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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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This is the reason politicians get salaries.

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

I don't think you know what you're talking about, as evidenced by your failure to follow up with citations.

In any case, the office he's running for IS paid. So what exactly is your point? That other elected offices are unpaid? Who cares?

One reason to pay them (not that it works very well) is to make them less susceptible to bribery. In some Third World countries, it's expected that government officials will supplement their income with bribes.

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

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I don't want status quo, but I also don't want them housed. I want the ones that steal, rape, squat in parks, do drugs, sell drugs, defecate in public, and litter to all be thrown in jail.

You should watch last weekend's episode of Last Week Tonight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liptMbjF3EE

No thank you. He is the tucker carlson of the left. I try to stay away from talking heads that remove all nuance from the debate.

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

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Does USA has laws about candidates publishing their spending? It looks like USA does not has laws to force candidates about his political party. I couldn't identify it from the candidate propaganda.

The truck driver is running as a Republican. That's a political part in the US (elsewhere it just means someone opposed to monarchy).

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

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Explain that to the kids that died or the older relatives that got sick from the infected kids.

> Explain that to the kids that died At least 9 out of 10 children in the ICUs in North Carolina were obese. https://www.wfae.org/health/2021-09-30/novant-says-9-of-10-c... The iron-fisted one-size-fits-all approach has never been used in medicine and health except COVID.

Nice of you to discard anyone with a health problem.

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

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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…

Look, first off, I'm not a white man. Second, I wasn't trying to debate whether this is right or wrong, only explaining why parents are voting out democrats. However I do take offense to your implication that teaching white children concepts like white privilege in a way that instills white guilt, and molding them to accept unilaterally determined reverse discrimination, does not constitute oppression.

It's quite possible to teach about racism and discrimination and slavery without burdening white children with what amounts to a rehashed original sin, obligating them to accept reverse racism as though it is the only way to correct historic wrongs which they had no part in.

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

This is dishonest, because it is a refrain used to guilt people into supporting progressive policies by implication that they are racist if they don't, completely sidestepping the argument over whether such policies are sound.

>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!

This is also dishonest, because it sidesteps the question of whether or not white men are actually privileged to such an extent that artificially correcting for said privilege (i.e. creating institutional racism) is justified. It also ignores the question of whether our institutions are actually racist - to a modern progressive this is a given, but the science is ultimately based on correlation and conjecture. The strongest proof that pundits have of institutional racism is inequality of outcome; however in a perfect meritocracy it is irrational to conflate equality of opportunity with equality of outcome. See Nordic countries for an example.

To summarize, my primary points are twofold: the way that antiracism is being taught to white children is potentially harmful, and the degree to which our systems are actually unequal because of racism on behalf of whites is not nearly as certain as militant activists seem to believe. Before you downvote, recognize that I am communicating the perspective held by voters that are dramatically underrepresented online. And to an increasing degree they are not white, minorities do not appreciate the implication that they will forever be saddled with the burden of past oppression unless the white man steps in and helps them.

Incidentally, I have do have a personal stake the this matter, because the same points used to justify reverse discrimination against whites can trivially be aimed at Jews, given their drastic overrepresentation among positions of power and wealth. I personally don't think people realize how dangerous it is to teach such racial awareness to children, especially in such a discriminatory manner.

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

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Is jail appropriate for litterers? Seems extreme, but I might be able to get behind it. Let's start with the folks who throw fast food wrappers out on the interstate though, not the homeless we wish to criminalize. Throwing them in jail seems like the worst of both worlds... it burns my tax dollars and does nothing to rehabilitate anyone.

That's up to the police to decide. If they don't like a law, they don't enforce it.

The police don't sentence people to jail.

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

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New Jersey (along with NY, CA) has the most unconstitutional gun control laws in America. If I have a daughter who's returning home late at night from University, I would want her to be armed for her own protection. Things like "taxation" are not the most important thing to her.

It would be better to live in the kind of country where girls can walk home at night safely without guns?

I am originally from India.

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

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I find this part hilarious "Durr said he entered the race after being denied a concealed carry permit despite having a clean record." So the state with one of the most strict gun laws burns someone, and now he's probably going to win. I wonder if he's going to start turning screws to get their permit issue laws changed. Did you know in NJ you can not posses hollow point bullets? You can go to jail. 18 months in priso…

"turning screws"??? He's (presumably) going to be a legislator. One of many. He's not an executive, let alone a dictator.

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

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That doesn't stop a determined group of canvassers from going door to door and pressuring people to fill out their ballots on the spot while they wait on their doorstep. It's also a perfect time to offer a bribe or incentive for a speedy completion. There's no way that any form of remote ballot is going to be as secure as doing it in person. It's just not possible because you will never know the provenance. Like most…

I actually wonder how viable it would be to devise a targeted ballot spoiling attack. Picture this: Have a canvasser or harvester pick up mail in ballots. They take it to a safe house and open the envelopes. If it’s a vote for the candidate they don’t like, put marks on it so it doesn’t get counted. Place it in a new return envelope. You’ve just cancelled that person’s vote. If someone checked that their vote was cou…

In Colorado, the return envelope has a unique barcode and has to be signed on the outside. Not fullproof, since they could print a new envelope with the same code and forge the signature, but not as easy as just having a stack of return envelopes to use.
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