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Subjunctive posted:What was the proximate cause of the flooding? Did some infrastructure fail? Climate change? Russia blew up a dam? Ukraine blew up a dam? Ukraine trained legions of beavers to build a dam downriver of the city.
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Subjunctive posted:What was the proximate cause of the flooding? Did some infrastructure fail? Climate change? Russia blew up a dam? Ukraine blew up a dam? Orsk dam Collapse due to torrential rain, only built in 2010... probably paid for a good few dachas. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orsk_Dam_collapse
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https://www.kyivpost.com/post/31253quote:FACT CHECK: Russian Propaganda Tries to Pass Off Udmurtian Insignia as Belonging to ‘Canadian Mercenaries’ Content: Russians loot the corpse of one of their own soldiers, mistake the insignia of one of their own oblasts for a Canadian flag. https://twitter.com/KareemRifai/status/1780754606944891242 quote:Marjorie Taylor-Greene's amendments to the foreign aid bills: https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1780876498620026957 quote:25th Airborne Brigade section commander "Grozny": "With an army like that, if done smartly, they could conquer the whole world. But they're morons". Content: Video interview with Ukrainian soldiers interspersed with footage of Russian vehicles being destroyed or about to be struck by FPV munitions. I didn't spot any death or injury to people besides that implied in a crewed vehicle getting hit.
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Gordy the politeness C-7 gunner.
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Shaddak posted:Jewish space lasers, indeed! I detest this poo poo. It's the same as Ted Cruz making Acapulco jokes. These assholes learn the opposite lesson of what they're supposed to. Public shame for lovely behavior is supposed to curb lovely behavior, but because these people are so loving terrible they lean into it.
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PurpleXVI posted:The Russians really are incredibly docile considering that they seem to be accepting these floodings and other natural disasters with a bit of griping, but no real attempt to shake the foundations of power or bring anyone to account. The same can be said of anyone in the west really. Swap "Russians" with "humanity" and you have a post for the climate change threads. As for more comparisons the US has states and counties that repeatedly suffer from both natural and manmade disasters rooted in terrible and corrupt governance, yet don't even vote for the other candidates in an effort to "shake the foundations of power or bring anyone to account". Russians don't even have the luxury of voting to possibly affect gradual change.
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PurpleXVI posted:Content: Russians loot the corpse of one of their own soldiers, mistake the insignia of one of their own oblasts for a Canadian flag.
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https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1780952879651577881quote:Denmark has decided to purchase $28.5 million worth of weapons from Ukrainian manufacturers intended for the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Aside from just wanting to repost something that stokes my national pride, I think it's the first time I've seen a country do this, and I think it's a pretty solid approach if the end stage is for Ukraine to be able to guard itself independently, rather than being reliant on external arms supplies.
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The Door Frame posted:This is what happens when a party decides that their platform is basically just "mob rule" bbbut I was told the US was a republic, not a "democracy", to prevent this very thing
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PurpleXVI posted:Denmark has decided to purchase $28.5 million worth of weapons from Ukrainian manufacturers intended for the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
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Herman Merman posted:That's just earmarked financial aid, right? Sure, but it's specifically tailored to not only provide Ukraine arms, but also stimulate manufacturing, tooling, facilities, and skilled trades.
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Herman Merman posted:bbbut I was told the US was a republic, not a "democracy", to prevent this very thing The US Founders didn’t foresee or expect the rise of political parties, and so didn’t really put any guardrails regarding them in the Constitution etc.
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Quackles posted:The US Founders didn’t foresee or expect the rise of political parties, and so didn’t really put any guardrails regarding them in the Constitution etc. What could you even do about them, though? You could ban them as formal structures, but then they'd just arise as informal agreements once more than two people decided they agreed 99% of the time and wanted to pool their resources and influence towards it.
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New speaker soon https://x.com/JakeSherman/status/1780934341092057530
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Kraftwerk posted:Also what’s stopping the democrats from voting to keep him as speaker with “moderate” republicans thus preventing his ouster? Nothing.
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Subjunctive posted:huh, not bad I suspect the Dems have promised to bail him out.
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GD_American posted:I detest this poo poo. It's the same as Ted Cruz making Acapulco jokes. These assholes learn the opposite lesson of what they're supposed to. Public shame for lovely behavior is supposed to curb lovely behavior, but because these people are so loving terrible they lean into it. Well, it's also adversarial flood-the-zone bullshit. I regard almost everything she does as finely calibrated to piss me off by being stupid in every possible way. The conscription thing is obviously impossible in a multitude of different ways and it's like a red flag in front of a bull to me every time - but any energy I spend being pissed off at the stupid impossible amendment is wasted. That said, it's much easier to generate stupid impossible amendments than to sit through 600 of them patiently voting "no" on them all, so I'd really like to see some way to land consequences on these fuckers for wasting everybody's time.
