None of those are up for reelection next time. I’m sure that wasn’t calculated by Schumer.

She’s a rabid dog pointed a useful direction for once. Let her go to work, just don’t turn your back on her.

I didn’t actually know it was or wasn’t Crawford, just that such a terrible ruling is very much his brand.

And this is why my group is ok saying “that rule is profoundly dumb” and ignoring it while suspecting Crawford of being involved.

I’m guessing existing while brown.

Or grooming children at church.

When you opt out of the social contract, you don’t get the benefits anymore. Piss is too generous.

Yes.

Fuck your red herring. They should’ve been punished too. Continue to go fuck yourself.

Really? Even though he blatantly defied the constitution and attacked a foreign state out of nowhere without approval? That isn’t enough, he also needs to be stupid and easily manipulated (which he obviously is based on the mountains of evidence) before you want to hold him accountable?

Go fuck yourself.

You cannot directly compare two populations without accounting for differences in size. Doing otherwise is very bad data science. That’s why it’s per 100,000 and thus takes size out of the equation. Which is good. That’s a confounding factor that is trivial to deal with. Given my previous observation that many US states have populations directly comparable to other countries, the “comparing states with countries” complaint goes from vaguely plausible to inane immediately.

Thank you for defining how averages work?

Source: data engineer

Because US states have populations and areas comparable to other countries. Just the US topping the charts is expected. How many states you have to get through to see other countries is interesting.

How is a per-capita incarceration rate, with a reference to the superset included directly on the plot, misleading? Other than including more than El Salvador for the sake of external reference, which is almost certainly a size issue.

It’s kinda like that saying: if you owe your friend $100, they have power over you. If you owe your friend $10,000, you have power over them.

Even if it did, not currently an obstacle.

In the US, yes. In other countries (also Alaska and Maine somewhat), the voting system (ranked choice voting, proportional representation, etc) allows for many smaller parties to form. Because no one ends up with 50+% of the vote, these groups have to come together to get things done. With first past the post (which is winner take all, which is heinously stupid), small parties cannot meaningfully form because they cannot possibly get enough votes to get into office.

Unless you get the same size voting base as Republicans, it still leads to a corpse.

Different word, same effect

First past the post ensures that any party that tries to splinter off dooms both themselves and the party from which they splintered.

What needs to happen is the democrats need to get tea partied.

As a gay man, there’s 0 hope of a gay man winning in America. Full stop.