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Sister services, email, and search will continue to be negatively effected by the attacks. I made a thread to talk about it, if you're into networking.
I stumbled upon this site at random and was surprised I had never heard of it before.
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Watch these two videos at 2x if nothing else.
Here's their talking points.
represent.us
Okay, now you're caught up. I'm curious what people think about it. Here's my concerns.
1. Part of their agenda is making voting by mail even easier.
This is very pro-corruption. No other country in the world except the United States has voting without ID. It does not make sense.
2. The independent ethics commission.
In 2018, a public referendum to amend the constitution of South Dakota failed. There was, ironically, heavy pac advertising against it from a coalition of unions. In particular: 'David Owen, president of the South Dakota Chamber of Commerce and Industry, said the ethics commission would have a "scope of power that's kind of unbelievable." Owen said, "We're wandering into territory that's completely unheard of. I think they're going to whoop up a false impression that South Dakota is massively corrupt."'
These commissions are a concern and I think most people would raise an eyebrow to it. They're state appointed to begin with. There's a letter from the National Conference of State Legislatures describing ethics commissions. From the letter, it seems like ethics commissions are already in place in some form in most states and it's an established convention, but I'm not sure how much the government can be trusted to regulate itself or otherwise how this is supposed to be effective in general.
3. Corruption might be the only thing keeping the country from being deader and gayer than it already is.
There's a part of me that is genuinely concerned that the only stopgap from keeping the US from being ran by mob rule like a dead, gay European country is big companies. I feel that big evil companies coincidentally, unintentionally create pockets of freedom from the government by constantly advocating for a weak and incompetent federal power. The scariest parts of the government are the ones that don't intersect with interests of multinational corporations and don't receive the same scrutiny.
4. Diversity statement.
“Democracy is the greatest threat to white supremacy.” - Darren Walker, CEO, Ford Foundation
If Democracy is the greatest threat to whitey, then I guess whitey is the greatest threat to Democracy. Why bother supporting this if I'm the bad guy?
Discuss.
End Corruption, Defend the Republic.
We bring together conservatives, progressives, and everyone in between to pass powerful laws that fix our broken elections and stop political bribery
represent.us
Watch these two videos at 2x if nothing else.
Here's their talking points.
These are the policies that will end political corruption
Let's pass Ranked Choice Voting, anti-gerrymanding reform, campaign finance reform, and more.
represent.us
Okay, now you're caught up. I'm curious what people think about it. Here's my concerns.
1. Part of their agenda is making voting by mail even easier.
This is very pro-corruption. No other country in the world except the United States has voting without ID. It does not make sense.
2. The independent ethics commission.
In 2018, a public referendum to amend the constitution of South Dakota failed. There was, ironically, heavy pac advertising against it from a coalition of unions. In particular: 'David Owen, president of the South Dakota Chamber of Commerce and Industry, said the ethics commission would have a "scope of power that's kind of unbelievable." Owen said, "We're wandering into territory that's completely unheard of. I think they're going to whoop up a false impression that South Dakota is massively corrupt."'
These commissions are a concern and I think most people would raise an eyebrow to it. They're state appointed to begin with. There's a letter from the National Conference of State Legislatures describing ethics commissions. From the letter, it seems like ethics commissions are already in place in some form in most states and it's an established convention, but I'm not sure how much the government can be trusted to regulate itself or otherwise how this is supposed to be effective in general.
3. Corruption might be the only thing keeping the country from being deader and gayer than it already is.
There's a part of me that is genuinely concerned that the only stopgap from keeping the US from being ran by mob rule like a dead, gay European country is big companies. I feel that big evil companies coincidentally, unintentionally create pockets of freedom from the government by constantly advocating for a weak and incompetent federal power. The scariest parts of the government are the ones that don't intersect with interests of multinational corporations and don't receive the same scrutiny.
4. Diversity statement.
“Democracy is the greatest threat to white supremacy.” - Darren Walker, CEO, Ford Foundation
If Democracy is the greatest threat to whitey, then I guess whitey is the greatest threat to Democracy. Why bother supporting this if I'm the bad guy?
Discuss.