Only in America
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Four people shot and killed in Texas at birthday party for 1 year old. Woo-hoo!!!!!!
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Yes... because guns. Whoop.
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Holy shit, this thread has been around since 2014! It should be full by now. I guess most of us just don't bother posting the wacky shootings that happen around us.
I bet I can fill it up with Texas alone.
I bet I can fill it up with Texas alone.
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At least it'll be appropriate to the subforum.
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He was black!
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I tried to explain it. It's not that one person's vote is worth less. It's that the head of government is not elected by popular vote. Rather, the head of government is elected by another mechanism - that being the choice of the individual states as coequal entities. It's a similar concept to the UN giving each country one vote, even though China has 1.5 billion people and Norway has 4.5 million, they both have the same vote in the UN, meaning 4.5 million Norwegians have the same relative voting power as 1.5 billion Chinese.
In a federal system, the States are sovereign "states," and as such one small state like Rhode Island is afforded equal status as Texas or California. That's why they each get two Senators in the Senate - because they are coequal states. The interest of the populace as individuals is represented in the House of Representatives and elected by direct popular vote of the residents of each district.
The head of government, in a parliamentary system, is not generally elected by the popular vote - instead, it's the legislature/parliament that "votes" for the PM by appointing the leader of the majority party (or majority coalition by negotiation of a combination of a plurality of parties). So, you're not getting a person that the majority of the voters would vote for in a national election. In the US system, the head of government is elected by Electors, who are chosen by the States. The number of electors is determined by combining the interests of the States (two electors each for each Senator), then a proporational number of 435 electors based on relative proportion of total population (plus 3 for Washington DC). So, as I explained, the election of the head of government is not determined by which party gets a majority of congressmen, but rather by a combination decision based on vote of the people AND vote of the States as juridical persons/entities.
No government on Earth is purely democratic in its processes, even countries from which we have moralizers and pontificators here who worship their own ways of doing things.
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Tennessee father run over by lawn mower while trying to kill son with chainsaw
Police in Tennessee say a man was run over with a lawn mower while he was allegedly trying to kill his son with a running chainsaw.
According to the Kingsport Times News, authorities were called to a home in Bristol in June, where they discovered a 76-year old man bleeding from his head and leg.
Authorities said the man allegedly tried to attack his son with a chainsaw while he was riding a lawn mower. The two men apparently had an ongoing feud.
“The son defended himself against the attack by running over the suspect with the lawn mower,” the Sullivan County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement. “The injuries that the suspect sustained were as a result of the lawn mower striking and running over him.”
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edit: just saw it was globalnews. That's a parody site if I remember correctly.
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Nope. It's a legit Canadian news outlet.pErvinalia wrote: ↑Tue Oct 16, 2018 12:44 am
edit: just saw it was globalnews. That's a parody site if I remember correctly.
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And that is some legit Murican redneckin'.
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Śiva wrote: ↑Tue Oct 16, 2018 12:52 amNope. It's a legit Canadian news outlet.pErvinalia wrote: ↑Tue Oct 16, 2018 12:44 am
edit: just saw it was globalnews. That's a parody site if I remember correctly.
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He couldn't have been trying too hard, poor bastard. He should've just clotheslined him as he rode by.
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I done blowed my arm off.
He set a trap with a shotgun at his backdoor and then forgot about it.
He set a trap with a shotgun at his backdoor and then forgot about it.
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"Socialized medicine is just exactly as morally defensible as gassing and cooking Jews" - Seth. Yes, he really did say that..
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"I am seriously thinking of going on a spree killing" - Svartalf.
"The Western world is fucking awesome because of mostly white men" - DaveDodo007.
"Socialized medicine is just exactly as morally defensible as gassing and cooking Jews" - Seth. Yes, he really did say that..
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