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Turkish Leader Proposes Öcalan's Parole if Violence is Renounced
Unexpected Proposal for Öcalan’s Parole from Turkish Leader The leader of Turkey’s far-right Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), Devlet Bahçeli, has made a surprising suggestion regarding Abdullah Öcalan, the imprisoned head of the militant Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). Bahçeli stated that Öcalan could potentially be granted parole if he publicly renounces violence and formally disbands the PKK.…
#constitutional changes#DEM#Devlet Bahçeli#Kurdish rights#Nationalist Movement Party#Öcalan#parole#PKK#prison#Recep Tayyip Erdogan#terrorism#Turkey#violence
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One Nation, One Election: Parties Divided on Constitutional Changes
The debate over the “One Nation, One Election” proposal has sparked mixed reactions among political parties, with 15 parties opposing the idea, including four national parties, while 32 parties express their support. Here’s a breakdown of the diverse opinions presented to the panel led by Ram Nath Kovind:
Supporting Parties:
The BJP and its ally, the National People’s Party (NPP), constitute the only national parties backing simultaneous elections.
Other supporting parties include the AIADMK, JD(U), Biju Janata Dal, Shiv Sena, Akali Dal, and several regional parties.
Opposing Parties:
The Congress, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), and CPI(M) are among the national parties opposing simultaneous elections.
Additionally, parties like Trinamool Congress, AIMIM, CPI, DMK, and Samajwadi Party have expressed their opposition to the proposal.
Key Points Raised:
The Congress highlights concerns about the proposal’s impact on the Constitution’s basic structure and federalism.
The BSP emphasizes the need to strengthen existing electoral systems before implementing significant changes.
The CPI(M) criticizes the proposal as anti-democratic and detrimental to parliamentary democracy.
Trinamool Congress questions the constitutional implications and structural impact of One Nation, One Election.
AIMIM underscores the importance of respecting voters’ choices and preserving India’s electoral democracy.
All-Party Meeting:
An all-party meeting convened in Delhi saw 16 out of 19 parties favoring simultaneous elections, including ruling parties in several states.
The BJP’s allies, JD(U), Akali Dal, and Lok Janshakti Party, were among the supporters, while the CPI(M) and AIMIM opposed the proposal.
The debate on One Nation, One Election reflects the diversity of opinions among political parties, raising crucial questions about constitutional changes and electoral democracy in India.
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Been feeling frustrated recently
Feel free to read more about it: https://x.com/trendasia_org/status/1826241657169436841?s=46
#my country is in shambles#the government is attempting to change the constitution so the current president’s son can be elected#basically trying to change the age restriction. his first son already won the presidential election as the vice president.#using character with IP is not advisable so I draw this one without any flags/symbols/slogans#but people who knows will know#genshin impact#my art#fanart#kaeya alberich#kaeya
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hey americans, please fucking vote this year! thanks!
signed,
the rest of the world
#if you do not fucking vote we will ALL FUCKING DIE#like i am NOT kidding!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! we will fucking die#i don't care if you don't agree with biden shut the fuck up and keep that orange clown piece of shit out of office#ukraine will fall. isreal will be funded to continue the genocide.#like are you fucking serious? genocide joe against trump's rain of terror? if you do not vote blue you will not have fucking rights lmao#he will try to change the constitution “oh it won't actually go through”. are you fucking insane???? ARE YOU ACTUALLY INSANE?????#unfortunately your stupid fucking president has the power to destroy everything. we ALL don't want that but! unfortunately! it's true!#so shut the fuck up and fucking vote blue or choose to fucking die#this goes so much further than the vapid americans think. this impacts literally all of us. ALL. OF. US.#*reign#like y'all actually think not voting will help.. anything? except give power to the already alt right govts?#this is literally what they want
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Watching Kafka and Reno’s interactions at the beginning of the Kaiju No.8 anime hits differently after catching up with the manga.
Reno protesting Kafka’s carelessness with his Kaiju form is a fun gag early on in the story, and his decision to stick with Kafka during the exam is endearing—but it’s amplified and almost sad in retrospect.
Manga spoilers from chapter 101 onward below the cut.
We learn in Ch. 101 that Reno has suffered a huge amount of loss in his life.
He lost his parents and brother. He lost the familiarity and daily routine of attending his existing school. He lost emotional security, witnessing his grandmother’s struggle with their mutual grief. He lost faith in the idea that someone might help.
