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KRock posted:Another notable "No" vote on the FREEDOM Act was Sen. Tammy Baldwin's, thereby upholding the proud Wisconsin tradition of being the only Senate Democrat to vote "No" on such things. Russ Feingold has a very real shot at replacing Ron Johnson (mainly because Johnson has done absolutely loving nothing other than vote Tea Party, no one in the state even really knows if he's done anything for Wisconsin) so by 2016 Wisconsin could very well be in the bizarre position of having Feingold/Baldwin as its Senators and Walker as its Governor.
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# ? Jun 3, 2015 17:12 |
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Let's play "Guess The State" A couple of parents cheered for their children at their high school graduation. They now have warrants for their arrest on charges of "disturbing the peace" with a possible $500 bond for doing so. That's the whole story. Their kids graduated. They cheered. They are now going to have to bond out of jail, pay court costs, or pay a $500 fine, for expressing their love and support of their children. Guess the state!
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# ? Jun 3, 2015 17:32 |
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I guessed wrong but I was close.
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# ? Jun 3, 2015 17:33 |
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ComradeCosmobot posted:Multi-member districts are illegal under federal law and, if FPTP, probably unconstitutional even under this interpretation of one man one vote. Yeah, Baker v. Carr (the One Man One Vote case from 1962 that is the precedent for the case we're talking about, along with its 1964 sequel Reynolds v. Sims) made it clear that only Congressional districts of equal population are OK and that Congressional districts based on land/counties or multi-member districts are not kosher. You'd need a Constitutional Amendment to change that. You could change the FPTP voting system without a Constitutional Amendment, but good luck with that.
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# ? Jun 3, 2015 17:43 |
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Fried Chicken posted:Let's play "Guess The State" Ha, I guessed right.
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# ? Jun 3, 2015 17:43 |
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Fried Chicken posted:Let's play "Guess The State"
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# ? Jun 3, 2015 17:45 |
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Fried Chicken posted:Let's play "Guess The State" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7fgB0m_y2I
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# ? Jun 3, 2015 17:47 |
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Wrong state, right region. Guessing the race of the "perpetrators" was like shooting fish in a barrel.
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# ? Jun 3, 2015 17:50 |
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Fried Chicken posted:Let's play "Guess The State" Missouri (specifically "suburb of St. Louis"), without clicking through
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# ? Jun 3, 2015 17:52 |
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Multi-member districts were outlawed after they were reverted to by the South in the mid-20th century. It involved voters statewide picking representatives. As a result, they ended up all being white majority segregationists.
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# ? Jun 3, 2015 17:53 |
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gently caress off, cracker https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7EL0ZJN8xs
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# ? Jun 3, 2015 17:53 |
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Munkeymon posted:He pretty much just said he wouldn't run again because he says he's going to remain president until the next election. He's stepping down. They're calling an emergency election which won't take place for about 6-8 months but is still much earlier than the next scheduled election.
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# ? Jun 3, 2015 18:10 |
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Teddybear posted:Multi-member districts were outlawed after they were reverted to by the South in the mid-20th century. It involved voters statewide picking representatives. As a result, they ended up all being white majority segregationists. To be clear, this multi-member single constituency was not elected using a proportional system. It's kinda like how Texas elects its Supreme Court.
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# ? Jun 3, 2015 18:14 |
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Boon posted:I know it's going to have practical short-term negative consequences with potentially long-term derivative consequences, but I can't disagree with the idea that districts should be equally distributed in their voter eligibility... Children cannot vote but their parents (theoretically) would be voting with at least some consideration for their interests. Probably worth more than those .6 votes in the original constitution.
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# ? Jun 3, 2015 18:15 |
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Quote of the day, "Leave the science to the scientists." ~ Rick Santorum, to Pope Francis. Incidentally, the Pope holds a masters degree in Chemistry.
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# ? Jun 3, 2015 18:30 |
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Joementum posted:Quote of the day, "Leave the science to the scientists." ~ Rick Santorum, to Pope Francis. Incidentally, the Pope holds a masters degree in Chemistry. Please let Francis excommunicate him or at least bitch-slap him on twiiter.
