No no officer I didn’t say antifa. I said I was a fashopp (Fascism Opponent)

Unless they strongly protect the compact (such as putting it in the state constitution) they can just as easily repeal it. And honestly it would be downright negligent to not add an escape hatch.

Someone from an offending state can sue their state for ignoring a law they passed.

I’d also expect a bunch of lawsuits the first time a candidate wins a state but the compact flips the result.

What about recent American politics gives you the impression that states will act in good faith? Hell, look back even farther at the slave state collusion for Mexican territory, secession, Reconstruction fuckery, Jim crow, etc…

The only limit to states acting in bad faith has historically been the federal government. When states start fucking around too much, laws like the Voting Rights Act get drawn up to claw more power away from them.

IMO the state-federation experiment has all but failed and the majority of good faith states need a proper convention to build a modern government. Choosing now of all times to put your faith in those anti-democratic, Christo-fascist slave states is the dumbest option possible.

So, as in my original comment, you would expect the blue states to graciously allow Texas + Florida + a few other deep red states to unilaterally declare the winner by leveraging the compact’s EC votes? When push comes to shove this compact will either be kingmakers or fall apart.

It can’t enable anything without federal oversight via a constitutional amendment. Voting is within the purview of each individual state, so the states in this compact have no oversight on their peers (let alone the powers to demand a recount or rerun the election).

For example, let’s say 20 states make up exactly 270 EC votes. The popular vote within those states (if allocated proportional to votes) ends up as 136/270 to candidate X. The other 30 states report universal support for candidate Y.

By rights, Y should win with 402 EC votes and 74% of the popular vote. But if the compact chooses to ignore those states as fraudulent then candidate X wins with a mere 26%.

Similar fuckery can happen with late reporting of votes or a state in the compact reneging on the agreement and voting against the rest. There’s absolutely nothing binding about this, it’s just a pinky promise among these states.

Not necessarily good or bad. There’s nothing binding here, just based on good faith reporting. Best case scenario would be all blue states and a few less-red swing states signing on, effectively disenfranchising red states.

Of course I’d bet any amount of money that SCOTUS would rule that a plan like this can’t leave out any state’s reported result. From there it’s a simple step to say “Texas and Florida are reporting 99% votes for Trump”, allowing their large populations to rig the results.

Simple: try putting it in each hole and if the car doesn’t work just take it back out

Disagree pretty hard. SciFi has always been a medium for exploring the philosophical and political. Every description of a future dystopia/utopia is social commentary; every alien race is a commentary on xenophobia or cultural exchange. Hell even his own books explore…

If you don’t want politics in your books SciFi is probably the worst place to look. Someone should tell him to stick to… idk… character driven romance novels or something.

What part of reinventing the wheel is slashing NASA’s budget to shreds? This is just the last public test flight before space is walled off as a playground for the rich. They’ll get their tourist flights and luxury colonies and nice vacations from the boiling toxic hell they turned earth into.

If you think any resources are going to trickle down to us earth peasants, I’ve got a moon base to sell you.

Democrats are shit but God what I wouldn’t give for politics to no longer be a playground for twitch streamers, failed TV actors, retired sports stars and podcasters. Anyone with a mic and inflammatory hot takes can be a political force majeure without any risk, effort or leg work.

Even though they’re both influencers, I respect the shit out of Kat Abughazaleh for the bare minimum fact that she’s actually out there organizing and helping her community. Hassan can say similar stuff from his $2.7m mansion but that doesn’t mean he deserves the same respect.

Just use USPS to send out a letter

You are registered to vote absentee and your ballot should arrive on [Date].

However, due to federal election interference we cannot guarantee you will get your ballot by mail. If there is any delay we recommend you contact this number XXXX for direct delivery/transportation services or retrieve a new ballot in person at [Address]

Would still suppress turnout but at least there’s no ballot to confiscate

“Made a mess” is bullshit phrasing. These fuckers were complicit in the smash and grab looting of America for decades.

From what I’ve seen this is already happening, along with other engagement drives like circulating petitions and recruiting for mutual aid or collecting aid donations. Those efforts can vary by location but it’s certainly not “just standing around with signs” like critics say.

Well you have to remember that Franks house is on an adjustable rate mortgage and his Tundra still has 80 months left on the loan. If the income gets cut, the rug gets pulled on everything and people wake up real quick.

It’s illegal for unions to coordinate a general strike. If they were signed on they would be pretty careful about it. That’s why the UAW president was making waves by suggesting that everyone set their contracts to end on the same date.

Without existing strong organization you’re probably right, but it’s more likely that the wheels will come off and a general strike would happen naturally with rising inflation and unemployment.

The shitter things get, the less tight your social ties need to be for collective action. Everyone’s implicitly on the same page when you start missing meals.

Babe please, I promise it’s medicinal

Why use a computer at all, it’s the first step towards mass surveillance, better go back to the abacus!

This but unironically

Afaik that can only be recycled with pretty energy intensive arc furnaces or regular fossil fuel combustion. No accessible fossil fuel limits you to fallout style scrap-tech, which is probably not sustainable for a long term 17-18th century civilization.