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    may be rude replied to auxien's topic in Autechre

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    sorry, i was thinking of the For the People Act, which was an earlier version of what became the Freedom to Vote Act. the dem conference was kicking it around for a year and it got modified and repackaged a couple times. the FTVA included the FTPA and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act. the FTPA had independent redistricting commissions, but the FTVA didn't. there were good things in both versions of the legislation. a number of gerrymandering-addressing provisions did make it into the bill that nearly passed. It actually got 50 votes for the bill itself, but only 48 votes to overcome the filibuster (48 out of 50, not 60 - this was a special resolution requiring 50 votes that, if passed, would allow the bill to also pass by 50 and not need 60 for cloture). this was really so close, and this disproves the narrative that participating doesn't make a difference. if people were paying attention, voting accordingly, and contacting their representatives, dems could have had the 50 votes needed to historically overstep the stupid rule that is the senate filibuster cloture loophole the FTVA was so important that it was worth breaking convention on that, and they moved consensus within the dem caucus about the filibuster. that this came 2 votes from passing should motivate everyone to look at their senate seats and whether any are up and competitive next year. sinema's looking likely to lose in a primary in arizona. the FTPA was also known as HR1. it was the first bill introduced at the beginning of the house session, because it was the most important one. it was actually a reintroduced version of their HR1 from the prior house session. it is possible that the same language could reemerge and be voted on in a future session
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    the bothsidesism is not supported by the facts. GOP gerrymandering is much worse, and the dems went all out trying to fix the situation with major federal legislation, and they came close. i think you would be happy if i told you everything is hopeless? unfortunately that is not the case, there is work to be done. you're correct that it won't be easy. the public servants out there need the support of voters. that includes keeping one's self informed.
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    OK, but the Rs in Ohio appeared to play nice and play along all the while introducing language that would let them ignore the will of the people by determining themselves what "fair" metrics to use for redistricting. i just cited legislation that establishes unbiased redistricting commissions the legislation, the freedom to vote act, would establish non-biased redistricting commissions. they actually attached a provision to the bill that would allow it to bypass the filibuster! they can do that! manchin and sinema tanked it. 2 more dem senators and we could pass the Freedom to Vote Act and have neutral districts.
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    yeah man. why do you think 48 dems/independents voted for the Freedom to Vote Act in the Senate but the republicans uniformly voted against it? That would have established unbiased redistricting commissions.
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    there are some "centrist" GOPs but the party seems unable to do the smart thing and get behind them. trump brings goons out of the woodwork who don't vote otherwise, so the party is in a weird position where trump is really hurting them in some ways but in other ways they see it as unwise to break with him. the republican party may be on track for a really sad showing in 2024, as no republican candidates seem capable of really criticizing him (except for christie who will mildly criticize him for almost killing him), and trump is likely to be prosecuted as the greatest traitor in american history, right in prime campaign season. with any luck there will be a good blue wave, which is needed, such as to address the gerrymandering problem. the REDMAP project, using AI to gerrymander districts, has locked up state legislatures in swing states, such that dems get a clear majority of the popular vote but repubs get a large majority of seats. fixing gerrymandering is exceptionally difficult, this is one of the ways the country is maimed. we nearly addressed it with the Freedom To Vote Act but it failed by 2 votes in the Senate
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    new cylob is good as fuck
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    russian forces in ukraine are going to get the shit kicked out of them
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    ae22 > ae16-18 > ae14-15 industrial murder jazz
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    war is not just fighting. it's hearts and minds, too. if the military and police no longer answer to him then putin is no longer in control maybe zi has a horse farm for him in china
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    definitely not unlikely. the first 8 years of this war were largely hybrid info/kinetic operations. remember the little green men who invaded crimea in 2014? no insignia, russia claims it's not them, though it was. the crimean referendum was also an interesting info maneuver, in that that's not how referendums work at all. remember when russian forces and mercenaries secretly stood up and propped up the purported rebel movement in donbas, in the years that followed? remember when western intel learned of a planned russian false flag as a pretext for invading ukraine, in early february 2022? that prebunking seemed to have maybe thwarted the planned false flag. but yeah this whole war has been info ops. right up to the point of total invasion, few, not even zelensky, really knew if russia would actually invade or if lining up on the border was just more of their mind game bullshit. but another possibility is that there was a drone attack, though the attribution of it to ukraine is dubious. there already seems to be an uptick in political violence in russia, in recent years. of course putin is probably not trending up in friends, as he is sending tens of thousands to pointless deaths, and the economy is eating it, and you're not allowed to call the war a war or you go to prison. imagine you're putin and someone drone attacks you. of course you're going to blame ukraine. meanwhile, anyone can drone attack putin.
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    i think there's no way zelensky would order that. the concerning thing is that you know putin wants zelensky out of the picture, and, if putin were planning to try to take zelensky out, he would first deploy propaganda exactly like this
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    i'm not saying you are. just don't go by consensus. consensus is fucked. like deeply fucked. anyway he is the dem nominee as of now. and he is a great american president, in my honest opinion. us intel dumps prebunking russian disinfo maneuvers during invasion were innovative and very effective. that's an example of what good leadership looks like. it can be subtle but he is doing a lot of things right and the totality of that is helping the country return to normalcy from a state of extreme duress
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    btw the coup was not the riot. sicking the armed mob on the capitol was one component of the failed coup
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    yeah thanks. honestly sedition is fucking bad. the dude almost took the country out but yeah the million dead is bad too
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    ok well i admit when i'm wrong. you're still a cunt and should stop shitting up us political discourse with your shit takes
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    the job is not athletic. he makes good decisions. far from obvious, it's logically wrong. and oh hey coincidence it's the best narrative the opposition can find. it should tell people something that the main thing anyone can fault him for is his age. once again: coincidence that this is a deployed narrative
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    not all. maybe aoc. many appreciate that biden won more votes than any candidate in history in 2020 and is doing a good job disinfo is about
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    this asshole claims to dislike bigotry but here i am suffering his prejudice and stereotyping against me as an american. idiotic hypocrite.
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    sounds like we agree that biden leaving afganistan was a good thing buddy how many times do you want to be wrong on this page? why do you think i believe in us exceptionalism? i don't. i didn't say the capitol riot was the worst crime, i specifically said his deliberate spreading of covid ahead of his planned coup was maybe the worst fuck you man. try to care about accuracy. you help no one spreading more garbage info. eat my ass
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    ?? i guess i'm too much of a shill to make sense of your post. can you explain what you mean? do you think usa should occupy afghanistan indefinitely? he ended a war that was hard to end. he did that
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    biden is great leaving afghanistan vax distribution economy addressing the fascist assault on the country from within and without he's not senile, that's junk inflation is not his fault, that's junk afghan gov collapse preceding withdrawal is not his fault, that's junk he's done admirably well as the country has been more endangered than at any point since ww2.
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    hunter thompson would be proud of his friend E Jean Carroll
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    trump's slogan is terminate the constitution
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    primus with justin and danny for almost a whole set
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