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[Official] Kamala Harris for President 2024

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by Sajan, Jul 21, 2024.

  1. Reeko

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    lol let the idiots think she’s nothing but media hype…these people have IQ deficits when it comes to politics

    these are the same group of people who the day before the 2020 election were on here saying Trump would win the popular vote
     
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    Sure he did. Anyone dumb enough to vote for Trump is a lying sack of ****.

    DD
     
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    They'll do everything in their power to make the race as close as possible.
     
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    Founding fathers were smart enough not go with the popular vote
     
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    Yes, but they also expected the House expand with the size of the population. It did until 1911. This is why it is skewed.
     
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    You are on here constantly. Who is running your company?
     
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    There were few reason for it, one electoral college serves as a buffer against the direct appointment because people might be duped into selecting a tyrant as leader. Another (my personal opinion) that they've studied the Roman Republic alot, which lasted for about 400 years before they became an empire. They also had the electoral college, but I think their elections were every 2 years, if I remember correctly from history.
     
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    When the right quotes Jill Stein to build their case, you know the have jumped the shark
     
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    This is one serious exercise of projection. Do you ever wonder how crazy it is that you have to create all these conspiracy theories to twist the world that some how makes Trump a good guy?

    Wake up - the elites are the billionaires who manipulate you so they don't have to pay taxes. The people in the GOP sound like nuts because they are nuts. They contradict themselves into pretzels and you don't see it? You don't see how luny the GOP has become?

    You're being used and manipulated to help the rich stay rich. You had for a while moderated and posting more honestly, but this is just strange. You are spouting far right talking points as gospel.
     
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    Im so confused. Where did I say Trump is a good guy?

    I have already defined my criteria for voting. And I really DGAF if the rich stay richer. It always has been and it always will be. I don't live in a fantasy world were you can push poverty into prosperity by taxing the 'rich' into poverty. Wealth is created, not redistributed. Thus the reason why socialist countries like Cuba, N Korea and Venezuela fail.
     
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    This is sad analysis because it should you don't know WHY they didn't want to go with the popular vote. If you did, you'd also know they they would see the current system as a colossal failure for the same reason.
     
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    You're certainly defending him like one. So you tell me why you are voting for him. You want to have the rich pay less taxes - they weren't poor in the 70's and when they were taxes higher and the wealth was redistributed to them away from the middle class pushing more people to be poor. So you favor that kind of wealth distribution.

    And it is literally impossible to tax the rich to be poor.

    You don't understand the economics of Cuba, N Korea, and Venezuela. It's not their taxation system lol. You've really be drinking whatever is put in front of you.
     
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    Yea but two of those are also communist countries. They can always say that democratic-socialism works for Denmark, Sweden, Norway and even Canada.

    But other than those examples I agree, f socialism
     
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    FOX needs to work harder (clap clap)
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    When have I defended Trump? As I said, I really don't care about the wealthy one way or another.

    Anyone who pushes space exploration and rewards the companies who produce and punishes the ones who are behind and/or can't deliver.
    Anyone who prioritizes AI development across the board (and not try to pick winners/losers)
    Anyone who prioritizes developing and expanding all forms of energy, not just one little segment of the market. This also includes energy storage. We should be expanding our nuclear reactors at a rapid rate.
    Promoting any company who is trying to remove fossil fuel vehicles off the roads. We should start implementing taxes on ICE vehicles of all types in a progressive manner while EV ownership gets credits.
    Anyone who promotes meritocracy.
     
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    Its a right wing talking point to claim those countries are socialist. While they have more social programs than the US, they still lean more towards capitalism. Social programs are not necessarily evil however poorly managed social programs are a burden on society and often only exist to keep the party in power.

    China is a great example. They are a very successful country however socialism is a burden on the country overall. They have creeped out of communism and into socialism. Eventually they could become much more capitalistic. The CCP, much like the DNC, stay in power by offering freebies to the plebs. The same applies to Russia.

    Heavy handed socialism always fails. Only low IQ people think the US is the only place in the world where the great tech companies can reside.
     
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    You did defend him and the wealthy - you just said if you increased taxes on them they would become poor.

    The current NASA-SPACE X program was done under the Obama-Biden Crew program - which was highly innovated in partnering with commercial to offload costs to taxpayers. Trump does the opposite and wants gov't spending to fund space programs. Still, Biden embraced Trumps Artemis program. The two are pretty much aligned on future but it appears Biden will prefer more commericial partnerships. Trump will likely change to give everything with Musk - talk about picking winners and losers.

    On AI - they are exactly the same.

    On Chips - Biden created the CHIPS programs - to move it back to the US. I actually scored big here as I invested in micron but there were many others - that's what will drive most of the "AI" you are thinking of. If creating incentive is picking winners or losers, what is Trump doing here, nothing.

    Trump is anti-EV. I don't get why you think he is promoting those companies.

    Trump does not promote meritocracy. That's Obama/Biden/Harris. Trump is the very definition of nepotism. Do you really think otherwise because the histoical record paints a damning picture on Trump on this one
     
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