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6 Nov, 4 tweets, 1 min read
The Electoral College is an embarrassment and a nightmare.
Every vote in Georgia carries 400x more weight than a general national vote right now. That makes no sense and I’m embarrassed for anyone trying to argue it does.
Here's what we do. Keep the Electoral College.

Pass a law that simply gives every U.S. citizen a single electoral vote.

Each state has as many electoral votes as it has citizens.
I'd love to see Niki Haley in 2028 trying to improve on Marco Rubio's 3.9 million electoral votes out of California (29% of that state's electoral votes), while Stacey Abrams collects 537,000 electoral votes from Arkansas voters, fully 43% of all that state's electoral votes.

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A.R. Moxon Profile picture
7 Nov
This is the opposite of healing. The people who were harmed need healing. The abusive people who did the harming don't.

Don't reach out to a Trump supporter.

Reach out to somebody that Trump harmed instead.

This should be obvious.
As there are numerous groups that Trump and his supporters have subjected to menace, harm, exclusion, and death, and unrepentantly intend to continue to do so to the extent they can: yes. Yes there are many groups that could use our empathy.

Heal the harmed, not the harmers
Remember our national reality is best understood on an axis of abuse and enablement. Enablement of abuse has become so traditional, it’s uncritically presented as virtue.

And remember this:
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7 Nov
START to listen? When have they ever fucking shut up?

When do they have to listen to what we have to say? When does that start?
We have, and we should be clear about this, heard EVERY god damned stupid hateful bigoted backward anti-science alternate-reality fact-free gaslighting gun-humping Muslim-bashing gay-hating transphobic xenophobic mysoginistic thing the other "half" of the country has had to say.
I'm done with listening what they have to say. It's dull and wrong and ignorant and predicable and failed.

It's their turn to listen now. Or not. They can fuck off. That would be great. I don't give a shit.

We don't seek their approval and we don't need their permission.
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7 Nov
Wondering when rural elites will reach out of their conservative bubbles to understand how they can win over the hearts and minds of hardworking Real Americans from the urban heartland, some of whom work multiple jobs but get as little as 10% as much representation in government.
Faraway rural elites don’t understand the struggle and economic anxieties that heartland urban Americans are going through in our neglected cities. I visited this Cleveland parking lot barbecue to interview “real Americans” on what their concerns are and what motivated their vote
It won't be enough for rural elites to simply express their outrage at the vote from urban areas; they're going to have to engage in introspection and listen to the real concerns that working-class everyday Americans have, who live in the cities they've rarely—if ever—visited.
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6 Nov
White people are the problem.

There are probably other, lesser, takeaways from this election, too.
The question is, what could possibly shock white people enough to turn away from our nation's foundational lies, rooted in white supremacy?

Being abandoned to die in a global pandemic won't do it.

The active dismantling of democracy in broad daylight won't do it

What, then?
Active threats to national security? Nope.

Praising murderous dictators? Nope.

The demolition of our global standing in the world? Nope.

A trade war that decimates the farming industry? Nope.

Trillion dollar tax cuts to billionaires at the expense of working people? Nope.
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5 Nov
B: I'm going to kill all of you
A: Hey let's compromise on that
B: Sounds good
A: I'd like you to kill none of us
B: Nothing doing
A: OK how about you only kill half of us
B: Sure, great
A: And then you'll stop killing right?
B: Oh yes absolutely
A: Shake on it partner
B: lol ok
B: Hey I still want to kill all of you
A: You already killed half
B: Yeah but I want more
A: Can we compromise on that?
B: lol, really?
A: Yes, to show I'm reasonable
B: uh ok
A: I'd like you to kill none of us
B: no way
A: OK how about you only kill half of us
B: this is awesome
C: what are you doing?
A: what do you mean?
C: you let him kill 75% of us
A: yes but he wanted to kill us ALL
C: he IS killing us all!
B: hey man I still need to kill
A: fine but only half
B: cool
C: WHAT THE FUCK MAN?
A: I just saved half of us
C: YOU DID NOT
A: you're welcome
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5 Nov
If McConnel keeps the Senate, it's time to acknowledge the reality that there is no longer a deliberative body known as "The Senate," but only a hijacked blockade to governance, and Biden should appoint who he wants during their recess by executive order.
This would not be an unprecedented damage to our governmental norms. It would be an acknowledgement of the reality that our governmental norms have *already been destroyed,* and as necessary as seizing control of a cockpit from a pilot who has steered the plane toward a mountain.
Time is up. Our challenges lie directly ahead of us. We really don't have time to fuck around with Mitch McConnell's anti-governance bullshit anymore.
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