Here is the list of spineless cowards who think capitulation is an effective strategy against fascism:

  • Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto
  • Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois
  • Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania (basically a moderate Republican at this point)
  • Sen. Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire
  • Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia
  • Sen. Angus King of Maine
  • Sen. Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire

If you live in any of these districts, your senator is a fucking moron. Sorry.

      • t3rmit3@beehaw.org
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        5 days ago

        I used to think this, but he’s come out hard against Prop 50 in California, and if you’re claiming to be an anti-MAGA Republican you have to recognize that Texas is rigging the game not just because of their own shitty racism and anti-Americanism, but because Trump explicitly asked them to, so this issue is not internal to Texas, it’s an attack on American Democracy.

        If Schwarzenegger’s non-alignment with Trump’s authoritarianism ends at actual concrete actions to counter a direct power-play by him, he’s unaligned in name only.

        • jcarax@beehaw.org
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          4 days ago

          I don’t know, a true conservative should be opposing attacks on the institution of our government. And any gerrymandering is an attack on that institution. But I haven’t followed him, has he come out with any proper long term solutions? Seems to me, at a federal level we need to do things like lift the artificial cap on number of representatives, limit surface area to volume of districts, and limit concavity of district lines.

          But I also recognize the urgency of the moment, and I respect that Prop 50 has limited the blast radius and time in effect.

          • t3rmit3@beehaw.org
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            3 days ago

            I don’t know, a true conservative should be opposing attacks on the institution of our government. And any gerrymandering is an attack on that institution.

            Which is exactly what Texas is doing, and Prop 50 is designed to be a reciprocal response; it’s not California just going, “well if you’re going to rig yours we’ll rig our’s better!”, it’s California nullifying the gerrymandering in Texas by matching it 1-to-1. If you’re anti-gerrymandering, Prop 50 is what actually discourages it, by making it pointless to do.

            has he come out with any proper long term solutions? Seems to me, at a federal level we need to do things like lift the artificial cap on number of representatives, limit surface area to volume of districts, and limit concavity of district lines.

            He generally doesn’t weigh in on what federal laws he thinks should change now, he stays pretty California-internal.