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Behind the Bastards

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The Right Numbers Are a Good Way of Getting People to Understand Like the Level of Threat

Most but not all most of these bills are made by just random state lawmakers with no political backing. This allows organizations to claim credit for defeating 90% of the bills and it's like well No, like most of those like almost none of them were ever going to pass in the first place. The second thing that it does is it puts this sort of cloud out which makes it really really difficult You know if you're trying to follow right thesort of legislative process here it gets very very hard. It's very difficult to sort out which bills have any chance of passing and which ones are just some random dipshit like first term lawmaker from a part of Mississippi.

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