Approval of measure could determine if Republicans keep full control of government in next year’s midterm elections
It was a decisive victory for Democrats in deep-blue California, who had raced to counter a gerrymander in Texas, engineered at the US president’s behest, to carve out new safe Republican districts. The Associated Press declared Proposition 50 had passed almost instantly when polls closed statewide.
In approving the measure, voters chose to toss out the work of California’s independent redistricting commission and temporarily adopt maps drawn by the state legislature to help Democrats pick up five additional seats in the US House of Representatives.
Newsom and Democrats framed the measure as a way to safeguard US democracy from Trump’s “wrecking ball” presidency. By contrast, opponents offered a mixed message, with Republicans alternatively attacking Newsom and praising the work of the independent mapmaking panel.
I’m not a troll, I’m am quite serious. I am also aware of the rhetorical device used by a lot of republicans and other countries’ hiding fascists.
Seeing how the status quo speaks of something, whether that is left wing or right wing can help to understand where the divide is and help close it. I’m not a holy centrist, I would do things for which I will be put on a list if I say them out loud to have a world without billionaires.
But if republicans say this shit in advance to the exact opposite thing happening, that’s powerful, because they can leverage that. It doesn’t have to be true for that.
I’m making an observation that hopefully some less american-brained people will read exactly the way I wrote it and think about it.
So you guys can demonstrably show the community what a bad guy I am, but the people outside your fascihole of a country will work on this with me. I am also not the first one who has pointed this out either, it’s just not on your land.
So I’m neither trolling, nor am I unaware of the rhetoric you speak of, nor am I one of your enemies. And I will continue speaking these things wether I find acceptance or not.
You don’t have to interpret everything I say. You can also just read it as it stands there. You could also just help me to mark any future posts such as this one so people know it is meant literally. But no, you don’t care about that, do you?
So I’m not American, I’m Canadian.
Your entire comment reads liek that one comic “ahhh but you participate in society I’m so smart”.
No one is arguing what you said to be true or not. If it’s that’s simple, then was it wasn’t really going to spark discussion. Did you really just intend to make a dead end statement?
No one is saying you shouldn’t speak, it’s just none of us want to listen anymore.
Also, to communicate is to interpret. That’s just how language works. An artist doesn’t get to determine how their work is seen. Its to be interpreted. What you say (and don’t) still says alot about you.
Sorry, I just hate americans. I have met a lot of nice people, but never knowingly a nice american. The worst wars I see originate from them. They bring destruction to the world, to my friends. And I know there must be some pretty incredibly people over there, but I am yet to meet one in person. I view them as uneducated and moronic. That’s on me.
I did not intend to make a dead end statement. But I most definitely wasn’t going in the direction where I was justifying gerrymandering on the republicans side for the reasons that they did it. What I did intended to make was an observation. No emotions behind it, no alterior motives, just an observation. I’m aware that them saying it is equal is false, but that’s doesn’t me saying that they say it is false. It brings attention to the issue. Which I would say, despite me getting cyberbullied into oblivion (I’m good), I achieved. If you say you’re sick of hearing it, then perhaps I misjudged the situation in that you are well aware. I’m from overseas, never been to the americas.
You, as in the community, are actively discouraging me as a human being with emotions from talking like this again. Which in this case means for me to show an observation of mine in a politically charged context. You don’t tell someone over and over that they have an ill intend without that affecting them. After some time they might actually believe it themselves.
To communicate is to interpret. Absolutely. Then tell me why after me saying multiple times, that I meant what I said as a way to show that what they say equals, but not what they do, do you still misunderstand me? Are you having trouble interpreting what I mean? You are interpreting something into it that I did not say. That is the difference.
Buddhism disagrees with you. It’s not the truth of course, but it says what I didn’t say says nothing about me. It’s what you make out of it that says a lot. If you can not see the things for what they are, then you are no better than a republican. In my culture we ask first before we decide if a person meant something he said the way we think they do, if that conflicts with us personally. I’ve been called all sorts of names by this community for such “inappropriate” behavior, even autistic.
You keep acting like your comment exists in a vacuum. It just simply doesn’t.
You also need to see how this looks to everyone else.
You come in here, and just spew a right wing “both sides” comment. Knowingly or not, that’s what you did. And you expect to not be pushed back against that?
You keep saying that’s not your intent, when frankly, that doesn’t matter. You don’t get to determine how your comment gets interpreted. Because it’s not your mind that’s doing it. Just like artists, your speech is no longer yours to control once said.
“You keep saying that it’s not your intend, when frankly, that doesn’t matter.”
You are literally making me sound like I’m inside a court being prosecuted. For a heinous crime, it shouldn’t matter what I intended. But in this case it absolutely does. I don’t go to a history teacher for talking about nazi propaganda and talk shit to them for it. Intent matters a lot. Especially in a conversation about politics. When I say I would like for all the criminals in america get deported I mean the vile sex offenders and murderers. When a republicans says it, they mean exactly what is happening now. If intend didn’t matter, then you whole argument breaks down, because it assumes ill intend.