I mean that itself is a pedantic distinction, all that laws are are agreements. Sure a state law is easier to change than an amendment but this would still be law if it got the votes. It would still work and if it did it would definitely press the issue to where an amendment becomes far more feasible.

Depending on which state you are in there is still an option out there that is actually closer then I thought actually:

National Popular Vote Interstate Compact

One thing's for sure is the SC case if this happens will be wild.

Notice they never want to say fucking why the gas prices were high in each of these two instances.

Well then continue to be absolutely irrelevant at best and more likely just an accomplice to fascism. You can either grow up and be an adult or continue to act like a petulant child and then act like you're above emotions. Most of us can't just act like we're 15 forever.

If you think it's a conspiracy that Bernie failed to make any inroads with black and minority voters sure, you go right ahead. Unless you're going full magatard and you think the votes were rigged otherwise Hillary and Biden got more votes. I say this as a two-time Bernie primary voter. He just didn't get the votes and it didn't help that he had some of the worst fucking people on his campaign staff. I love Bernie but he's shite at staffing.

Was there an anti-Bernie sentiment amongst the party executives? Sure and that's even somewhat understandable, Hillary was a dyed lifelong Democrat and Bernie only wears the party badge when he wants to run for President. That doesn't excuse their actions, they should be more non-partisan but unless you think something was rigged Hillary just got more votes. Quite a few in fact. People forget Hillary was actually quite popular before 2015 started.

  You do also realize the DNC actually implemented rule changes in response to Bernie's campaign and the concerns around it. The brainrot cynicism has to stop if you actually want things to get better.

As a retort to me being cynical about voters you link a Rumble video called "All Wars are Banker Wars" and this is supposed to make me *less* cynical about voters? (((I think we all know what you mean)))

This type of trash making people not vote (or really, you probably voted for Trump) is why I am cynical about voters. If anything this resolves me to support the government getting more onerous about this type of media fucking with all our lives.

Independents by their nature are not part of the party so why should we care? The Democrats are a big tent party, there's space for your Jon Testers and Joe Manchins to Zohrans and Bernie Sanders. You want to have a say in the party you need to be part of the party not sneering at it from the outside.

Now count how many billionaires were in Biden's cabinet versus Trump's cabinet. Also most members of Congress are going to get a net worth of $1m plus, lot's of them are old, that isn't uncommon so be more specific, this is otherwise just more empty slopulism.

Easy to say as privileged white men. "Lesser evil" means quite a bit to a person who is going to effected by these policies.

Motherfucker that's my point you don't just get to go 60IQ conspiracy theory and then pretend you believe in the process now. Fuck that.

"People on [the internet] will really be like 'you believe in voting? that pales in effectiveness to my strategy, firebombing a Walmart' and then not firebomb a Walmart."

If we want to talk about how fucked our media environment is I am right there with you and that to me is a much more fruitful area to focus on than the boring old "voting doesn't matter, uniparty" bullshit.

The parties couldn't be more different right now. Does that make Democrats perfect or even good? Not really but they are in fact quite different than Republicans and stand for quite different things.

Yes, it matter quite a lot.

Hold on a second, if it was fixed from the start then why was there months of consternation and intrique when Bernie was running around winning early states and grabbing momentum? All part of the show? Every person is in on it?

I remember in 2020 when Biden was considered a longshot still until the SC primary. All part of the show?

This is why conspiracy theorists simply cannot be taken seriously, it's "all roads lead to Rome" all the time. It requires a level of shutting of your brain to any common sense that you might be unable to care for yourself.

For me, in 2026, anybody who talks in such cynical, doomer language need to answer one question before we even think about taing them seriously: who have you been voting for?

The past decade of learning about the structure and function of the US government has made me far less cynical about the actual government and far more cynical about the voters who decide who should run it.

Anger is an emotion and your purposeful and bad faith ignorance is engaging. Shrimple as.

"Thats just slavery with extra steps"

Just stop letting them do it. It's not a right, we can just say no.

Because it was the 1950's you numbnuts when did the concept of chromosomes come about? Like 50 years prior and the 48 number came from a guy counting with a fucking microscope

A guy counted wrong and you're ready to throw science out the window.

As for Wegener maybe stop just listeneing to what whatever dumbfuck Rogan has on this week and at least do the bare-fucking-minimum and read the Wikipedia.

Alfred Wegener has been mischaracterised as a lone genius whose theory of continental drift met widespread rejection until well after his death. In fact, the main tenets of the theory gained widespread acceptance by European researchers already in the 1920s, and the debates were mostly about specific details.

And yeah, we all know the story of Semmelweis. That means we don't have to believe climate scientists eh? What would Semmelweiss himself think?

God this is stupid. Do you get how stupid this is? I don't know or have the patience to explain to you just how stupid this argument is.