Only for Kafka to trip headlong into correcting that belief.
Despite Reno’s disrespect, Kafka fully embodies his senpai title by teaching him the tricks of the trade. He looks out for and helps him without hesitation, and he brushes off any jabs or insults with a quick, internal wince.
And then Kafka absolutely shatters his core beliefs by shoving him out of a Kaiju’s path.
This guy—a guy Reno barely knows, a guy that he insulted seconds into their first meeting—is willing to die for him without hesitation.
Is it any surprise that Reno really would rather not lose him?
All of those reminders and all of that fussing is to keep Reno’s only hero from being scrapped for literal parts.
For the first time since the death of his family, someone steps between Reno and tragedy. Of course he’s going to do everything in his power to keep that savior alive.
#kaiju no. 8#kafka hibino#ichikawa reno#kn8#and that doesn’t even begin to cover the senpai title#they both join the third division at the same time#they’re effectively peers there#Kafka is only his senior in age#and culturally I’m not sure if that would typically constitute a change in honorifics#but you can’t tell me Reno would ever want to use anything else#it’s open acknowledgement that Kafka is looking out for him.#a way to prove that he’s grateful for it#can you tell I’m a little unwell about the intergenerational friendships in this series#respectfully sir
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For once I actually went through the Arcane AMA and found those quotes about Silco's motivation. It's kind of wild to see it in full context.
First, I didn't even know the "dirty little thing" insecurity was an agreed upon perspective, I just thought it was one writer's opinion but no, Christian Linke (Praeco) let us know that was Silco's thing. Ok. I can see how that can tie in to how Silco and Jinx connected, personal insecurities from a hard life.
But then Amanda Overton (leeloo104) goes into detail.
I already know the creative team said they don't think political struggle is "relatable" (yikes), but I've never seen this extra tidbit before!
What do you mean this all so Vander will respect Silco again?!!??!? First of all I could really go in about how Arcane's team seem incapable of having any character fully articulate an actual in-depth explanation about on their grievances with the status quo and what changes should be applied that isn't somehow about familial validation. *looks at Jinx*
Instead, we need unpack how this motivation is at best, very weird, or flat out doesn't make sense. The quote makes it sound like Zaun was fully Silco's idea to win back Vander's love and respect, but Silco said a free Zaun was their shared dream. And regaining Vander's respect seems like a moot point when Silco killed Vander.
Unless Silco knows Vander isn't dead, and that Singed's been slowly turning Vander into Warwick. But then why does he talk to the Vander statue like Vander is dead? I don't doubt Silco wouldn't visit Warwick even in Warwick's confused state. Either way, the Vander that Silco wanted to receive validation from doesn't exist anymore.
I get that they probably wanted to connect Silco's motivation to Jinx's obsession with Vi, but that can be problematic too! It just ends up where Silco and Jinx are written in a way where their search for emotional validation takes precedence over any attempt for them to communicate a coherent and detailed observation on the surrounding politics of their environment.
It would be one thing if they were minor characters, or this was just related to Jinx because she's the youngest in the cast and her story is about understanding who she is. But it's both of them, Silco's at least in his forties, and they're a part of the main cast. On top of that, I'd say their the two most politically influential Zaunites in the cast, and we know NOTHING about what they stand for, what they think the future should look like. Nothing, just vibes.
