my OTHER point is that anyone who says "the filibuster isn't written down anywhere so why do we even have it???" has a bit of a neocon-pilled view of how politics work that ignores the broader context of an extratextual constitution.
November 8, 2025 at 6:43 AM
my OTHER point is that anyone who says "the filibuster isn't written down anywhere so why do we even have it???" has a bit of a neocon-pilled view of how politics work that ignores the broader context of an extratextual constitution.
my POINT is that there is no way that alexander hamilton, sitting down, writing the US constitution, would have said ANYTHING LIKE "haha, this text is so perfect and captures every eventuality so clearly, i sure hope nobody ever extrapolates beyond what i put down on paper"
November 8, 2025 at 6:23 AM
my POINT is that there is no way that alexander hamilton, sitting down, writing the US constitution, would have said ANYTHING LIKE "haha, this text is so perfect and captures every eventuality so clearly, i sure hope nobody ever extrapolates beyond what i put down on paper"
and then a couple years later, the convention evolved further to allow for the response to a lack of confidence of "hmmm i think you're wrong about what everyone wants and we're gonna go have a general election to prove it"
November 8, 2025 at 6:21 AM
and then a couple years later, the convention evolved further to allow for the response to a lack of confidence of "hmmm i think you're wrong about what everyone wants and we're gonna go have a general election to prove it"
literally the revolutionary war ended because the novel, completely unwritten, concept that the government should be accountable to parliament resulted in the ousting of the hawkish Tory government and the forming of a Whig government that was willing to negotiate
November 8, 2025 at 6:15 AM
literally the revolutionary war ended because the novel, completely unwritten, concept that the government should be accountable to parliament resulted in the ousting of the hawkish Tory government and the forming of a Whig government that was willing to negotiate
"get five more seats" when you've already crammed every district you can to be 50.1% republican and 49.9% democrat: hard!
"get five more seats" when your districts have specifically been drawn to be nonpartisan and your major cities are all 60/40: much easier!!!
"get five more seats" when your districts have specifically been drawn to be nonpartisan and your major cities are all 60/40: much easier!!!
November 5, 2025 at 10:31 PM
"get five more seats" when you've already crammed every district you can to be 50.1% republican and 49.9% democrat: hard!
"get five more seats" when your districts have specifically been drawn to be nonpartisan and your major cities are all 60/40: much easier!!!
"get five more seats" when your districts have specifically been drawn to be nonpartisan and your major cities are all 60/40: much easier!!!
the great thing about starting the counter-gerrymander now is that we get to do it in a situation where we haven't already backed ourselves into a corner with increasingly extreme gerrymanders over time
November 5, 2025 at 10:27 PM
the great thing about starting the counter-gerrymander now is that we get to do it in a situation where we haven't already backed ourselves into a corner with increasingly extreme gerrymanders over time