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@Dr.Franklin
Thank you for not allowing me to do this alone
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@ebuc
I didnt say anthing about "police presence". Your off on a seperate tangent.
Below where you mention police interactions are more common in some areas
not been repeatedly hassled by police for minor stuff repeatedly, as may happen in some communities more
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The eyes dont lie. The license was valid visually and should have gone no further. Period
Also while we are at it, cashiers should not use counterfeit pens on large bills since things are always precisely what they look like and zero people commit fraud
I stated nothing about "conspiracy " ergo, you again have gone off and even more irrelevant tangent, to my comments. My thoughts about you as right-wing are panning out.
Repeat what premises I clarified of yours before stating that so you can see why I equated the conclusions you drew from your premises was silly.
- I dont have nor read all of the statistics. I would place you lower on the people I would trust with such information in around all of the above, not just one particular set of considerations
It's the first result on Google. You should have read all of these studies I am citing off the top of my head before forming a conclusion to make sure ideology doesn't guide you coming up with convenient rationalizations
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1903856116
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@Skipper_Sr
Wait, if we are voting for a new president, who is the current president?
Great job informing yourself before voting
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@whiteflame
Challenging like a toddler is maybe. My 6/7 year old is more of a pain in the ass than my wife but the wife gets impact on decision making.
Correct though it's my fault for not clarifying.
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@Vader
I know what votes I have outstanding and what votes RM has outstanding. He isn't doing a tiny bit better than me. He is doing a lot better.
If the people that support me don't fight for my win, it just won't happen
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The choice is between a person who if elected will bitch and moan about how mods are unfair and block half of the people he needs to advocate for and between a person who will not only be an effective advocate on this site for everyone, but also will take the fight off this site to improve the site overall, and every mod chose the choice that would challenge them zero over an effective advocate of the people.
This is an example of having an extremely clear ethical choice and the people who should be signalling the site what the only ethical action is, are letting the site down.
A part of me wants to just let the site go down in flames because most of the leaders on this site have made the choice that is more likely to lead to it's destruction as well as the choice that is most likely to neuter the position of president permanently.
I am not going to let the cynics who threw their votes away to win.
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@ebuc
i'm white average, middle class male and not been repeatedly hassled by police for minor stuff repeatedly, as may happen in some communities more, because of race
Why do you think the type of broken windows policing you are describing would specifically target minority communities because of race and not the more sensible reasoning being that members of those communities are more likely to be victimized and need more police presence?
they call me to Judges desk, and one man comes over to judge and says something into the judge's ear, and the judge says to me, charges dismissed, pay the clerk $10. court fee on your way out.
Sounds like a computer error. Happens all the time.
I tell you what, thank god i'm white. Ive had a a few other encounters with police and none as bad as that, but they all could have gone sour, if I were not white, didnt have kids in car with more my wife with me.
Most encounters with police regardless of race end up how you claim. Had you behaved like many people who get shot by police do it could have ended up worse, but it sounds like you behaved civilly.
One Chicago cop told me, if it werent for the 5 kids I had in car with me, he would haul my butt to the police station for making a U-turn.
That's because of the license coming up invalid, which many times means it's a fake ID. A common ploy by people with serious warrants to disguise who they are. The cop took it easy on you, probably because of the kids not because of your skin color.
My advice to all is, do not live in Chicago or any big city.
Blue cities tend to be a pain in the ass that way. I agree with the advice, but I usually end up living in major cities anyway.
Did you notice how native Americans were the most disproportionately to be shot by police?
This is the 21st century. There is almost zero bigotry to native Americans. Wouldn't a more sensible thing to conclude be that native Americans are more likely to see police as an invading force and be uncooperative? It's not a conspiracy to genocide indians. Nor is it a conspiracy theory to genocide whites who are more likely to be shot in police interactions than blacks once you adjust the statistics for shootings per interaction
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I think you would have to look at death by percentage after contact. Police make more contact with black folks.
I would say the biggest indicator of how at risk you are for being shot by a police officer, has to do with how much you resist arrest.
When you look at contact with police and adjust the stats for that here is the groups most likely to be killed by police.
1. Native American
2. Whites
3. Blacks
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@zedvictor4
This is available for anyone who votes regardless of candidate
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@Intelligence_06
You are still eligible to win.
