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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • Other sponsor state Rep. Beth Lear gave us a comment, saying, “When states, including Ohio, began mandating untested and unproven mRNA shots as a condition of employment and education, I and many others around the state and nation awoke to the massive government overreach that was taking place.”

    Ms. Lear, if you didn’t want the superior mRNA vaccine, you could have still gotten the NON-mRNA Johnson & Johnson old school viral vector vaccine and still met the vaccine mandate. Even today if you are still afraid of mRNA, you can get the modern Novavax NON-mRNA protein subunit vaccine. Now stop lying please.





  • It’s all fun and games until Republicans use this as an excuse to further enforce their fascist agendas.

    Republicans are marching National Guard soldiers into the largest cities in America on exaggerated “crime fighting” excuses. They have established an unaccountable militia with ICE hiding their identities and violating the civil rights of American citizens on exaggerated or fabricated drug/violence reasons. They’ve needed no legitimate excuses to do these things, yet they are actively doing them. This changes nothing on that front.








  • “The state’s case hinged on the definition of ‘weapon’ with regard to the sandwich. Since the sandwich was from the well known chain ‘Subway’ the state was arguing no reasonable human being would consider it food for human consumption, and as such, it should be classified as a weapon. In a close decision it was rule that the sandwich was indeed ‘food’ and not a weapon. So justice prevailed today protecting the defendant from further charges, but humanity is still burdened with Subway being legal to sell as food.” /s



  • And even in states with closed primaries, lots of people register to influence the other mainparties candidates because their party can’t/won’t win at the state level…

    This. Those that do this got to vote against trump twice: Once in the primary, once in the general. Also “registering” in some states is simply saying the name of the party when you vote in the primary. You are given that party’s ballot, and your name shows up as “registered” for that party.


  • In practice this would require the second group to basically have a switch that switches all voters’ preferences. So I don’t think that’s gonna work here.

    That wouldn’t be the variable choice by the second group in what I’m suggesting.

    In this scenario if the first party choices algorithmic weights which favor their voters, given them a controlling outcome, the second party would be able to substitute their own weights making the algorithm shift the districts to give the second party the control. The rules would forbid baking the weights into the algorithm meaning the first group would work very hard to produce an algorithm producing equal representation districts without being able to swing it either way by weighting it.


  • My only qualm with that is that if you select an algorithm, it needs to be selected, which means that the people in control of that selection can decide what’s non-partisan in the selection criteria.

    Anyone with a sibling that has had to divide something equally to share it knows how to solve this. One group chooses the algorithm and the second group chooses which side they get to on.

    The first group, who have the power to introduce bias disadvantaging one side cannot benefit from it, and worse, they’d hand the power to the second group. It forces the first group to choose a method with built in equality because the second group could force the first group to take the disadvantaged side.




  • Lets test your logic some more:

    If a person got in their car to drive to their drug dealer to buy drugs (a crime in most places), and he got in a car accident with an unrelated driver, then died, wouldn’t your logic say the drug dealer should be charged with having some culpability in the driver’s death?

    Do you believe that is the law currently? Do you believe the drug dealer should be charged with a portion of the responsibility of the death because the driver wouldn’t have left the house this time unless he wanted to buy drugs?


  • Yeah this is a dumb take. If I lured an elderly person down a dark shaft with the promise of something and then he got lost / died / tripped in the dark and couldn’t get help I would be charged with at least endangerment.

    Except that’s not what happened here. To use your hypothetical: You would have convinced the person to go to the dark shaft, but on the way to you he tripped on the stairs at a regularly used and maintained subway platform and died, you would NOT be charged with endangerment. He hadn’t gotten to the dangerous place yet where you were creating dangerous conditions.