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mmirate t1_ivvgus3 wrote
Reply to comment by Ctrl_Alt_Abstergo in Free Staters might actually have *more* legislative control now in the state House thanks to the even split? -- Brown said. “So the narrow margin had the effect of actually creating a budget that was farther to the right.” Could get interesting. by AMC4x4
Now you understand why I think the name of "Antifa" is 100% ironic.
mmirate t1_ivi3q6j wrote
Reply to comment by dangerzonebjj in Question 2 - "Shall there be a convention to amend or revise the constitution?" by DietCokeMachine
The Constitution was a Federalist coup.
mmirate t1_iujj2o5 wrote
Reply to comment by sonarblips in What are the arguments for and against the two “ 2022 CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT QUESTIONS?” Bonus: link to your ward’s sample ballot. by pondgrass
Q1 is just removing all references in those two sections about a county office that has had all of its duties legislatively removed to other places, so that the office may be dissolved. It looks confusing because the ballot doesn't include the removed parts in stricken-through type.
Whatever happens as a result of Q2 passing, has to be approved by 60% of the voters at the next statewide ballot.
mmirate t1_iuinmoc wrote
Reply to comment by warren_stupidity in What are the arguments for and against the two “ 2022 CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT QUESTIONS?” Bonus: link to your ward’s sample ballot. by pondgrass
Q1 is just removing all references in those two sections about a county office that has had all of its duties legislatively removed to other places, so that the office may be dissolved. It looks confusing because the ballot doesn't include the removed parts in stricken-through type.
Whatever happens as a result of Q2 passing, has to be approved by 60% of the voters at the next statewide ballot.
mmirate t1_iudphtp wrote
Reply to comment by pleasedonthitmymazda in Surrounded by non gun-friendly states by yawathrow77
If in NH the heat goes out, or god forbid you have to walk outside, just put on more clothes or exert yourself a bit more. In the Southeast, if the A/C goes out, or god forbid you have to walk outside ... there's only so many clothes you can take off.
mmirate t1_itthtki wrote
Reply to comment by WhoWhatWhereWhenHowY in New York and New England start RATIONING heating oil before winter as stockpiles slump by 70% and fears rise that families will be left in the cold by yo_mama_5000
There is no other possible motivation for them to ration instead of increasing their prices.
mmirate t1_itst5g4 wrote
Reply to comment by WhoWhatWhereWhenHowY in New York and New England start RATIONING heating oil before winter as stockpiles slump by 70% and fears rise that families will be left in the cold by yo_mama_5000
If the wholesalers weren't bound by certain government regulations, there would be price increases instead of rationing, that way demand would decrease, equilibrium would be attained, etc etc.
mmirate t1_itss2qr wrote
Reply to comment by enz0matic in Constitutional Convention ballot question by niateratez
When you vote, you are exercising ultimate political authority, even if only a tiny fraction of it and even if limited by who is on the ballot (officials) and who isn't ("civil servants", gee thanks, Pendleton Act). With that authority, like all authority, comes the responsibility to use it wisely. Authority and responsibility are converses of one another, and are as inextricable as the positive and negative potentials in an electrical circuit. As dangerous as it is to wield authority without being responsible for the consequences of the orders you give, in equal measure it is absurd to be held responsible for something over which you have no authority to control.
When you slough off the responsibility to use authority wisely ("what if voters are mislead?"), whomever that responsibility defaults-to, takes authority over you ("because the voters could be mislead, we shouldn't let the vote happen!").
When you think about how dumb voters can be, you have a choice how to react. Maybe we should separate into smaller polities so that whoever is dumb will vote dumb things for themselves without affecting the not-so-dumb polity. Maybe we should have been more careful about only letting people vote if they actually have a stake in the system - after all, voting was not a right explicitly granted to anyone in particular, let alone "every citizen", until the 17th Amendment. Or maybe we should just let ourselves be ruled by whomever can best control the popular epistemology in their favor, and hope that their interests are aligned with ours - what could possibly go wrong?
mmirate t1_itqp7oa wrote
Reply to comment by enz0matic in Constitutional Convention ballot question by niateratez
Incorrect. Even if this ballot question passed, any proposed constitutional amendments would then be put on the next statewide ballot, and would not take effect except with 60% of that vote.
mmirate t1_itoo7ij wrote
Reply to comment by buckao in State Rep Kat McGhee is accused of using $150,000 in government funds to close down a public beach at Rocky Pond in Hollis (now accessible to just her and a few other families) by kauffj
Gee, it's almost like the author did his own homework and raked up some muck, instead of just copypasting whatever official narrative floats to the top of his Twitter feed?
mmirate t1_itacfes wrote
Reply to ELI5 - NH Ballot Questions by Bianrox
If you have the mental capacity of a 5-year-old, then why do you think you have the responsibility required to exercise the political authority inherent in voting?
mmirate t1_it77kem wrote
Reply to comment by Rolling_Beardo in Dr. Tom Sherman vows to legalize weed by Final_Act6703
Same party.
mmirate t1_it5xfl7 wrote
Reply to comment by SakuOtaku in Dr. Tom Sherman vows to legalize weed by Final_Act6703
California has shown us quite well that allowing only a very crippled white market, such that white-market goods are likely to be even more expensive than current black-market prices, is a perfect recipe to fail to eliminate the black market, its many ills and the many ills of any police efforts to stop the black market despite the 4th Amendment.