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That is what the opposite reece did. Reece votes RM so he would unblock him
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@RationalMadman
Do me
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@Greyparrot
They won't get it. The war is not about them. It's because they want to simultaneously use Ukraine as a buffer zone to the west and also eventually keep some nukes right on Russia's border for first strike capabily
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@Greyparrot
They are playing with people's lives here which is terrible. Most foreign policy is a game between the west and China/Russia to maneuver for nuclear and strategic superiority.
My opinion. We should be neutral. Fuck the world. If we do what is right and assume everyone else will also than we can have a peaceful world
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@Sir.Lancelot
He is actually my official potentate if I win
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If you vote in this election, I will be picking one random voter to give $50 to regardless of whether they vote for me or RM, this is unrelated to my other offer.
Also, feel free to use this as an election discussion thread, so we don't clog up the voting.
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@K_Michael
Yes, 12 months of RM or 10-11 months of me. I think my 10-11 months will be a superior choice to RM for 12. Can you do me a favor and start a discussion thread so this thread doesn't get too much fluff though
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@RationalMadman
I will take another 30 day rest or so after I win, but yes very much renewing like a ban
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@ILikePie5
We need to be able to work with him should we win
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I guess I will be here the next few days to see this through and then take a small break once I win.
Vote WYLTED
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@oromagi
Yes, we know you miss slavery but that institution is dangerously unstable and morally reprehensible.
Actually it would result in more workers rights and virtually eradicate poverty.
No but we'd be a little poorer and a little less safe, which you would be the first to bitch about.
We would not be less safe, why do people think this. If you keep to yourself than nobody has any reason to attack you at all. If anything it makes us more safe and no I couldn't possibly be more poor.
In other words, you'd rather most communities lie rotting in ruins
How would dedicating a portion of everyone in a communities paycheck to disaster relief harm their ability to respond to disasters? Especially when you are pooling money from multiple communities who want to benefit from disaster relief?
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@ludofl3x
I have to echo Double R here...so what? Like what about the way this word is defined changes your day to day life in such a way that it generates some sort of offended feeling
I literally use the word woman everyday, you can't just willy nilly change definitions like that. Now what the fuck am I supposed to call a random bitch walking by when I am doing my construction job
If I say "Hey woman" and whistle my boys could think I am gay. I have to literally whistle and cat call them by saying "hey there presumably biological female, how ya doing?"
It's hard to get that all out while they are crossing the street to avoid me.
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@Double_R
I just find it amusing how obsessed with this topic the political right is. Do you guys really have nothing better to be concerned about?
I think it's very olimportant that some people hate themselves so much they try to cut their dicks off to become somebody new. An alarming amount realizing that they are still who they were before and can't escape the self help, decide to kill themselves to finally escape themselves.
Obviously a grown man can do what he wants including cut off his dick,
It's much better that instead of telling incels becoming women will solve their problems, is we start telling them that they need to accept themselves and love themselves, and maybe explain to them that God wants them to live as a man and experience what that is like, maybe in the next life they don't have to get the short end of the stick and can be a woman, but that self hatred isn't the answer nor is self castration.
The problem with accepting them as we have seen is that many mothers with manchausen by proxy have used this as an excuse to start mutilating their children or putting them on chemical castration drugs, or we have seen mother's and yes it is usually women because they are more easily persuaded by social programming that because a boy wants to play with Barbie dolls that it means he really is a girl and they have been programmed to believe all Tom boys are lesbians and also secretly men and they have started abusing their daughters by treating them that way as well.
So yes, I think cutting off the dicks of children and chemically castrating then is worth fighting against even if that means we have to upset some social norms.
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Socially service is easy. You just replace it with filial responsibility laws
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I would perhaps to pay for roads just have citizens pay maybe a fee everytime they fill up the tank "because that would indicate they use the road" . Or maybe I would set up a recurring subscription service for road use that comes out of their paycheck. There is no need to get the government involved
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@Greyparrot
What do you think of my suggestion above to replace government spending with some sort of grouped citizen fund for natural disaster relief?
