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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
So someone on Face Book just shared this campaign ad from 1964
(Snopes confirmed it's a real ad) that is... just a bit too applicable to Trump in this particular race, especially his comment regarding Goldwater getting the KKK's seal of approval.
Once again, we have a manifest destiny to have a country stretching from one side of the continent to the other. Just north-to-south this time.
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Do the KKK really care about people being Jewish? I know folks with one kind of bigotry tend to have them all, but I didn't think it was a major issue for them.
Jews, Catholics, Hispanics, Italians, Muslims, KKK has gone after them all at one time or another.
| Wandering, but not lost. | If people bring so much courage to this world...◊ |I don't think Trump would really do it. All of our candidates right now are easily smart enough to know that the use of nuclear weapons is a bad idea, even if only out of Pragmatic Villainy.
Leviticus 19:34Regarding territories, at this point it's ridiculous how little control and representation they get as American citizens, so I think that all of them ought to be up for statehood. This isn't likely to be a big deal in the sense that most of America isn't aware of it for a while, though. We only hear about Puerto Rico because they've had referendums on it. Dunno if the American Virgin Islands have had a vote on it. (It would add a black majority state if they did, I think, which might explain some resistance.)
I think it ought to be a bigger deal, though. Not like the old requirements could logically apply anymore.
Way back there was racism against Italian immigrants, but nowadays I think we're past that what with a huge number of people tracing their descent from Italy in the US, and I don't think Italian is considered a "race" anymore.
Although, looking at Wikipedia, apparently Italy is actually genetically distinct from Europe and the Italians are most closely related to Ashkenazi Jews, which kind of fits now that I think about it (my nonna was from Sicily). Ironic really.
Yeah, just pointing out the KKK has gone after just about everyone at one time or another, not saying that Italians are a race. Plus, our people never let go of grudges
◊, so we gotta keep alive the memory of the Italians who were mass lynched that one time (or maybe two times) in the South and give the South malocchio until geologic shifts cause it to be swallowed by the ocean.
Well, the idea of having two senators for a state is about balancing out the proportional representation in the house, the people who don't like giving small populations two senators can go suck it. Like I said, the old qualifications don't matter in a day when we're not expanding our territory outward anymore.
edited 9th Mar '16 10:21:25 PM by AceofSpades
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That was my reaction to that racist jerk who has his own political party saying that voting against Trump was a betrayal of [my] heritage. "The German and Norse parts who got called 'damn Yankees' after moving to the south, or the Celtic parts who weren't considered 'white' until they got a little Irish in your daughters' Anglo-Saxon?"
edited 9th Mar '16 10:37:06 PM by Artificius
"I have no fear, for fear is the little death that kills me over and over. Without fear, I die but once."![]()
I'm just saying, it's a roadblock. Sometimes the idea of combining all the Non-Puerto Rico territories into a single state to make up for that perceived issue is floated but that comes with a bunch of other problems.
Edit: But if we're being technical the last time a "population requirement" was even relevant I think it was like 65,000 or something. It was from the 1800s when all the states were obviously much less populated but it was a thing. So there's that.
edited 9th Mar '16 10:37:18 PM by LSBK
At the same time, it's patently unfair just how shitty we treat them
, especially when Guam, for example, is a huge recruiting pool for the US military (1/8 of the population are US veterans), while the nearest VA hospital is in... Hawaii. As in nearly 4,000 miles away. Shit needs changing, and I'd love to see that get a bigger push in Congress.
Why the Baby Boomers don't get Sanders:
Hillary is speaking for their concerns, Sanders is speaking to the re-proletarization going on among the young. (i.e. Sanders speaks like a traditional Democrat to an audience who are basically 21st century traditional Democrats)
And they can't walk back from it because that would discredit their own narrative.
It didn't start with Obama, but certainly his time in office has marked the apotheosis of that strategy and its metastasis through the GOP voter base.
edited 10th Mar '16 6:21:10 AM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"Mark Levin endorses Ted Cruz in honor of Nancy Reagan.
BTW there is a GOP debate tonight.
edited 10th Mar '16 6:41:50 AM by Demonic_Braeburn
Any group who acts like morons ironically will eventually find itself swamped by morons who think themselves to be in good company.

Nah, I want more states. The US must grow bigger, and I'm not talking about obesity.
Leviticus 19:34