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# ? Jun 3, 2015 18:33 |
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Here's an interesting visualization of the political leanings of various professions (based on campaign contributions): http://verdantlabs.com/politics_of_professions/index.html (I'd like to point out that engineering and IT lean Democratic)
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# ? Jun 3, 2015 18:39 |
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Raskolnikov38 posted:Please let Francis excommunicate him or at least bitch-slap him on twiiter. That would be the most delicious form of retribution. You would figure Santorum would be more of a papist than the standard American Catholic, anyway, wouldn't you?
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# ? Jun 3, 2015 18:39 |
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Family Values posted:Here's an interesting visualization of the political leanings of various professions (based on campaign contributions): Aka "why I refused to use my geology degree to get a job in the booming and well-paying oil and gas industry".
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# ? Jun 3, 2015 18:42 |
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Pohl posted:That tree is hollow and rotten in the middle. They were even nice enough to put a rotted section front and center for the photo. Ramadu posted:Looks like Wikileaks got ahold of the TPP. I wonder what joys we are about to see! This is the kind of poo poo the guillotine was created for if it's all true. Fried Chicken posted:Let's play "Guess The State" This seems like it'd be really ripe for a lawsuit against the school. A superintendent being dumb enough to want/expect families to sit quiet while their kids graduate getting parents brought up on criminal charges for defying them? Raskolnikov38 posted:Please let Francis excommunicate him or at least bitch-slap him on twiiter. Most Evangelicals aren't going to care if they're excommunicated from the Catholic church any more than a Protestant would. In this case it'd only increase the rift the religious right wing has with Francis since he's very much against their prosperity gospel bullshit and Santorum would immediately use such an act to paint himself as a martyr against the socialist pope.
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# ? Jun 3, 2015 18:46 |
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Evil Fluffy posted:Most Evangelicals aren't going to care if they're excommunicated from the Catholic church any more than a Protestant would. In this case it'd only increase the rift the religious right wing has with Francis since he's very much against their prosperity gospel bullshit and Santorum would immediately use such an act to paint himself as a martyr against the socialist pope. Santorum is Catholic.
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# ? Jun 3, 2015 18:47 |
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Trabisnikof posted:Santorum is Catholic. Makes sense with all the man-boy love going on in the catholic priest system. Also didn't know the pope had the same degree as me sweet he owns even more.
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# ? Jun 3, 2015 18:54 |
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Joementum posted:the Pope holds a masters degree in Chemistry. This is my favorite thing I've learned all week.
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# ? Jun 3, 2015 18:58 |
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haveblue posted:This is my favorite thing I've learned all week. He also worked as bar bouncer briefly.
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# ? Jun 3, 2015 18:59 |
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Relentlessboredomm posted:He's stepping down. They're calling an emergency election which won't take place for about 6-8 months but is still much earlier than the next scheduled election. Ah, the part about the special election wasn't clear so I figured he was just finding a duplicitous way to say he wasn't seeking another term.
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# ? Jun 3, 2015 19:00 |
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Trabisnikof posted:Santorum is Catholic. I'm pretty sure he's one of those Traditionalist Catholics that rejects everything done at the Second Vatican Council, so he probably already views Francis as illegitimate.
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# ? Jun 3, 2015 19:20 |
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WhiskeyJuvenile posted:gently caress off, cracker Why didn't you post the version with video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVQjGGJVSXc nina simone is great but so is phil ochs quote:Ochs's drinking became more and more of a problem, and his behavior became increasingly erratic. He frightened his friends both with his drunken rants about the FBI and CIA, and about his claiming to want to have Elvis's manager Colonel Tom Parker or Kentucky Fried Chicken's Colonel Sanders manage his career.[103] the struggles of a white liberal baw fucked around with this message at 19:32 on Jun 3, 2015 |
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Joementum posted:Quote of the day, "Leave the science to the scientists." ~ Rick Santorum, to Pope Francis. Incidentally, the Pope holds a masters degree in Chemistry. Doesn't Santorum keep getting involved in votes in Congress declaring climate change not-man-made by legislative fiat?
