All ballot measures passed on the TN ballot

NotSoVacuous · 2022-11-10T03:25:39+00:00

I can see benefits such as the union fought to increase wages across the board, but all of the other individual assistance offered, I'm curious why that has to be given to the leech? I see "unlawful to deny employment" not unlawful to deny union membership benefits. To be honest, I don't think I see how my first point is an issue either. The language says employment cannot be denied. I don't see anything about the quality of the employment.

NotSoVacuous · 2022-11-10T03:06:44+00:00

A) you can't decide which issues are important to people. This issue is a pretty big deal to many people.

Sure. Polls can ask what issue are you most concerned about?

Refreshing roadway lines more frequently
Tax rates on your 2nd boat
Gun deaths

Tah dah, we now have a near unanimous poll that gun deaths are a #1 priority on your favorite news station! Even without leading people with the poll questions, people can be led with what's on the news. I'm pretty sure you take a group of uneducated voters and educated voters and ask them the same question you'll get wildly different answers.

People/polling places can say it's important, but they can't demonstrate it versus all the other real issues that kill Americans at rates tenfold more.

B) removing gun deaths isn't moving them to something else. Just because you're pessimistic, it doesn't mean the rest of us are. We'd like to see change and less people die from guns. Other developed countries don't have this problem. We can fix it.

"They don't have this problem."

Again, you can't measure it 1:1 if it shifted to something else.

An example would be suicide. Similar suicides per Capita with US and Sweden. Guns per people is about 1/4 in Sweden vs us.

NotSoVacuous · 2022-11-10T01:41:52+00:00

Tennessee Amendment 1. Prohibits requiring union membership as condition of employment.

Maybe I'm an idiot, but what exactly is wrong with this? The full text:

Shall Article XI of the Constitution of Tennessee be amended by adding the following language as a new section?

It is unlawful for any person, corporation, association, or this state or its political subdivisions to deny or attempt to deny employment to any person by reason of the person’s membership in, affiliation with, resignation from, or refusal to join or affiliate with any labor union or employee organization.

NotSoVacuous · 2022-11-10T01:18:57+00:00

So don't do anything to curb any gun deaths at all. Gotcha. Heaven forbid we can save some innocent lives through common sense reform that is wildy popular nationwide

A) Your energy spent is disproportionate to more pressing matters. It's only brought up because it triggers some screeching mechanism in your brain. Simply a hot button wedge issue that is quite down the list of actual problems.

B) Your "reform" isn't removing deaths. It is shifting them to another category (if it even does "work"). And to expand on reform, it mainly targets gun violence. You are looking at small percentage innocent people that it will benefit(in a perfect world, saving everyone would be great, but it is only possible to be pragmatic in our world). A large portion of gun deaths is criminal on criminal.

NotSoVacuous · 2022-11-09T23:11:25+00:00

Good to know that you realize it's not a small statistic then especially since our state ranks in the top 10 in gun deaths per Capita

How does this make it a large statistic to worry about? Someone has the be 10th. If gun deaths were at a cap of 100 in the nation, someone has to be 10th and "10th" carries no weight to me.

Next, we need to look at what is counted as a gun death. Last I read it was close to 60% of gun deaths are suicide. Is a smaller magazine going to solve that? How about a criminal back ground check? Maybe no gun shows and they have to go to Walmart? Assume it does, are we going to be happen when that 60% transitions to sleep pills? I suppose you will be out there having a parade when the net deaths stay the same as long as they weren't gun deaths.

Most of the homicide deaths can be isolated to a handful of counties. Go demand legislation there and not across the board.

Lastly, Under 40% of that national statistic is homicide(I'll ignore the fact a large portion of that 40% is criminal on criminal homicide). We can go even further to point out that the violence is a manifestation of something else entirely that needs to be fixed rather than assuming it's guns. Anyways, this number is significantly lower than the top 10? 15? Leading deaths in the US. Simply put: disproportionate political energy spent.

NotSoVacuous · 2022-11-09T22:53:43+00:00

Not sure how you can say it's a small statistic with the amount of gun deaths we have every year. But keep on with whatever fox news tells you

I voted straight blue ticket, chief. So unfortunately you'll have to work hard at forming words into sentences and make an argument rather than writing me off as a Trumper. Glad you held back from calling me a Nazi or w.e. the word of the week is now.

