No one is ready for the real solution to Gerrymandering:
A return to the Constitution's original standard of 1 Member of Congress for every 30,000 Americans, resulting in an 11,000-member House with city-council sized districts so small you can't Gerrymander them if you tried.
There's a Biblical theory that I find intriguing, but I'm not convinced of.
It's the idea that the Garden of Eden simply was the entire Fertile Crescent.
I continue to follow the situation in the Middle East with dismay. Like other regions of the world, it is torn apart by war and violence. We cannot remain silent in the face of the suffering of so many defenseless victims of these conflicts. What wounds them wounds all of humanity. The death and pain caused by these wars is a scandal for the entire human family and a cry that rises to God!
Reports from #Iran and across the entire #MiddleEast continue to cause deep dismay and raise the fear that the conflict will expand, and that other countries in the region, including dear Lebanon, may once again sink into instability. Let us #PrayTogether for the roar of bombs to cease, weapons to fall silent, and space to open for dialogue, in which people's voices may be heard.
@coming4castro You lose all of those by 2 points if perception is that it’s an unwinnable race.
You win all of those by 2 points if the people who don’t vote because there’s no chance actually vote.
@Heavy_Proxy@RWFlatitude@DrewPavlou “We have more information now than ever”
yeah and that information indicates that crime is decreasing, immigrants help our country, and the world is getting more prosperous.
Maybe, just maybe, you don’t understand America. You may think you do, but you’re just ignorant.
@Heavy_Proxy@RWFlatitude@DrewPavlou As a child who wasn’t allowed to play in the street, I know it wasn’t for a good reason. I grew up in whiteville USA (southern Missouri) in a safe white manufactured neighborhood.
The reason is TV and the internet. Its because they’re listening to people tell them to be scared.
@Heavy_Proxy@RWFlatitude@DrewPavlou “All has developed for nothing”
I’m sorry but that just proved that you were developed for nothing. First, if you’d have interacted with the American justice system you’d know that it disproportionately impacts the poor, but you haven’t. And second:
@Heavy_Proxy@RWFlatitude@DrewPavlou But this is twitter. You’re not interested in that. You’re just trying to sow discord in my nation. My guess is that based off your tweets and nationality that you hold a resentment against minorities and those who stand with them. Like the United States of America.
@Heavy_Proxy@RWFlatitude@DrewPavlou That’s cool and all and I could explain to you how the American system of justice disproportionately impacts low income Americans due to poor incentive structures and how historical institutional racism causes minorities to gain economic power at a lower rate.
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@44NNNNNNNN @RWFlatitude@DrewPavlou I’m not buying twitter premium to respond to your tweet so I’ll leave you with a quote. One that the western justice system was built upon.
“It is better that ten guilty persons escape than one innocent suffer”