Current Events > feel like most of of the US issues would be solved if you abolished state rights

(+) Yeah! (+)

flyover states stop doing things that negatively impact the rest of the country (not wearing masks during pandemics, racist shootings going unpunished, anti abortion/gay marriage) and on top of that the electoral college goes away and the president is elected based off the majority

have the US just be one big country with zero states or if they want divide it like canada and have 4 or 5 providences

when the AMP is over seven times higher than the karma

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When you're a new user and you think you're not dumb

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You know California voted against gay marriage and NY has the highest covid death rate, yes?

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Kolibri X posted...

You know California voted against gay marriage and NY has the highest covid death rate, yes?

the latter is fake news

sigh.

no. without states being able to experiment and show the rest that changes aren't the literal end of civilization, progress slows to a halt.

we'd likely be decade away from queer equality or cannabis decriminalization without states rights.

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Medussa posted...

sigh.

no. without states being able to experiment and show the rest that changes aren't the literal end of civilization, progress slows to a halt.

we'd likely be decade away from queer equality or cannabis decriminalization without states rights.

not if you had a president elected by the popular vote

the president has no actual power, and those who do are elected by popular votes.

edit: let me rephrase. the president has no power to create policy changes. only to make suggestions and, barring a strong opposition, the power to stop changes. the president can only force the status quo.

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ZeldaNPC271x5 posted...

the latter is fake news

Nope, NYC had a higher death rate than some European countries (double France's) and statewide has the one of the highest number of deaths. You're a low information shitposting.

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Kolibri X posted...

Nope, NYC had a higher death rate than some European countries (double France's) and statewide has the one of the highest number of deaths. You're a low information shitposting.

even if that were true, i'm sure the fact this happened at the beginning of the virus when no one was prepared while at the same time the state was unfortunate enough to have a governor that was an enemy of a president who refused to hand out federal aid based off petty party lines.

NYC curbed the virus faster than anyone while places like florida and texas just watched their people die. go post on MAGA

whos alt
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you're also full of shit

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/national/coronavirus-us-cases-deaths/

Okay, who made an alt to take CE's dumbest takes on issues and make them all of one topic?

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conservaFAQs really showing up to protect their states rights to not wear masks itt

sktgamer_13dude posted...

whos alt

SMaL

edit: nevermind, doesn't seem like his posting style

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so I take it you agree with governor desantis's decision to let his idiots run around with zero masks during a spiking pandemic?

or is this one of those "small price" situations to protect the "greater good" some people would excuse it for?

here's the part you seem to be missing...

what if Ron DeSantis was president right now? you keep assuming the people in charge are going to agree with you.

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Medussa posted...

here's the part you seem to be missing...

what if Ron DeSantis was president right now? you keep assuming the people in charge are going to agree with you.

ron desantis wouldnt be president if the electoral college was abolished

I just want to smoke weed legally.

ZeldaNPC271x5 posted...

ron desantis wouldnt be president if the electoral college was abolished

you seem awfully sure of that, when the last 8 elections have all been within 10M votes, and the average of those is a little over 5M votes, and no party has held the presidency for more than 3 consecutive terms since the 1950s.

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Most of the US' issues would be solved if we just tossed Conservatives on an uninhabited island and let them bootstrap it up together.

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Medussa posted...

you seem awfully sure of that, when the last 8 elections have all been within 10M votes, and the average of those is a little over 5M votes, and no party has held the presidency for more than 3 consecutive terms since the 1950s.

except ron desantis wouldnt have won the primaries if there were no states

The left: "Why would anyone vote republican? All they want to do is take away people's rights!"
Also the left: "It would solve most of our issues if we just took away people's rights."

major issues like abortion need to have a common national law. fuck conservatives holding us back

Annihilated posted...

The left: "Why would anyone vote republican? All they want to do is take away people's rights!"
Also the left: "It would solve most of our issues if we just took away people's rights."

taking away the rights of states to take away people's rights. people have rights. states don't. think of all the girls in red states who can't get abortions and need them. "state rights" is infringing on citizen rights

Annihilated posted...

The left: "Why would anyone vote republican? All they want to do is take away people's rights!"
Also the left: "It would solve most of our issues if we just took away people's rights."

nazis: states are people

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Medussa posted...

the president has no actual power, and those who do are elected by popular votes.

edit: let me rephrase. the president has no power to create policy changes. only to make suggestions and, barring a strong opposition, the power to stop changes. the president can only force the status quo.

Right, and we vote at the state level who represents us in Washington, so that just reinforces your point.

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Zikten posted...

taking away the rights of states to take away people's rights. people have rights. states don't. think of all the girls in red states who can't get abortions and need them. "state rights" is infringing on citizen rights

Abortion is not a right. It never was and never will be.