely he had someone prosecuted after the Bay of Pigs.

Okay, fine. But FDR, here was a guy who… nope! Whole Hoover Admin got off Scott free.

Well, maybe this time will be difference.

But security through obscurity is no security at all.

The survivability onion disagrees.

On top of that, as companies continue to automate spying and the price for spying on an individual falls, we’ll be spied on more and more whether we’re noteworthy or not

Just because I can read your email doesn’t mean I can distinguish what’s important from what’s spam.

The most important element of the flock camera system is your DMV’s license plate record system. Without that, none of it works. Even with it, you need an enormous ground presence to make it meaningful.

Looking unremarkable is absolutely critical in a surveillance state. You should be aware of what takes you off the radar relative to what makes you stick out.

I gotta say, all these gubernatorial wins are arguably more important than the Senate majority.

Like, what’s 54 D Senators going to change in the next two years, exactly?

But we’re looking at upwards of 30 Democrats in governors’ mansions starting in January. They’ve got far more control over everything from education to policing to health care than any number of Chuck Schumer led blowhards.

But also make notoriety a source of revenue and irrelevance a job security risk.

You’ll get enthusiastic compliance, as evidenced by the last two years.

But you’ll also get a groundswell of nobodies who are super pissed at you. All this surveillance is ineffectual when defiance occurs at scale.

When everyone’s acting in opposition, nobody gets punished.

It’s illegal and should be subject to criminal charges

This would require billionaires to be accountable to law enforcement

The markets aren’t being roiled because Jensen Huang fucked.

They’re being roiled because a big chunk of NVIDIA’s revenue is coming from black market exports.

This isn’t the indiscretions of one guy. It is a massive network of regulation and evasion that creates a defacto regulatory monopoly for GPU exports.

At some level, you have to accept that there’s no panacea to the panopticon. At least, none at the retail level.

Ffs, flock cameras and facial recognition make even MeatSpace a shitshow of privacy violations.

Ultimately, the real defense against spying is irrelevance. 99.99% of people simply aren’t interesting enough to monitor in a way that matters.

Mate, everything you said is complete bullshit.

“We merely facilitated the genocide!”

That’s what you got out of it?

The baseline argument is pretty fascile. “Um, aktuly, only snobs think destabilization has any benefit”.

Literally go to any prison in America. You’ll find accelerationists. People generally don’t like institutions when those institutions are oppressive.

Thinking is a privilege, TIL

most accelerationists are privileged white people

Most people you interact with online are privileged.

I think you’d be surprised to see how many people are perfectly fine with burning Western Imperialism down once you get outside your bubble

I didn’t know The Netherlands has concentration camps.

https://www.kampwesterbork.nl/en

Literally where Anne Frank was killed.

But more recently?

https://www.nature.com/articles/palcomms201784

You’re a favorite for extraordinary renditions going on 30 years easy

What country are we bombing for being too Muslim?

Afghanistan and Libya, just for starters. Y’all also perpetrated a horrific bombing in Yugoslavia during the 90s.

Operation Inherent Resolve was as recent as 2014, spanning Iraq and Syria. Operation Prosperity Guardian, Poseidon Archer, and Aspides in Yemen. And you’ve been up in Somalia’s business for… centuries?

Christ, the Dutch have been fucking with the African coastline since before the US was even a country.

you’re insanely ignorant

Hehe. Okay, buddy.

Give it a few more years. Republicans will reverse the reversal, after Hakeem Jefferies squanders his majority on handouts to Israel and Obama Liberals scream that nothing good is actually possible.

Then we’ll be back to liberals kicking and screaming about stupid idiot flyover country and posting “Karma, Bitch!” on hurricane maps headed into the Gulf.

To be fair when he was nominated he looked like one of very few people that were somewhat qualified.

Foam Party Marco? The guy who got his start selling cocaine for his cousin?

Rubio’s sum total of political qualifications was being in tight enough with the Miami Mafia guys to get easy credit while looking fuckable enough to satisfy the twink hunters in DC.

Everything he’s achieved since has been an extension of one or the other. Drug cartels and trafficking gangs are his two biggest constituencies.