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Time to Take a Stand

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Post by notduncansmith »

normaljoe wrote: post #420
lacerta wrote: post #234

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Well, it is supposed to unscaleable. This is how our house of representatives works! The idea is with-in each state there are districts. Representatives from a district are supposed to represent those people within the district. An exchange trader who lives in NYC probably have very different concerns than a farmer in an small district in Nebraska. It is actually a wonderful system when it works. We have grown as a n…

The limit law is something congress enacted. The Constitution has a much higher limit based on population. Granted I don't think the house could function with over 10K members but then again it would make gerrymandering impossible.

With some technological assistance, it seems like a group of 10,000 representatives would actually be robust to many of the problems with the current smaller group.

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Post by generic_user »

adamrezich wrote: post #392
anonmous wrote: post #203

Is there a hn version without politics?

Is there a place where you can get video game news without politics? Is there a social media hub without politics? Is there a subreddit for atheism without politics? Because of everyone having an Internet connection in their pocket, emotional meme battles ("politics") have infected every corner of modern society. You cannot escape. The people who benefit from the emotional meme battling have made sure that you can't…

Its sad that you get down votes. I think the majority of people agree with you but its the loud minority that pushed politics into everything.

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Post by akjainaj »

emehrkay wrote: post #487
akjainaj wrote: post #342

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>How we can't go anywhere without the fear of being shot and killed by other black people. I'm not from the US but this really looks awful. I wouldn't set foot on this city even if you paid me a million dollars. http://crime.chicagotribune.com/

You know what is easy? Looking at the data now and coming to a conclusion that you believe to be sound. What is difficult is doing a little research to figure out how Chicago got the way it is. How gang culture took hold. How it was passed down from generation to generation. What policies were put into place that caused people to turn to illegal activities. Do a little research and try to get a full picture. Everyone…

I would absolutely love to hear more about this. Any book/documentary/movie you can recommend?

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Post by therealdrag0 »

MicroBerto wrote: post #850

Can't wait to see what Altman writes when the voter fraud is investigated and it's over 3 million fraudulent votes. We already know of 800,000 ( http://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/jan/26/hillary-clinto... ). Detroit was apparent. The rest will come easily. What else is Altman wrong about??

> We already know of 800,000

Well no. The article you posted, which doesn't provide any data or source to any actual study, just says some researchers EXTRAPOLATED polling data, and they themselves say it is NOT plausible for non-citizen votes to account for all of Clinton's margin.

So not only is this hardly anything to base a conclusion off of, the conclusion that is arrived at is that Clinton still won the popular vote.

Focusing on voter fraud after winning is a weird tack to take, especially when the president has a 36% approval rating, so many people would enjoy a revote.

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mozumder wrote: post #869
up_so_floating wrote: post #748

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It is already socially unacceptable to promote ethnic cleansing of any sort. Sure, it's important to continually affirm this, but can you name anyone in the Trump administration who is promoting ethnic cleansing?

> can you name anyone in the Trump administration who is promoting ethnic cleansing? All of them, since that's the purpose of this administration

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Post by general_ai »

mcguire wrote: post #853
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Destroy the most radicalized, enforce Syrian law for the rest. There's nobody that can do the job better than the Syrian government (which is more "well versed" in local politics than any White House hack will ever be). That's the only way to minimize the body count.

Yeah, supporting an anti-American dictator with a very dubious human rights record couldn't possibly backfire at all. Wasn't Syria one of ye old state sponsors of terrorism?

Do you think US' persistent attempts to depose him that have utterly wrecked his country maybe have anything to do with that? Moreover, do you think if the US helped him undo the damage that sentiment would change? IIRC, he did say that he would welcome our help.

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Post by generic_user »

lebanon_tn wrote: post #161

I strongly encourage people who consider Donald Trump to be a threat to consider arming themselves in accordance with the 2nd Amendment. While my hope for the future does not involve needing to use them, if the situation one day comes to that, I would prefer that people who are indifferent to the actions of this administration NOT be the only ones with guns.

Make sure you also donate to the NRA and support Republican politicians who work tirelessly to protect your second amendment rights...

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Post by jimmywanger »

facetube wrote: post #547
jimmywanger wrote: post #437

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> The GOP smear campaign was so successful that even many liberals went along with it. You can say the same thing about the Democratic smear campaign against Trump. Clinton was somebody who was complacent, part of the existing political machine, and ran on a divisive platform that marginalized 25% of the electorate. Plus it didn't help that she ran the gender card into the ground and got out campaigned by political n…

False equivalence. Clinton did not insist against all evidence that climate change is a Chinese hoax and the president is a foreign ineligible immigrant.

Trump did not try to paper over sexual improprieties by his spouse, make real estate investments of questionable legality, or handle emails improperly while sitting secretary of state, OR allow an american diplomat to get killed in Bengazi.

What's your point? Clinton screwed up in not exactly the same way?

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Post by [deleted] »

facetube wrote: post #547
jimmywanger wrote: post #437

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> The GOP smear campaign was so successful that even many liberals went along with it. You can say the same thing about the Democratic smear campaign against Trump. Clinton was somebody who was complacent, part of the existing political machine, and ran on a divisive platform that marginalized 25% of the electorate. Plus it didn't help that she ran the gender card into the ground and got out campaigned by political n…

False equivalence. Clinton did not insist against all evidence that climate change is a Chinese hoax and the president is a foreign ineligible immigrant.

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