Why are they wording this as if it’s some kind of secret plan, quietly happening behind the scenes?

It’s not like gerrymandering is a new concept or something…

Heck, I’m surprised Abbot’s response to this isn’t “Yeah, no shit sherlock. What’s your point?”

Well. They didn’t though. In court they say that they don’t, they wouldn’t, and would never dream of defying court orders.

I’m not sure exactly what the rest of your stream of consciousness was supposed to say, but they absolutely did testify in front of the Supreme Court that they would defy court orders that they didn’t like.

It’s close, but it’s still not as good as Trump supporters praising MAGA and denying COVID exists as they are literally taking their dying breaths.

How is this remotely newsworthy? Trump has been openly defying court orders since the start of his 2nd term. Heck, they testified in front of the Supreme Court that they intended to defy court orders they didn’t like. They’ve said it during press briefings. At this point, they might as well start selling T-shirts.

Anyone planning on doing anything about it? No? DIdn’t think so.

They’ll probably just say that every individual child has to be named, and that children that do not yet exist can’t be plaintiffs in a lawsuit.

I’ve never understood this logic. If they were able-bodied enough to do that kind of labor, wouldn’t they be…you know…working? They’re on Medicaid for a reason, right?

Yeah, I know, I know. The GOP and logic don’t mix. I get it. But it just boggles my mind how simple concepts like this escape them.

I think it’s less about politics and more about the way the US handles things in general.

We don’t take preventative steps, even to problems we can see coming a mile away. We don’t discuss alternatives. We pretend the issues don’t exist until we can’t pretend the issues don’t exist any more. Then, after a few rounds of running around like our hair was on fire while trying to convince people “Nobody could have seen this coming!”, we react. And by “react”, I mean grossly over-react and enact the first knee-jerk reaction we can think of regardless of whether it actually solves the problem, and even if it just ends up making the problem worse. And then it’s all about keeping up the security theater.

It’s the American way.

Honestly, if it takes the Trump administration to get rid of pointless security theater policies like this that have never actually accomplished anything or stopped an actual attack, I’ll take it as a win. Silver linings and all that. Even a broken clock is occasionally correct, even if only for a second.

To be fair, this is generally the result whenever a company allows its AI to be trained on unfiltered data from the general public. This is far, FAR from the first time an AI went full racist in record time once it was allowed to start interacting with people.

It reminds me of a conversation I had with another user the other day. If a reservoir contains 99% water and 1% shit, the entire reservoir is still undrinkable. These companies keep allowing people to spill far more than 1% shit into the reservoir and wonder how we still end up with nothing but 100% undrinkable shitwater.

With that said, this result is only exacerbated by the fact that the people who would be interacting with Grok on X are themselves more likely to be anti-semitic due to the political leanings of the site and the ideology that is allowed to openly spread since Musk took over.

After this administration, good luck getting the undocumented to cooperate with law enforcement on anything ever again.

At this point, these aren’t even protests any more. They’re glorified parades. All they’ll accomplish is making people feel good about themselves for mildly going out of their way on their day off from work to attend a protest that will barely get any news coverage at all and will be all-but-forgotten by breakfast in the morning. They’re nice-and-neatly scheduled, at pre-approved places, held on the weekends, where they can easily be ignored by the very politicians that these people are protesting against in the first place.

Wanna actually protest? I’m not saying pitchforks and torches and guns and stuff. Protest at the offices of these representatives. Make it impossible for those office workers to conduct business or even get into their office. Demand that your representative get on a god damned plane even if they’re in the middle of DC to fly home and address their concerns. Prepare to stay for days if you have to. Do not move even if the authorities tell you. Stay and camp. Block traffic. Prevent local businesses from conducting business until they also pressure the representatives to show up. If they do force you to disburse, show up the next morning. Let them waste resources driving you out every single day.

Protest their houses too. Every single one they own, if they own multiple. Don’t let them sleep comfortably in their own beds. If they’re renting those homes to others, don’t let them sleep comfortably until they call their landlords and demand they show up. One way or another, make these representatives fear being pulled out of office by the short-and-curlies, if not outright fear for their lives.

I mean, you can continue to pull your government-approved permits to hold government-approved protests at government-approved locations on a day that is most convenient for you, between the hours of 9 and 5 while making sure to not so much as mildly inconvenience the very people you’re protesting against, and then keep wondering why nothing ever changes. But if you can organize 10,000 people to show up at what amounts to a glorified Kumbaya session, you can have those people show up in front of their homes or offices just as easily and at least have a chance of putting real pressure on these people.

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Did you just interrupt him while he was making a mistake?!?!?

To be fair to them, they’re in the superminority right now so all they’d be able to do is feelgood grandstanding.

What pisses me off is that only 5-6 of them could actually have been bothered to try. All 43 of them should have been showing up there in unison and demanding entry. At least show a united front, for the love of God. But they can’t even be bothered to do the bare minimum grandstanding, let alone actual action.

I’m sure that Ron DeSantis will take the opinions of the half a dozen or so Democrat lawmakers out of 43 in Florida’s state government that could be bothered to show up very seriously, and it will be a top priority of the DeSantis and Trump administrations to address those concerns along with the other numerous legal and Constitutional issues surrounding the compound.

Until the crisis is over. Then they go right back to supporting Trump.

And after this ordeal is over, I’m sure that just like all of the other families that have been through this, they’ll see the error of their way anlololololoololololol, sorry, i couldn’t even finish saying that with a straight face.

Of course they’ll go right back to supporting Trump, just like all the others. Trump could fuck their wives and they’d sit there watching like a cuck with a MAGA hat on.

Centrists as in centrists. People who are center-right aren’t going to join a party that intends to go far left.

If Musk launched a party with large enough base support of clueless morons to destabilize both Rep and Dem parties, that would create space for the creation of a liberal/left party,

Actually, a new party that successfully pulls from both parties would most likely be centrist at best.