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Random Politics & Religion #37: w/ Bubba the Love Sponge
By fonewear 2019-04-03 17:49:49
Orioles in first place I smell a World Series....what's that there are 162 games...nonsense !
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By fonewear 2019-04-03 18:35:58
Nothing to see here:
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By fonewear 2019-04-03 20:03:55
Mickey Mouse has spoken Drumpf is finished
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By Garuda.Chanti 2019-04-03 20:49:04
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By Bahamut.Ravael 2019-04-03 21:17:03
I'm confused. Why did you post an image of a completely normal map?
By Viciouss 2019-04-03 21:20:13
Change Columbia to Hippo Mexico.
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By Carbuncle.Skulloneix 2019-04-04 08:00:48
My home state of Maine has proportional provisioning of votes, it's the only New England state to do so. The highest vote count in each congressional district wins that districts vote, the highest for the entire state wins both senate votes. Last election the northern district voted for Trump, the southern voted for Hillary and the total vote was 354,873 Hillary vs 334,838 Trump. The result was one EC vote for Trump and three EC votes for Hillary.
I think our politics would be a lot more competitive, a lot less partisan and whole lot more honest if this system was used for every state. Both parties would have to be more moderate, no more super liberal crazies or super conservative crazies. IF ONLY we could get something like this.
Guess it was Maine I heard did the EC split thing.
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By Carbuncle.Skulloneix 2019-04-04 08:02:27
LMAO British Mexico.
I love that map. Gonna steal it. XD
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By Garuda.Chanti 2019-04-04 09:24:44
My home state of Maine has proportional provisioning of votes, it's the only New England state to do so. The highest vote count in each congressional district wins that districts vote, the highest for the entire state wins both senate votes. Last election the northern district voted for Trump, the southern voted for Hillary and the total vote was 354,873 Hillary vs 334,838 Trump. The result was one EC vote for Trump and three EC votes for Hillary.
I think our politics would be a lot more competitive, a lot less partisan and whole lot more honest if this system was used for every state. Both parties would have to be more moderate, no more super liberal crazies or super conservative crazies. With both parties going toward the extremes ... the centrist/undecided don't know where to go, it'd be the perfect time to introduce another viable political party. That's the next best thing to illegal here.
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By Bahamut.Ravael 2019-04-04 09:25:55
Never to happen. I wish it would, though. The Leftists could finally take their pseudocentrist, pseudointellectual masks off, the Conservatives who don't want to budge on anything could continue to do so, and people who don't feel the need to get everything they want with no concessions could finally find haven in the rational center.
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By Asura.Saevel 2019-04-04 09:27:40
Never to happen. I wish it would, though. The Leftists could finally take their pseudocentrist, pseudointellectual masks off, the Conservatives who don't want to budge on anything could continue to do so, and people who don't feel the need to get everything they want with no concessions could finally find haven in the rational center.
Our entire government system is designed to force people to work together towards compromise, if they won't compromise then the system doesn't work. Even the founding of the nation was based on compromise between different thoughts and ideas.
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By fonewear 2019-04-04 09:28:11
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By fonewear 2019-04-04 09:28:49
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By fonewear 2019-04-04 09:29:21
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By Bahamut.Ravael 2019-04-04 09:46:47
Never to happen. I wish it would, though. The Leftists could finally take their pseudocentrist, pseudointellectual masks off, the Conservatives who don't want to budge on anything could continue to do so, and people who don't feel the need to get everything they want with no concessions could finally find haven in the rational center.
Our entire government system is designed to force people to work together towards compromise, if they won't compromise then the system doesn't work. Even the founding of the nation was based on compromise between different thoughts and ideas.
I come off as anti-government, but I'm not that way out of principle. The Founding Fathers had it right. I'm only anti-government to the extent that at any given point in time we're governed by people who are corrupt, self-absorbed, and/or complete idiots.
To make matters worse, the system is designed for self-preservation and the people as a whole are too stupid to resist the team-politics propaganda. Every time someone tries to get us back on track, they get dog piled by the politicians and media. What do the people do? They buy into fear-mongering and perpetuate it because they trust the politicians/media for some stupid reason.
