I like the fact that you consider 51 to be young.

(More important of course is how wrong AI can be on even simple matters, and how so many people don't care).

I think it's not the percentage, it's the turnout. To win Benh needed turnout to be much higher in Davidson than anywhere else.

Made a donation to Mother Jones after reading this, because this is what journalism should be.

So either their rising star is a wanna-be abuser or their incumbent leadership is trying to frame him. Not sure which puts the party in a worse light.

He gets nuttier all the time. I think he has pushed the idea for politicians before but extending it to public servants shows he knows nothing about the public service.

Oh well, I guess it's lunatics running the downstairs flat for the foreseeable future then.

What if, hear me out, Canada and Mexico both join, with each province getting senate seats, thus restoring sanity to congress.

Yes it's a sacrifice, but it might save the world.

Referencing Romneycare suggests ideas from single states count. I've seen reports of Utah Republicans doing a few good things that none of their counterparts have taken up, some I think relatively recent.

The epitome of adding insult to injury.

It might interest DC residents to know that the Australian federal parliament has a similar power to override the laws of the Australian Capital Territory (Canberra) elected assembly, and the Northern Territory. As far as I am aware, they have been used twice in 30+ years.

I don't think it is a real change of heart; I'd bet plenty it won't last long. But most Australians, me included, thought the same thing when Senator Jacquie Lambie started backing away from the worst things she'd said, and my god were we amazed. Not expecting lightning to strike twice though.

I'm worried about people who think that all members of an ethnic group should be held responsible for the crimes of a section. That includes the justification of mass slaughter of Gazans for the crimes of Hamas, and it also includes people who hold all Jews for those atrocities.

I'm aware of that. I'm also aware that someone tried to burn down my local synagogue during evening prayers a few months ago, and someone succeeded in burning down another synagogue in my city a year earlier. It's not the same persecution as Blacks and Latinos, but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist

It depends on the sort of discrimination you are talking about. If you mean "likely to be refused a job or a rental because of their identity" then the discrimination is low. If you mean, "likely to have someone try to burn down your place of worship" then it's higher than most minorities.

Sure apartments are woke. Didn't you hear that speach (CPAC I think) about how the further people live off the ground the more likely they are to become left wing?