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by syki 5y ago
Neither worse nor better. Just different form of corruption. Term limits is not a good way to fight corruption. The Democrats held the House of Representatives for something like 40 years straight until 1994. You had famous scandals invo
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A term limited politician will want to secure their future and will go into the job with the knowledge that their time is limited no matter how well they do the job. They’ll seek compensation. The corruption will morph to adapt to the new
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My contention is that we have very corrupt politicians leading the country. That corruption will not go away with the imposition of term limits. It's a bad response to the problem of corruption. I don't know what would solve the
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by syki 5y ago
I believe otherwise. A term limited politician will look for ways to secure their future. I think with term limits we'd end up with even more legislation effectively written by lobbyists. Think Robert Rubin type corruption on an eve
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Yes, it might limit this type of trading but the corruption will just be another type.
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by syki 5y ago
What does one have to do with the other? Do you have valid reasons for thinking corruption of Senators or Representatives would be less with term limits? I think the level of corruption would not change with term limits and there are some
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by syki 5y ago
This definition of a partial means that not it may be the case that not every element of A gets mapped to an element of B. This is not related to being one-to-one or being onto. In math a function from A to B means each element of A gets
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by syki 5y ago
Yes. Also, people who know a lot in one area have a tendency to think their 5 minutes of thought on a study in a area they know virtually nothing about is on par with those performing said study. This is especially so on this site. So ma
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Read the actual study. The people who did the study are knowledgeable about the topic. If a non expert can think of a problem with the paper after a few moments of thinking about it then it is highly likely that person’s objections are no
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In times of ideologically driven divides common sense is one of the first casualties.
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People, cultures, ideas, and norms change over time. Entrenched business interests would be opposed to the dissolution of the union. But an opportunist with the right charisma and comes along and divides people sufficiently then those inte
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You might be able to move to another state but not everyone else can. Your view of how things should work is not feasible or tenable. It would lead to the dissolution of the union.
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by syki 5y ago
It’s not how the system has worked for the past 150 years or so. Rights recognized by the Supreme Court have been inviolable as far as I know. I can’t think of an instance in which the Supreme Court said you have the right to X while not
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There are federal systems where the federal government has lots of power and federal systems where the federal government has little power. There are unwritten rules and norms when it comes to governance and systems are only as strong as t
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If the Supreme Court lets the Texas law stand then I think inevitably the country will break apart. There’s a good chance of that happening regardless but allowing each state to effectively usurp what so far is considered a right negates th
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by syki 5y ago
I wrote: The idea in education is that everyone is intellectually equal. Therefore the racial achievement gap in mathematics is due to racism. The solution is to change things. This is a line of reasoning used by people to advocate for th
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by syki 5y ago
I think you should reread my comment. I made no claims, references, or insinuations about racial bias amongst police. That Daniel Shaver was not armed is precisely why he is not relevant to my point. His race does not matter since he was
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by syki 5y ago
In the face of anecdotal evidence to support an assertion you don’t believe what do you do? Do you provide evidence that the anecdotes are inconsequential? Do you do your own research and look up studies by criminologists and others? Or
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by syki 5y ago
You previously wrote: Are you asserting that domestic violence is "non judicial punishments" or that it's violating the general populations right to peaceable assembly? Now you write: You literally wrote "There is wid
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by syki 5y ago
I didn’t supply any examples. You have me confused with someone else. Daniel Shaver wasn’t armed and therefore is not an example of someone exercising their 2nd amendment right and being killed by police. You did not address the point ma
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by syki 5y ago
It has been provided numerous time. A simple web search will give you more links to studies. Do your own research. You’ve spent a lot time not reading the links provided and not doing your own research. Clearly then you have no real int
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I was ABD in math at a top 25 program when I went to a talk given by a graduate student from Berkeley. He was in my area and we had the same length of them spent on the subject. As close to equals in terms of experience and area of study
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Was it a real prosecution in the Philando Castile case? Did the prosecution and judge really give an unbiased effort? Consider this. Philando was legally exercising his right to carry a gun and informed the officer of this. He was then k
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Books often times contain useful information and can be used to present arguments and evidence from a wide variety of sources. I highly recommend the reading of books. I cited other sources. They are easy to find. You should have no trou
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by syki 5y ago
I made a series of assertions. One of them being that police rarely police themselves. I used the domestic violence problem amongst police forces as evidence of this. Nowhere did I state anything along the lines that this fact has anythi
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Thanks for the link and information. I don’t think my phrases are examples of this phenomenon.
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Therein is the main difference between Western European police and American police. Our police can kill for the most part without repercussions. Also our prison system is more barbaric. We don’t have universal healthcare so even the act
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by syki 5y ago
I’ve done so twice. Here’s a third one. I’m not your researcher and have no desire to do the work for you beyond what I’ve done so far. Everyone has a right to avoid uncomfortable truths. https://www.fatherly.com/love-mon
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by syki 5y ago
What is a “weasel” word? I suspect from the usage of that term that no amount of evidence I present will persuade you. Evidence of the problems I alluded too are easy to find. I get no income from the following link. https://w
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There is widespread use of non judicial punishments by police officers. Police regularly punch, kick, or otherwise cause pain on people with no repercussions or reporting. People engaged in constitutionally protected activities are often s

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