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@IlDiavolo
Mass shootings are practically non-existent compared to the USA.
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@Best.Korea
Anyway, just return America to native Americans and you go back to Europe from where you came from in the first place.
Agreed.
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@Best.Korea
So... what do you suggest US does?
Nothing. America can't be fixed at this point, only recolonized.
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@Best.Korea
Just spittin facts yo. Japan didn't need a brown Hitler to justify cultural hegemony of their own Nation.
Look, even far left wacko billionaire media agrees with me. You cannot resist!
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@Best.Korea
Japan is also the most homogenous nation on the planet. No need for guns to counter unwanted cultural diversity.
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You are not well
Clearly, you sympathize with Maga. Shame. Shame.
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@Best.Korea
Praise WAPO and our Lord and Savior Bezos.
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Chief Joseph announced his surrender with the following poignant words.
I am tired of fighting. Our chiefs are killed....The old men are all dead....It is cold and we have no blankets. The little children are freezing to death. My people, some of whom have run away to the hills, and have no blankets, no food; no one knows where they are--perhaps freezing to death. I want to have time to look for my children and see how many of them I can find. Maybe I shall find them among the dead. Hear me, my chiefs. I am tired; my heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands I will fight no more forever.
One can only imagine the garbage Trump and his MAGA nativist tribe will say when they are all replaced with brown people from every other nation on the globe, replacing all Americans of every skin color.
Karma? Or just desserts!
What do you guys think?
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@FLRW
Emerson was taken into custody in Portland and faces charges, including 83 counts of attempted murder.
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@FLRW
George Orwell was talking about you when he wrote about thoughtcrimes.
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@HistoryBuff
Israel doesn't let the Palestinians use them because Israel controls their airspace and territorial waters.
Let's be honest here, Israel is just one gigantic US military base in the Middle East to help provide cheap oil for lazy Americans. America funded, and justified by any means necessary.
750 bases in 80 countries; with troops deployed in 159 countries.
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@FLRW
“There were no medical findings that showed any injury to the vital structures of Mr. Floyd’s neck,” said Sweasy in a statement referencing a conversation with the coroner. “There were no medical indications of asphyxia or strangulation.”
What, no witty quip about rich media celebrities and rich elites in DC? Color me shocked.
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@HistoryBuff
the republicans and fox would have been running it as front page news
That assumes billionaire media owned Fox isn't also covering up organized pedophilia. Controlled opposition would mean there are certain things you cannot say on Fox, and there is a great deal Fox does not, and will never cover.
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@FLRW
Do you have any thoughts of your own about this outside of your favorite celebrity media outlet?
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@FLRW
I really don't care about a rich media figure's opinions.
The prosecutor's and examiner's statements are all that matters, so your post is absolute garbage.
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So even if it could be medically proven that kneeling on his neck had nothing to do with his death (which seems highly unlikely),
We now know it was not only likely, it was certain.
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@FLRW
As usual, we can rely on you to draw the obvious dots here.
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@FLRW
Yes. California is clearly the source of Covid.
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Ty for this entertainment California.
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@Best.Korea
Conspiracy is just code word dogwhistle for inconvenient truth.
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@Athias
There hasn't been this much covering up for the powerful elites since the Catholic scandal. Killing Epstein doesn't just wipe the slate clean you know.
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@HistoryBuff
It's not just Israel though, Jordan and Egypt refuse asylum as well because of the chaos Hamas brings.
So you would have to sanction all the countries for not allowing free passage.
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@Double_R
History is replete with countless examples where people chose at the time to be on the right side of history, only to discover later that history and society evolves in ways they cannot possibly imagine, where today's heroes are tomorrow's villains. Instead of making a judgement based on an uncertain future, you should make the most ethical choice today, in every case, and leave the future history predictions out of it. You will most likely be judged by future historians to be as wrong as everyone else at some point anyway. So it's useless to avoid that reality by pretending a world exists where there is an objective "right side."
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@Double_R
You are right, I should have used a more contemporary group such as the woke mob using the fear of cancellations to get everyone on "the right side" (the winning side)
It is no act of ethical courage to trade your moral beliefs for security. Rarely does might (the winning or "right" side) accurately equate to what is right. That's another overused motto thoroughly unexamined.
"being on the right side of history" more accurately historically translates to being on the right side of a grave than the side of any moral platitude.
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@HistoryBuff
It's a contradiction because you cannot prefer something if there is no alternative. It's like you saying you prefer to live on Earth instead of some unreachable planet. What the people want is either irrelevant because no choice exists. Or it is relevant and they do have a choice. You can't have both.
Some men want to genetically be a girl, but that's irrelevant because they will never have a female's chromosomes. There is no choice but to be a genetic male.
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@HistoryBuff
want to stay in their home when there is literally nowhere for them to go
That's a contradiction. You cannot have both these things.
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@Athias
why would one pay the incompetent more?
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@Athias
Lol, nobody with the average IQ of this site was supposed to get the inside joke :)
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@Double_R
I prefer to just be on the right side of an issue.
