LOCKED: Disgusted with progressives

posted by HOF on coattails

He's definitely under control of the Russians.  

Premium vodka for life, what can I say......

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/03/19/are-some-states-headed-for-splitsville-movement-grows-to-allow-sections-states-to-break-away.html

Good article regarding states splitting apart etc... 

posted by QuakerOats

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/03/19/are-some-states-headed-for-splitsville-movement-grows-to-allow-sections-states-to-break-away.html

 

Good article regarding states splitting apart etc... 

I like the article. Nothing is forever (50). 

I believe it WOULD be more representative. 

My college roommate back in the 70's was from Rochester, NY and often remarked how upstate would like to be separate from NYC area. 

No doubt.  Currently the governor of NY is beholden to the liberal agenda, and big $$, based in NYC, so no fracking statewide for example, which runs counter to the interests of upstate NY, landowners, and those in New England wanting to heat their homes for a reasonable price.  Nuts. 

Count Dankula once made a video of teaching his girlfriend's dog of doing a nazi salute. He did this to prank her and rile her up. A distasteful joke. But, the pug was cute.

He was just convicted in Scotland, where he lives, of being grossly offensive. No sentence passed down as of yet.

Let's hope that crap doesn't continue to creep over here.

posted by CenterBHSFan

Count Dankula once made a video of teaching his girlfriend's dog of doing a nazi salute. He did this to prank her and rile her up. A distasteful joke. But, the pug was cute.

He was just convicted in Scotland, where he lives, of being grossly offensive. No sentence passed down as of yet.

Let's hope that crap doesn't continue to creep over here.

I have seen numerous studies where the college aged morons think "hate speech" (broadly defined) shouldn't be protected. This is ridiculous imo. It is either all speech or none. And don't give me some bullshit about yelling fire in a movie theater.

Twitter is already beginning to censor conservatives while allowing liberals to tell people they hope their kids die in a shooting. Bunch of pussies to "suspend" people, willy nilly.  There are also articles about Fbook and youtube letting the SPLC to censor accounts. That organization is a complete farce and targets normal conservatve groups as hate groups

I've been checking out Minds and Gab. Not exactly luxury alternatives (lol) but better than having to watch what you say and how you say it.

posted by BRF

I believe it WOULD be more representative. 

Problem is the Dems won't go for that - popular vote or nothing, with them.  Geography is not their friend, so they would strongly oppose any geographic strengthening of the electoral college (because they'd never win another election).

I just don't get the cries for a popular vote.  The, like, basis of our entire Democracy is that group think in San Francisco doesn't dictate how everyone else everywhere else in the country lives.  And that would also be less of an issue if the establishment-types in DC didn't have their power grab to run roughshod over state and local governments.  But centralizing power makes it easier to control people and take away freedoms.

posted by iclfan2

Twitter is already beginning to censor conservatives while allowing liberals to tell people they hope their kids die in a shooting. Bunch of pussies to "suspend" people, willy nilly.  There are also articles about Fbook and youtube letting the SPLC to censor accounts. That organization is a complete farce and targets normal conservatve groups as hate groups

Instead of thinking the world is going to end because of net neutrality, you'd like to see a little more concern for just how much power and influence Google, Twitter and Facebook have.  What Obama and Trump campaigns did with the data should be alarming, but hopefully the profit motive will prevent them from unfairly tilting elections (just imagine if they made their data and analytics available to only one candidate).

People pulling their hair out over Russia, when a handful of executives at a handful of companies can [and probably are] do much more damage.

And the issue is not so much what obama and Trump did with the data, it is how and why so much personal data was nonchalantly handed over by FB because somebody showed up dangling a few $$$. 

Damn glad I have never signed up for FB or any other social media bs.

posted by gut

Problem is the Dems won't go for that - popular vote or nothing, with them.  Geography is not their friend, so they would strongly oppose any geographic strengthening of the electoral college (because they'd never win another election).

I just don't get the cries for a popular vote.  The, like, basis of our entire Democracy is that group think in San Francisco doesn't dictate how everyone else everywhere else in the country lives.  And that would also be less of an issue if the establishment-types in DC didn't have their power grab to run roughshod over state and local governments.  But centralizing power makes it easier to control people and take away freedoms.

Unreal how smart the founders of this country were.

posted by gut

I just don't get the cries for a popular vote.  The, like, basis of our entire Democracy is that group think in San Francisco doesn't dictate how everyone else everywhere else in the country lives.  And that would also be less of an issue if the establishment-types in DC didn't have their power grab to run roughshod over state and local governments.  But centralizing power makes it easier to control people and take away freedoms.

It's hilarious how "progressives" cry about disenfranchisement when it comes to using an ID to vote, yet it completely goes over their head they are pretty much advocating for their own form of disenfranchisement.  I will never want a popular vote, because I wouldn't want the fucking idiots in LA/SF/Chicago/NYC making all of the decisions for me, especially if I were to live in a state that lines up with most of my beliefs/stances.  A complete failure on our school systems for not teaching our students the purpose of all of these things.  I was pretty shocked to learn that most schools don't even have civics courses. 

posted by Spock

Unreal how smart the founders of this country were.

Are you a racist ?

posted by like_that

A complete failure on our school systems for not teaching our students the purpose of all of these things.  I was pretty shocked to learn that most schools don't even have civics courses. 

This is what I taught when I was a teacher. It was frustrating because I was very interested in the subject, but the students who found it interesting were few and far between. 

posted by QuakerOats

Are you a racist ?

jesus really?  Do you have a deck of cards with one card in it?

Sarcasm sir. 

Damn, CC's so dumb he can't even figure out sarcasm from the one person on this site he can count on to have nearly the same political views as him at all times.

posted by Spock

Unreal how smart the founders of this country were.

Not smart enough to protect us from stupid and lazy voters.

posted by gut

Not smart enough to protect us from stupid and lazy voters.

posted by HOF on coattails