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  • I agree that the process of shoehorning everything into one big bill is crazy, but it wouldn't be as big of an issue without the filibuster. Then it would be possible to pass non-budget bills with a simple majority (50 votes) instead of needing a supermajority (60 votes) for everything.

  • This was an interesting read. I know, though, that at the time there was a lot of interesting debate among indigenous nations about whether US citizenship was a desirable goal. On the one hand, it can confer some real protections and benefits, like Crook being able to bury his son in his homeland (from which he was forcibly removed). But on the other hand, I know that US citizenship was also viewed as an incursion on tribal sovereignty. See the "debate" section of this Wikipedia page for more info from about 50 years after the story of Crook: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Citizenship_Act

  • I used to know a guy who would regularly say "si" instead of "yes" in English conversations. He also wasn't Spanish/Hispanic. It was super confusing because I thought he was interjecting to see "See..." instead of just responding affirmatively.

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world

    The letters "gh" in the word "ought" are silent but "ought" is not pronounced like "out"

  • Honest question: how does this work for corporations? Does that mean a particular employee of a corporation holds the copyright, or can the corporation itself (e.g. Disney) as a legal "person" hold a copyright?

  • Just guessing but:

    1. He's gay and that might turn off some swing voters especially people who are already hesitant about having a black woman at the top of the ticket
    2. He's never won any election beyond a municipal one, so he may be seen as electorally untested.
    3. His resume is a bit thin with just his time as a mayor of a small town and time as the transportation secretary.