I’ll take your word for it. I think they should just give every territory a referendum on statehood or independence. I question the validity of the supposed right to have unconstitutional land rules, but territorial law is not my specialty.
AOC opposed PR statehood?
But you’re kidding, right; Republicans have been opposed to PR statehood for as long as I’ve been alive.
Sure, we shouldn’t make involuntary citizens (like we did to American Indians with the Dawes Act)-if Samoans don’t want it we should let them be totally independent.
The only basis for being selective here outside of weirdly sincere and principled beliefs about the constitutional description of DC is pandering to the Puerto Rican diaspora.
That’s 12 likely Democratic Senators.
But it’s also just weird to be selective about it, especially from a Democratic Party perspective. It won’t happen without a trifecta anyway, so statehood for DC, PR, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, USVI, American Samoa, what else?
I mean at least DC gets to vote in presidential elections. PR and the other territories, mostly seized from the also undemocratic decaying Spanish empire, don’t even get that.
“science is real”-well, you’re confusing metaphysics and epistemology, but you mean well.
All other things equal, for neighbors I would rather have kind people with “in this house we believe [liberal pablum]” signs than some other sentiments they could express.
Oops, MAGA. But Make America Great Soon works for these wishcasting chuds.
Well he’s certainly terrible (and alas my gerrymandered to immunity Congressman) but he’s also a third rate shitposter, a hateful but incompetent clown with no real power. I suggest setting your focus tighter, like at Stephen Miller.
That’s probably right. That only works for the more “sophisticated” property criminals rather than dysregulated ones.
Social/private insurance for such losses plus a steer ‘em humanely straight program then.
Compensation for property damage along with an extra fine would probably do the work.
Yeah. We’ve more or less known since Cesare Beccarria (sp.) that it’s not the severity of punishment but the swiftness and certainty of consequences for antisocial behavior that actually deter offenses.
We have this not so implicitly Kantian vocabulary about such things without wrestling with Kant (he’s kind of bad actually, but these folks couldn’t get far enough to grapple).
Hollow invocations of the concept of rational autonomy without doing the work of thinking through what it means to reason or be self-ruled.
Andy Ogles: Third Rate Shitposter, has an indictment dangling over his head and MAGS knee pads at the ready. Sad!
I think they were wrong about the beginning of Afghanistan, right about the middle and end. They were also right about Iraq but for the wrong reasons. They were wrong about Kosovo.
Of course. If only there were a side that was neither reflexively pro or anti war.
Well not to be a Trump apologist, but warmaking powers are definitely shared, linked and sequenced between the President and Congress. A declaration of war is a subset of warmaking. The congressional power to “make war” was rejected in a draft in 1787.
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Oh okay, I can do magical thinking too.
It works because it dilutes the minority (however construed) vote by cracking or packing it into different districts. What is your point exactly?
Huh?
Wishful thinking if he wins his primary in August, the district is gerrymandered to hell.
He’s my congressman and he’s a shitbird. Also corrupt, incompetent, etc.
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And Shakespeare in Love actually was better than Saving Private Ryan, which is a brilliant sequence inside a mediocre movie (see also Spielberg’s other great example of that, Amistad).
The actual answer, strangely not mentioned here, is Gladiator.
I think it received undeserved backlash, although Brokeback Mountain was a better film.
(Climate change, then and now, is the answer).
Or literally any President other than Trump. But Romney still would have been awful, as was W Bush, and for the same reasons.
Wasn’t true then, isn’t true now.
