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It's an egregious conflict of interest.

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shapeshift!

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I recently have gotten more into learning about congressional caucuses, mainly how republicans are united under one, and democrats are more evenly split between the New Democratic Coalition, and the Progressive Caucus

IRT the recent post, and what one might do about that, do you think splitting the democratic party into two more ideological parties (moderates and progressives) would allow the moderates to eat away at some conservative support, while allowing progressives a more open platform for their ideas and building a base of their own?

seems to me at least republicans have been so successful because of their party discipline and ideological focus in terms of marketing—where democrats suffer. moderates don't want to be seen as too progressive, and progressives are demonized as being secretly moderate.

or maybe it's better to erode support as one united coalition, and only afterwards to think about splitting? I am just mostly interested in the idea of trying to get a multi-party system off the ground here in the US

Two important points. First, I don't think that the Democrats are more internally divided in their caucus structure than the Republicans are. House Democrats have the Progressives, New Dems, and Blue Dogs; House Republicans have the Freedom Caucus, the Republican Study Committee, and the Main Street Caucus.

Second, while splitting both of our parties up into several smaller parties is a scenario I dream of, you can't just decide to do it without changing our electoral system. If you split the Democratic Party in two without any electoral reforms, then one of the two would dominate the other until they merge again.

The US two party system is not just a coincidence, it is actively encouraged by the way we structure elections. Using first-past-the-post plurality elections encourages voters to sort themselves into two parties to avoid "wasted votes" on smaller third parties; we'd need instant-runoff elections or proportional representation to change that. Third parties also face a lot of structural barriers put in place by our two main parties, policies put in place to disadvantage third parties and independents via ballot access, debate invitations, registration fees, public campaign financing rules, etc., etc.

We can choose to end the two-party system, but doing so means choosing to further democratize our elections.

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"Oh you had a plague? Come back to us when you had a World War, brand new unconventional weapons, and a new international order."

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Friendly reminder that you're not required to publicly take sides in any geopolitical conflict you don't understand.

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okay now I'm curious and I dunno if this is really such an archaic foreign thing to young people today or if I'm just out of touch

Please reblog, I'd love to see a lot of responses!

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Please reblog

Australian KOSA is occurring right now

They are banning anyone under the age of sixteen from almost all media sites, including YouTube now.

They are including sites they promised they wouldn’t include

They are using inaccurate face scanning tech that does not accurately know your age

The other option is using government IDs

Neither is wanted.

PAY ATTENTION TO THIS RIGHT NOW. PLEASE JUST FOR A MOMENT

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nothing better than the wrong capitalization of Sie

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Bookmarks are now in stock! Let me know what y'all think of the prices, these are the first bookmarks I've had LOL. Who do you want to see on the next bookmarks?

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Cats getting caught doing crimes

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"crash out" already has a meaning which is to fall asleep. cut it out

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hey guys check it out I can do a frontside 180 with my stomach haha