By fonewear 2019-04-04 09:55:43
If Thomas Jefferson were alive he would probably ***is pants that we are proposing government controlled health care. Free college medicare for all and free hats !
By fonewear 2019-04-04 09:56:22
The founding fathers basically created the country now for the past 200 plus years *** have been destroying the "idea" of America.
By fonewear 2019-04-04 10:01:08
He (Jefferson) was convinced that individual liberties were the fruit of political equality, which were threatened by arbitrary government.[270] Excesses of democracy in his view were caused by institutional corruptions rather than human nature. He was less suspicious of a working democracy than many contemporaries.[269] As president, Jefferson feared that the Federalist system enacted by Washington and Adams had encouraged corrupting patronage and dependence. He tried to restore a balance between the state and federal governments more nearly reflecting the Articles of Confederation, seeking to reinforce state prerogatives where his party was in a majority.[
By fonewear 2019-04-04 10:01:51
According to Jefferson's philosophy, citizens have "certain inalienable rights" and "rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will, within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others."[266] A staunch advocate of the jury system to protect people's liberties, he proclaimed in 1801, "I consider [trial by jury] as the only anchor yet imagined by man, by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution."[267] Jeffersonian government not only prohibited individuals in society from infringing on the liberty of others, but also restrained itself from diminishing individual liberty as a protection against tyranny from the majority.[268] Initially, Jefferson favored restricted voting to those who could actually have free exercise of their reason by escaping any corrupting dependence on others. He advocated enfranchising a majority of Virginians, seeking to expand suffrage to include "yeoman farmers" who owned their own land while excluding tenant farmers, city day laborers, vagrants, most Amerindians, and women
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By Bahamut.Ravael 2019-04-04 10:04:05
Yeah, why are we promising free stuff that the country could never afford? Free hats is a completely reasonable goal! How about a free scratch-off lottery ticket in the mail every now and then? How about vouchers for Cup Noodles or a dollar menu cheeseburger?
By fonewear 2019-04-04 10:06:20
The government has expanded every year since 1776. Try to do anything in life without the government involved almost impossible.
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By Carbuncle.Skulloneix 2019-04-04 10:44:06
How about a free scratch-off lottery ticket in the mail every now and then? How about vouchers for Cup Noodles or a dollar menu cheeseburger? NOW WERE TALKING! This appeals to the simple masses, myself included.
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By fonewear 2019-04-04 10:49:53
Carbuncle.Skulloneix said: »How about a free scratch-off lottery ticket in the mail every now and then? How about vouchers for Cup Noodles or a dollar menu cheeseburger? NOW WERE TALKING! This appeals to the simple masses, myself included.
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By fonewear 2019-04-04 11:16:19
What it is like in the ambu thread:
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By Asura.Saevel 2019-04-04 11:19:18
The Founding Fathers had it right. I'm only anti-government to the extent that at any given point in time we're governed by people who are corrupt, self-absorbed, and/or complete idiots.
Understand that by definition any system governed by people will also by corrupt, self-absorbed and full of idiots. Anytime you put a human being into a position of power, the probability of them becoming corrupt skyrockets. The more power the higher the probability. Statistically this means any system having multiple people is virtually guaranteed to be corrupt.
That is the kernel of wisdom the founding fathers had.
By fonewear 2019-04-04 11:21:23
Carbuncle.Skulloneix said: »How about a free scratch-off lottery ticket in the mail every now and then? How about vouchers for Cup Noodles or a dollar menu cheeseburger? NOW WERE TALKING! This appeals to the simple masses, myself included.
Gansta religion yo come at me bro !
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By fonewear 2019-04-04 11:22:01
See yall in church preach what what
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By Carbuncle.Skulloneix 2019-04-04 11:41:55
Anytime you put a human being into a position of power, the probability of them becoming corrupt skyrockets. The more power the higher the probability. That won't happen to me, I promise. Just make me king of the world. It'll be all better! >_>
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