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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.
No, but they do pick who they want to pull over, and for what reason.
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I still cannot really fathom this logic. Why would you not want to address WHY guns are used?
I do. I'm working hard to end poverty. It takes a long time. Many people will die before the situations that cause gun violence are solved.
What was the homicide rate in the depths of the Great Depression? What is the current homicide rate of rural rust-belt America, with lower per capita incomes than poor urban areas?
Poverty isn't the cause. Sorry you've been wasting your time.
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It would probably not be healthy for my karma to go deeper.
Coming to this website every day to get downvoted and flagged is something not to worry about. I mean, have you read the things people say here? The ideas that are popular? Do you really want to be "the upvoted guy"?
Some of the happiest days in recent memories have been when a comment I made receives a flood of upvotes. I crave the validation of peers above all else.
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> In theory, it’s possible for Texas to split into any number of States. Such a theory (this really refers to the Texas-specific 5 state theory upthread; your “any number” theory, which presumably is the same theory that applies to any State, is valid, but not unilateral like the 5-state theory) exists, but it requires starting with a dubious interpretation of the act annexing Texas, and then flatly ignoring the act…
I was surprised to learn that independent Texas actually maintained a diplomatic mission in London. The building still exists. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Legation
Given that the Republic of Texas had worldwide diplomatic recognition during its decade of existence, it would have been strange had the nation had not had diplomats stationed in London. It'd be like a new country today not sending an ambassador to Washington (while not being actively hostile to the US, and vice versa).
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There is an interesting story about Madigan in Chicago. Ran the Illinois machine. Corrupt as all hell. A college student decided to run against him and collected enough signatures to get on the ballot. Madigan typically ran unopposed. Well come to find about, of the 500 people who signed the petition to get this kid on the ballot, 1200 rescinded their support. You do the math. These people aren't loved. They just kno…
People where I live get a ballot and a book in the mail weeks before the election with details for all the candidates and questions, and all you have to do is drop it in the outgoing mail. Takes no more than 30min of your time, maybe 1 hour if you are a slow reader. And yet, less than 20% voter participation. It is ironic that turnout for national elections, where their vote is moot is much higher. But for school boa…
> People where I live get a ballot and a book in the mail weeks before the election with details for all the candidates and questions, and all you have to do is drop it in the outgoing mail.
Are the votes not secret or are the votes not verified as authentic?
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Sure, a cloth mask won't STOP Covid. But the science indicates that community mask wearing does decrease transmission rates as mask wearing rates go up.[1] Similarly, the current vaccine does not prevent infection, but it significantly reduces symptoms and helps reduce the amount of people who'd otherwise be hospitalized with COVID-19.[2] Death rates are the most serious metric to look at (and it's abysmal), but cert…
> The reasonable asks: a facemask indoors in public, and a vaccine.
Those are not reasonable. You may think they are, but there are obviously people who disagree.
Also, the vaccine and masks may have been a reasonable ask, but it is not a reasonable mandate! Once mandates started kicking in, and politicians started saying "The voluntary phase is over" while not following their own rules, then they became unreasonable and definitely not "asks".
Also, we have had far worse pandemics and have not had those "asks".
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> Anyone who asserts an election was subject to fraud is attacking democracy itself. /s I trust you are referring to problems with the 2020 election? I would appreciate learning what analogies you see between mob-like coercion and the election
Yes, for the most part. I do not think the doubts and suspicious anomalies are new or unique to the 2020 election, though. As for the mob-like coercion, I don’t think there was this same kind of intimidation going on in 2020. I was using this concrete example of election fraud to refute the oft-touted assertion that voter fraud is vanishingly rare in the United States, and, it is never serious enough to affect an ele…
Election irregularities are regular enough that fraud should be a plausible conjecture. Maybe the implicit goal is to limit obvious fraud enough to only make a difference in very close elections when the elect do not receive a big mandate one way or another and to maintain the fiction of votes making a difference.
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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.
It doesnt help that democrats paint anyone who finds this stuff obnoxious as republicans- they are alienating the largest constituent in America- independents.
First off, not a democrat. Secondly, Republicans concretely instrumented and benefited from the CRT media moral panic. Not "painting" anyone, simply stating facts.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-inquiry/how-a-conse...
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It doesnt help that democrats paint anyone who finds this stuff obnoxious as republicans- they are alienating the largest constituent in America- independents.
First off, not a democrat. Secondly, Republicans concretely instrumented and benefited from the CRT media moral panic. Not "painting" anyone, simply stating facts. https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-inquiry/how-a-conse...
It wasn't Republicans who thought it a good idea to constantly tell white schoolboys that they are "oppressors". If a political party can't take such virulent institutionalized hate and make political hay out of it, then it's not a political party worth keeping.