US Politics

Sky1981 said:
Define majority and minority.

For me majority is the winning party. Even by 51% they're majority. That's just how Democracy works.

If the anti LGBT rules pass, then that's the will of the majority.
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Would have been better for me to put it as ‘minority majority’ as it is a specific phenomenon.

Over 70% of the populace want LGBTQ+ rights.

Less than half the country are Republican.

This isn’t how small ‘d’ democracy works.

This is hardly the will of the majority. This is a flawed process becoming more flawed.

It’s not this simplistic.
 
calodo2003 said:
Would have been better for me to put it as ‘minority majority’ as it is a specific phenomenon.

Over 70% of the populace want LGBTQ+ rights.

Less than half the country are Republican.

This isn’t how small ‘d’ democracy works.

This is hardly the will of the majority. This is a flawed process becoming more flawed.

It’s not this simplistic.
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Serious question. Where do you get the 70 percent of American from?

If it's true 70 percent then your democracy is wrong. How can a free and pure democracy allow things like this to happen, not once but almost all the time.
 
Sky1981 said:
Serious question. Where do you get the 70 percent of American from?

If it's true 70 percent then your democracy is wrong. How can a free and pure democracy allow things like this to happen, not once but almost all the time.
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Google ‘percentage of Americans who support LGBTQ+ rights.’

Also google ‘minority majority rule.’

For example, 78% of West Virginia Republicans support election law reform, yet we can’t get Manchin to support getting rid of the filibuster because he says he wants to do right by his constituency.

There’s nothing ‘free & pure’ about this democracy. Nothing at all.
 
Sky1981 said:
no, thats democracy. majority dont want LGBT and they got what they're voting for.
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not sure why you think this. For example, I saw a story this week gay marriage is polling at 70% positive, including, for the first time, a majority of republicans.

edit: should have kept reading the thread
 
Sky1981 said:
Define majority and minority.

For me majority is the winning party. Even by 51% they're majority. That's just how Democracy works.

If the anti LGBT rules pass, then that's the will of the majority.
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that’s just not how things work in the us unfortunately. For example, my state, WI, votes about 51-53% dem in statewide elections. However, our state legislature is 63% republican. This is the definition of minority rule and is 100% due to the gerrymandering of state congressional districts by republicans. Since that keeps them in power they will never change them to be fair, and so a smaller and smaller percentage of Wisconsinites will “rule” via the state legislature as the state shifts more and more dem.
 
Carolina Red said:
https://www.propublica.org/article/...ds-reveal-how-the-wealthiest-avoid-income-tax

“According to Forbes, those 25 people saw their worth rise a collective $401 billion from 2014 to 2018. They paid a total of $13.6 billion in federal income taxes in those five years, the IRS data shows. That’s a staggering sum, but it amounts to a true tax rate of only 3.4%.”
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move that decimal point one spot to the right and you have most of our tax rates one property and state taxes are thrown in.
 
Sky1981 said:
Define majority and minority.

For me majority is the winning party. Even by 51% they're majority. That's just how Democracy works.

If the anti LGBT rules pass, then that's the will of the majority.
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So any winning party is a majority, and anything they do is democracy? That's so simplistic that it's practically useless.
 


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berbatrick said:


As God intended


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Unreal how she can arrive at the conclusion that socialism is the problem :lol:

She goes on to explain that their business plan is to sell on to the government for a large profit, when Biden's socialized housing plans come to fruition. I highly doubt that an investment firm of that size would make a bet on socialist policies passing through the American legislature - and it doesn't explain why they use similar tactics in other countries.
 
MrMarcello said:
Stumbled on this response to the Blackrock Thread... hmm...

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Don't forget that BR buying 30% above list will cause a reevaluation of property values for those house AND surrounding houses, which means property taxes will jump quite a bit, at least for the non BR houses.... I have a sneaking suspicion they may have a word in the ear of the assessor.
 
utdalltheway said:
remember (correctly) the Alamo.
Saw this on Time magazine. It basically says the same things I suspected all along about the Alamo.
What say you @MrMarcello? Is this something you learned in school?
Will this be taught now, or be fought back on by white Texans?
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Definitely not what I was taught in school in SoCal. I think we spent 10 minutes on the Mexican American war in AP History and probably 30 seconds on slavery.
 
The only thing I can vaguely recall going against the norm was mention of the current location is not the original location, but cannot recall if anyone knew for sure, or was a rumor, or myth, or what. I believe it's been confirmed since that the original location is not where the current museum is, or perhaps like very close as much of the old fort was destroyed over the years.

But it was repeatedly told to us it was heroic Americans fighting an invasive, foreign army. Certainly do not recall any Mexicans or Tejanos being on the "good" side in our books and lectures.

Texas has a lengthy history of writing their own school books and also selling them to other states.
 
MrMarcello said:
The only thing I can vaguely recall going against the norm was mention of the current location is not the original location, but cannot recall if anyone knew for sure, or was a rumor, or myth, or what. I believe it's been confirmed since that the original location is not where the current museum is, or perhaps like very close as much of the old fort was destroyed over the years.

But it was repeatedly told to us it was heroic Americans fighting an invasive, foreign army. Certainly do not recall any Mexicans or Tejanos being on the "good" side in our books and lectures.
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I can guarantee you that this book, which I remember checking out from my grade school library, did not do so either.


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Edit: Looking back I feel all of those Landmark "History" books were straight out (white??) nationalist propaganda
 
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