Recent content by Arwon

https://jointcenter.org/how-to-reduce-long-lines-to-vote-joint-center-policy-brief-2/ https://www.carnegie.org/our-work/article/racial-disparities-mean-black-and-latino-voters-face-longer-wait-times-election-day/...

Which is very much by design, though I think often the people doing the vote suppression policies in the US are using race as the proxy rather than income

There's two party systems and then there's two party systems. Other FPTP places like the UK and Canada still do have minor parties getting an appreciable fraction of the vote, albeit heavily impeded by the tactical voting dilemma etc. But the US also has a bunch of ballot and funding and...

I think this is pretty presidentialism focused, the electoral college is silly but you're still inescapably electing just one person there. Short of switching to parliamentary republic, or a Swiss collective executive, about the best that can be done with a presidency is a two round system.

The problem with the US Senate isn't so much that it's malapportioned, in a federation upper houses are generally designed that way because federations exist where there's sub national units of diverse sizes and dispositions and a political system has to cater to that. For example, North Rhine...

The lunatics think their god intends to use Israel as a sacrificial pyre to summon the end times. That's why all the "god gave it to them" stuff.

Lmao what does this even mean dude It sounds like an arson threat tbh

Guardian Australia explainer - What implications does England’s review of trans healthcare have for Australia? (Very important that it's the Australian Guardian team here and not the British lol)

The whole project was explicitly defined as colonial by the Zionist movement themselves in the late 19th and early 20th century. There's a lot of quotes where they talk about the colonisation project.

Yeah I do lose track of which states are backwards in which things tbh

https://www.outinperth.com/cook-government-to-abolish-gender-reassignment-board/ The most backward state in trans rights becomes a decent amount better

Nah, that's just a nickname that's been used for as long as I can remember for things like flu vaccines. For example in 2010 from the national broadcaster when small kids were having reactions to that years influenza vaccine: "Parents recount flu jab nightmare"

Settlers did a pogrom in a West Bank village - https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-gaza-hamas-west-bank-war-f85997a95d5579159ffe83d2c0cb988e

Frpm the Sydney Morning Herald: Israeli military shooting at vehicles marked with aid organisations again, this time a UNICEF convoy. Thinking this targeting of aid workers might go like the bombing of hospitals has gone, moving from "oh of course they'd never deliberately target them" to it...