someguyonhn

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by someguyonhn 13y ago
I can't tell if you're trolling or not. I tried to respond to you in what I believe was a mature and respectful way. You've responded with a breathtaking amount of immaturity. And completely ignored any of the points I made.
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by someguyonhn 13y ago
To your question: I censor myself on HN because I don't believe Hacker News, which is often used by children and is a place that seems to wish to be more welcoming to women and racial minorities, is the right place to have an environme
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by someguyonhn 13y ago
This is a kind of long response. But I hope maybe you'll read through it. Just saying "check your privilege" is probably not the best starting point for the conversation, so I'll try to do a better job of explaining. I
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by someguyonhn 13y ago
Firstly, I fail to see how the lyrics from a Jay-Z song from 2002 are anything other than completely irrelevant to the Ban Bossy campaign. But if you're going to bring it up, we might as well do it right. 1) Pharrell says those lines n
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by someguyonhn 13y ago
That's really well put. I hadn't thought of it in that way. It seems pretty funny someone would say "What's that? We can't just redraw the districts to get what we want? Fine, let's redraw entire states."
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by someguyonhn 13y ago
You've definitely addressed the first question I had. I'm sorry but I still can't find in your original post where you addressed the "If enough people were to work together to make that change a reality, is there anythi
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by someguyonhn 13y ago
I completely understand that OP isn't a fan of their current democracy. But let's be honest and not hyperbolic about what the situation really is. Again, I can't speak for every nation, but in America our democracy undeniab
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by someguyonhn 13y ago
We don't really live in democracies? So the fact that a President of the United States was elected who appointed two liberal leaning Supreme Court justices that were confirmed by a freely and fairly elected Senate and now serve their t
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by someguyonhn 13y ago
Geography has everything to do with government. Where you are geographically determines how you are governed and who governs you. psuter said, "I find the idea that political and cultural boundaries should align to be a very sad and un
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by someguyonhn 13y ago
Everyone already has a lot of localized control. That's how America, and most individualized states, are set up. I assume by control you mean representation. Are you arguing that the representation within the state isn't good enou
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by someguyonhn 13y ago
I agree entirely. I like the fact that as a nation and even in most localities there are people with diverse views, backgrounds, etc. and we all have to figure out how to make this whole living together thing work (or move). I don't th
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by someguyonhn 13y ago
You could do it the way it is done now. Geographically.
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by someguyonhn 13y ago
Breaking up the state might provide more representation on the federal level. I disagree that it would be better. Also, I don't know if anyone has considered this but, nothing is stopping California from creating six separate localitie
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by someguyonhn 13y ago
I find it really odd that anyone would actually think something like this would work. Firstly, California would have to agree to break itself into 6 states. Even if that happened, those six states, which as far as America is concerned are