Posts made by erikiwi

i still want to know why you think popular vote would give large cities "total say in every election". i cant really understand your statement except if it would be to reduce democracy in usa. which would be bad regardless if it would be a leftist or rightist skewing.

@raphjd:

YEP, you're a blind liberal who gets his "news" from MSM liars.

The Electoral College was created to prevent cities from having total say in every election.    Of course, every white person not living in a US city owned at least 10,000 slaves.  Illinois is a well known slavery state, didnt'cha know.

anyway, the point i was trying to make with "you people tried to have a little armed revolution with the occupation of the malheur national wildlife refuge and that guy joe biggs wants people to date rape and punch trans people. we also have gavin mcinnes from the proud gays that thinks theres not enough violennce these days. don't really hear that kind of rhetoric from the left. and also from the proud gays we have maxwell hare and john kinsman who both have been convicted for assault and attempted riot, there would probably be at least 8 more convicted proud gays if the victims had cooperated with the prosecution." is that it seems that the alt right and neo nazis are for more attracted to violence than the left. not sure what the lying alt right media has spun for this but im sure its colorful lies, if they even acknowledge these facts at all…......

@raphjd:

LOL, gotta love your use of "Proud Gays" when talking about the Proud Boys.   Quite homophobic of you, but you liberals love to use slurs against everyone you don't like.

I also love you claims that right wing media lies, even though we have proof that Rachel Maddow lied about everything over the last 2 years, same with CNN.     Even after the Mueller report, you people are still claiming shit that never happened.

no idea what snopes is but i do read bellingcat.

wikipedia is a great source of peer-reviewed information. if any fact lacks a citation it is shown and controversial pages are being fact checked continuously. but oh yeah, "fact checking" isnt really that popular with alt right media, i can see why someone from the alt right could be confused about fact checking.

@raphjd:

Wikipedia isn't trustworthy.  Only an idiot believes that it is.   Maybe you should look into the history and problems of Wikipedia before you blindly believe what it tells you.

I bet you also believe SNOPES, despite being proven to have lied.

not really, i was theorizing that the scottish people might not think the same way you say they think like. being smart about it is just an example of a plausible reason.

@raphjd:

"If you don't agree with me, you're stupid".    Yep, that sounds exactly like a liberal.

but like racism is the definition of making baseless assumptions of other people…

@raphjd:

Ok, you are just wasting my time now.

how do you mean its the least democratic body in europe?

and also, how can you support the electoral college but not eu? the only difference is that the eu parliment is chosen by the peoples popular vote, whereas the electoral college is distorted by states with "winner takes all" and less populated states having four times larger voting power than states with a large population.

@raphjd:

Are you on drugs?!

The EU is the least democratic body in Europe.

You must be posting for the looney bin.   Its liberals that hate free speech.   That's part of why they set that building at Berkley on fire.   Seriously, you have no clue.

so are the lives of the people in major cities and california worth less than other peoples lives? dont see why some peoples political opinion should be worth more than others…

@raphjd:

Being from a tiny country, I can see why you don't understand the issues that only supporting major cities and California would cause the US.

why would it not be ok?

lol do you people consider wikipedia "msm"? i mean im not really surprised, but still….

how exactly would cities have total say in every election? do you not know what the popular vote is or how democracy is supposed to work?

@raphjd:

YEP, you're a blind liberal who gets his "news" from MSM liars.

The Electoral College was created to prevent cities from having total say in every election.    Of course, every white person not living in a US city owned at least 10,000 slaves.  Illinois is a well known slavery state, didnt'cha know.

maybe they dont see it as being ruled by eu but as having support and benefits from the eu membership? kinda like most sensible and smart people would think about it i guess?

@raphjd:

All EU worshippers think that way.

If Scotland wants to be independent, then its idiotic to want to be ruled by the EU.  If they must be ruled by the EU, why try to force rUK to stay as well?   It's a totally hypocritical stance.

im not sure what you mean by uk being lied to, but yeah, the eu is considered a democratic institution so the uk wouldnt be free to do whatever they please as a eu member. kinda like how citizens are supposed to follow the law if they want to be part of society?

and i think the only recent threat to democracy in the west is the growing popularity of alt-right and neo nazi movements. neither of those are very big fans of things like free speech and equality, both free speech and equality being fundamental in a democracy…

@raphjd:

Whatever you want to believe.

