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The applause that disrupted nothing – yet still led to an arrest
- Pfhortune 2mo agoThe lack of consequences for misuse of power will doom us all in the end.
- JumpCrisscross 2mo agoIs there a lawsuit?
- ChrisArchitect 2mo agoPreviously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49077725 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49077725
- 8bitsrule 2mo agoThe publicly elected can demand respect ... but that generally backfires. As I recall, 'A Boy and His Dog' was set in Kansas. "Lack Of Respect, Wrong Attitude, Failure To Obey Authority. The farm, immediately."
- reddozen 2mo agoReminder that at every level of government your vote is less powerful than someone in some crappy flyover backwater Kansas. They get more per Capita representation in the House, and electoral college.
- coldtea 2mo agoThat's by design, isn't it? It's supposed to be state representation, not per capita representation. The problem is that since the main government has amassed more and more power, instead of the main decisions being left to the states.
- estearum 2mo agoNo the problem is that the variance in state-to-state population has (and will continue) to grow.
- Terr_ 2mo agoAnother problem is that several "small" states can exploit their disproportionate power to pull up the ladder behind them, since any changes to state makeup have to pass the Senate.
- reddozen 2mo agoNo. The problem is crap states with uneducated populace. The "small government" argument falls apart quicker than the ultra libertarian arguments. Or actually you're right I should as an American citizen have to be versed in all the random arcane laws each individual state..no. Each individual COUNTY has instead of a common shared American values. God forbid someone play dominoes on Sunday in Alabama. The problem is the fragmented states where they can hide their corruption.
- duped 2mo agoJust because it's by design doesn't mean it's good
- watwut 2mo agoThe real reason is that city people dont count as real people the way rural people count.
- cma 2mo agoThey get a good bit more disproportionate per capita representation in the senate than in the house.
- specialist 2mo agoSurprised that FIRE criticized an actual incident of supressing free speech (vs vibes). Shocked that they criticized someone(s) in authority, with actual power. Aha! Author is a guest columnist. I wonder if FIRE will repeat that mistake.
- krunck 2mo agoCould you provide some background/context to your comment?
- watwut 2mo agoThey have tendency to call protests and speach of relatively powerless as "threat to free speech", because it incoveniemce more powerful people https://www.popehat.com/p/how-free-speech-culture-is-killing-free-speech-part-one https://www.popehat.com/p/how-free-speech-culture-is-killing...
- specialist 2mo agoWell spotted. Thanks for share. Much better than my draft glib response: founders of FIRE punch down and suck up.
- kbelder 2mo agoAnother article from that site: "Male students show more tolerance for political enemies than females show for their own allies" I don't necessarily disbelieve it, but it made me laugh.
- watwut 2mo agoThat is why males join fascist, authoritarian and far right movements much more then women. It is their famous tolerance that makes them join those. Consodering reality of male dominated literal near fascist goverment that got into power by votes of mostly males ... and then keeps engaging in a campaign of silencing, retaliation and suppression of speach ... fire and its commenters are just showing their own biases.