What's your opinion about Congress's shape after abolishing the Senate? Unicameral? Personally, I'd like to see it replaced with a proportional party-list body.
That way, you replace 100 for 100, and don't have to transfer any of the Senate's responsibilities to the House.
Especially because in my experience when people have asked for other kinds of trolls and bad faith actors to be removed on the defederation level, the common retort is to just block them yourself (which, to be fair, I support as steps between nothing and defederating)
Important to know is that this is only possible because someone from a +19 Democrat district got elected, then flipped parties. So not only is this overriding a governor in order to Rule over their Betters, someone outright betrayed their constituents to do so.
I mean, the line has to fall somewhere and there are neighbors in different towns and cities and even states in some places, what's the big deal about a district?
Well yeah, they hate the idea of planned parenthood. The desirables of society are supposed to be married expressly for the purpose of bearing children, and anyone else is supposed to have it thrust upon them whether they're ready, want it or not.
I came here to comment this. I'm glad this was at the top when ranked "hot" for me. Every time I see a headline like this I die a little inside, I'm so sick of this naive attitude in general society when dealing with theocrats.
“You know, now that this asshole mentions it, maybe we shouldn’t host stuff from these piracy communities as Lemmy’s largest instance. That might create problems for us down the road.”
I'm almost certain that's what actually went down, but I'm explicitly referring to the issue of people's perception.
Almost all of us end up creating a home system that works for the least tech-savvy in the home.
That's where I started, as a kid still at home in the 2010s. I used plex, I've been getting progressively more frustrated with it, but not sure how I'd switch to something else.
I genuinely think that the best remedy to this is to give SAG and the WGA everything they want in negotiations. It would fundamentally alter the economics of streaming if they are subject to the same sort of residuals and writer's room requirements as traditional media.
If the media corporations have their way, they're gonna break the strike by outlasting them until they "start losing their homes" from being out of work for so long that they're forced to acquiesce. Then we're gonna really get awful content as no one will be able to take any significant risks to write a weird TV pilot or make a unique movie.
I mentioned earlier or elsewhere on this thread that right now, the narrative that I'm aware of is as follows:
Lemmy.world users: just vibing, doing their thing
Concern troll: comes in with a freshly created account to pearl-clutch about scary illegal things
Lemmy.world users: hahaha look at this loser downvotes them to oblivion, resumes vibing
Lemmy.world Admins: Piracy?! OMG that's ILLEGAL, thank goodness someone pointed this out to us
If they had an existing stance on piracy, they should have been already enforcing it. Then it wouldn't look like they were successfully spurred into action by a bad-faith actor.
So many laws work like this too, it makes them worthless if personal wealth is required to get them enforced. If Section 230 only exists for the wealthy and corporations, the fediverse isn't gonna get very far
I sort of believe that at any given moment, most countries host between 15-30% of its population that could be considered fascist. This isn't a problem with a civically engaged populace that can easily take part in elections, which is precisely why the right wing wants to control the "quality of voter" and make it into a privilege, not a right.
The US in particular has structural problems that have, since it's inception, unfairly benefited the most reactionary segments of the US population, more so than even other liberal democracies.
Like, I think people are upset about blocking the piracy communities, sure, but I think that the real issue is that it feels like everyone is just vibing, doing their thing on their lemmy instances, then this troll comes in all fake concerned about breaking rules, gets utterly piled on naturally, only for the admins in question to come in and "side" with the "loser" in people's eyes.
I think that many people identify as pro life are simply ignorant, so if I want to change that, I'm not gonna get very far by calling them anti-choice because they'll immediately shift into the defensive.
Not the people I'm talking about. Far more people hold partially formed, vague opinions about these things than believe in the Christian rights view entirely.
What's your opinion about Congress's shape after abolishing the Senate? Unicameral? Personally, I'd like to see it replaced with a proportional party-list body.
That way, you replace 100 for 100, and don't have to transfer any of the Senate's responsibilities to the House.