The Senate does need to go, but that requires a constitutional amendment.

Electoral college requires one as well, or more action in a few states with that interstate compact.

The actual easy answer is a repeal of the 1929 permanent apportionment act.

That would mean that we could increase the size of the House.

Archive.org the original and best.

India, Pakistan, and China are all downwind of Iran. They going to care. They might see fallout in their countries as an act of war.

It would be super funny if Trump was alive for the denial of his death, but then died immediately after.

That’s still a massive loss of support. In a free election, that would mean one of the worst election losses in history.

Winning a battle is easy, winning an occupation is close to impossible.

Can I have some of whatever you’re smoking?

Two party systems are a consequence of something called Arrow’s Impossibility Theorem, specifically as applied to First Past the Post voting. Which is technically Duverger’s Law

If you want a video instead, this one is a classic.

The names of things rarely have any actual meaning behind them, especially not political names, which were originally chosen to make people think they were patriotic for supporting said party. Or are chosen by the opposition.

But yes, the tensions that caused the war did exist before the shots were fired, that’s how civil wars work. And yes, reconstruction was halted and reversed by Johnson.

But the TLDR, being a defeatist is worse than useless, work towards a better tomorrow today. Also, civil wars, the kind with neighbors shooting neighbors and all, are fucking nightmares. Don’t try to start it all early, it will come all too soon on its own, the fascists will make sure of it.

Lucky the trash bag protected the bin.

My dad was truck driver and as he used to say, always tarp your load.

The fun fact was just that the head contains other stuff than the brain.

The rest was less fun.

A data center without power or AC is not a functional data center, and damage to such systems could cause massive damage inside, all without risk of premature detonation, theoretically speaking.

Fun fact, while the head contains the brain, it also contains a lot of stuff that isn’t the brain.

If a person were to place a gun against the side of their head and get the angle wrong, a bullet could completely miss the brain, while still causing massive damage.

Such cases have been recorded hundreds of times, in quite a few cases, the person in question has remained conscious long enough to reposition and try again.

Ah, someone who doesn’t understand Free Speech.

You’re free to say whatever you want, and we’re free to tell bigots to fuck off, because we’re not required to listen to your bullshit.

Private websites are not required to host your hatred, that’s compelled speech, and is a violation of the First Amendment. Not that conservatives have ever cared about other people’s rights.

Explosives are a bit too dangerous for the average person to play with.

On a completely unrelated note, does anyone else remember those assholes from a few years back that were taking pot shots at power substations?

I’d argue the exact opposite.

The civil war kicked off after the second longest pause to constitutional amendments in history, only topped by the current one.

Just like any other system, you need to keep security patches coming or else malicious actors will step in an wreck everything.

Corpo housing isn’t mcmansions. They’re factory built homes shipped to site and dropped on locally poured foundations, sometimes with basements.

Sure, they can be decent sized, but the mcmansion is overly large and aimed at a different crowd, a crowd that’s increasingly unable to afford them.

Source; I grew up in a corpo housing development from the 60s or 70s. The houses all looked identical from the outside, but had a few different floor plans, one down the street was actually two of the wrong halves put together, which meant that one of the closets didn’t have a door and could only be accessed by someone crawling in through a gap near the ceiling.

Thankfully there was no HOA, so the houses quickly picked up some individuality.

Republicans of the Early 60s were maybe not as evil, if only because that was at the tail end of the Party switch.

Before that, conservatives and progressives were more spread between both parties.

The Party Switch took something like 50-60 years, with Nixon’s Southern Strategy being the defining moment, and Reagan’s Moral Majority calcifying the status quo.

Still, as late as the 1960 presidential election, things could have gone either way.

It reads like AI slop.

Edit; maybe.

Fun fact, there are only two continents without swarming locusts. Antarctica and North America.

The Rocky Mountain Locust went extinct sometime around 1900, which was some 30 years after the largest swarm ever recorded for any species of locust.

I’m not sure about Sweden specifically, but right-wing populist generally means loud racist, often with shades of naked authoritarian thrown in.

This is a thing Trump does, he’ll tell person A that he’s not happy with person B, and then he’ll turn around and tell person B that person A is on the outs.

It’s all high school level drama for drama’s sake. From someone who rapes high schoolers.