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100YrsofAttitude posted:I was pretty happy with the results from Connecticut. The only votes I truly felt good about were for Murphy for Senator and Tong for AG. I pretty much voted straight Dem with an exception to the Green party for Secretary of State if I'm not mistaken, but aside from the former two none of the candidates resonated with me. Yep. We emerged last night with trifecta control of the state government. The Republicans once again snatched defeat from the jaws of victory in the governorship. Narrowly, but a loss is a loss. I went to bed not knowing the results with Stefanowski on top, feeling like huge poo poo. Woke up next morning and checked the phone on the john, and man that felt good to see that we were staying D. My heart aches like poo poo for Floridians, but us Nutmeggers can feel pretty amazing after last night. Just about everything worked out (except for my state senator, but alas).
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Amused to Death posted:This was all accomplished despite Governor Malloy being one of the least popular governors in the nation. Dems began the night with an 80-71 standing in the state House, and an 18-18 tie in the state senate, and it is now 92-59 and 22-12(two not decided yet) respectively. Also we elected our first black woman to congress. Yeah poo poo I forgot about Hayes. She got elected in one of the redder/whiter corners of the state too, which is crazy cool in of itself. For my part I continue to be represented by a loony hippie granny. And am happy to be so.
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my bony fealty posted:You'd think the governor of the state with the highest infant mortality rate would be all for this I want to know in the grand scheme of all countries on earth, where exactly an independent Mississippi would end up development wise. Somewhere around Albania I imagine.
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Blorange posted:That's already calculated. It turns out that Mississippi clocks in right around Poland at .866, and has the lowest HDI of any state. Naw I've checked that out before, they explicitly say on their site somewhere that the American states HDI isn't using the same system as the international HDI, and thus you can't compare them. silence_kit posted:It has a Human Development Index score which is pretty close to Italy, which is a country American liberals do not turn their noses up to, often wish America was more like, and often spend vast sums of money to go to and visit. So in other words this butthurt guy from Mississippi pretending his godawful nightmare state is comparable to Italy is going to very heartbroken. Grape fucked around with this message at 22:04 on Nov 14, 2018 |
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According to their racial data, the average black person in a bunch of Northeastern states has a better quality of life than the average white person in a bunch of Mississippi river adjacent states.
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Your Boy Fancy posted:I spent six months working in the Mississippi Delta. It is barely America as you know it. The water out of tap was beige, the racism rampant, the wages horrifically low, and the hope set to the lowest of ebbs. The most important thing I did was leave. Just to make it extra dystopian, isn't it also dotted with luxurious plantation manors?
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Nov 15, 2018 00:54
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silence_kit posted:Can you show me where? 'American HDI' seems to have a totally different range of values, so if you tried to compare HDI with 'American HDI' the numbers would be very different. E.g. Mississippi has an 'American HDI' of 3.8, but also has an HDI of 0.866. I guess the normie HDI did a thing to, I've seen them do it for other countries. I'd still hesitate to compare the data without knowing how things were measured. The idea that Mississippi is on the level of Cyprus is extremely questionable imo (unless the Cyprus data is counting the north part of the island too). quote:I'm not from Mississippi. I just find it amusing that according to this figure of merit, a place that many American Liberals desperately wish that America was more like has almost the same rating as Mississippi, a place that American Liberals can't talk about without sneering. I'm also pretty annoyed by your classism. I don't think I've ever heard "American liberals" fantasize about being like Italy development wise, nor would I think they would want that. So I have no idea what you're talking about. Also I love when the occasional Euro thinks it's classism to marvel at how bad Red States gently caress themselves via GOP. Like you guys don't do the same thing with PiS Poland and the like.
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Nov 15, 2018 01:48
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silence_kit posted:A lot of American High Culture is just aping Europe and desperately wanting to be like Europe. Americans largely associate Italy with guys in white beaters and gold chains yelling at each-other while wildly gesturing.
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Nov 15, 2018 05:05
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karthun posted:It does count all of Cyprus as one state. I was under the impression that they would survey the de facto territory of the Republic of Cyprus, similar to how I'm almost 100% sure they don't include Taiwan in the PROC data. Though it would explain the ranking since parts of the North are grody af.
