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If this works, you will become embarrassingly rich. My fingers are crossed.

More of a temper tantrum. This happened back in July, after he lost the primary to a MAGA Trump supporter. (He has been fighting with Trump for a while, so he was targeted for primarying.)

So he introduced this bill, where it promptly died in committee. I don't know why anybody would submit it to HN now. I suppose that might be election theatrics.

People would still downvote. It's just that it would be limited to the people who are really intent on it -- that is, the brigaders. It's not like they're going to have any trouble coming up with an excuse.

So you have excluded the people who are casually reading the site and wish to filter out poor-quality comment. But the people who you wished to exclude won't be slowed one iota.

(I wouldn't usually say this but... I will greatly enjoy the irony if this comment gets voted down.)

Too bad this is just pre-election grandstanding. It's a really good idea.

Usually we don't talk about a bailout until a catastrophe is underway. Then they say "We need to fix this now, because of systemic risk, and we'll worry about preventing future problems later". Declaring "we will not bail you out" before the bankruptcies tells everybody that they'd better protect themselves from moral hazard.

This is a good test case, too. The AI companies aren't nearly as intertwined with the rest of the economy as the banks are. They can fail without kicking off a domino effect. Let them.

I hope it doesn't go away. I have a soft spot for Miquelon. It is part of France; they use the euro and have EU citizenship. It's the last bit of France still in North America.

The other guy didn't win, either.

He needs to decide what to do about those Arab parties that Netanyahu claims stole the election. He could turn them into allies, and win the election together, which would piss off a lot of people in his own party. And those people are tempted to jump ship over to Netanyahu, giving the election to him.

So the other guy is making a lot of phone calls right now. It's gonna be a rough day for him.

Did you read the rest of the article?

* real efforts by some Republican-led legislatures to restrict access at the margins*

The lies about early voting, the lies about voting machines and efforts in some state legislatures to roll back some of the election integrity and convenience measures

He says that they "almost all" failed -- meaning some are succeeding, and they're always disenfranchising the same people. The average is better, but that doesn't tell you anything about those worst affected.

He's also not talking about gerrymandering, which has gotten worse and worse over time.

That's not "unfortunate". It was a deliberate choice. Any term used to describe the problem is treated as if it meant something bad, and then we're told we can't talk about it because it's "politicized". As if the entire point of the political process was about something other than resolving disagreements.

A tool like this would have been more useful over the summer, when the primaries were being held. Those are multi-way elections, with candidates holding a diversity of opinions. That is your best opportunity to sway policy.

By the time it reaches the general election, those policies are set. Regardless of what your candidate believes, they are going to vote with the party practically all of the time. Your chance to inform the party platform was during the primaries.

Honestly, the most important vote they cast is the first one, for Majority Leader/House Speaker. That determines the entire agenda for the next two years. If they lose that, nothing else they believe matters, because it won't come up for a vote.

Thanks for writing this, and it's useful to give it a test run now. But it'll really become useful around January 2028, when primaries ramp up.

Folks forget or underestimate how bitter the opposition to the Civil Rights Movement is.

White folks, that is. Black Americans are acutely aware of it.

Civil Rights legislation is being rolled back, to enthusiastic cheers. A lot of people never got over the Civil War, and are still trying to prove that somehow they were right all along.

That opens a can of worms that you're never going to close.

Maybe this is such an emergency that it's worth the risk. But the risk is extremely high; if you do it to them, even with the best of reasons, they are going to do it back to you for any reason they can think of.

Congress is largely impotent. Even if Democrats take both houses, it won't be by a veto-proof majority. Congress was designed to be "deliberative", so it has ceded more and more power to the executive branch just so anything actually gets done.

Zuckerberg knows that the power is on Pennsylvania Avenue, not 1st St. Maybe he'll change his mind in a couple of years, but he's going to spend those years doing his best to ensure that he doesn't have to.

How do I get in on that gig? I showed up because I thought I was protecting democracy from a felon who is taking billions in bribes. Like a chump!

He probably can rename New Mexico. Not formally, but he can tell government mapmakers to do it, and require it on government communications. Google would probably follow, after deciding that the national mapping authority overrides the local mapping authority.

It wouldn't change the actual name, as registered in law, and all of the things done by the state government wouldn't change. I'm not sure if it would affect the Post Office.

It would be a massive bureaucratic nightmare, but seeing it on Google would suffice for him.