The state-run liquor stores are theoretically a horrible practice and we should cut all of the state spending that necessitates them, but practically they operate well enough that even our neighbors flock to them.
mmirate t1_it5ja2h wrote
Reply to Dr. Tom Sherman vows to legalize weed by Final_Act6703
Remember when Maggie Hassan vetoed legalization? Why should we believe Sherman will act differently?
mmirate t1_isp4tps wrote
Reply to comment by futureygoodness in How do you Granite Staters feel about having the first primary in the nation in your state every 4 years? by BoringAccountName78
The problem with a primary election in the first place is that it is entirely a matter of picking which candidate you think can motivate more of your base to go to the polls to vote for them, meaning it is literally a contest of who can build the biggest bandwagon, and there is no better way to measure that than to let the candidates all attempt to build bandwagons.
Approval voting would solve the problem; and it would also threaten the party duopoly, so it will never be allowed to happen on any nontrivial scale even though it is trivial to implement.
mmirate t1_irwj5rs wrote
Reply to comment by wakko666 in Bomb threats, credit card fraud: state rep Stacie-Marie Laughton of Nashua by Final_Act6703
Credible sources said you couldn't get covid at all, let alone pass it on, if you got the vaccine. Credible sources said that Hunter Biden's laptop was inauthentic. Credible sources said the vaccine was "safe" which I took to mean that the risks of myocarditis, miscarriages, and other life-threatening side-effects were less than the conveyed reduction in risk of life-threatening effects from covid. Credible sources said that covid positively had to have been of natural origin and that any sort of "lab leak" was beyond the pale of possibility. Credible sources said that there would not be any inflation as a result of Trump's idiotic March-2020 moneyprinting. Credible sources said that lockdowns would be ended in two weeks and that more hospital capacity would be built up during that time. Credible sources said that there were WMDs in Iraq. Credible sources said that Spain sank the U.S.S. Maine.
They lie on a regular basis because it's their job. Occasionally the truth emerges some months or years later.
mmirate t1_irwc1vg wrote
Reply to comment by wakko666 in Bomb threats, credit card fraud: state rep Stacie-Marie Laughton of Nashua by Final_Act6703
You're the one who swaps between lying and making baseless accusations thereof.
mmirate t1_irwaqgz wrote
Reply to comment by wakko666 in Bomb threats, credit card fraud: state rep Stacie-Marie Laughton of Nashua by Final_Act6703
And you're totally not a Los Angeles bot.
mmirate t1_iru6z0c wrote
mmirate t1_irszn7i wrote
Reply to comment by MoeBlacksBack in New Hampshire GOP Senate nominee Don Bolduc by MoeBlacksBack
You. You didn't post it until after I said "[citation needed]". Prior to me making that comment, your post contained only the text, no URL nor any other way of testing the null hypothesis that you wrote the text and put the candidate's name on it. (As is, for reasons explained by the person to whom you replied, we still fail to reject the null hypothesis that the unquoted words you wrote, fail to accurately summarize the meaning of what the candidate said.)
mmirate t1_irsaz8r wrote
mmirate t1_irp3rz2 wrote
The only tragedy here is the wallet of whoever owns the vehicle that hit it.
mmirate t1_irj0znq wrote
[citation needed]
^(especially for this being your first post in any NH-related subreddit and the rest of your profile indicating you are a Masshole)
mmirate t1_ivwv5gh wrote
Reply to comment by HPenguinB in Free Staters might actually have *more* legislative control now in the state House thanks to the even split? -- Brown said. “So the narrow margin had the effect of actually creating a budget that was farther to the right.” Could get interesting. by AMC4x4
No, because you don't. Fascism is government supremacy and direction of the nominally-privately-owned means of production. Energizing the populace via hatred of an ethnic minority was Hitler's unique twist on it - contrast Mussolini and Franco.
China is practically fascist today, and has been transitioning in that direction ever since Mao's democidal failures taught them the same lesson that Hitler learned by reading the news from Lenin's Russia - communism is mortally inefficient because it centralizes not just the big goals like a dictator wants to, but also all of the tiny little decisions that are easily made on-the-ground in a decentralized capitalistic manner. The United States, meanwhile, has been fascist ever since the New Deal - we became the monster we sought to destroy.
As for more recent history ... ever since the end of the Occupy movement, the biggest and most-governmentally-controlled corporations, i.e. the fascist machine, have pushed the message of woke-ism, and that is the very same message Antifa shouted as they looted minority-owned small businesses back in 2020.