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Nov 15, 2018 23:56
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cheetah7071 posted:I don't know how Dino hasn't been drummed out of republican politics yet. He's now lost four elections in a row and you just know he'll end up running for and losing like county executive or something Sounds like he has a bright future ahead of him in the Connecticut GOP.
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Nov 17, 2018 21:56
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LinYutang posted:WA-8 has been republican since 1983. Losing it is a big deal. Yeah, consulting maps shows that district is mostly over the Cascade Curtain.
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Nov 18, 2018 20:58
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Chilichimp posted:Ohio is a midwest red hell even though democrats are casting a majority of the votes. Gerrymandering must die. Yeah, after PA got fixed up there's not TOO many states with especially grotesque congressional district lines. But goddamn Ohio sure is one of them. The northeast corner is particularly horrifying.
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Nov 20, 2018 00:03
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UCS Hellmaker posted:All of northern ohio and franklin county is horrid. What have you fools done to the Western Reserve??? 
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Nov 20, 2018 01:37
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Yes yesss, I want that magic media narrative number that will depress Trump more. Gimme the four zero! (also four anything else too would be cool).
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Nov 21, 2018 19:16
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The common fruit fly lives a life span of 40 to 50 days.
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Dec 12, 2018 23:20
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cheetah7071 posted:I mean it just feels weird to have a state whose borders are smaller than a single metro area. Rhode Island is already all but a city-state in name (actually it almost is in name anyway, "Rhode Island and Providence Plantations" lol).
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Came here to see Virginia Dem despair. Turns out quite the opposite lol.
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drilldo squirt posted:Democrats, have standards. It was my ignorance of local Virginia politics that I thought this meant the GOP would rush in, but turns out it means young black Lt. Governor takes his place potentially.
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Crabtree posted:The black pulsating vortex of Lefty Hatred is calling for Northam's blood more than the Right and they're currently confused about why no one gives a poo poo about the abortion bill of a sudden. Oh no I expected the Left to call for the right thing, like more or less with Franken. I was just thinking about how upsetting the whole thing still would be to the Virginians still trying to put together a fragile new blue state... but uh turns out it owns even from a practical angle
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BREAKING: COURT ORDERS IMMEDIATE LITERAL RELIEF FOR VIRGINIA
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https://twitter.com/_ericblanc/status/1097914729836687360 That was quick.
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SoggyBobcat posted:Found this map of the composition of every state legislature in the U.S., thought it might be useful here: https://www.azavea.com/blog/2019/02/12/2019-legislator-map/ Ok so dunno if this is a one off, but that map has CT-23 with the right State Senator (Dennis Bradley) and..... uh gets his party wrong. So I'm wondering how many mistakes we have on there.
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The Muppets On PCP posted:someone's running to speak with aoc's manager I didn't know Bronx and Queens were in North Carolina. Pretty shocking.
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yronic heroism posted:The flip side of this is a lot of “leftists” on the contemporary scene will embrace Ayn Rand the moment they move up a tax bracket. I think that’s part of it but what it really comes down to is some non-trivial or at least vocal number of people will chase whatever the new hotness on the Internet. D&D over the years has been a microcosm of this. D&D started as most of SA did as mostly white college males, lot of libertarianism. Now the more they've grown up and entered the real world, they've moved more leftward. By in part the fact that not a whole lot of tax bracket movement is actually happening as much anyway, or very small leaps after years in wilderness. Even the right isn't very Randian right now lol, its way more into kek crap. If you want to bet libertarianism will swing back, bet on a soaring economy that will produce more plump comfy boys. Somehow I don't think that's around the corner.
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OhFunny posted:https://twitter.com/GoldyHA/status/...ingawful.com%2F That owns.
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That's the stuff right there. If we can't get a Bernie (yet) then you continue building the progressive ranks in congress and elsewhere. Take over the party from the inside, or at the very least grow the left voice and bloc. Also increase the depth of the bench.
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friendbot2000 posted:https://twitter.com/pwcdanica/status/1365395184595464197?s=19 This is Step 3 of converting you fully to the Northeast.
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Step 2 was the DC suburbs spilling over demographically into NoVa. Step 1 was Billy Joel releasing the song "Shameless".
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I would guess Black Americans are far more likely to have a jaded cynical realism than white Americans. Also far less likely to even be surprised by that photo in the first place.
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