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Yeah, he wants to stay but he's gonna die of old age before his term is up and no one will learn anything


This is what I don't understand about these types. Wouldn't you want to spend your last years doing - not this? Like whatever you like, model trains, watching star wars, golfing.


Based on your comment history you seem weirdly obsessed with trans people. What have they done to you?


I write documentation because I enjoy it and I see it as a tool for consolidating/solidifying my own knowledge


I think that in general some artists are this way and that makes what they produce different from anyone else. Jonathan Blow for example is snobby and hates a lot of stuff, but his intense and specific ideas about the way games should be has led to some very interesting and thoughtful work


FWIW if you use Kagi you can filter out sites like that


Everything he said and continues to say about the 2020 election, and the attempts he made to overturn said election

Makes me feel like I'm on crazy pills that this guy was electable after this

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastman_memos

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump%E2%80%93Raffensperger_ph...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attempts_to_overturn_the_2020_...


Damn TIL, guess we need to roll back desegregation and abolition too cause that was so contentious


Feel free to propose a Constitutional Amendment on abortion and get it ratified.

Until then, it's a state's rights issue.


Isn't slavery supposed to be a state's rights issue?


Only in the sense that slave-owners tried to take away the rights of other states to not participate and assist in slavery, and then wrote their own constitution which forced every state to have slavery forever no matter what.

... But in the conventional sense of increasing state autonomy, no. :p


What makes you think the system always chooses the best candidate? Most voters operate on very little or false information, they just vote on vibes or for whatever party they've always voted for


Why do you think you don't. It could be you who is deceived. Everyone thinks they are the person that sees things for what they are but it can't be true for all of us.


> how do you think you fix that if the electorate is the one who gets to choose

Education. Democracy relies on a well-educated populace


> affects a few people in some smaller states where it is still illegal

Smaller states like Texas, the second largest state by population?


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