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It's important to look critically at all such documents, even those considered sacrosanct.

Definitely.

That said, I wouldn't call the Declaration "selfish" as much as suffering from severe cognitive dissonance.

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Lots of awesomely atrocious gerrymandered maps to choose from, but this one takes the cake:

Illinois:

Its already been done that you can exceed 99% Obama in Chicago's black neighborhoods, but this is just godly (yes, there is a narrow path out of that Tazewell County area):



67.0% McCain
31.4% Obama

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Your main mistakes are:

-Making NH remotely competitive, remember the angry women.

-Trump isn't winning by nearly enough in Colorado, remember the state HATES Clinton.  Trump will get 70% easy, probably over 80%.

-Utah's going to be super close, I'd put it at lean Clinton at this point.

-Clinton will win Arkansas because of her home state effect.

-Trump will win New York because of his home state effect.

There you go.  Beautiful!

Wow, the West Wing looks great!
On a more serious note, why does AR only have 5 EVs? Faithless elector?

Wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong.

WV flips because Hillary is white.

MS is trending hard D.

TX flips because Castro VP.

MI flips because NAFTA and dey terk ar jerbs.

MN flips because it's been trending R since 1980.

OR flips because of Bernie bros voting Trump out of spite.

Okay that's wrong.
Everybody knows that VT will flip due to disgruntled Bernie bros.
Alaska's been trending Dem, so of course it flips during this cycle.
Montana flips because it hasn't elected a Republican as Governor since 2000.
Trump picks Christie and NJ flips.

EDIT: So you're right, Smith.

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I suppose someone can do 2020 then we can start over at 1796.

The next time around, we should have it a lot less convergent.

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This is one issue I agree with Atlas conservatives on. Obviously denying the Holocaust is terrible, but

The answer is obvious.  It's the one where being gay is not an issue, where they don't lock people up for 25 years for simple drug possession, where freedom of speech and freedom of religion are truly understood, where women's reproductive rights can be taken for granted, etc.

Freedom isn't all about lasseiz-faire economics and guns.

Literally every single European country has worse freedom of speech than us.  We don't punish people for having terrible opinions, like Holocaust denial.

Is this sarcasm or do you really think the height of freedom is being able to say "the holocaust never happened"?

Free speech is indeed very important.

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Also, with respect to the "None of this should have ever happened" claim, keep in mind that Trump has led every national primary poll for over half a year.  The polls are still pretty reliable.

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I have wondered this as well.

I haven't seen it in this thread and I've been too afraid to ask, but how exactly is Atlasia pronounced?

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Age: 20
Gender: Female
Race/ethnic composition: White
Location: Indianapolis
Where you were born: Indianapolis
Favorite Band: Nightcore (more of a remix group turned genre, really)
Favorite President: Abraham Lincoln

Welcome!

Also I just want to remind people, those of you who are 19 or younger, now is the time to try to get post numbers that are the same as your birth year.

I did.

mods pls ban this eight-year-old

Hey! He might be seven.

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He was clearly a dick, but I found his trolling pretty amusing. I'm hesitant to vote FF since I have a feeling, judging from the posts in this thread, he's probably made a lot of horrific posts I'd be tacitly endorsing, but I don't recall any off the top of my head.

And yeah, why was he banned?

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71 is still younger than Reagan in '84, right

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I don't even know what the context of this is, but:

Kingpoleon, I see your 72 days in a year and a half, and I raise you 104 days in 14 months.

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...I don't even know where to begin with this.

If your criteria of measurement for what constitutes a good and a bad regime lead you to rank F**king Nazi Germany above any other regime ever, then these criteria are wrong and you should quickly investigate why they are wrong and fix them. I shouldn't need to be saying that. It should be facially obvious to anyone.