The people can keep Spongebob but they must reject Hamilton.

In all seriousness tho, it is very weird. It’s likely that most Yankees, if they heard of a popular piece of media that makes Hitler into a lovable character, they would rightfully go “that’s Nazis trying to sanitize his image and whitewash what he was like.” But then they’ll miss it when it’s their own history. Cause us Yankees grow up being told how important and intellectual the founding fathers were.

Still, blaming politicians alone misses the deeper problem. Gerrymandering is not simply the product of partisan greed. It is a predictable consequence of a broken electoral system that rewards lawmakers for manipulating district lines whenever they can.

It’s not broken, it’s working as intended (to the benefit of the capitalist class).

If Americans want to meaningfully curb gerrymandering, they must look beyond partisan behavior and pursue structural reforms that make such manipulation far less effective.

Via what though. Policy changes done by… the very same legislators who don’t represent their interests and are paid not to?

That was largely how the country began. In 1800, America had 106 House districts serving a population of just 5.3 million, meaning each representative spoke for roughly 50,000 people.

And in spite of this, it was a country committing genocide with legal slavery.

If Americans truly want to curb gerrymandering and strengthen democratic representation, they must stop expecting politicians to perfect a structurally flawed system. Instead, they should demand a Congress that once again reflects the representative vision the nation was founded upon.

Or they can follow a representative vision that is actually proven to work at scale, without doing genocide and slavery, like China’s: https://news.cgtn.com/news/whitepaper/China+Democracy+That+Works.pdf (but this first requires Yankees obtaining collective ownership over the means of production and distribution or it’s nothing but a pipe dream)

The “founding fathers” are more monsters than they are role models to look to. Yankees need to stop looking to the past for answers and accept that non-“white” peoples already developed the answers they need.

Garrett Langley, Flock’s 38-year-old CEO, has made statements that don’t exactly calm things down. He’s claimed that mass surveillance could eliminate all crime in America [10]. The company’s official statement about the destruction:

Nominative determinism is so weird.

The NSF has been fundamental in helping develop technology used in MRIs, cellphones, and it even helped get Duolingo get off the ground.

2/3 is pretty good.

But in all seriousness, I keep wondering with stuff like this: Is it more about loyalty? Axing existing institution in order to replace it with one that is more loyal? Or is more about gutting federal in general, so that it gradually becomes little more than a military outpost?

Turning to violence to settle a grievance is never the answer.

Those poor tissues, he violently destroyed them, so now the bourgeoisie cannot mop up their tears with them. Such violence, very destruction.

In all seriousness though, it’s such absurdity. I know this is how capitalism operates, but it will never not be absurd to me watching them compare destruction of property to destruction of life. Were he destroying vital food stores, you could make an argument that it is, by extension, violence against people. But a warehouse of paper goods? Laughable to frame it that way. He hit the bourgeoisie where they hurt (the pocketbook) without directly attacking anyone. But they’ll call it violence because to them, hurting their profits is tantamount to striking them.

The SSS for the US SS

It occurs to me, this and other stories put into sharp relief how much of a need there is for People’s Investigation teams. I don’t mean citizen journalists either, even if they do help in their own way. I mean the kind of roles you’d have in LE, like forensics, looking into gangster state cases as they happen, before the details have gone cold. Militant as well, so they can’t be targeted as easily themselves. Groups who can show up and do the kind of investigation that the cops are unwilling to do, either because it’s convenient for the cops to let the crime slide or because they were involved. Otherwise, these stories linger as gangster state tales rather than unmasking what happened and forcing the state and its actors out into the open.

Gangster state things.

an oil company with a military

I love this as a way to sum up the US. Really hits home how fundamentally environmentally destructive it is.