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Re:Facebook bans Holocaust film for violating race policy by sidewndr46 on Sunday September 18, 2022 @10:58AM (#32888076)
Your complete original statement was "causing various states to (disingenuously) disagree about how to replace the lost documents"

If "various states" happen to "disagree" then it has to be a statement issued by the governors and legislature of those states. The members of Congress are most definitely not "the states". They are popularly elected nowadays and are not selected by the Governor or by the legislature of their home state. They have actually zero authority in their own state.

If a bunch of Congressional representatives happen to disagree, that's just Congress disagreeing. Congress can make whatever rules it wants with regards to a presidential election (see Bush v. Gore as I already stated) including delegating the results of that election to the Supreme Court. I suppose in fact they could actually explicitly pass Federal law determining the outcome of a local school board election if they wanted. In fact, I wouldn't even be surprised if such a law exists already in some form.

If you can't understand that "the states" is not Congress, you have no understanding of the United States.

Re:Facebook bans Holocaust film for violating race policy by nobody9999 on Monday September 19, 2022 @03:39AM (#32895430)
>Your complete original statement was "causing various states to (disingenuously) disagree about how to replace the lost documents"

I said no such thing. It was this comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32865748

that contains that information.

Note that I (https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=nobody9999) am not the author of that comment.

It was, in fact, a user called dane-pgp (https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=dane-pgp) who wrote that.

But you (apparently) ignored the rest of his comment which describes the 12th amendment process for the House to elect the President.

So. Let's sum up here:

1. You disagree with someone (dane-pgp) and yell incoherently at someone else (Nobody9999);

2. When that someone else explains, in great detail, to make sure you understand their point, you produce further incoherent ramblings;

3. You continue to rant incoherently with no apparent regard for the law or the constitutuion.

Good show. Catch you on the flip side, although I hope not.