I mean, the UK was lied to by remainer about a lot of things, such as the EU military.

The vast majority of the EU has ZERO democracy, but I know you socio-communists love that.

how is big cities treated favorably with popular voting? as i see it popular voting is about recognizing the will of the majority, kinda like how democracy is supposed to work?

@raphjd:

It's in the Constitution, so it's not likely to change.

Getting rid of it only benefits the major cities and California.

I do love how a person from a country with very little diversity thinks the same system his country uses will work everywhere.

ok since we are making baseless assumtions about eachother: you people are as susceptible to fake news and lies as you are willing to make baseless assumtions of other people. and i mean that as super susceptible and very willing.

and even if rachel maddows has been dishonest, thats just one media personality. doesnt really compare to all the alt right media that lies frequently and often.

@raphjd:

Sure, that was your intent.  I call BS.   "Peer friendly context" whatever.

Mueller's report showed she lied for 2 years and she's still carrying on with the same lies.

Chris Cuomo famously said that it was illegal for us to read the leaked documents and that we could only know what they said from legit news journos like him.   That was and is a total fucking lie.

Any news you don't like is "alt-right".   That's how you people are.

this is a trolling post, right? just checking.

@Frederick:

It doesn't bother me to see a "chick" with a dick.  In fact, I have found that many so-called straight guys are thrilled at the idea of a beautiful girl having a huge cock.

HOWEVER, it deeply disturbs me to see men who have their dick cut off or otherwise made into a vagina. 
I think this is very rarely done, for good reason.  Who would trade a cock for a vagina?  I'm pretty sure that even Bruce/Caitlyn Jenner still has his cock.   "Stonie" - who  was famously in the movie Borat as Borat's son had a sex change.. but KEPT his huge cock (YAY!).

Unfortunately, Stonie died at 38 in Dec. 2016   :cry2:
I don't know the cause of death.. but could have been Hepatitis B.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brittany_CoxXx

hol up. take nuclear power for example, potential nuclear disaster takes hundreds of thousands of years to subside where most commercial companies, corporations and conglomerates operate on a 20 year horizon, max. this seems a little risky and short sighted in my opinion. we have the privately owned company exxon that had internal papers concluding that climate change is a real risk in the 80s and we are living with the consequences today. things would be very different if exxon had been a puclicly owned company.

but still, socialism isnt really about the public owning everyting, as i see it is more about everyone chipping in, including privately owned companies, for the better of society.

also i dont see why you point out democracy as a bad word? it doesnt have any connection to socialism except maybe universal rights for all citizens?

@mhorndisk1:

That's what this is about. First of all, Socialism is not Constitutional. It's not just an economic system, it's a system where the government controls the resources, and the distributors in government give themselves the lion's share. The Constitution guarantees a Republican form of government. Not Democratic, not Socialist. Look these words up. Democracy and Socialism are both bad words.

as far as i know scotland prefers to be part of the eu? which in my opinion is very sensible.

what are you after here exactly? that there shouldnt exist any propaganda? because that is as much of a fantasy as a feasible communist society.

with a popular vote, you wouldnt have any issues with gerrymandering.

i just wish america would join the other western democracies and get rid of the electoral college and have popular voting instead. as i understand the electoral college was implemented in the 18th century because of issues with slavery in the south of america. i would think an electoral college has no real purpose in the 21st century.

currently "no man's sky", quite enjoy the beyond update. i'm playing with a trainer, dont really know why since there is the sandbox mode but like, i dont know, im a cheater….

i cant get over thinking that blaming voting machines and gerrymandering is just smoke screen for dealing with the real underlying issue: the electoral college. if america want to improve democracy they should just get rid of the electoral college and move on to popular vote like most other western countries. with a popular vote the effects of manipulated voting machines would be more visible and gerrymandering would be a non-issue. no more silly "swing states".

as i understand the electoral college was implemented in the 18th century because of slavery in the south of america…... a little obsolete in the 21st century no?