Gee, I don’t know madison.com! Wherever could they be hiding the helpful goals and plans of a group of sociopaths who enjoy inflicting pain? I bet they’re working real hard on this one!
Quit asking questions that assume the GQP are doing anything in good faith. Here’s a better article title: Look in the Mirror, if you see a Reflection, the GOP Wants you to Suffer or die.
Republicans are bad for the progress of the human race. How they are allowed to exist blows my mind.
“Hey uhh, we are a party who wants to make life shitty for everyone but rich people, and all of our policies are absolute garbage and harmful. Also we don’t follow rules and ignore the law.”
At some point we really need to shift the discussion from how shitty the Republican politicians are to how the American electorate became/remains so susceptible to their bullshit. Voter suppression is a part, but it’s one that Democrats should be overcoming. What is it about Democratic politicians that makes them so weak that they can lose so many races to fascist clowns? The solution to the fascist Republican problem has to come from changes that strengthen the appeal of the Democratic party.
People of America have two choices to vote for, realistically (and in practise). One is horrible, and the other just has to be less horrible. Neither one has to do squat at the end of the day because there is nobody holding them accountable, and there is no resistance to the status quo.
Also, Americans put way too much weight on the presidential election. The changes that are going to affect most Americans come from local government. Not enough people pay real attention to what’s happening in their own backyards. Media is a big reason why that happens but that’s for another discussion.
A way to fix your country is to have a much, much better deliverance of education. I wont call the average American stupid but they sure as fuck are ignorant of how their own country actually works and how to enact change.
I am largely in agreement, but the reality in the US is that local politics have become national. We literally have national groups putting millions of dollars into local schoolboard elections with the express purpose of preventing what you describe. The wealth divide and modern political techniques have made everything into a national fight.
There is no escaping the fact that we need national leadership that inspires citizen engagement. Current Democratic party leadership is an inspirational black hole that makes winning at the local level just that much harder.
Well, the point wasn’t to gerrymander the state in the favor of democrats, it was to make the election map fair. If a fair map means a tilt towards Republican control, that’s ok
Fair doesn’t mean a coin toss between who wins. It means that districts represent actual demographics.
I’m making no assertion about these maps in particular but just generally that forcing a 50:50 split doesn’t make something fair if the split isn’t there in reality.
They’re swinging a broadsword at, if there is a problem to be solved (not established in this article), you would want a scalpel. We can hopefully all agree it’s bad to check someone’s skin color during admissions (which, again, I have no evidence they’re doing - I’m just trying to come up with a problem that could theoretically exist). That doesn’t mean you cut the funding to things like ensuring all your buildings have wheelchair ramps! There’s just no possible world here where their actions have a genuine purpose.
Here’s what I think they’re trying to do: They’re attempting to drive a wedge into the UW workforce, to make us blame the loss of pay raises on DEI programs, so we’ll turn against them. That’s exactly what terrorists do by trying to get the population to blame the violence on their government’s policies. And if it works, they’ll do it again and again. That’s why we have to draw the line here.
For what it’s worth, the DEI programs in the department that I work for focus on recruitment and retention; they’re not connected to admissions. We try to make it a welcoming place for minorities, first-generation students, and the economically disadvantaged, so that they’ll apply, and once admitted, have the support that they need to finish their program. Dropping out is a big problem among these folks.
I really like that approach, but it seems we don’t hear about this stuff at all. Is there anything your department can do to be a bit more vocal, that not all of these programs are contrary to purely merit based admissions?
I’m not sure what we could do, since most of the DEI programs on campus are of a similar nature. The media just doesn’t cover them, because it’s controversy and outrage that gets views.
I hope these maga dipshits know that with Protasiewicz on the bench, their artificial political security is in danger. I can see the tides changing already, Wisconsinites are fed up with maga republicans.
Nothing would stop her from resigning and letting Evers appoint someone to restore the majority that feels the same way. Wouldn't surprise me if he's already got follow up candidates waiting to be appointed if they try their dumb bullshit.
Not from Wisconsin but good for them. Modern tipping culture is a plague on our society that enables companies to underpay their workers, perpetuates class disparities, and literally stems from racism & elitism, it shouldn’t exist in the first place.
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