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@oromagi
Reducing poverty and inequality through social welfare programs
Those actually increase poverty by making people reliant on government. I know in theory it is nice to throw money at problems but it doesn't help. If Laissez-faire capitalism were attempted it would virtually eliminate poverty. https://www.cato.org/commentary/more-welfare-more-poverty
Promoting international relations and cooperation with other countries.
How would that directly benefit the United States?
Ensuring American political and economic superpower advantages
Not necessary. We don't need to be a superpower we just need to make sure our people are living great lives.
Providing the basic public goods and services of 21 century civilization, such as clean water, sanitation, and education
Couod be accomplished better with a night's watchman type state with no noticable difference or potentially superior to what is done now in theory
Protecting the rights and freedoms of citizens through democratic institutions and the rule of law
Rule of law and rights are important but democratic rights are stupid. If 90% of people voted to enslave midgets, it wouldn't make it right. I personally prefer a constitutional republic over a society that values democracy. Which we all know when liberals say it is code for voting out the bill of rights.
Promoting economic development and job creation through fiscal and monetary policies
Laissez-faire capitalism would do a superior job of it. Economic intervention often has negative effects
Protecting the environment and natural resources for future generations
Not really, we do have environmental regulations but the usual result is just exporting those environmental problems to factories in china which could care less. I believe there are solutions for those things that don't involve unethical methods the government currently uses, unethical methods which are inferior to anything I would suggest.
Providing access to healthcare and addressing public health issues
We had more access to healthcare before government intrusion into it.
Managing and regulating natural disasters, such as floods and earthquakes
I would rather have a community where you pay maybe a 10% fee to join the community and several communities pool funds together that would result in a type of disaster insurance that would kind of replace that and do the same thing.
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@Sidewalker
The only thing the GOP has anymore is divisiveness, they can't even work with themselves now LOL.
You totally owned Republicans by saying they aren't a hive mind
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she would likely block any frivolous investigations into the Jan 6th committee or its findings.
The truth does not fear investigation.
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@Double_R
For him to talk about Mexico ‘sending their criminals and rapists’ as meaningful there would have to be a significant number of Mexicans in that group who are rapists in order to warrant him calling this out as a major political issue
1% of a million people is pretty significant.
Second, the complete vagueness of this “temporary” timeline leaves open the possibility that he would just leave it as is indefinitely
This may be news to you but ummm. There is no Muslim ban. They immigrate here everyday.
No, what he figured out was that the constitution does not allow a religious test to determine one’s eligibility to come to the US
The constitution doesn't apply to non Americans. It's why enemy combatants don't have rights.
First of all, our leaders have a very good understanding what the hell is going on. Trump is as usual, projecting his own remarkable ignorance
Then they can only be called evil by not solving the problem. They really should focus on solutions if everyone but Trump understands the problem perfectly.
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The reason we are seeing so much content about wage increases is because of a capital strikes isn't it?
Like they get pissed that truck drivers make a living wage, so all of a sudden we see articles and news stories appearing that complain about a shortage of truck drivers and pushes in law to decrease the age of drivers to 18 and get truck drivers free educations. Just whatever it takes to drive wages down.
We see the same sort of thing with nursing, and now software development. Corporations are already going "boohoo, software developers make a decent salary so we need to get more people here on visas to drive down wages as well as start teaching coding to elementary school kids so software developers can make minimum wage also.
Corporate pigs will be corporate pigs.
Yes wage increase can contribute to inflation. Not very much though. It's usually just making the money printers go brrr everytime the government has a new pet project.
Like they get pissed that truck drivers make a living wage, so all of a sudden we see articles and news stories appearing that complain about a shortage of truck drivers and pushes in law to decrease the age of drivers to 18 and get truck drivers free educations. Just whatever it takes to drive wages down.
We see the same sort of thing with nursing, and now software development. Corporations are already going "boohoo, software developers make a decent salary so we need to get more people here on visas to drive down wages as well as start teaching coding to elementary school kids so software developers can make minimum wage also.
Corporate pigs will be corporate pigs.
Yes wage increase can contribute to inflation. Not very much though. It's usually just making the money printers go brrr everytime the government has a new pet project.