So did Hitler's supporters. The "wrong side" usually meant immediate death or worse.
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@Barney
I wasn't thinking about that, the Access Hollywood bragging was earlier, and people knew it longer than Trump paying hush money to a stripper. I am sure Trump would have bragged about that too if he didn't already call her "horseface"
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- 339,996,563 divided by 535 = 635,508. Less than 2/3rds of 1 million, averaged.
Your math is way off. For House it's 340M/438...
and for Senators it is 340/100 so 3.4 million constituents on average for each senator,
To calculate the weighted average constituents for a random member of the U.S. Congress (combining both the House of Representatives and the Senate), you need to consider the number of representatives in the House and senators in the Senate.
As of my last knowledge update in September 2021, there are 435 members in the House of Representatives and 100 members in the Senate.
Let's calculate the weighted average constituents:
- For the House of Representatives:
- Each representative represents, on average, 340 million / 435 = 781,609 constituents.
- Each representative represents, on average, 340 million / 435 = 781,609 constituents.
- For the Senate:
- Each senator represents, on average, 340 million / 100 = 3,400,000 constituents.
- Each senator represents, on average, 340 million / 100 = 3,400,000 constituents.
Now, you'll calculate the weighted average constituents by taking into account the number of representatives in the House and senators in the Senate:
Weighted Average = (Number of Representatives * Average Constituents per Representative + Number of Senators * Average Constituents per Senator) / Total Members
Weighted Average = (435 * 781,609 + 100 * 3,400,000) / (435 + 100)
Weighted Average = (340,007,415 + 340,000,000) / 535
Weighted Average ≈ 680,007,415 / 535
Weighted Average ≈ 1,268,646.98 (rounded to the nearest whole number)
So, the weighted average constituents for a random member of the U.S. Congress is approximately:
1,268,647 constituents.
Math-1
Oro-0
Also, Oro had no comment on the Vox article, so he most likely agrees with the far left wacko outlet's view.
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@Barney
The big difference is that Clinton lied about it where Trump bragged about it. People hate liars more than cheaters.
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@HistoryBuff
You push people to the brink...
Hamas pushed their own people to the brink. Since their own people have no way of removing Hamas, it's up to responsible nations to protect the Palestinians from Hamas, even if it means killing the civilian supporters of Hamas who refuse to leave a war zone.
I nominate America, as it has the most experience in "liberations"
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@ponikshiy
This is an interesting read, even though it is published by a far left wacko communist propaganda outlet (Vox)
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@ponikshiy
You know people sure do like batching that politicians don't make enough and then also bitch that they haven't read a bill. With a higher budget they can have a larger staff and at least have their staff read a bill more thoroughly so they can make a better educated decision. Plus 175k is shit whe. You know they have to have 2 mortgages. One in DC and one in their home state. They have to travel back and forth a lot and need houses good enough to be in safe locations. They should at least make 500k a year bare minimum. We also don't want politics being a rich man's game. Many people can't afford to quit their job for that shit salary, but by raising it to 500k it makes it easier for the average person to afford to be able to take the job, considering g the higher cost of living having that job entails
Exactly. We are literally forcing our elected officials to take bribes just to survive. Congress should be people in the upper 1 percent, not the upper 10 percent. It's not a job that 10 percent of Americans have any hope at performing competently.
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@ponikshiy
Plus, direct democracy can only work in a very homogeneous state, otherwise it's an instant recipe for civil war and balkanization.
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@Best.Korea
Bribe them before someone else does. Nice plan.
Thank you sir.
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@HistoryBuff
Getting elected is an instant payday. What wouldn't you say or do to get that kind of money? It would attract candidates that are solely interested in the money.
But this is already happening. The vast majority of people in Congress are subsidized by lobbyists, and they are solely interested in their money
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175,000 is already among the top few percent of earnings.
Not of top level CEO's.
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The current salary for a US congressman is around $175,000 dollars. Each Representative represents close to a million people. The average salary of a CEO at a fortune 500 company is 16.7 million dollars.
I propose to raise the salary of Congress to 20 million dollars a year with the provision that they must have term limits. The President will have a salary of 50 million. I base this off of the 400 million dollars Barack Obama accumulated from kickbacks during his 8 years as president.
Here are the reasons:
1) It would be a very small part of the national budget. 10 Billion dollars a year for the salary of Congress is definitely doable.
2) It would make it much harder for a lobbyist to purchase a politician.
3) It would attract much more competition and a higher quality of candidates for the job.
What do you guys think?
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All hail our lord WAPO, and our Savior, Bezos.
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@TheUnderdog
because the person with the most votes should win no matter where those voters are located.
And that will then be the end of the Republic of States, as America would also eventually abolish the Senate for the same exact reasons for abolishing the electoral college. Not that this is a bad thing, California has expressed a desire to balkanize for decades.
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@Swagnarok
You'll be shoxxored when Israel repeats the cycle and the soft bellies capitulate and send your 500 dollars for relief for Gazans....
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