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  1. Aleksander Ulyanov

    Aleksander Ulyanov Well-Known Member

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    What you don't deserve is to be able to disenfranchise all the rest of us because of where you live. Most people in rural areas like not having lots of other people around and just about everyone can understand that but it generally has a major disadvantage when you need other's help in accomplishing something like political goals.
     
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    I am very glad the EC saved me from a President who despised me.
     
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    I do agree that it's probably a good idea to limit the vote to those with blood/sweat/tears in the soil (as per indigenous peoples), but I would still allow the propertied welfare recipient the vote. They may be on disability or age pensions, or have a period of unemployment.
     
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    They think politicians are preventing them from getting to the greengrocer?
     
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    How does that manifest, in practice?
     
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    kriman Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    You make a good argument for the EC.
     
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    Clinton isn't President. And it's crazy what a foreign news company has done to U.S., **** nuts

    But hey if you hate These United States that much, don't let the door hit you in the ass.

    Love of country is something unshakable, you have or you don't. Nothing I can say is going to instill it in you.
     
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    kriman Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    But the democrats are complaining about her not being elected. Hilary made the comment about republican being disposables, not some foreign news agency.
     
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  9. Aleksander Ulyanov

    Aleksander Ulyanov Well-Known Member

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    And we have it now. The thing is it's MY country too, and everyone's who wants to come here to make us prosperous and strong. It's not liberals who want to deport everyone and restrict citizenship. It's not Democrats who start bashing immigrants every 5 minutes to distract from any problem we have and who wanted to spend trillions on the the Great Wall of Useless Bigotry while our bridges collapse with us on them.

    Why do conservatives seem to think that the best way to ensure that we all get along with each other is to begin by throwing millions of us out of the country?
     
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    kriman Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    You seem to have a bit of trouble distinguishing between legal and illegal immigration.
     
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  11. Aleksander Ulyanov

    Aleksander Ulyanov Well-Known Member

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    How so?
    She despises the things we all should despise. Injustice, prejudice, racism and the deplorable people who practice them. Unless you are one of those deplorables nobody despises you.
     
  12. Aleksander Ulyanov

    Aleksander Ulyanov Well-Known Member

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    As do you between the problems of illegal immigration and the idea of restricting citizenship like ending citizenship by birth which most conservatives support as well, but yes, I support the idea of Open Borders, which would end illegal immigration by making most of it legal.
     
  13. Pycckia

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    I am indeed a deplorable along with tens of millions of others. We need a separate country. That way you don't have to despise us. You can despise each other.
     
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    Really? Anyone who wants to enter our country? Terrorists? Criminals? Drug carriers? No restrictions whatsoever, because that is what you get with open borders.
    Where have I shown any confusion on those at all? You are making stuff up.
     
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    And making murder legal would make killing a kindness. What kind of raging idiocy is this as a solution?
     
  16. Aleksander Ulyanov

    Aleksander Ulyanov Well-Known Member

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    Sorry. We respect private property here but none of us has any more private property rights than anyone else. We ALL live in America and this is OUR country. You don't get to take part of it and throw the rest of us out
     
  17. Aleksander Ulyanov

    Aleksander Ulyanov Well-Known Member

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    Open Borders is the policy that turned the USA from a backwater and howling wilderness into the world's most prosperous and powerful nation as well as the premier home of freedom and most desirable country to live in that has ever existed. Conservatives want to turn it back into the kind of dystopia we have escaped from all to satisfy the narrow bigotry of a shortsighted minority who doesn't respect or even know their own history.
     
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  18. Aleksander Ulyanov

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    Open Borders means immigration without the kind of restrictions we have now. Ellis Island and other places existed so as to not permit people who had contagious diseases or were wanted criminals, nor smugglers.

    If you are not for restricted citizenship I apologize. I don't mean anything I say here personally but only to apply to broad classes, like conservatives etc.
     
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    Time for a divorce and split the community property.

    Decolonize the USA!
     
  20. Aleksander Ulyanov

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    A nation is not a marriage.

    If you want to live all off by yourself buy a lot of land and fence it well. You'll still have to pay taxes and obey the law but that's everywhere. There might be countries that will let you go entirely and you are welcome to look for one and emigrate, though I don't say much for your chances if they should ever change their minds. You can't resign from the human race, not while alive anyway.
     
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    Anyone who is in favor of armed government agents doing forced vaccination door to door obviously has no respect for private property or people's Private affairs for that matter.
     
  22. Patricio Da Silva

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    We had that with Trump, trolled us dems every day of the week , every week of the year.

    He told us that the only way we could win is that we rigged the election, he said this before the first ballot was cast.

    He told us that the press was the 'enemy of the people', no president in history ever accused the press of being the enemy of the people.

    Why should I live in a democracy where the minority thinks we're just a bunch of thieves?

    Why should I live in a democracy where the minority thinks we're communists who wont' stop until all of your freedom is gone and we're like Venezuela? (yeah, y'all actually believe that horse manure )

    If you want to have people like us to stop calling you 'deplorable' , quit backing a deplorable candidate who has convinced you his deplorable lies are true.

    It's really that simple.

    It never happened before, until Trump came along

    Sheesh, you can only see the world from your narrow lens
     
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    Patricio Da Silva Well-Known Member Donor

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    You're a fatalist, that's how fatalists think. Nothing wrong with that, particularly.

    For me, I'd say it's a 50/50 proposition. The four nuns who were killed in El Salvador, a few years back, certainly weren't praying for their demise.

    Bad things do happen to good people, and good things do happen to bad people.

    Not all of the time, but some of the time, it's just enough for me to say 'it's a 50/50 proposition', fate is.
     
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    Passing the two voting rights bills, for starters.
     
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    One man one vote does not preclude having subnational governments and local electorates which elect representatives.

    You know, like in every other major country with democratic features.
     

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