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I don't understand. If people hate America they don't have to destroy it by voting Democrat. They literally can just move to a country that is already destroyed by liberalism like Venezuela
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@ILikePie5
I am especially scared when motorcycles do it because I don't want them to make a mistake and die because they stupidly follow to close. I don't want it on my conscience with them I get the hell out of the way by any safe means possible
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If some said a lot of black people are lazy but a lot are also hard working, it would not be racist like you claimed. We don't speak in generalizations. When we state things like males are child molesters we just mean pedophilia is more likely to occur in men. The same thing when you say school shooters are white, you aren't saying all whites are school shooters. You have to have a 2 digit IQ to say that. Now I don't think you are dumb, quite the opposite but you are not interpreting things in a generous way and have to really twist an interpretation of his words to fit your preconceived notions.
Now compare that with Biden doing the following
1. Directly calling black people uncle Tom's if they do not obey him and vote the way he wants
2. Saying that poor children and white children deserve the same schooling
3. At one point I believe he bragged about Delaware being a slave state
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@Double_R
“When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best” Is a pretty blanket statement. No it doesn’t mean every single one but that wasn’t the insinuation. If I said black people are lazy that doesn’t mean you can’t find one non lazy black person, that’s common sense. We tend to speak in generalizations not in absolutes.
It isn't a blanket statement. It merely means there are some criminals in the mix it does not say a majority or anything like that. The statement would still be true if 1 in 500 immigrants were criminals. You can claim there is an insinuation there but that comes from you reading too much into it. If he is openly racist like you state why are you compiling atatements like this and using absurd rationalizations as well as not interpreting it in a generous way.
Complete and utter bullshit to which there is no excuse.“I Donald J Trump am calling for a complete and total shut down of Muslims entering the United States”
Yep you cut off the last part which stated it was very temporary until they could figure out how to reduce terrorists from immigrating to the United States. I believe he figured it out fast, never instituted the ban because he figured it out and instead just targeted countries who statistically were more likely to send terrorists.
An act that would have not only prevented 9-11 but would have prevented most of the reactionary hate brought on Muslims in the wake of 9-11 . So his policies would have reduced hate and terrorism. Seems like good policy
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@Double_R
Agreed. No one else was willing to call Mexicans rapists or call for the banning of all Muslims
That's just not true. The rape comment he said that there are many rapists and other criminals who illegally immigrate to America. You will not find a quote where he said most of all illegal immigrants are rapists.
He never called for a ban on Muslims. His refuge ban targeted countries that were statistically most likely to send terrorists. Nowhere in his van is the word Muslim even used. Many Muslim countries were not in the ban because they had a low likelihood of sending terrorists.
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@Sidewalker
Those people are actually following you, it's all part of a vast liberal conspiracy.
Why would they follow me when the chip they planted in my head tracks me?
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@Public-Choice
I like your style
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I mean are you retarded or what? When I am going 75 on a road that says 55mph is that too slow for you?
If it is too slow, are you too retarded to notice I immediately start driving 15 mph when you do that and since everybody learns to slow down when a person tailgates, are you really so stupid as to think you will get a different result than what happens every single time you do it?
Why do you tailgating retards almost always have a new Jersey license plate on your car?
Tailgaters, why do you call the cops when I throw my morning coffee at you as you pass to my right? You have to know people get pissed at retards and you are a retard, so what is your thinking here?
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@bmdrocks21
I don't think restraining orders are worthwhile and that bans should be sparingly used. Wylted is more likely to bring about that type of advocacy
This is correct
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You campaigned like a sleazebag
This is not true
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@Sir.Lancelot
. I want to witness the power level of Peak Wylted.
You will. I am thinking about doing a debate tournament where I am literally in every bracket and then I defeat the entire site by the end of the tournament.
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Can confirm he’s in fact Elon Musk
I am basically the black Elon musk.
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@Best.Korea
Nobody loves me
Well, I love you, and soon the terrorists will love you, and let me tell you something. When I am done, the entire world will love you
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To be fair my former father in law if you want to call him that is a republican and he would list his Chihuahua as a guard dog and use his dog food as a tax write off for his business
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@oromagi
I've never met a Republican who didn't cheat on his taxes. By following the law, Democrats are the ones holding this country together and paying everybody's fair due
I don't believe in a lot of those social programs. It doesn't help me escape local taxes that go to roads law enforcement etc. I don't agree with America's foreign policy and I give to charities that actually help the poor.
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