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  • YSK that Gerrymandering allows politicians to determine election outcomes by changing electoral maps. In most western countries, it's illegal. Gerrymandering is common in the United States

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  • From reading the comments of others I'll say it seems like I'm pretty uninformed about how the actual process works. But what i meant was that if there are 6 electoral votes and each candidate wins 50% if the votes in the state then they both get 3 electrical votes. If there are 8 electoral votes and someone wins 27% if the vote they get 2 votes, not all or nothing

  • YSK that Gerrymandering allows politicians to determine election outcomes by changing electoral maps. In most western countries, it's illegal. Gerrymandering is common in the United States

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  • Good point but for presidential elections, electrical districts don't make any sense. You could just use the total votes for the whole state to allocate electoral votes. Also, if the districts are being manipulated to provide a skewed election result then are the districts really groups of people with similar needs?

  • YSK that Gerrymandering allows politicians to determine election outcomes by changing electoral maps. In most western countries, it's illegal. Gerrymandering is common in the United States

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  • Why do votes need to be done by district? Just do it statewide

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    [SOLVED🙄] Has anyone ever seen an image of a displeased white cat wearing a cowboy hat?

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  • So you marked this solved? Want to share the picture?

  • What should I do for online income?

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  • San Francisco speed cameras to start fining drivers Tuesday

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  • Bird law in this country? It's not governed by reason

  • The mathematics of starvation: how Israel caused a famine in Gaza

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  • There's other aid groups like Oxfam that have been unable to deliver aid packages. This is just UN aid

  • ugh

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  • He just voted to continue supplying Israel with weapons

  • App for downsizing MP3s automatically when copying to a phone?

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  • 128kbps mp3s are terrible

  • DOJ Moves To Strip People Of Citizenship Based On Their Political Beliefs

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  • How many felonies does the president have?

  • Bat flies into woman's mouth in Arizona, costing her nearly $21,000 in medical bills

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  • Who are you?

    I'm batmouth

  • History is best told as a story of organised crime

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  • Throughout history society has collapsed over and over again either by mismanagement or by overthrow of the ruling class. It's a natural cycle that we seem to be moving away from- Revolt has been mischaracterized and criminalized in an attempt to maintain the status quo. But things weren't always like this. edit: I'm not advocating for anything, just stating some observations

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  • "The Gotham platform can link together various police databases and automatically analyze their contents. Critics point out however that the software is a “black box” – how it functions is not clearly known."

  • Trump administration weighs fate of $9M stockpile of contraceptives feared earmarked for destruction

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  • I'll take it

  • AOC wrong: More civilians die when we send Israel 'defensive weapons'

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  • I appreciate some of the points you are making, but I was responding to this statement that you made twice: "Her trying to parse out defensive vs offensive is a manipulation and a shallow sales job."

    You're being deceptive if you are implying that AOC voted against reducing weapons to Israel and then tried to spin it by creating a distinction between offensive and defensive weapons.

    AOC voted against the entire bill, rejecting all funding for Israel's military.

    MTGs amendment cut funding of Israel's Iron Dome program. This is a defensive system, of course it is useful during war time but it is still a defensive system. AOC is not creating this distinction, it exists. I linked to the state department's site which indicates that the funding is considered separate from other military funding for Israel.

    MTG wrote an amendment that is progressive and that all progressives must support? BS

    If AOC had voted against a stand alone bill to eliminate Iron Dome funding then everyone's points would be completely valid and warranted. That's not what happened.

  • AOC wrong: More civilians die when we send Israel 'defensive weapons'

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  • This is incorrect. The United States provides federal military funding to Israel and specifically and separately funds $500 million per year for their Iron Dome program. This is the $500 million of funding that MTG was seeing to eliminate.

    "Israel is the leading global recipient of Title 22 U.S. security assistance under the Foreign Military Financing (FMF) program. This has been formalized by a 10-year (2019-2028) Memorandum of Understanding (MOU). Consistent with the MOU, the United States annually provides $3.3 billion in FMF and $500 million for cooperative programs for missile defense."

    Source: https://www.state.gov/u-s-security-cooperation-with-israel#%3A%7E%3Atext=Consistent+with+the+MOU%2C+the%2Csupport+starting+in+FY+2011.

  • AOC wrong: More civilians die when we send Israel 'defensive weapons'

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  • I see everyone's point but without the bill there is no military financing and no defensive weapons. The fact that it's MTGs amendment surely played a part in her decision.

  • AOC wrong: More civilians die when we send Israel 'defensive weapons'

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  • "Marjorie Taylor Greene’s amendment does nothing to cut off offensive aid to Israel nor end the flow of US munitions being used in Gaza. Of course I voted against it"

  • AOC wrong: More civilians die when we send Israel 'defensive weapons'

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  • She voted against reduced funding for weapons for Israel because she would have been voting FOR funds for weapons for Israel. If she had the option to eliminate funding of weapons for Israel completely she would have supported that.

    Years from now people could look back and say "AOC in 2025 voted to supply Israel with XXX million dollars of weapons while they were in the middle of destroying Gaza, and attacking Syria and Iran."

    Would you really vote to supply weapons to Israel at this point in time?