You don't understand. They live in the real part of America. Not the northeast where the colonies are. The real part that was settled 80 years later.KEN-JENNINGS wrote:
not only is their voice heard, it's disproportionately louder than other voices. Because it's not enough that Wyoming voters are just as important as California voters - they are actually 3.6x as important.
It impacts me too. You did pick the most extreme example thoughKEN-JENNINGS wrote:
not only is their voice heard, it's disproportionately louder than other voices. Because it's not enough that Wyoming voters are just as important as California voters - they are actually 3.6x as important.
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The Senate is more extreme, and precisely why you don't need or should want the electoral college.Jay wrote:
It impacts me too. You did pick the most extreme example thoughKEN-JENNINGS wrote:
not only is their voice heard, it's disproportionately louder than other voices. Because it's not enough that Wyoming voters are just as important as California voters - they are actually 3.6x as important.
The Senate actually makes sense though - 2 voting members for each state, because each state is an equal 1 of 50 in the Union. We have the House of Representatives that is elected proportionally. I understand the reasons why we have a bicameral legislature and agree with the general architecture of the lower House being proportional the Senate being equal.DrunkFace wrote:
The Senate is more extreme, and precisely why you don't need or should want the electoral college.Jay wrote:
It impacts me too. You did pick the most extreme example thoughKEN-JENNINGS wrote:
not only is their voice heard, it's disproportionately louder than other voices. Because it's not enough that Wyoming voters are just as important as California voters - they are actually 3.6x as important.
Fucking terrible. Asked about beliefs, chanting the Lord's Prayer while Muslims were praying...we are going backward as a country.Officials cited zoning issues as the reason for rejecting an application to construct a mosque in Bayonne, NJ, Monday night, but it was religion -- and the allegation that Islam promotes violence -- that was the undercurrent of a heated six-hour zoning board meeting that culminated 18 months of debate.
When Muslim men gathered in a corner of the room at Bayonne High School to pray before the meeting began, opponents of the mosque began the Christian Lord's Prayer in response. When a supporter of the mosque said discriminating against Muslims is akin to saying, "Catholics are rapists," he was shouted down.
And when an opponent, Ledia Elraheb, took the podium to loudly read what she described as violent passages from the Koran, the Bayonne zoning board chairman allowed her to continue until she yelled, "How many children have died under this so-called religion?"
Another resident, John White, called for an ideological test, saying the Muslims should be asked about their beliefs before getting a house of worship. "What do they believe?" he asked.
Macbeth, what's your opinion on this?Residents raised questions about security and who will monitor the Muslims' comings and goings. Opposition fliers circulating in town have referenced Sept. 11 with the word, "remember." And the presidential inauguration of Donald Trump was not far from anyone’s mind -- someone wore a "Make America Great Again" hat, and there was a brief "Trump! Trump!" chant before the meeting began. The anti-mosque Facebook page opposed to this project also posted a video of Trump calling for the closure of some mosques.
I still didn't see this ever happening. Aside from this mosque thing, my hometown is very well integrated. I see a lot more interracial couples all over the place especially among young people. If you had asked me a year ago what I thought about racism in the U.S., I would have said the country is better than it has ever been and still improving more.uziq wrote:
the country has taken a huge leap back in tolerance, bigotry and hysterical irrationality.
Everyone is. They keep building out of downtown JC and slowly turn it into west Manhattan.Jay wrote:
They're getting priced out of Jersey City by the bankers
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/04 … ration-eu/“Policies which are steeped in political correctness have been imposed in the name of a self-proclaimed, so-called intellectual elite who have nothing to contribute to our country neither economically nor culturally despite their best intentions,” he said.