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# ? Jun 3, 2015 19:51 |
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The most Democratic professions are Yoga Instructor, Union Organizer, and Environmentalist. The most Republican professions are Farmer and Oil Company Employee. Sometimes stereotypes are true.
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# ? Jun 3, 2015 19:53 |
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:The most Democratic professions are Yoga Instructor, Union Organizer, and Environmentalist. Farmer isn't as republican as Exterminator Edit: or beer wholesaler! Trabisnikof fucked around with this message at 19:57 on Jun 3, 2015 |
# ? Jun 3, 2015 19:55 |
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Since the specifics (and sourcing) of the earlier article about the TPP look highly suspect, let's try again with another trade deal in the works.quote:WikiLeaks releases secret TISA docs: The more evil sibling of TTIP and TPP
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# ? Jun 3, 2015 19:58 |
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Family Values posted:Here's an interesting visualization of the political leanings of various professions (based on campaign contributions): That's really interesting. I would have figured the majority would be Libertarian types but when I think about it, the only person I work with that applies to these days is my boss. I'm curious what the trend has been over time. My bet is the turning point would be when the tech bubble crashed the market went from just about anyone with tech skills getting multiple high paying job offers to having to knife fight for a help desk work.
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# ? Jun 3, 2015 20:01 |
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GlyphGryph posted:Doesn't Santorum keep getting involved in votes in Congress declaring climate change not-man-made by legislative fiat? Santorum hasn't held public office in 8 years.
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# ? Jun 3, 2015 20:01 |
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Stultus Maximus posted:Santorum hasn't held public office in 8 years. poo poo I think I'm getting people mixed up again.
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# ? Jun 3, 2015 20:03 |
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Iron Twinkie posted:That's really interesting. I would have figured the majority would be Libertarian types but when I think about it, the only person I work with that applies to these days is my boss. I'm curious what the trend has been over time. My bet is the turning point would be when the tech bubble crashed the market went from just about anyone with tech skills getting multiple high paying job offers to having to knife fight for a help desk work. This only applies to people who give money to candidates. A little less than 10% of Americans have ever given to a political campaign. It's usually around 3% of the total population per election cycle. It is entirely possible for IT and Engineering to be mostly libertarians, but the donations lean Democratic.
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# ? Jun 3, 2015 20:05 |
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baw posted:Why didn't you post the version with video I think the version I posted was right after King's assassination
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# ? Jun 3, 2015 20:09 |
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Family Values posted:Here's an interesting visualization of the political leanings of various professions (based on campaign contributions): Interesting trends here. My general field, civil engineering, is the most conservative. But that includes construction managers who are well off and would want lax safety standards and cheaper labor, as well as many who inevitably work in oil industry activities. But you look at two subsets of civil listed, environmental and structural, and we lean liberal. Those tend to be more well educated (especially structural since they need additional training and licensing by law) and look at bigger picture things like natural disaster effects. The trend also implies that more liberal fields make less money relative to their level of education. The more "return on investment" people like doctors and oil related engineers have, the more I bet they believe in the just world fallacy and that they have earned their success. Blindeye fucked around with this message at 20:26 on Jun 3, 2015 |
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Family Values posted:Here's an interesting visualization of the political leanings of various professions (based on campaign contributions): edit I'm guessing women who have gotten that far know what party the people who tried to stop them voted for. Samurai Sanders fucked around with this message at 20:28 on Jun 3, 2015 |
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Or LEO organizations are largest in big cities which trend liberal and LEOs very much value strong unions for a variety of reasons.
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# ? Jun 3, 2015 20:35 |
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Samurai Sanders posted:Law enforcement is way closer to 50/50 than I thought. Probation officers are way blue, I guess because their branch of police work is about actually helping people? Also liberal organizations are more likely to have chairwomen and are also more likely to have liberal members.
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