Submitted by rollotomasi07071 t3_zp1os4 in newjersey
Wyoming: “Says you”
So we're the reason Republicans are overrepresented in the Senate. Grrrrreaaaaat
Rare Jersey L
Don’t forget electing Christie twice
How can you be from NJ and not know Paterson has one “t”?
And ole Willy is still fucking us in Congress to this day. Democracy my ass
Paterson.
Paterson, "I am the Senate."
General Gage's wife, Margaret Kemble Gage, was from New Brunswick. She was the one who was spying on her husband and gave the info to the patriots that Revere, Dawes and Prescott relayed to the minutemen.
Also what's weird is New Jersey was the first to ratify the bill of rights, but we are one of only 5 states that does not have a right to bear arms provision in our state constitution.
Tomorrow in NJ the state senate will vote and most likely pass a law that not only goes against the constitution it also goes against a current ruling by the supreme court. This is New Jersey! As State Assemblyman Joe Danielsen was recorded saying "There is no Democracy in the Huddle" About the Bill Danielsen also said "This does nothing to stop the illegal possessions or criminal content, your right. This doesn't. It was never supposed to address that. This is addressing the legal law-abiding responsible citizen. That's what it's designed to do."
New Jersey just like Washington is all about the insiders and if you aren't one of them or on their team you are an outsider. All of us can fight over Right vs Left while they pull the rug out from under us while we argue.
> New Jersey just like Washington is all about the insiders and if you aren't one of them or on their team you are an outsider. All of us can fight over Right vs Left while they pull the rug out from under us while we argue.
I think it's hilarious that you seem to think you hold mainstream views in a state that has one of the lowest rates of gun ownership in the country, and consequently one of the lowest rates of gun violence in the country. And we keep voting for the gun grabbers because we like it that way.
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What's good about 39,538,223 people getting the same representation as 576,851 people?
Texas (29 million) has the same amount of senators as Vermont (645,000), what’s your point?
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>Because otherwise those 576,851 would essentially have no representation at all and their interests would be ignored entirely. >
So your solution is to represent them at the expense of the (much) larger majority? How is that democratic?
>EDIT: Someone tell me a better system that also accounts for the needs of rural Americans. Otherwise your complaints are meaningless.
The rural Americans view is "they should be the only ones with represemtation", so there is no solution. Sorry, but your views are not the majoirty. That's called democracy.
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>Having an insult for rural Americans instead of a solution says a lot.
They insult me with their continued support of anti democratic processes so their views get priority over the majority. You straight up want to dictate to the majority with the senate.
People would respect you more if you were honest and said you wanted to get rid of democracy.
>Mostly that you think you’re better than them,
I never said I was better than them. Stop projecting.
>and yet you still cant present a solution.
Get rid of the senate. How's that for a solution.
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All you've done is stick words in my mouth and accuse me of things I've not said or done. I've never said I was better than them, or I knew more. You're not interested in debate. You want to attack me for holding crazy views like "whichever view has more votes, wins".
Take care
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California should have fewer senators. By your math 1 Wyomingian is worth 68.5 Californians, and in reality 1 Whyomingian is worth at least 10 times that many californians
It’s an awful system that doesn’t even look like what was originally proposed.
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RedTideNJ t1_j0q3058 wrote
In retrospect, Patterson's plan sucked shit.