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Thoguh posted:Wouldn't it be better just to dissolve DC in to Maryland/Virginia than give an area thats just a couple of square miles statehood? Washington, D.C. Population 693,972 (2017) Wyoming Population 579,315 (2017)
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lamentable dustman posted:Some good tears in this video she was going around saying it was her destiny to win the seat and carry out trumps agenda
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Nov 7, 2018 17:15
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Massachusetts voted No on limiting the number of patients per nurse.  
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Nov 7, 2018 17:22
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turtlecrunch posted:Is there a way to donate our rural counties to Texas??? Look we have enough counties already, 254, we don't need any more of them. Especially when some of them have less than 300 people in them.
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Nov 7, 2018 17:23
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Thoguh posted:Wouldn't it be better just to dissolve DC in to Maryland/Virginia than give an area thats just a couple of square miles statehood? no, because neither Maryland nor Virginia would be able to agree who gets it, and DC residents would probably be split-ish/prefer self-detmination. also, though this is a very 13 Colonies/Continental Congress concern, the entire reason dc is a federal district is to avoid any one state having the outsized power of having the nation's capital within it, where it could conceivably pass laws that control the federal government (dc as a separate state would maintain its current jurisdiction split and that's easier than working it into the governmental structure of another state) there's nothing special about 50. we had 48 and 49 states for a long time and it was fine. then we hit a nice round number and our lizard brains collectively called a hault
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dc is good and deserves statehood
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Nov 7, 2018 17:24
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SardonicTyrant posted:Massachusetts voted No on limiting the number of patients per nurse. Massachusetts is the lovely faux progressive capitol of the country. Any socially liberal policy is fine and we pay lip service the working class, but the minute organized action by labor has even the imagined threat of inconveniencing our day most people go full FYGM. Why do you think the state has such a "moderate" Republican governor fetish? Source: Have lived in Massachusetts for most of my life.
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Nov 7, 2018 17:26
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juche avocado posted:no, because neither Maryland nor Virginia would be able to agree who gets it, and DC residents would probably be split-ish/prefer self-detmination. also, though this is a very 13 Colonies/Continental Congress concern, the entire reason dc is a federal district is to avoid any one state having the outsized power of having the nation's capital within it, where it could conceivably pass laws that control the federal government (dc as a separate state would maintain its current jurisdiction split and that's easier than working it into the governmental structure of another state) Yeah, I'm not opposed in any way to adding more states or maybe even changing the current state borders I just think it'd be weird to add a tiny city state as a solution.
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juche avocado posted:(dc as a separate state would maintain its current jurisdiction split and that's easier than working it into the governmental structure of another state) would DC have tiered state and local government(s) too?
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juche avocado posted:there's nothing special about 50. we had 48 and 49 states for a long time and it was fine. then we hit a nice round number and our lizard brains collectively called a hault I'm running for president on the single issue platform of adding new states and splitting existing ones until we get to 69
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Nov 7, 2018 17:27
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seems relatively simple to just add DC votes to Maryland or Virginia !
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Nov 7, 2018 17:28
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motherbox posted:Massachusetts is the lovely faux progressive capital of the country. Any socially liberal policy is fine and we pay lip service the working class, but the minute organized action by labor has even the imagined threat of inconveniencing our day most people go full FYGM. Why do you think the state has such a "moderate" Republican governor fetish? can confirm. Massholes suck and the rest of new england hates them for entirely valid* reasons *may not actually be completely valid
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also we should adopt the german city-state classification for DC, NYC, and LA at the very least
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the bitcoin of weed posted:I'm running for president on the single issue platform of adding new states and splitting existing ones until we get to 69 Why stop there, go for 420. Or cap the number of house members to that number.
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motherbox posted:Massachusetts is the lovely faux progressive capitol of the country. Any socially liberal policy is fine and we pay lip service the working class, but the minute organized action by labor has even the imagined threat of inconveniencing our day most people go full FYGM. Why do you think the state has such a "moderate" Republican governor fetish?  
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twoday posted:Twoday’s 2018 Post-Election Gosar won 66-33 against Brill. Hearing my coworkers talk it sounded like they somehow took Gosar's family speaking against his candidacy as an insult against their own love of family values (?). Prescott and the surrounding exurb communities (the "Quad-Cities area") are very conservative, in ways that as a transplant from Phoenix I still don't completely get. The county website says that 97,519/140,724 registered voters submitted ballot, so 69.3% turnout. Yavapai county Democrats really did their best to persuade people that he and other Democrat candidates would be good public servants, too; I've had 4 canvassers come to my door in the last two weeks and talk to me about their candidates. Yesterday morning two people going door-to-door knocked on separate visits to ask me to go vote (I'd mailed mine in the day after I'd gotten it, so that's what I told them.). After the second, I left a sign asking not to be disturbed because I work nights and needed sleep, and no one knocked again, but when I left at 1630 I found a note from yet another visitor asking me to go vote. The canvassers represented Brill, Kyrsten Sinema, January Contreras, and Sinema.  Here are the ones I still have. Not a Democrat, mind, I'm unaffiliated and vote for what I think will support the community while not doing harm. A Good Thing that happened that non-locals might not have heard about is that Gov. Ducey's attempt to expand the school vouchers program as described in prop 305 was badly beaten. Ducey will try again and will hopefully be beaten again. Prop 306 ended up passing, which will change our clean elections system to one overseen by agents of the people in power. The state also chose to ban any tax increases for services forever until the law is struck off. I'll stop talking about Arizona now. Thank you for the writeup of what things are Good and what are Bad.
