American Politics VII: Virginia Reel

[The Temple of the Computer]

Return West Virginia to Virginia

This, unironically. West Virginia's statehood is completely unconstitutional. It's admission to the Union violated Article IV, Section III, Clause I.

Was Virginia v. West Virginia a supreme court case exactly about this?

[Lord Dominator]

This, unironically. West Virginia's statehood is completely unconstitutional. It's admission to the Union violated Article IV, Section III, Clause I.

Was Virginia v. West Virginia a supreme court case exactly about this?

Yes

[Antipatros]

Bit of a new dump

U.S. House panel probing Jan. 6 Capitol riot issues 11 subpoenas

WASHINGTON, Sept 29 (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives Select Committee has issued 11 subpoenas in its investigation of Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol, the panel said in a statement on Wednesday.

U.S. House panel approves three bills aimed at tackling high drug prices

WASHINGTON, Sept 29 (Reuters) - The U.S. House Judiciary Committee voted on Wednesday to approve three bills to stop practices drugmakers use to raise prices and fend off competition, including a bill to ban the tactic of paying generic companies to delay bringing cheaper versions of their medicines to market.

Democrats weigh first nationwide fee on plastic in U.S. budget negotiations

WASHINGTON, Sept 29 (Reuters) - U.S. congressional Democrats are considering including the first federal fee to tackle plastic pollution in the multitrillion-dollar reconciliation bill, a proposal that is drawing opposition from the plastics and petrochemical industry.

Biden 'deeply engaged' in negotiations with lawmakers-White House

WASHINGTON, Sept 28 (Reuters) - White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki told reporters on Tuesday that U.S. President Joe Biden is deeply engaged in negotiations over spending legislation that he is trying to get through the U.S. Congress.

[Comerciante]

Return West Virginia to Virginia

This, unironically. West Virginia's statehood is completely unconstitutional. It's admission to the Union violated Article IV, Section III, Clause I.

Maybe Virginia should have thought of that before trying to secede.

[Lord Dominator]

This, unironically. West Virginia's statehood is completely unconstitutional. It's admission to the Union violated Article IV, Section III, Clause I.

Maybe Virginia should have thought of that before trying to secede.

I do honestly find it pretty ironic the whole switch in terms of which Virginia is the “better” one

[Jeriga]

Ugh... GMS is back? Why.

[Jeriga]

Return West Virginia to Virginia

This, unironically. West Virginia's statehood is completely unconstitutional. It's admission to the Union violated Article IV, Section III, Clause I.

Yes please return west Virginia to Virginia. Get rid of 2 senators

[Greater Miami Shores 3]

Ugh... GMS is back? Why.

The same thing you are doing and we are all doing, expressing our political views. You are anti Republicans and anti Trump and I am Pro Republicans and Pro Trump, it is called Freedom of Speech and Democracy. GMS.

[Kowani]

Senate to take up clean Continuing Resolution at 10:30 tomorrow, which should give the House enough time to vote on it and avoid a government shutdown

debt limit remains untouched

[Postauthoritarian America]

More political violence

Arson investigators are searching for a man who placed a molotov cocktail and a "threatening note" inside the Travis County Democratic Party headquarters in Downtown Austin in the early morning hours Wednesday.

A small fire broke out just after 2:15 a.m. at the headquarters located at 1311 E. Sixth St., and employees in the neighboring businesses called 911 and put out the flames with a fire hydrant. Brandon Jennings, an arson investigator at the Austin Fire Department, said at a press conference later in the morning that video from the surveillance cameras showed a man mulling around the building before he threw what appeared to be a rock at the window on the front door. The man is then reportedly seen coming back into view with a Molotov cocktail that he placed inside the door. Jennings said it's also believed that he put a commercial smoke bomb inside the door.

The building had minor damage, and no staff was inside the building when the fire happened.

When asked if the Molotov cocktail could have destroyed the building, the fire investigator said, "absolutely." Katie Naranjo, the Travis County Democratic Party chair, spoke at the press conference. She said the man left a threatening note that was "political in nature."

The man was described as wearing a gray shirt with black shorts, black and gray tennis shoes with a flag bandana on his head. He was wearing a mask.

While fascists firebomb their offices prominent Democrats in the nation's capital still won't consider dumping the Senate filibuster in order to save the nation's faith and credit from the enablers of violent insurgency in Congress. O tempora, o mores.

[Cannot think of a name]

Ugh... GMS is back? Why.

Oof, for a second there I thought he made yet another puppet to get around people blocking him. GMS puppets outnumber the rest of my foe list in total. It's fucking ridiculous.

[Maricarland]

Who else thinks that DoorDash should be nationalized and put under the control of the United States Postal Service?

This way we don't have a middle man trying to make profit off of customers, businesses, and drivers. Customers and businesses can be assured that prices are not inflated by Door Dash keeping prices relatively lower and competitive, and drivers can be assured a decent pay (and since most people can sign up to be drivers, this could even serve as a semi, partial, or pseudo job guarantee, since we apparently are unwilling to establish a true job guarantee). We could also use this service as a way to provide healthy meals to people whom are elderly or disabled, or groceries for people in general during lockdowns due to pandemics or other emergencies.

[Maricarland]

Also, who else is positively giddy about the fact that the Arizona State Democratic Party is subjecting Sienna to a vote of no confidence (basically ending her career as an Arizona Democratic politician after her current term is up).

[Cannot think of a name]

Who else thinks that DoorDash should be nationalized and put under the control of the United States Postal Service?

