@sjs856 You just won the argument for @ChrisMartzWX since his argument was that businesses aren't stealing his money since by your own admission they get his money from govt. So the govt steals the money...
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David Q
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That’s not true. Billionaires get government subsidies that come from American tax dollars. They get your money whether you buy their product or not
Chris Martz@ChrisMartzWX
Billionaires don’t steal my money, dipshit. Politicians and bureaucrats do. If a billionaire gets my money, it’s because I paid for a product that he or she has made.
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@Kontrastmittel @LouisWoodhill @Alonso_GD Varies by state but the federal tipped min wage is 2.13 or 7.15. If tips with hrly rate are below 7.15/hr then the company has to pay the difference. Usually waiters make more from the money in tips than 7.15/hr would.
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@LouisWoodhill @Alonso_GD what is the minimum wage in the US?
3.50?
really?
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If you can’t afford to pay a living wage, you can’t afford starting a business
kira 👾@kirawontmiss
tipping culture is getting ridiculous
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@BH_Chronicles @Kontrastmittel @LouisWoodhill @Alonso_GD If the tips and hourly wage don't equal 7.15/hr then the company has to pay the difference. Being a server should never be a career choice unless it's for upscale restaurants since those waiters can actually make bank on tips.
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@JasonMcMan77 @APr2732 @RobProvince @tylerhenson But what your map shows are current districts, they took some towns and padded the voting district to give you the higher percent dems that are voting is my point. So the current voting map is gerrymandered.
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@DavidQ2085 @APr2732 @RobProvince @tylerhenson Snaking a district in order to get a seat is Gerrymandering. Peetty much every map drawn ever in Massachusetts would still give dems 6 seats with current voting. They +25-35 Democrat. Pretty much as much as it gets.
Jason@JasonMcMan77
@FrazzledAnalyst @GonePhishin13 @mattforney Trump won 36% of Massachusetts. 0 Republican seats based on 2018 Senate Election (Most recent)
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It’s amazing, when you think about it, that Dems have been able to have 100% blue states.
While Republicans were forced to have 20 Dem districts since 1965.
Glad that era is over.
VoteHub@VoteHub
BREAKING — Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee has signed the new 9-0 congressional map into law. 🔴 +1 GOP 🔵 -1 DEM
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@JasonMcMan77 @APr2732 @RobProvince @tylerhenson You seem so sure that there's nothing enough to draw a republican district even though they are grouped together in several counties. What rules do you think should be followed when drawing districts? Almost 40% of voters are republican yet they get 0% representation in the House
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@DavidQ2085 @APr2732 @RobProvince @tylerhenson Districts change as people change. People move around, populations change, so redistricting is required.
Also, even if you drew old districts, you'd end up with the same results. Because you CANT DRAW REPUBLICAN DISTRICTS
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Imagine cherry picking a bible verse taking it out of context & ignoring versus that tell you to follow the laws of god first & then the laws of man. Makes me wonder if this is a person who pretends to follow the lord's word or just someone who thinks they know more than they do.
Jamie Kay@TheRealJamieKay
Funny how these ‘patriotic Christians’ never seem to follow this part of the Bible. Leviticus 19:33–34.
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@JasonMcMan77 @APr2732 @RobProvince @tylerhenson Then why were the districts different before dems took power?
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@DavidQ2085 @APr2732 @RobProvince @tylerhenson Or maybe because those areas are super sparsely populated you cant make a district out of it.
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@letmeseeguy @MonicaVanzant @Provokethoughtz Lol, they blocked me so I can't reply. I guess she's not only ignorant by choice but a coward as well. I think dems voters just think get rid of EC because short term they win kind of mentality. I do wonder if it might be better to let them win so everyone can see how bad it is.
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@MonicaVanzant @DavidQ2085 @Provokethoughtz It will backfire on your party as it always does. This is why we have President Trump. Just so we are clear. The people in Idaho and Wyoming probably don't really care about you either. Take a civics class.
