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In Michigan yes! But before we start sucking each other’s dick Hershel Walker might still be a Senator.

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“Start” sucking each other’s dicks?

Re: Implanting Bill Gates's Micro-chips In Brains For Over 20 Years!
 

Two words: “get Viagra” so we can be done?

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Michigan's legislature historically did the redistricting after each census. At some point the Republicans controlled both houses. The districts became severely Gerrymandered and the Rs have controlled both houses since. We are a pretty blue state (we just passed a proposal to amend the State constitution to prevent any law restricting abortion by about 55% as an example). but we kept getting crazed laws whenever we had an R Gov.

In 2018 a ballot proposal took redistricting away from the legislature and appointed a commission with 4 Rs, 4 Ds and 1 independent (I do not know how someone proves they are independent). They redistricted after 2020 census. On Tuesday the Ds took both houses handily.

I don't think people are using the power of ballot proposals anywhere near what they should be doing.

Re: All my joking about the youth in this country
 

The kids are alright.

Re: Implanting Bill Gates's Micro-chips In Brains For Over 20 Years!
 

I wish to holy hell we had them down here for this and abortion.

of course, California is a cautionary tale of when ballot proposals go insane.

Re: Implanting Bill Gates's Micro-chips In Brains For Over 20 Years!
 

I know, right?

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Totally varies state by state. There's way too much of it in California. ETA As RT said. Every election we get to vote on whether to make it impossible to run a dialysis clinic, and this time we had two internet gambling measures to reject, so there'll probably be more of that.

Re: All my joking about the youth in this country
 

Yeah, but our generation is a bunch of fuck-ups.

Re: All my joking about the youth in this country
 

True enough.

Completely separately, I take it as a point of personal pride that I can run an online forum 1024 weeks longer and much more effectively than the richest person in the world can.

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And a thrash metal drummer might cost him $56 billion - https://news.yahoo.com/elon-musk-bra...110518667.html

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I don't really dislike either of them too much. Oz was a boring moderate R and Fetterman does have an earnest focus on helping the "left behind" sorts in PA.

My gripe about populists supporting Fetterman is he attracted a lot of the dim voters. People for whom residence is most important, and "lookin' like us." I'm more annoyed that the Commonwealth is so provincial, so parochial, than I am at Fetterman. He actually ran brilliant campaigns to position himself to beat Conor Lamb in the primary and then to beat Oz in the general.

Trump courted the same populists in 2016. Grabbed the "You can have a beer with me, and I'll bring your jobs back" vote.

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Say what you will about referenda, but they do hedge against personality cults and tyranny of the minority.

The country supports abortion rights. In states where abortion has been restricted, a thin band of officious legislators thwart the wishes of a significant majority.

But that can't happen when referenda are passed blocking those legislators' ability to fiddle with abortion rights. As we saw happen in 6 states, many red ones, this cycle.

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Dude