And interestingly, the NPVC apparently has text specifying how a state could withdraw.
NPV would be insulated from SCOTUS bullshit by an explicit authorizing act. USC 1 § 10:
No State shall, without the Consent of Congress, ... enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State, ....
There is some precedent suggesting that a compact which decreases the power of the states wouldn't need it, but precedent also said abortion was a right, the 14th amendment was self-executing, and POTUS could forgive debts.
Yes. Dem-conteoled states should pass National popular vote. And then they should gerrymander to the most extreme maps they can.
The Dems in Congress can draft a federal law banning gerrymandering nationwide, and the Republicans can either join in or die as a party.
Gerrymandering is required in order to give minority groups representation.
The 2028 midterm election should refute that idea more thoroughly than the 1865 surrender refuted the idea that US states were sovereigns who could secede.
The electoral college almost made sense when the president was essentially a functionary of what Congress wanted.
Indirect election of someone with actual power is indefensible. Every person with power should either be directly answerable to an elected office or have so little power that their tyrannies can be ignored.
No worries. There's a bunch of stress on this issue.
You said that one study said brain development stops at 25. I asserted that to the best of my knowledge that study itself didn't even say that -- it's just people misquoting it.
Wikipedia has what looks like a fair article debunking the idea. :)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_matures_at_25_myth
You are spot on about puberty blockers being reversible. Which is why there is any use for them at all with trans-curious youth for whom there is any question at all that they might not be trans.
Denying HRT to teenagers who are confident in their gender identity is just cruelty. Going through cis-puberty has irreversible changes and causes mental anguish for a mono gendered trans person. Especially since, as you said, the permanent changes take months to occur.
No, an ad hominem fallacy would be if I called the poster mentally or educationally deficient and then dismissed their argument because of it. Attacking the argument itself is entirely fair game. Especially if I supplied supporting information to buttress said attack.
Feel free to argue their position or against mine if you want, but sneering "whaa, fallacy!" is just an argument from fallacy and is as unhelpful as an actual ad hominem attack.
No.
The "division" in the USA is a consequence of our racist history and winner-take-all elections. The latter reduces the count of sensible parties to two ("incumbent" and "opposition") while the former smudges what could be philosophical groups into "bigoted assholes" and "well-meaning fools"
There may be a reshuffling of how much the Republicans endorse bigotry, but the election result itself isnt nearly as important as the range of what they think will work in 2028.
Sweet holy stonewall, that's the dumbest nonsense I've seen on the fediverse.
Most English speakers don't define "law", "property", "rights", or "theft" the way faux libertarians and sovereign citizen scam victims do. Those that do use your minority definitions are generally ill-regarded by their social and economic peers, and suffer a reduced quality of life because of it.
Please go audit a freshman law survey at your local community college class. A general philosophy one might be good also.
1: the brain study didn't conculde anything of the sort. It's chart just showed constant growth and stopped where they ran out of available data. Human brains keep developing your entire life.
2: Both feminizing and masculizing trans HRT have changes that cannot be reversed without substantial surgery. Puberty blockers however are entirely reversible.
Oh, and im muting your transphobic troll of an account, just in case you think your asinine follow up somehow shocked me into silence.
That you take Newsom at his word about preserving some future governor's abikity to ship doctors to Texas is damning.
As is you equating your viagra prescription or whatever with prescribed healthcare that unapologetic bigots are actively trying to ban.
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