This way we don't have a middle man trying to make profit off of customers, businesses, and drivers. Customers and businesses can be assured that prices are not inflated by Door Dash keeping prices relatively lower and competitive, and drivers can be assured a decent pay (and since most people can sign up to be drivers, this could even serve as a semi, partial, or pseudo job guarantee, since we apparently are unwilling to establish a true job guarantee). We could also use this service as a way to provide healthy meals to people whom are elderly or disabled, or groceries for people in general during lockdowns due to pandemics or other emergencies.

Yeah, but then someone would come along with the big brain idea of making them pay their pensions a 100 years in advance or something and then go, "Look how broken the DoorDash system is!!!"

[Lord Dominator]

Why Doordash, but not any of its competitors?

[Maricarland]

Who else thinks that DoorDash should be nationalized and put under the control of the United States Postal Service?

This way we don't have a middle man trying to make profit off of customers, businesses, and drivers. Customers and businesses can be assured that prices are not inflated by Door Dash keeping prices relatively lower and competitive, and drivers can be assured a decent pay (and since most people can sign up to be drivers, this could even serve as a semi, partial, or pseudo job guarantee, since we apparently are unwilling to establish a true job guarantee). We could also use this service as a way to provide healthy meals to people whom are elderly or disabled, or groceries for people in general during lockdowns due to pandemics or other emergencies.

Yeah, but then someone would come along with the big brain idea of making them pay their pensions a 100 years in advance or something and then go, "Look how broken the DoorDash system is!!!"

That is a depressing thought, and unfortunately very likely. In the U.S. we have a number of elected official responsible for governing the country, whom are opposed to governing the country or any semblance of functional government or democracy.

[Maricarland]

Why Doordash, but not any of its competitors?

How about all of them? I just picked DoorDash, because it has the largest market share at 56%.

[Kowani]

Biden administration to undo Trump change, draft rules to govern the killing of wild birds by industry and resume enforcement actions against companies responsible for deaths

[Lord Dominator]

Why Doordash, but not any of its competitors?

How about all of them? I just picked DoorDash, because it has the largest market share at 56%.

Okay, so why does the government need to have an interest in general food delivery - their combined customer base still doesn’t sound like it approachs a significant fraction & the cited potential for say pandemic delivery doesn’t require nationalizing the whole company/industry.

[Maricarland]

How about all of them? I just picked DoorDash, because it has the largest market share at 56%.

Okay, so why does the government need to have an interest in general food delivery - their combined customer base still doesn’t sound like it approachs a significant fraction & the cited potential for say pandemic delivery doesn’t require nationalizing the whole company/industry.

Because the way food delivery works right now inflates the price of food, and food is essential to the survival of living things, including people (and the government should work for the people, but even if they don't care about the people they should at least care to keep the peace - hungry people = revolutions), so it is in their interest to keep food prices low. Some people may also have difficulty getting food without assistance (particularly some of the elderly and some disabled people), and many people live in food deserts. If the government does not wish to nationalize an existing food delivery service, they can at least create their own public competitor (just like how the USPS is a public competitor to UPS and FedEx and so on...).

[The Emerald Legion]

Okay, so why does the government need to have an interest in general food delivery - their combined customer base still doesn’t sound like it approachs a significant fraction & the cited potential for say pandemic delivery doesn’t require nationalizing the whole company/industry.

Because the way food delivery works right now inflates the price of food, and food is essential to the survival of living things, including people (and the government should work for the people, but even if they don't care about the people they should at least care to keep the peace - hungry people = revolutions), so it is in their interest to keep food prices low. Some people may also have difficulty getting food without assistance (particularly some of the elderly and some disabled people), and many people live in food deserts. If the government does not wish to nationalize an existing food delivery service, they can at least create their own public competitor (just like how the USPS is a public competitor to UPS and FedEx and so on...).

Door Dash isn't a necessity. It's a convenience. Taco Bell isn't part of a nutritionally balanced diet.

Also, the elderly and disabled make poor revolutionaries typically speaking, while the able bodied are more than capable of getting food without door dash.

[San Lumen]

https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/pol ... 914924001/

Wisconsin GOP lawmakers want superintendent, treasurer and secretary of state appointed, not elected.

In other words we lost so we want it to be appointed therefore if we lose the Governorship we can refuse to vote on the nominee.

[Kowani]

Maine becomes second state to sign their new congressional maps into law

[Tarsonis]

Because the way food delivery works right now inflates the price of food, and food is essential to the survival of living things, including people (and the government should work for the people, but even if they don't care about the people they should at least care to keep the peace - hungry people = revolutions), so it is in their interest to keep food prices low. Some people may also have difficulty getting food without assistance (particularly some of the elderly and some disabled people), and many people live in food deserts. If the government does not wish to nationalize an existing food delivery service, they can at least create their own public competitor (just like how the USPS is a public competitor to UPS and FedEx and so on...).

Door Dash isn't a necessity. It's a convenience. Taco Bell isn't part of a nutritionally balanced diet.

Also, the elderly and disabled make poor revolutionaries typically speaking, while the able bodied are more than capable of getting food without door dash.

I don't think they mean Uber eats, but rather bean pod. Some people can't go to the grocery store and rely on services to bring their food to them.

[Cannot think of a name]

Door Dash isn't a necessity. It's a convenience. Taco Bell isn't part of a nutritionally balanced diet.

Also, the elderly and disabled make poor revolutionaries typically speaking, while the able bodied are more than capable of getting food without door dash.

I don't think they mean Uber eats, but rather bean pod. Some people can't go to the grocery store and rely on services to bring their food to them.

Uber Eats also does grocery delivery. So does Doordash. Uber bought Postmates. I don't know what's going at Grub Hub, which is sad because they were doing this before it was cool. I remember getting Grub Hub deliveries when I was in San Francisco and that was forever ago.