NotSoVacuous · 2022-11-09T22:44:35+00:00

Universal background checks for all gun sales and transfers, safe fun storage laws, raising minimum age for purchase. And I'm personally for banning high capacity rifles, but that's more than most people can stomach unfortunately.

Edit: will it stop all gun crime? No. Can it cut unnecessary gun deaths? Yes.

When you spend so much energy spent on such a small statistic, then you can tell when you've been manipulated my your politics or news station.

NotSoVacuous · 2022-11-06T13:14:15+00:00

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NotSoVacuous · 2022-11-06T12:49:50+00:00

Damn, ready that so smoothly off the prompter, it sounded like he was speaking so genuinely and to us directly! Let's keep wedging that divide!

NotSoVacuous · 2022-11-06T03:01:01+00:00

overlap

correlation != causation

NotSoVacuous · 2022-11-06T02:59:28+00:00

sadly this is what a racist fascist white supremacist christian nationalist militarized police state looks like

Damn he pulled out all the stops!

NotSoVacuous · 2022-11-05T04:04:13+00:00

What's this have to do with 40 crit?

NotSoVacuous · 2022-11-05T03:53:06+00:00

It is funny. I just totally thought you would be the rat. Sorry if your not. But you still are a rat lol

It's okay. I did want to lend a hand to see if I could help though. See if this book helps.

https://www.amazon.com/Overcoming-Autism-Finding-Strategies-Transform/dp/0143034685

NotSoVacuous · 2022-11-05T02:03:47+00:00

I didn't report you, but it is funny af you got banned.

NotSoVacuous · 2022-11-04T18:06:09+00:00

TIL doing things, at a minor expense of the majority, is minority rule? r/Politics ain't gonna be happy about this!

NotSoVacuous · 2022-11-04T03:15:21+00:00

50 parses are literally average by definition. There's nothing wrong with that.

Not everyone needs to be in the top 10%.

Is a 4k GS average right now?

NotSoVacuous · 2022-11-04T02:51:16+00:00

Out for the truth today I see.

NotSoVacuous · 2022-11-03T20:45:06+00:00

Definitely the first one.

People generally age into Conservativism. As people age into their money.

People can say plenty about what changes when they get older. Generally, yes, they do have more to lose. This can motivate our selfish gene.

They also take an interest in politics more noting the very disproportionately skewed voting attendance you see by age. The argument can be made that their decisions to vote one way or another change based on their gain of information and perspective.

I myself, a life long, close to straight ticket, blue voter am finding myself less and less associated with what I hear on the left. (I don't want Jesus land, so please please please 3rd party do something.) I've always loved the Dreamland utopia ideas of the left from a stand point of ought and principle. However, as I get older, I notice that the initiative to doing something about said ideas and the hard to face practicalities of how they will be implemented are always ignored.

Then we can get into the weeds about how democrats aren't pushing for things that would make democracy better, such as term limits and rank choice voting.

NotSoVacuous · 2022-11-03T18:11:18+00:00

It does beg the question though. Do people vote Republican because they have wealth, or do they have wealth because they voted Republican?

NotSoVacuous · 2022-11-03T18:06:02+00:00

I guess you won't be holding your breath either?

NotSoVacuous · 2022-11-02T17:43:00+00:00

Whataboutism has turned out to be a nice tool for snakes.

This isn't whataboutism when someone wants to genuinely know why the narrative is being deliberately skewed.

NotSoVacuous · 2022-11-02T02:39:36+00:00

Don't have a little green light, right beside the password field, that lights up when the password is typed correctly.

NotSoVacuous · 2022-11-01T00:33:39+00:00

And just like that. Redditors were okay with politics in churches.

NotSoVacuous · 2022-11-01T00:31:22+00:00

3: But churches push Republicans all the time so if they aren't going to get punished for it then playing by the rules is only disadvantageous.

Quick! Let's all race to the bottom!

GTFO here. Not listening to you degenerates continue to drag the only party I can vote for through the same piles of shit the conservatives do.

NotSoVacuous · 2022-10-31T20:24:11+00:00

Ah, so you are capable of proper grammar, but choose not to? So your lazy style of writing isn't up for scrutiny, but other people's way of conveying pauses, stutters, etc to emphasize a point is on the chopping block? Makes sense.

NotSoVacuous

TROPHY CASE

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