Politics Discussion Thread (Heated Arguing Warning)

[Japper007]

Financiers love them some fascism.

Worked for the Swiss

[Bacchus]

US papers endorse political candidates in other countries? And that's from a country that denounces 'election interference'?

[MJW (ya that one)]

Other senate update

Solid: I call it
Likely: I almost call it
Lean: This team has a clear edge
Tilt: This is a toss-up (everything else), but if I had to call it I would guess this team.

TN: This team's hand got caught in the cookie jar and it was already at lean before Kav so I have to bump it up.
MN-S: Was not comfortable in calling it due to lack of polling but now there is some.
AZ: The DEMs crashing and burning in the governor race will make it hard enough to win that they no longer have a clear edge.
NV: Polls show toss-up but if changing demographics hand DEMs the win in 2024, like I believe, they should win here.
TX: It's a bit optimistic but if he actually loses it's going to be a bloodbath and the rest of the map will be wrong. 

   

Anyway there should be enough polling and 538 should give enough polling that I can just use their map. Remember polls were off by only 2% in 2016 so in a little while the polls will have so much weight that I would just be reacting to them. I might bump some guys up-or-down a level but that's not enough to justify not just copying 538. So after a week just cut&paste 538.

[Fenn]

US papers endorse political candidates in other countries? And that's from a country that denounces 'election interference'?

Of course they do; why would the distinction bother them? It's not like the US itself is any stranger to interfering in elections and supporting coups in other countries.

[superdeath]

What is everyones thoughts on Unions/ "right to work" states.

[ipecac]

'The Cherokee Nation has denounced Elizabeth Warren'.

What a fake.

[Japper007]

'The Cherokee Nation has denounced Elizabeth Warren'.

What a fake.

They denied her a position in the tribe, for which you have to show you are part of the culture, not just that you have Native American DNA (which Warren has, though not all that much). Doesn't change the fact that Trumps "Pocahontas" comments were racist, and now also wrong to boot.

[Commodore]

Actually, tribal membership is neither cultural nor genetic; you're a member if you can trace ancestry back to the Dawes Roll. A lot of American Aboriginal ancestry stuff is kind of arcane.

And note, tribal membership != affirmative action blood quantum.

[Japper007]

Yeah I looked up the actual statement and it does refer more to lineage than culture, I only skimmed through the reactions. Thanks for pointing it out Commodore, I'm not above admitting when I'm wrong and should have done more research.

Seemed like a weird controversy to me, but then anything about race is, as it doesn't exist.

[mackoti]

Yeah I looked up the actual statement and it does refer more to lineage than culture, I only skimmed through the reactions.  Thanks for pointing it out Commodore, I'm not above admitting when I'm wrong and should have done more research.

Seemed like a weird controversy to me, but then anything about race is, as it doesn't exist.

There are some videos in which she pretends her mother was cherokee and becasue of that was hard for her mother and father to get married.What surprises me is that now is proved is a lie that she is indian and all  the media but few conservative posts defend her. All this problems because at some point beeing white in democrat america became a bad thing.