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You can replace any number of subjects for trans and the argument always holds. It’s a shitty situation but it’s an unavoidable consequence of first-past-the-post voting.

FMP those people just liked saying the slightly longer word slightly more because it made them look/sound smarter.

Little do they know. Literally and figuratively.

Still not as bad as using “whom” wrong.

Technically, no. But in practice yes. Unless you’re going to start in on ruining the word “technically” as well.

You’d think so, but here is a fart that we prepared earlier.

There is a silent /s at the end of that.

Rule of law refers to more than just the letter of the law as written. It also refers to those laws being mostly equitable and not explicitly intended to benefit or punish particular people or groups of people. Orbán and his people mostly worked by changing the laws so that their fuckery would all be legal. It really would be better if Hungary could be fully de Orbáned without having to resort to similar tactics.

The real question should be why this guy suddenly now has a problem with that.

I’d say they’re yet another genocidal settler colonial state. You know the kind. But not Nazis exactly. So yeah, I’ll split that hair with you.

Yeah. The mind keeps boggling.

I’m not sure that’s possible without tearing something in your brain. Somehow Ukraine’s Jewish president is a Nazi, is one of the better ones.

Is it this iron cross that’s an exclusively Nazi symbol? Right up there with this one?

And you’re simply wrong that everyone knows the difference between this skull and crossbones and that one. Obviously the one on the SS cap is a bad one but no, people don’t generally keep track of the design details of skull insignia. What I’ll agree is that any skull tattoo should really make you wonder if perhaps we’re the baddies, but whatever. I find that St Pauli logo to be weird too.

And sure. Keep an eye on this guy. No disagreement. You’re just making some really strong claims about symbols and other people’s awareness.

Since I went browsing around, here are some images for comparison:

• Platner’s tattoo
• Nazi totenkopf
• Not Nazi

Yes, it’s a specific design and you should be careful with skulls but I’m not sure we should demand that everyone recognize the difference. I wouldn’t have until now if I’d seen them as line drawings. In embossed silver, sure…

And we need it fast. No time for steeping. Call it the Espresso Party!

I quoted the article. I’d love to see some evidence that it was wrong. That it was Martin’s predecessor who commissioned the e:report, or, at the very least, that this wasn’t “a friend of his”.

Edit: if the article got those facts wrong, that sounds a lot like libel.

Sigh, so that’s who you are. Whatever. The glimmer of hope you’ve been furiously peddling just got that bit dimmer.

Did you think this was a super important rare thing that is never done and a huge deal?

Or…

Are you aware (win or lose) a report like this is always done?

The problem is with who was tasked with making the report. If it had been commissioned before your Big Daddy took power, and he had to deal with a sub-standard report and what to do with it, yeah, bad day at the office. But he commissioned it from this friend of his and that is concerning.

That means he’s not just someone having to clean up the mess, he’s part of the reason there is a mess in the first place.

Like I said, not fatal, but concerning.

Wait, are you Martin? I have a hard time seeing why anyone else would simp for him quite this hard. And do so entirely alone.

I’m not upset. I’m not who down voted you. Hell, I’ll up vote you to restore balance to the force.

But since Martin commissioned the report from his buddy, that seems like a significant lapse in judgement. Not fatal, but concerning.

And your constant simping for the man is just a tiny bit grating. I hope you’re right, but it’s alway you, and only you, making those points. Again concerning.

It is. Multi party properly representative democracy is obviously desirable. There is just no clear path from here to there since FPTP makes it impossible and whoever wins in FPTP doesn’t want to change it.

I guess you can try revolution. Good luck. I’ll be cheering you on from an ocean away.

Ain’t gonna work. That’ll just split whichever side of the FPTP duopoly you hate less and the ones you hate more will win. Don’t do it.

For any of that to be plausible you need to change the voting system first.

The sad truth is that the only viable option is to slowly turn the massive ship in primaries and local elections and eventually that’ll bubble to the top.

Are people still pretending they don’t understand it was written by a single freelancer?

That the people now running the DNC, didn’t run it during 2024?

Perhaps, but the article does say

Martin’s first misstep was arguably appointing his consultant friend Paul Rivera to head the task

So it doesn’t seem like your pal Martin is at all blameless here.

The problem is not really the code. It is writing the specification of what the code should do. What properties the drawn districts should have. Anyone can then run the program and confirm that the results match the spec.

Hell, with a good spec, you can just vibe code that thing.

(All of which is a result of FPTP voting and single representative districts. But fixing that is a longer term project)