#arcane#arcane meta#silco#why is it that the two zaunites that affect the most political change for zaun both have motivations#that can be boiled down to “notice me senpai”????#except senpai is their older sibling#it's so odd to see writers admit that stories about freedom and independence are uninteresting and “unrelatable”#when a*dor and a bajillion other pievlces of media exist#this quote is how i know silco had no friends except his daughter cuz if my friend told me they did all this for some guy#who tried to kill them I'd tell them they need to love themselves#and then i'd demand they show me a draft of their constitution cuz this CANNOT be the backbone of their motivation#i am ready and willing to ready the arcane explanation of Vander's betrayal if i think it's dumb or not dumb enough to have fun with#jinx arcane#silco and jinx#vander arcane
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US americans.... you'd better be fucking voting
#nothing hotter than doing your civic duty and putting in effort to make positive change!!!#friendly reminder that the ballot is more than the presidential race#adding same sex marriage and right to abortion as amendments to the state constitution are on the ballot in Colorado!!!!!#preventing trophy hunting of mountain lions and bobcats!!!#whether or not we should change how we do primary elections and have a primary where we can vote for anyone of any party!!!#there are other things happening than the presidential race#not that it's not important. obviously I give a fuck about who ends up president#but for people who don't: at least vote on the other issues#anyway this is my one political post for the year#not voting is not the same as boycotting you are simply giving up your power
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get remixed, bitches
#spider man: across the spiderverse#spider punk#spider noir#hobie brown#noirpunk#UNIVERSE SIGNATURE SWAP WOOHOOO#the quotes on noir are part revolutionary poetr and part The Constitution#specifically the bit about how the people are allowed to overthrow the government if it sucks#i thought their personalities might be a little more muddled too#noir’s more upbeat and jaunty while hobie gets a lil serious#not much changes story wise for them though#the picture of new york is mine!! i think it’s nyc but i can’t remember#noir in color is so cursed. i don’t like it. this was fun but i’m not doing it again#honestly the more i look the more i dislike#oh whatever it’s good enough
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Article Date: 7 June 2023
Climate litigation in the US could be entering a “game changing” new phase, experts believe, with a spate of lawsuits around the country set to advance after a recent supreme court decision, and with legal teams preparing for a trailblazing trial in a youth-led court case beginning next week.
The first constitutional climate lawsuit in the US goes to trial on Monday next week (12 June) in Helena, Montana, based on a legal challenge by 16 young plaintiffs, ranging in age from five to 22, against the state’s pro-fossil fuel policies.
A federal judge ruled last week that a federal constitutional climate lawsuit, also brought by youth, can go to trial.
More than two dozen US cities and states are suing big oil alleging the fossil fuel industry knew for decades about the dangers of burning coal, oil and gas, and actively hid that information from consumers and investors.
The supreme court cleared the way for these cases to advance with rulings in April and May that denied oil companies’ bids to move the venue of such lawsuits from state courts to federal courts.
Hoboken, New Jersey, last month added racketeering charges against oil majors to its 2020 climate lawsuit, becoming the first case to employ the approach in a state court and following a federal lawsuit filed by Puerto Rico last November.
the new forms of climate litigation are different, as they grapple not with particular projects’ emissions, but on responsibility for the climate crisis itself. Sokol, who dubbed these new suits “climate accountability litigation”, says though they will not alone lower emissions, they could help reshape climate plans.
In the US, this litigation has taken a variety of forms; perhaps the best known cases are based on constitutional rights and brought by youth.
One of those cases, Held v Montana, is based on the state’s constitutional guarantees to a clean and healthy environment, which were enshrined in the 1970s and which the plaintiffs say the state has violated by supporting fossil fuels. It will next week become the first-ever constitutional climate lawsuit to go to trial in the US.
Held v Montana followed the highly publicized 2015 Juliana v United States in which 21 young people from Oregon sued the US government for violating their constitutional rights to life, liberty and property by enacting policies that drove and exacerbated the climate crisis. The case, which like the Montana suit was filed by the non-profit law firm Our Children’s Trust, calls on federal officials to phase out fossil fuels.
Last week, a US district court ruled in favor of the youth plaintiffs, allowing that their claims can be decided at trial in open court.
Litigation based on state constitutional rights, also filed by Our Children’s Trust, is currently pending in four other states. One of those cases brought by Hawaii youth is set to go to trial, possibly as soon as this fall.
Another set of lawsuits in the US allege that the fossil fuel industry has for decades known about the dangers of burning coal, oil and gas, and actively hid that information from consumers and investors. Since 2017, seven states, 35 municipalities, the District of Columbia, and one industry trade association have sued major fossil fuel corporations and lobbying groups on these grounds.
In late April, lawyers for the city of Hoboken amended a 2020 complaint to allege that the defendants violated New Jersey’s racketeering laws by conspiring to sow doubt about climate change.
It marked the first-ever state-level lawsuit of its kind, following one last year in which 16 Puerto Rico cities brought federal racketeering charges, originally used to bring down criminal enterprises like the mafia, against big oil.
Unlike some previous cases, Hoboken’s amended lawsuit focuses not only on past misinformation, but also on contemporary greenwashing – something that could feature prominently in future cases.
