Evens.
(I thought the error itself was funny. I was trying to work in a joke about drinking and voting, but I couldn’t get it to work.)
Actually, that could have been very funny. 
You do know that the southern states wanted to count slaves as full persons, right?
It would seem so, given that McQwark’s analogy is pretty much an exact rephrasing of the 3/5th compromise. Yes the ire at the 3/5ths compromise is often mis-directed (how those racist slave owners only count blacks as only 3/5) but not by McQwark, who is arguing presumably the rural states are the ones who would prefer to count cows as full persons.
AND one must always double-down using 24-point Sharpie[sup]®[/sup] Font.
Every time I see this partial defense of the 3/5ths compromise, I’m surprised how the point continues to be missed: racists in the north and south were agreed that Black slaves were objects, and were simply arguing about their value in order to achieve more politics power for their own white power structure.
In that context, there’s no more honor in counting a slave as a full person, non-person, or 3/5ths of a person. It’s like arguing whether it is better for a handmaid to be raped frequently, a little less frequently, or moderately frequently.
Damnit dude, don’t give ideas to ours!
My political career is toast. sob 
I’m not sure quite what your point is, here. Racists everywhere who thought slaves were objects thought slaves were objects. Non-racists everywhere who thought slaves weren’t objects thought slaves weren’t objects.
Anyone who wanted the south to have more political power wanted slaves counted as much as possible and anyone who wanted the south to have less political power wanted slaves counted as little as possible.
The way the issue is usually framed these days, however, certainly implies that it was the racists back then who viewed slaves as only 3/5 of a human. And there’s a lot of symbolic power to that. Except that it was pro-south, pro-slavery (and thus presumably more racist) people back then who wanted that number to be higher, and anti-south (including, presumably, most abolitionist) people back then who wanted the number to be lower. And purely from a realpolitik standpoint, the slaves themselves were better off being counted as not human at all than they were being counted as 3/5 of a human, and would have been worse off still if counted as full humans.
Thank you. Glad I read through before posting what would have been the exact same thing, along with political parties in the 21st century don’t align with political parties in the 19th century even when they have the same name.
Dianne Hensley has performed multiple weddings in her role as a Justice of the Peace. She just doesn’t do it if you happen to be gay.
Last week, the Texas (of course it’s Texas) Commission on Judicial Conduct gave her a public warning for her clearly unequal treatment of homosexuals. They said her anti-homosexual bigotry is "casting doubt on her capacity to act impartially to persons appearing before her as a judge due to the person’s sexual orientation.”
Despite the Justice of the Peace training manual saying: ““A justice of the peace has the choice to perform all marriage ceremonies or no marriage ceremonies but can’t discriminate by performing opposite-sex ceremonies and not same-sex ceremonies. In performing a marriage ceremony, a justice of the peace is a state actor, but does not have governmental or judicial immunity in a federal civil rights discrimination lawsuit,” it’s really poor Dianne Hensley who is the real victim. Because she’s being punished for exercising her freedom of religion. Because hating homosexuals is so very, very Christ-like.
Gosh I dislike sanctimonious, judgmental assholes.
But wait. I did mention this was Texas, didn’t I? So, of course it didn’t stop there. Apparently the governor of Texas is now tampering with the Commission of Judicial Conduct, to protect her and others.
"Last week Hearst Newspapers reported that two members appointed by Abbott to the judicial conduct commission in 2018 — neither yet confirmed by the Legislature — saw their nominations pulled by the governor’s office ahead of confirmation. The two allege conversations with the governor’s office — some secretly recorded — indicate they were withdrawn because the two considered some sort of admonition regarding Justice Hensley’s practice of officiating only wedding ceremonies conforming to her personal religious beliefs. Cite.
I tried really hard to come up with a witty, stinging ending to this post, but I’m just so sad and tired of the bullshit. So: Fuck You Diane Hensley. Fuck you Governor Abbott. And fuck you un-Christlike “Christians” who feel that their own personal hatred for homosexuals should allow them to do whatever they want. Fuck them all.
No mention of Kentucky governor Matt Bevin? He only pardoned murderers and child rapists on his way out the door.
What the fuck is wrong with republicans? They are trash, from the top down. There is no escaping the fact that a huge segment of the US population is completely fucked in their collective heads. It’s downright scary… and demoralizing too. Hopeless.
It doesn’t have his name in it in big red letters.
Christ, I hope all the copies are behind bulletproof glass. I don’t even want to imagine what he’d do to it with that sharpie of his.
One of those murderer’ families held a campaign rally for Bevin and made a large donation.
Could it get worse? Of course it could.
Nakedly corrupt. Making America great again. Yessiree Bob.
Brennt Paris ?
Bevin may not get away with this:
One saving grace of this debacle is that the power to pardon, in itself, may receive closer examination----and fewer shrugs from the population at large. Many who have been indifferent to Trump’s pardon-shenanigans may start to pay more attention.
Well, I guess it is potentially possible Bevins will go to jail on bribery charges or some such, but my understanding of pardon power is that once they are given, they can’t be taken back.
I’m going to make the prediction that not only won’t there be any charges filed, there can’t be any charges filed. Is there anything legally preventing someone from buying a pardon from a governor?
If there’s a silver lining to this and other recent examples, it’s that Trumpism is a lot less effective in state and local races. Trump is like a figurehead of white christian nationalism, and even in the reddest of red states, voters seem to be content with just one Trump.