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Subjunctive posted:Yeah, the Dems control Johnson now and I couldn’t be happier for him tbh. But I think more Republicans will want to coddle the crazy bunch more as the election nears, and he’ll lose out. Again the problem being they've lost the votes needed to make that threat stick, since a new speaker will need Dem votes to seat.
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CommieGIR posted:a new speaker will need Dem votes to seat. lol I didn't realize it had shifted over far enough
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PurpleXVI posted:What could you even do about them, though? You could ban them as formal structures, but then they'd just arise as informal agreements once more than two people decided they agreed 99% of the time and wanted to pool their resources and influence towards it. Yeah, but how do the parties enforce discipline on their members? The obvious one in modern parties is the expense and difficulty in running campaigns: you can go rogue but you have to have independent fundraising power and millions of dollars of it to contest a primary each year and then the general after, so just for the sake of argument say it's 2-3x more difficult to fundraise. You could mandate public finance and other spending reforms, you could have RCV/instant runoff, you could even shrink the size of districts dramatically to make it easier to run on the cheap. And outside the individual members, a lot of the party line comes from the current need for a trifecta to do anything, but you could tweak that, maybe by making veto overrides easier so a 55% congress can govern over the president, etc.
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PurpleXVI posted:What could you even do about them, though? You could ban them as formal structures, but then they'd just arise as informal agreements once more than two people decided they agreed 99% of the time and wanted to pool their resources and influence towards it. Fptp voting makes 2 large powerful parties an inevitable consequence of game theory. Changing voting methods woule change the structure correspondingly.
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CommieGIR posted:Again the problem being they've lost the votes needed to make that threat stick, since a new speaker will need Dem votes to seat. Oh yeah! Huh, a good thing? Happening?
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Tunicate posted:Fptp voting makes 2 large powerful parties an inevitable consequence of game theory. Changing voting methods woule change the structure correspondingly. It's not inevitable, rather it's the local maximum that's least dysfunctional.
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That Works posted:lol I didn't realize it had shifted over far enough A bunch resigned/retired, so yeah it's a thin rear end margin for the GOP right now
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Tunicate posted:Fptp voting makes 2 large powerful parties an inevitable consequence of game theory. Changing voting methods woule change the structure correspondingly. I mean this is true, but it would simply result in more parties, not the non-existence of parties. That Works posted:New speaker soon I guess those Russian checks stopped clearing or someone on the Dem side found some blackmail scarier than needing to stay away from windows for a couple of years.
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OddObserver posted:It's not inevitable, rather it's the local maximum that's least dysfunctional. With FPTP and simple majority being enough, it more or less is. The third party will always take more candidates from one than the other competitor, meaning that the one who loses less always wins. So the only way to win anything is for the two smaller parties to merge. When duopoly is achieved, if either of them splits then the survivor from duopoly wins every time. If you have more parties than 3, then the only winning move for minor parties is to form a coalition, which reduces towards two main coalitions, which is basically the same thing. 3rd party candidates can win on some scenarios some seats, but it usually also means that both major parties failed spectacularly in that election.
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PurpleXVI posted:I guess those Russian checks stopped clearing or someone on the Dem side found some blackmail scarier than needing to stay away from windows for a couple of years. Johnson used to bow down to the party fringe because the slim majority and 1-candidate recall petition meant that if he proposed something Gaetz didn't like, he would have immediately lost his position, and the vote wasn't going to happen anyway. Now Gaetz isn't going to recall him, because the majority got even slimmer to the point where if Johnson is recalled, the republicans can no longer seat a speaker without democrat assistance.
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Subjunctive posted:Does that just paralyze everything, then? With no speaker? Working as designed.
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in a well actually posted:Working as designed. Greatest country on earth, praise be.
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Subjunctive posted:Does that just paralyze everything, then? With no speaker? if there is no speaker, the only business before the House is electing a speaker.
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GD_American posted:I detest this poo poo. It's the same as Ted Cruz making Acapulco jokes. These assholes learn the opposite lesson of what they're supposed to. Public shame for lovely behavior is supposed to curb lovely behavior, but because these people are so loving terrible they lean into it. You can't shame a reactionary, especially when they're about (perceived) strength vs weakness, not moral vs immoral. Upper middle class reactionary shitheads are giggling whenever other people get pissed at chud politicians inflicting and/or getting off on others suffering. Public outrage from Owned Libs is a sign they're winning, to their base. If the public tried to shame you and failed, it proves you're stronger than the public. You need to call them pathetic weaklings, not evil (they're both but lean into the former).
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PurpleXVI posted:I guess those Russian checks stopped clearing or someone on the Dem side found some blackmail scarier than needing to stay away from windows for a couple of years. Dick Cheney sitting in a creaking rocking chair at the end of his bed in the middle of the night, sharpening a knife, talking about all the potential money him and his friends in the defense industry are currently missing out on.
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