Unproven assertion.
Capitalism happened to be the dominant ideology (due to violent suppression of alternatives) during a period when many people were brought out of poverty.
Some other system or collection of systems might have worked worse, or better, or exactly the same.
Hold it... are all of these government workers being paid to go to a prayer meeting? 🤔
Isn't he British?
If they had a constitution, it would require all ~~subjects~~ citizens complain, while muttering, "mustn't grumble".
All I do:
I think that's it. I have my host exposed to the Internet. As far as I know, it's fine.
BTW, sshguard is for the IMAP and SMTP that run on the host, which do allow password logins. But it helps reduce load from brute force attacks on port 22 (which are pointless anyway).
I'm much more worried about my son installing dodgy Minecraft mods, or my wife installing another app that she saw on TikTok. I really should put them each on a separate VLAN....
The 17th Amendement requires the direct election of Senators. Blue state accept red states' votes for those.
If you're going to make an argument based on bad faith of states, then the US basically ceases to exist as a republic, regardless of whether you have the compact.
I think maybe you misunderstood the compact.
I'm your example, the states who signed the compact would all put their votes to candidate Y, assuming they had more popular votes in all states.
It's not "join us or be punished", it's "we will implement the will of the majority, not matter what".
Supreme Court: "Not like that."
Nobody gets disenfranchised. Rather this compact enables the radical idea of "one person, one vote".
It's not completely pseudo-science, as there are a lot of correlations with things like academic success or job performance:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_quotient#Social_correlations
Political revolutions usually involve a wealthy class being kept away from political power, combined with a particularly unpopular and stupid absolute ruler.
In the US, the wealthy are the political class, and while Trump is stupid and unpopular he has only been in power a year. Most people think he will be gone in 3 more years, and even if he jettisons the Constitution and stays in as President, he is old and unhealthy.
You can ship any characters though, right? It's not only gay....