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Willie Tomg posted:Wyoming: Giving Vermont a state to look down upon You mean other than the normal  ness about the awesome white Social Democratic culture they have?
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icantfindaname posted:FPTP is directly responsible for the existence of gerrymandering and getting rid of gerrymandering requires getting rid of FPTP They're actually completely unrelated, the word you're looking for is Single Member District.
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Lotka Volterra posted:This isn't true at all. Literally everything to do with marijuana in the past 4 years or so is directly "states flaunting federal authority and getting cheered on by progressives".
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VitalSigns posted:And they're not nullifying federal drug laws. They're just refusing to duplicate some federal laws, which is a common thing states do all the time and isn't some hypocritical neo-Confederate act. Is it possible to nullify a federal drug law, and how would you do it if so?
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VitalSigns posted:Same way South Carolina threatened to nullify the tariff. Arrest any federal agent who tried to enforce it, and secede if the federal government tries to compel them to stop. So if the feds hadn't fought South Carolina when they nullified the tariff (like how the feds aren't fighting Colorado now), it wouldn't be nullification?
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VitalSigns posted:Colorado isn't threatening to secede or stopping federal agents from enforcing the law like South Carolina planned to do. Oh, I almost didn't notice - you shifted rhetorical focus from "flaunting authority" to "nullification". You can flaunt authority without nullifying, and it's objective fact that that's what Colorado is doing.
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Apr 16, 2015 13:50
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VitalSigns posted:States having different laws is not flaunting authority. When it differs with federal laws, yes quite often it is. Especially if the difference is "This is a crime" and "this is a thing we're going to sell and collect taxes on".
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Shbobdb posted:Plus, populations tend to self-segregate. They often self-segregate socially but not geographically.
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Shbobdb posted:So what? So it's not a problem solved by "better districting" unless you want to move to non-contiguous districts (which are basically worse in every other way).
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down with slavery posted:We'll even take some edge cases, like Utah and Wisconsin. Those are red states I can deal with. This Message Approved by Mitt Romney and Scott Walker.
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