Joel3102

Another thing to note is the system you support completely comes down to which party you support. If it happened to be that the Senate and Electoral College favoured Democrats, there’s 0 chance liberals would be arguing against it using the same principled arguments.

If you wanna abolish states all together an become more like the UK, that’s a seperate argument. But given the very founding of the US is a union of states with seperate interests, that idea would be completely unrealistic

I do, which is why I don’t think a President should get elected without the majority vote. But it’s the United *States*. Small states will basically have no say if the Senate is gone. Australia also has a Senate is 12 Senators from each state regardless of size. Works fairly well

I think getting rid of the electoral college but keeping the Senate is a good middle ground. I think some state representation makes sense so that the minority states don’t get fucked over, but the electoral college is overkill.

The Republican Party has gotten completely wacko. Most of the party believe the election was stolen and a concerning amount believe in Qanon and Anti Vax stuff. Makes the Bush era neocons seem reasonable….

Good result. Hopefully Labor forms an outright majority. I’d rather them not have to negotiate with the Greens. The new Teal independents seem quite interesting. Affluent people who’ve had it with the conservatives?

Do you think most straight guys have at least 1% gay in them that they deny?

As much of a pain in the ass Manchin is, he’s still preferable to having a Republican from West Virginia, which would almost certainly be the case otherwise. So his voting base isn’t even natural Democrats, but Republicans. Also note, Manchin’s popularity has increased more than any other Senator over the past year. Progressives need to understand that not all voters agree with them. https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/3462266-poll-manchins-popularity-skyrocketed-over-past-year/amp/

This was a flagrant assasination. As usual Israel deflects blame instantly. The world needs to wake up.

Hopefully this puts a nail in the coffin of the Bernie or bust ideology.

Traditionally conservatives measure as happier than liberals on studies that have been carried out. Here’s an interesting article on it https://www.science.org/content/article/new-study-questions-trope-conservatives-are-happier-liberals Here it’s argued to not really be a real gap, but at best it seems leftists aren’t any happier but about the same.

I find Julien much more chill and charismatic these days. Tyler needs to learn how to relax lol

Maybe I'm naive but I think Shapiro is a true believer in his orthodox worldview. He would always brag about waiting till marriage to have sex

It’s extremely practical, that’s why people become trans women. If it didn’t matter at all, people would feel no need to transition on the first place.

Gender is a construction, but it’s a pretty useful construction because most people are attached to a gender role. Because it’s a construction, we can shift the definition of a “woman” to include trans women, because it serves a useful purpose. Saying because gender is a construction therefore anything goes in sports is silly

Exactly, confusing relative and absolute. At the ultimate level life and death is a construct, but I’d still prefer to not blow my brains out and than do so.

Just cause something is a construction, doesn’t mean it can’t have use. The construction of gender has shown it’s limits in trans people, and broadening that construction is a good thing. But it doesn’t mean that there’s no use whatsoever for any social constructions

Yeah of course they’re constructions, but some constructions serve a pragmatic purpose. Should we just ignore the construction completely in sports and just kill sport for biological females entirely? Pretty sure you’ve agreed with the Rogan position on trans women in sports in the past.

Yeah but that’s not how we’ve decided to seperate groups for sports. Everyone knows that it’s not really fair, of course genetics is the most important factor for being elite. But we’ve decided to seperate for sex for good reason, to allow a seperate class for biological females to be competitive. If we want to start creating different classes for height etc, that’s a seperate conversation.

Nothing he said was as close to as bad as what Vaush said at 1:11 here. He may have gone overboard specifically on the hyper online trans community that live on Twitter all day, but in general he’s pro trans and has debated many conservatives on it

We don’t know why he was banned, twitch literally don’t give a reason. When did he say that? I’m pretty sure he didn’t say that

Drinking is definitely fun as fuck, it’s extremely hard to have as good a time sober. Some people don’t really acknowledge this. The trouble is you feel awful the whole next day

I’m pretty sure “brain damage” from heavy metals is reversible. Andy Cutler himself says that essentially once you remove the toxins, the brain will regenerate itself naturally

I just finished it and was wondering if someone here had posted about it. A PERFECT example of corporate devilry. I think @Leo Gura would appreciate it.

Why are people still removing Russian agency from this situation and act is if this is the fault of NATO expansion. Given his pre invasion speech, it’s pretty damn obvious he was going to invade eventually no matter what, he didn’t want Ukraine in NATO because that would make it untenable to invade. Even Kyle Kulisnki reckons only 10% chance they wouldn’t have invaded if NATO didn’t expand.