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@AJ_Specter23 @RobProvince @Jesse_T_White @tylerhenson Metropolitan areas tend to vote dem because of the hand outs and unions are there. There's no money for unions in rural america and no power to bully companies into paying more. Also the map he showed was a scatterplot not actual population density and it was of dems vs repubs
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@DavidQ2085 @RobProvince @Jesse_T_White @tylerhenson The other guys posted the map that showed the population density.
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@Jesse_T_White @AJ_Specter23 @RobProvince @tylerhenson All you're showing is a scatterplot that shows population density based on voters but it isnt even accurate because there's a lot of emptiness...
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@miriodere @Jesse_T_White @RobProvince @tylerhenson The link from Google said it was county and from politico. Here's the real county one... some are showing up very split.
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@DavidQ2085 @Jesse_T_White @RobProvince @tylerhenson You don’t even know what you’re looking at. Not a single county went Republican in 2024. You’re looking at a map of individual towns and you can clearly see them barely going red. Several of which hadn’t gone red in 50 or even 100 years.
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@Jesse_T_White @RobProvince @tylerhenson Can you explain to me why we need to have voting districts based on population and not just area? I mean shouldn't rural counties have as much voting power as the cities?
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@DavidQ2085 @RobProvince @tylerhenson Again, those areas do not have enough people to draw a district that isn't gerrymandered.
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@tanny__phantom @RobProvince @Jesse_T_White @tylerhenson I see now, i thought you were asking questions rhetoricaly to show your viewpoint.
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@DavidQ2085 @RobProvince @Jesse_T_White @tylerhenson I’m pointing out the hypocrisy of the person I was replying to. He was implying that evenly distributed minority-party voters ought to have the same electoral impact as geographically compact minority-party voters. See @Jesse_T_White ‘s response above that.
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@AJ_Specter23 @RobProvince @Jesse_T_White @tylerhenson Show me the spread throughout the state on this map.
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@DavidQ2085 @RobProvince @Jesse_T_White @tylerhenson No he’s right. Several studies have proven that republicans in Ma are not in densely populated areas for them to be their own district. They are pretty evenly spread through the south shore and western mass requiring gerrymandering for them to have their own districts
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@APr2732 @JasonMcMan77 @RobProvince @tylerhenson I didn't post drawn district because the red counties clustered together would be where you could draw districts like make the lines go vertically why does any voting district need to be so squiggly with odd shapes?
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@DavidQ2085 @JasonMcMan77 @RobProvince @tylerhenson No. You cant. There’s a reason you posted the map and not a drawn district, because you can’t.
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@AjayHolmes @Provokethoughtz This is so retarded, the USA turns 250 years old this year, how the heck do you go back 407 years? Take up the first 157 years with British who btw didn't allow anyone to vote... did you know most white men also couldn't vote until just before women's suffrage?
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@MonicaVanzant @Provokethoughtz It was never and is not about racism. The south had the farms so lower populations, the north had the factories and shipping ports to export goods with higher density populations. The south wanted to count each slave, they settled on 3/5 rule but the electorate existed prior
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@Provokethoughtz The electoral college is not still around because no one's noticed it.
It's still around because racism & racists are still around.
Racist lawyers, judges, cops, politicians ALL STILL EXISTS and don't want to change it.
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@RobProvince @tylerhenson Wow what a way to show your ignorance. You may have to remove the first part of your handle as it is false advertising. Moron
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@NyinaWaJambo81 @RobProvince @tylerhenson If you look at the image you can see how the lines were drawn to combine the blue counties with the red ones and in a way thay makes blue counties have leading voice/vote
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@RobProvince @tylerhenson Is there a specific area where Republicans in Massachussetts live that is being disenfranchised?
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@JasonMcMan77 @RobProvince @tylerhenson You're telling me, looking at this map, you can't think of where to draw a district line that produces a republican seat?
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@RobProvince @tylerhenson You couldn't draw a red district in Massachusetts if you tried. Just stop
Just because 30-40% of one party gets a vote, doesnt mean they HAVE to get even 1 seat. It all depends on how the population is spread out.
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