A study last month examined litigation against fossil fuel majors and found that the filing of a new case or a court decision against a corporation took a slight toll on their finances. Novel developments – including a groundbreaking 2021 Netherlands court ruling ordering Shell to substantially slash its carbon emissions, and an unprecedented transnational claim filed in 2012 by a Peruvian farmer against a German energy company – yielded bigger blows.
Sankar, of Earthjustice, said he expects to see new forms of climate litigation in future years. “As the impact on states and localities increases, they are increasingly going to be looking for ways in which their state and local laws protect them,” he said.
(shinigami red links in this post go to The Guardian)
Article Date: 7 June 2023
Article Source: Dharna Noor for The Guardian
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Thanks so much to @queerce for submitting!
#queerce#climate justice#greenwashing#climate litigation#lawsuits#hoboken#new jersey#puerto rico#united states#netherlands#peru#germany#earthjustice#racketeering#climate change#oregon#montana#constitutional law#supreme court#scotus#good news#hope
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Donald Trump has conned nearly half America into thinking that with over a dozen failed business, 6 bankruptcies, and defaulted loans, that he’s a successful businessman. He’s conned nearly half America into thinking that despite having multiple wives, with multiple children, that he cheated on all of, while settling rape cases out of court, being adjudicated for rape, bragging about sexually assaulting women, that he’s a moral Christian man. He’s conned nearly half America into thinking that despite his only accomplishments while in office being a massive tax break that only benefited the upper 11% of earners, lowering Americans standing around the globe, dividing this country like no president ever has, that he was a great president. He’s conned nearly has conned nearly half the country into thinking that despite losing the last election by huge numbers, then refusing to concede, makes a scheme to create fake electors to defraud the American electorate, when that doesn’t work then he tries to intimidate local officials to “find” votes for him, all the while he’s been removing nuclear secrets, war plans, state secrets and classified documents, when he knew he lost the election, to hide at his various properties, he baselessly claims the election is stolen, even though he filed 64 lawsuits, recounts and audits in every state contested, riling up his base in false accusations, incites a coup to stop the certification of the election he lost, betraying his oath to the Constitution, that he should be president again!
He hasn’t conned us! We see through his con and call bullsh*t! Donald Trump is a failure, a rapist and a traitor. He certainly doesn’t belong in the White House.
Vote Kamala Harris and Tim Walz at the top of the ticket, and blue all the way down, if you want to see the change in this country we deserve!
#election 2024#vote blue#politics#traitor trump#kamala harris#news#the left#donald trump#republicans#gop#vote kamala#kamala for president#kamala 2024#kindness#trump is a threat to democracy#harris waltz#harris walz 2024#women voters#vote vote vote#trump 2024#declaration of independence#democracy#democrats#please vote#america#american people#climate change#liberty#the constitution#go vote
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The latest 5-4 episode, on Hans v Louisiana, highlights a big problem with the history of the Supreme Court in the U.S., which is that a lot of Supreme Court decisions are the product of really specific political pressures--in this case, the lack of political will by the federal government in 1890 to enforce federal power against the Southern states thirteen years after the Compromise of 1877--for which the Court often acts as a release valve. But, because of the nature of the court and the structure of American law, these high-context political decisions have to be framed as eternal and general principles of law, which exert a heavy influence on later decisions of the Court. Sometimes, as with Hans (which made enforcement of civil rights more difficult) this might be consonant with the political outlook of the original decision, but sometimes it's just complete chaos. Cases like Bush v Gore that have no systematic principle behind them, but nevertheless have to be framed that way, to the detriment of future case law.
I don't know that this is a fully solvable problem! Certainly the small size of the Supreme Court introduces more variability into its decisions; that plus its highly politicized system of appointments makes it a really obvious place to fight for power; and the lack of a clean separation between its role as an appellate court and its role as a constitutional court muddles things further. But even if you could go back in time to expand the court massively, have cases heard by randomly-selected panels, split off the constitutional function into a separate court, and try to implement some kind of non-partisan appointment commission (all of which would require significant constitutional changes), I don't think you would necessarily get a different outcome in Hans, just because of how fundamentally apathetic the federal government was at the time to political dysfunction in the South, and how clearly they had demonstrated an unwillingness to actually follow through with the premise of Reconstruction.
