What a pathetic twat Drinky Pete is.

What a fuckin demented rapist shit-for-brains loserdome.

I think he meant in a technical way, whereas a mutistate compact could go kablooey mid-election if it didn’t have standards and such.

Not that the EC “works” like it’s preferable

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Fuck this article. Who fucking owns CNN again? I mean which right-wing billionaire?

Yeah, do we want to spend the floor time passing a legal safe abortion law or gutting ICE or holding up pictures of trump with 14-year olds and impeaching Clarence “Buy Me an RV, Wink Wink” Thomas?

There will be some traffic flow decisions. Mostly budgetary, or any law the republicans try to staple the kitchen sink to. It is not going to look like this piece of shit bad faith billionaire propaganda guano wants to make it look.

What if we don’t have any of those

True. Although you can just get Writer which isn’t crazy big.

Significant consequences, eh

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All y’all have called your reps / senators, yeah?

But the current proposal that states are adopting doesn’t have any national body at all to oversee the vote tally, and you think that’s a serious problem too.

Yes, it’s Scylla and Charybdis. Here are the problems on the other side.

Let’s say, California says, “Gee, let’s let 17-year-olds vote because there’ll be more Californians in the national popular vote that way.” Then Florida says, “We’re going to let 16-year-olds vote.” And then Arkansas says, “We’re going to let dogs vote. Or we’re going to let parents vote for 12-year-old children.”

Some states make it really easy to vote and register to vote, some states don’t. Is it really a national popular vote — a “one person, one vote” system — if you have huge variation in voter eligibility, voter registration, administration on Election Day, or election month as it is in some places.

Or, states agree to this plan. They add up to 270. And then as Election Day approaches, something may happen in an individual state, and they try to back out. What’s going to happen in that situation? Or what if they don’t back out in advance of the election, but try to change their rules after election day? What happens if a state supreme court says, “That’s not consistent with our state constitution?”

What I don’t want is for a deeply imperfect, historically tainted Electoral College system — that for all its flaws, actually works — to be replaced by a possibly catastrophic, legally glitchy new system where we don’t know who’s president, where we don’t know who won the popular vote.

Okay then.

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The GOP’s “family-first” motto is a pile of horse shit

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We can talk about history, we can analyze texts

Good examples of theology, yes.

but there is seemingly no actual god to study

You’d acknowledge there are questions, though, that often get attributed to a god of some sort? Where did the earth come from, why do the seasons change, that sort of thing? Western empirical science being a very relatively recent addition to our societies, those questions exist and, theoretically, or perhaps heretically, have answers that perhaps science is unable or unwilling to put forth.

People must stop reinforcing deadly delusions.

No argument there.

It’s in our shared best interests to believe whatever is most likely true, not whatever we want to be true.

Also agree. So. What’s the deal with platypi? Or UFOs? Because science is really dragging their heels on those.

Yeah well Theology as a discipline doesn’t have much to do with that. Admittedly, probably more responsible for any of it than, say, geology. But “The study of the nature of God and religious truth; rational inquiry into religious questions” isn’t good or bad by itself. Unless any discussion about “g*d” is bad.

Which, it sounds like it is for you, so - okay. No theological questions for you.

Theology is a result of people refusing to admit “I don’t know.”

Heheh. Ok.

I’m not responding to you specifically at this point, just ranting about the deadly bullshit that ruined my life and continues to threaten us all.

Ah. Yes, well I’m sorry about that and hope no one has to put up with any such bullshit in the future. Fwiw I’m very much in favor of the separation of church and state, as they say. Its interesting though that we somehow won Kansas and that seems to have been in part because a Methodist minister ran. If good can come out of that - and I expect it to - then, great. But no to the bullshit.

Well, theology is a thing.

Old Testament is . . . yeah.

Totally blew the lid off the conspiracy!

Ouch