Congress' push to regulate Big Tech is fizzling out

Re:Congress' push to regulate Big Tech is fizzling out by tablespoon on Thursday July 21, 2022 @11:54AM (#32180887)

> Since then Democrats tacked left on social issues and kicked the “deplorables” out of the coalition. They’re mad at Sinema and Manchin, who are holding onto seats deep in GOP territory, but should be mad at the party that lost labor and agriculture voters in South Dakota, Iowa, etc.

Case in point: not too long ago they used to control the entire congressional delegations of deep-red North Dakota and South Dakota. Now they're all red. That's two reps and four senators, which I'm sure the Democrats theoretically wish they had right now.

IIRC, the last Democratic senator from those states lost because she was boxed into to unelectable social policy positions by out-of-state donors.

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Re:Congress' push to regulate Big Tech is fizzling out by selimthegrim on Friday July 22, 2022 @12:05AM (#32188398)

If Democrats were serious, they would give McConnell a Hobson’s choice - either accede to court packing or split Oklahoma into two states, rump Oklahoma and Tulsa and environs (“Indian Territory”, “Lafferty Land”, what have you), get more senators, and tell him PR and DC are the next chambered rounds if he interferes with abortion rights on Indian lands.

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