@ZorroThrives281@MarcoFoster_@hasanthehun No one wants to implement Sharia law the 1A's establishment clause prevents the government establishing a national religion. If you're worried about the establishment of fundamentalist religious law you should focus on evangelical Republicans imposing their beliefs on the country
@ZorroThrives281@MarcoFoster_@hasanthehun I was born here and it's my right to express how I want my country to change. All our progress towards a more perfect union from civil rights to universal sufferage, to abolition was opposed by reactionaries by you. You will not stop us from expanding democracy. You understand?
@ZorroThrives281@MarcoFoster_@hasanthehun What I am asking for is mere democratic majority rule. You seem to be against that because you know deep down that the majority does not agree with your worldview, and you are even wishig death on those who want to continue building to a more perfect union. Sic Semper Tyrannis.
@ZorroThrives281@MarcoFoster_@hasanthehun Land doesn't vote. People vote. Democracy is having the proportions of seats in legislatures correspond proportionately to the preferences of voters. It is your model that is undemocratic for denying the duly owed representation to more populous states and giving it to Montana
@ZorroThrives281@MarcoFoster_@hasanthehun Democracy is rule by the people, not rule by the states so for legislative bodies to be democratic they must represent the people proportionately. I would call my system fair because every person's vote would be valued the same. In your system SD votes matter more than CA votes
@ZorroThrives281@MarcoFoster_@hasanthehun You do know that we don't live in the Star Wars universe and that the US has another legislative body besides the system that is actually representative of population numbers right?
@ZorroThrives281@MarcoFoster_@hasanthehun The senate cannot be a democratic institution when it overrepresents states where there are more cows than people with the same representation as NY and CA
@MarcBodnick@admcrlsn D4P has reliably predicted many democratic primaries this cycle. The poll from two days ago disproportionately oversamples older voters from the Detroit metro area and is not representative of the electorate
@mattyglesias@alexbronzini The principle was implicit in your first tweet when you said that the reason for your opposition to an arms embargo on Israel is your opposition to declining defense industry revenues, which implies that you value preserving these revenues as a first principle. Don't be obtuse
@char15299@alexbronzini@mattyglesias Matty didn't even mention "countries that may attack us" in his post; he only brought up revenue streams and job creation. How is Alex's response a disingenuous gotcha when you're making up counter-arguments from thin air?
@mattyglesias@alexbronzini You said that you disagree with an arms embargo against a state committing genocide with US arms because it would lead to decreased revenue in the MIC. If you value job creation in the MIC so much, then why not sell weapons to the PRC if you're okay with selling to genocidaires?