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Truck driver leads NJ Senate president after spending $153 on campaign

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Re: Truck driver leads NJ Senate president after spending $153 on campaign

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Post by bingohbangoh »

moffkalast wrote: post #253
bingohbangoh wrote: post #229

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not trying to dunk, but comments like this -- assuming that a blue collar, republican challenger is automatically bad -- says a lot more about the OP than it does about the situation.

Well running as a republican would mean he's a member of and supports the republican party, is that not how that works? Otherwise one would run as an independent. If you associate yourself with a group that's known to be scum then that will reflect badly on you regardless of your actual character.

The Republican party, much like the Democratic party, is a wide tent with many people. Local races involve a lot more complicated characters. You'd run as Republican because they're the default alternative choice in a lot of places. Or you could lose and say its on principle I guess.

Re: Truck driver leads NJ Senate president after spending $153 on campaign

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Post by psychlops »

WillPostForFood wrote: post #126
reaperducer wrote: post #88

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The vast majority of elected offices in the United States are unpaid.

Do you have a citation for that? Interesting if true, however 100% of State and Federal legislators are paid.

Curious, I Googled a bit, but can't find a definitive source. It is true that most politicians are local. Here is an infographic that shows 96% are local:

https://poliengine.com/blog/how-many-politicians-are-there-i...

Re: Truck driver leads NJ Senate president after spending $153 on campaign

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Post by newfonewhodis »

TbobbyZ wrote: post #200
advrs wrote: post #169

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That word has completely lost all meaning and historical context at this point, hasn't it?

How about authoritarianism?

If anything, localities voting out incumbents is an example that the US is anything but totalitarian.

I wish people would actually do some reading before spouting BS on anonymous online forums.

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Post by akomtu »

busymom0 wrote: post #107
beervirus wrote: post #86

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New Jersey has some of the absolute worst gun laws in the country.

New Jersey is an example of the 30 day delay and often those 30 days turn into 7-8 months. I know several people there who went through this last year when the riots were happening and they wanted to purchase a firearm for the first time only to realize how strict the laws were. Ironic enough, they had themselves voted in these laws which were now causing them the problems. This changed the minds of at least 10 frien…

Most of the time the voters are given no choice or a couple bad choices. For example, I liked Bernie for his ambition to reform healthcare, but of course that was bundled with anti 2A rhetoric.

It would be interesting if candidates had to declare their intents in a formal way, just like a phone app has to formally request access to mic and cam, and if they are elected, they'd have to stay within the bounds they'd requested. So a guy who wanted to reform healthcare wouldn't be able to change his mind later and start reforming education.

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Post by mbostleman »

op00to wrote: post #264
barney54 wrote: post #9

Here's his campaign ad. https://twitter.com/kerpen/status/1455899165230354448?s=20 South Jersey obviously isn't very happy with New Jersey's leadership.

You got that from a campaign ad? Wow, you’re easily swayed.

Not speaking for them, but the ad doesn't say anything about the happiness of South Jersey constituents. So I wouldn't expect they got it from ad. I think the article a more likely source.

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Post by a9h74j »

ajmurmann wrote: post #237
twofornone wrote: post #206

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As I've gotten older I've realized that there's something to be said for the discouraging effect that laws have on certain behaviors. Yes, people are still going to do drugs if they're illegal; but some proportion of the population is less likely to take the risk. Is it enough to justify the drug war? Maybe not. But I don't think it's quite as cut an dry as "legalize all drugs to end drug abuse" or "ban all drugs to…

I recently learned that drugs have become more dangerous and more damaging not due to customer demand, but because of the war on drugs. You need to transport a lot less fentanyl than cocaine for the same effect strength. Meth also had changed to work without ingredients we have banned. This has made meth much more damaging. I wonder what things would look like if we just took the Portugal route. https://www.econtalk.…

Coincidently, I just listened to this. (Perhaps we saw the same recommendation on HN.) 100% recommend, and the whole podcast approach at econtalk.org is very interesting. Economics plus life-of-the-mind.

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Post by BuyMyBitcoins »

nostromo wrote: post #179
SirSourdough wrote: post #149

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And I want people who lack compassion and consideration housed at the bottom of the ocean, but we can't all win.

Is this a paradox? Because it sounds like you may end up there yourself.

“Compassion and empathy are the utmost of virtues. If you lack it, you deserve to be cast out from society. Because you lack the compassion I so freely give, you have forfeited the right to receive any from me.” /s

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Post by remarkEon »

malcolmgreaves wrote: post #250
twofornone wrote: post #157

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I'll say it. People are tired of progressive extremism, like at once insisting that "CRT isn't being taught in schools" while with the other hand supporting CRT inspired school programs that teach racial awareness to children, and in particular white guilt to white children. You can look it up on the VA website, where CRT is explicitly mentioned as a part of primary school curriculum. This is arguably the biggest ele…

From one white man to another white man: you're not being attacked, democrats aren't anti-white (have you looked at the leadership? very white indeed!), and you are still living in the system that our white ancestors made for us. Other people not being oppressed as much doesn't mean your liberties are at risk. It's OK to teach and learn about how racist people made racist systems. You don't need to feel guilty, unles…

>It's OK to teach and learn about how racist people made racist systems.

Read: your ancestors are racist, and made a racist system for you

>You don't need to feel guilty, unless you are out here actively supporting racist systems?

Read: here comes the guilt trip

>If you're trying to use the social privileges that come with being a white man in America to dismantle racist structures, then you're doing great! If you're tried and don't want to do that work, ok, understandable: just don't throw in your two cents I'd you see other people doing this intense labor.

Read: there it is.

At some point I figured people would realize this Kafkaesque formulation really turns people off. Any disagreement with the premise - any at all - and you are now required to retreat to claiming you're not a "racist" in front of someone who has set the rhetorical boundaries where such a claim is rejected outright, always. I actually think that's really the point, and it's nothing more than a new and pathological way to bully someone.

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Post by omegaworks »

malcolmgreaves wrote: post #250
twofornone wrote: post #157

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'll say it. People are tired of progressive extremism, like at once insisting that "CRT isn't being taught in schools" while with the other hand supporting CRT inspired school programs that teach racial awareness to children, and in particular white guilt to white children. You can look it up on the VA website, where CRT is explicitly mentioned as a part of primary school curriculum. This is arguably the biggest ele…

From one white man to another white man: you're not being attacked, democrats aren't anti-white (have you looked at the leadership? very white indeed!), and you are still living in the system that our white ancestors made for us. Other people not being oppressed as much doesn't mean your liberties are at risk. It's OK to teach and learn about how racist people made racist systems. You don't need to feel guilty, unles…

This race has proven that it doesn't actually matter whether or not white people are being attacked (they're not) or whether CRT is even being taught in schools (it's not). Republicans effectively created a media moral panic around "Critical Race Theory" and it paid off for them in spades.
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