I'd say that the thing that might help most in preventing decisions like Hans becoming millstones around the neck of future generations would be a willingness to call out obviously political bullshit masquerading as timeless legal principles, but I think nowadays people are pretty willing to do that. Bush v Gore, DC v Heller, Merrick Garland, Clarence Thomas's corruption scandals, and various other cases and stories have been a sharp reminder in recent years to anyone who was laboring under the illusion that SCOTUS really was an impartial machine of law, and even people who think it could or should be that are not very likely to claim it is right now.
But if the Supreme Court is going to be an ordinary political organ, I sort of think we should treat it like one, and just directly elect justices for fixed terms. Would that introduce grubby, messy electoral politics into the august body? Of course. But grubby, messy electoral politics is already there, the augustness is a sham, and presently the way that the court functions makes it a weird, tiny, by-appointment-only, members-serve-for-life third chamber of Congress, an American version of the Guardian Council, which is really bad for the coherent functioning of the political system.
#obviously this would require radical constitutional changes and so will not happen#but i think the same is true of my preferred slate of reforms#which is basically what i describe in the second paragraph above#unfortunately the *realistic* prospect#is that the other branches of government continue to have to route around the Supreme Court#in order to actually do stuff that kavanagh gorsuch thomas alito and barrett disagree with
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can anyone who even remotely gives a shit about letterboxd and/or using/seeing custom posters please upvote my suggestion on their feedback forum?
apparently tmdb (where letterboxd hosts their posters from) is cracking down on "fan art" which even includes posters that are simply changed to black and white or have a different text color, even if everything else is the same.
i, and a lot of other people, put a lot of time and effort in to customizing our lists. this is why i pay to be a patron on letterboxd. unless they decide to host somewhere else or make it so you can upload a custom poster right to letterboxd, i literally don't see a point in paying for it anymore.
pictures for example (and follow me here if you want to):
literally none of these posters are the originals. every single one is custom. i didn't make all of them, but i have made well over 300 and have spent hours doing so. i understand that this might not be important to everyone, but like. can i please have a little joy in my life?
anyway, moral of the story: please upvote my suggestion here.
#letterboxd#ramblings#im legitimately upset about this#tmdb literally suspended my account even though i had no idea i was doing a Bad Thing#like i guess i get not allowing fanmade works but how does making a poster#black and white and pink constitute fanart??#im not changing any of the details or uploading a totally different poster#IM MAD OKAY
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If you don’t mind, I’m gonna yap for a second.. I think another problem with Kab is how sudden the turn around was. Like in the first convo where Kab was acting “evil”, Zam fought back with the argument that she’s wasn’t really evil at all and I think he did believe that at least a little. And if Kab slowly began to turn her path around then he would be a bit more trusting cause he would have SEEN her actual emotional growth but the turn around was so fast, it feels like there was no emotional growth at all and that Kab is still the same as before, cause she basically is. She still wants Mane dead no matter the cost and she’s still, intentionally or not, trying to manipulate Zam, but she wants to be treated as if she’s had that whole long term emotional growth
yeah ii think this is where her majority experience with short-term smps really bit her in the ass, i think there are two main directions that other ppl take it tho: 1. is as what you speculate in that some ppl think that she hasnt had genuine growth and hasnt changed at all and 2. that she genuinely changes too quickly and is therefore unreliable regardless of if shes being honest or not
i think the reason zam was so receptive to her in silent scream was cause this has been a recurrent plot point for a couple streams now, kab trespassing zams base to yap while zam tries to decipher her wants and motivations until eventually she just let it all out and in that instance i think he did genuinely believed that she changed even if it was slowly/just a little bit
....but then die for you happened lol
ssee the thing about kab is that shes shes all-or-nothing, going from one extreme to the next after just a little bit of change in character which can be jarring to some ppl to say the least (unless you thought she was lying and therefore any character development shouldnt be believed i suppose) but is something that was a great asset in shorter and arena-based smps where you had to get as much advantage against your opponent as possible without having to worry about the long-term consequences of these actions ie them not trusting you while still having to interact often in mundane ways even after messing with them. while she Can be swayed this only really works with things she was already unsure of which while a great motivator and trait to keep her on track with her goals (again another great trait for short-term smps), can be really jarring and distressing for other ppl if the things she was absolutely sure about goes against their own perspective like for example her thinking that derapchu killing her constitutes zam getting payback for her as the protector of the server (The protector, not A protector like zam insists, The protector of the server)
i think shes far too used to the fast-paced instant acceptance of changed personality in arena smps that is a natural consequence of them being short-term and having a revolving door of members and teams which is why she expects ppl to accept her growth and efforts so quickly even if realistically nobody would hand over their trust that easily esp after essentially being harassed in their own home multiple times, like even in normal smps where theres a baseline amount of trust ppl still wouldnt trust you after doing that, what more in a server like lifesteal where general trust is low basically all the time?