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euphronius posted:seems relatively simple to just add DC votes to Maryland or Virginia ! add them to wyoming
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Pandanaut posted:she was going around saying it was her destiny to win the seat and carry out trumps agenda i wonder why the destiny argument keeps failing
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as a Marylander I feel it’s wrong to subject DC residents to the horrible Maryland Democratic Party by forcing them into Maryland
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lamentable dustman posted:Some good tears in this video that entire speech of hers is just one big "OH NO NO NO NO" lmao
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Nov 7, 2018 17:43
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Yinlock posted:i wonder why the destiny argument keeps failing it was also her destiny to get into a car crash and nearly die but I guess it was also destiny for her to lose so she can blame Mark Sanford for everything
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Nov 7, 2018 17:44
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some other good news I didn’t see talked about: dems almost have a supermajority (D-20 hasn’t been called but the Assembly is a lock) in NV
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SardonicTyrant posted:Massachusetts voted No on limiting the number of patients per nurse. The bill that was on the ballot was poorly written. It wasn’t a no to limits, it was a no to the particular bill. I fully expect a revised bill to come up and pass instead. That’s what I was told by my woke nurse friends in MA.
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Nov 7, 2018 17:53
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bad: Cruz wins rick scott wins deshittis wins good: walker loses brat loses
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Raere posted:The bill that was on the ballot was poorly written. It wasn’t a no to limits, it was a no to the particular bill. I fully expect a revised bill to come up and pass instead. That’s what I was told by my woke nurse friends in MA. this is why referendums are loving stupid, the voters don't even understand what's on the ballot
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Nov 7, 2018 17:57
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hahahaha he's just making GBS threads on all of the Republicans who didn't want to associate with him
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Roth posted:We apparently made some pretty loving bad calls all around on our props. 8, 10, 12 goddamn at least even tho the libs dont think people deserve place to live theyll give high density "free range" feed lot chcikens a few extra sq ft
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SKULL.GIF posted:Woke up and took it all in Senate went worse than anticipated. It'll be a huge stretch to get to even 50 seats in 2020 now, especially considering Doug Jones is DOA and Manchin could join the GOP on any given day.
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Jose posted:lol north dakota https://mobile.twitter.com/LightsCameraPod/status/1057712493110419456
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Nov 7, 2018 18:26
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god I'm still recovering from Nate's Needle flipping out shortly after polls closed that poo poo was not cool
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we’re stuck with zodiac killer for another 6 years. gently caress you texasU-DO Burger posted:god I'm still recovering from Nate's Needle flipping out shortly after polls closed y’all just instantly descending into panic was so drat funny Nate just jabbed a needle into the broken part of everyone’s brain Augus has issued a correction as of 18:33 on Nov 7, 2018 |
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Nov 7, 2018 18:29
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is fat gently caress angry this morning or what
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Chinatown posted:is fat gently caress angry this morning or what hell yes he is and it's as good as expected
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Chinatown posted:is fat gently caress angry this morning or what He is being a pouty rear end in a top hat and lashing out at people who didn't support him and at journalists asking him tough questions.
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U-DO Burger posted:god I'm still recovering from Nate's Needle flipping out shortly after polls closed Nate just proving that goons don’t understand how polls and needles work
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Billzasilver posted:Nate just proving that goons don’t understand how polls and needles work i should have listened to the airplane
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Nov 7, 2018 18:43
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Thoguh posted:It's a microcosm of the country. Dems won almost everywhere there are actually people and then the counties bordering the Missouri are full on Trump country. To bad we can't just cede them to Nebraska and South Dakota. Holy loving poo poo I never thought Lee would go blue, especially when the rest of the state went red.
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Billzasilver posted:Nate just proving that goons don’t understand how polls and needles work tbh even if its fundamentally sound I do think its a bad idea/irresponsible to have a model misleadingly over-extrapolate from inadequate data in public without appropriate prior caveats/explanation of whats going on
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Nov 7, 2018 18:44
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tester gonna eke this one out thank the gently caress christ because this is the rest of my congressional delegation 
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i don't even get why the needle works the way it does statistically you should only ever be more confident as you get more data, not less the needle should start near 50%, like if the polls show a big democrat advantage but are just simply pre election polls they shouldn't be weighted much, it should start at like 53% or something in that case as you get more info, it should slowly go to one side or the other, probably not moving much at all for the first couple of hours having it just wildly go back and forth as you get MORE INFORMATION makes no loving sense at all statistically, I don't think
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