#mine.ask#Anonymous#i wrote most of this at like 2 am cause i couldnt sleep so i hope this is understandable lol#like. kabs actions are logical sure but its one extreme to the next#even zam takes at least a couple weeks before changing into something opposite than he was#and hes one of if not the most fickle ppl on the server#like. idk. ive noticed from tge beginning that kabs lore is pretty fast-paced compared to everyone else#but after she got fixated on zam it increased by a lot i feel#like hating him one moment then loving him the next#like damn girl is he your fp /j#but yeah a lot of things kab does can be explained away by the fact that shes never really had to deal with the long-term consequences#of fucking with someone#whether it be because of the fact the smps she was in were short ones or cause clown was there to get rid of her opps#and like. in a regular smp maybe ppl would believe her more#but this is ls where all the players are accutely aware of the fact that trusting the wrong ppl could get them killed or worse#and kab not only has an untrustworthy rep thanks to money smp (that she was was proudly flaunting)(also derap is here)#but her still continuing to lie and manipulate ppl does not make ppl want to give her the necessary baseline trust#that would constitute believing in her whenever she changes her mind/direction#and unfortunately for her; now that shes been established as untrustworthy on lifesteal itself#(compare her rep to wemmbu whos rep comes from non-ls smps and is proudly trustworthy and loyal on ls itself)#that baseline trust is gonna be really difficult to go against#i was gonna give spoke as an example but then remembered he manipulated pbaj during the election arc lmao#but uh yeah reputation is really important on ls whether the players like it or not and kabs rep is unfortunately not the best#like bruh zam thinks shes less trustworthy than Spoke#do you have any idea how untrustwortthy someone would feel you are to get that low on the trustworthiness tier???#like damn it hasnt even been a full season yet
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"asoiaf is based off the middle ages, they should be wearing this! [posts 16th century fashion]"
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#silence bottom#asoiaf#before anyone gets on my ass#bc i know tumblr bitches are pedantic af#yes yes the end of the middle ages is not agreed upon#however the medieval era also doesnt actually exist#its a category later historians came up with to cover a span of ~1k years#given how Rome-focused the Western world is#given how the middle ages BEGINS with the fall of Western Rome#it makes the most sense it would end with the fall of Eastern Rome#that being 1453 with the fall of Constantinople#sure one can make a great argument that it would be as late as 1527 with Charles V sacking Rome as it represented a departure from &#consequently loss of power of the Catholic Church which was the beating heart of the medieval era#but so much changed by the time 1500 rolled around that i cant really see how the sixteenth century constitutes being included in the#medieval era yknow?
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to every US leftist ready to endorse a third party candidate for president:
the problem is that only two states support ranked-choice voting for electors. only two. all the rest are winner-takes-all. this, THIS RIGHT HERE, is why people keep saying 'you're throwing away your vote' or 'you're just throwing a wrench in the works.' it's not because y'all don't have legitimate grievances or because other parties don't have tenable policy ideas. it's because 'third' parties rarely win a plurality of the popular votes in any state (and thus, all that state's electoral votes), let alone a majority of all electoral votes in every state. without ranked choice voting, the most 'third' party candidates will ever do is siphon electoral votes away from the nominal left. 4% of one state's popular vote doesn't mean shit if that doesn't translate to electoral votes.
if you actually want to see real change in this system, please please vote for the candidate most likely to win AND least likely to install a totalitarian theocracy. then let's put some muscle into dismantling the 'winner-takes-all' electoral system. each state decides how it assigns electors. you can actually campaign for ranked-choice voting where you are. this is what will give other parties a fighting chance at winning elections here.
#us politics#ranked choice voting#the electoral college#ppl complain about this shit every four years#no one does anything to shift it#my country is a strange place#the electoral college is part of the constitution#so good luck changing THAT#but the actual allocation of those votes is up to the states
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