At least they used the correct definition of troll and not the often used "You don't agree with me, therefore you are a troll"

electoral college is fine. It's gerrymandering and "winner take all" that fuck it up. The founders are right about direct democracy not being good in situations like this.

Eliminate those two things and the electoral college is fine and it would eliminate swing states as well.

Popular vote would totally fuck over any area that doesn't have a high population density. I'd be fine with tweaking the voter-to-electoral vote proportions though and get rid of the "electors" That would be reasonable.

It may need tweaks and refinements, but the overall concept is still valid.

appears to be a spammer shows up on sift talk, posts links to youtube and leaves

your position is quite immovable....so that doesn't say much about you either.

you don't have to change your mind...but we do? that's rather selfish.

you conflate any criticism of any cop with judging all cops, which is a bullshit argument. There are lots of videos here that demonstrate good, professional cops.

Not only that but every single criticism of a cop on this sift is backed up with a video demonstrating first hand evidence of a cop behaving badly. Where's your evidence to refute it? "just trust me?" Yeah, that doesn't cut it along with your admission that its ok for a cop to lie.

You dance back and forth from being an internet tough guy to pretending that you're so victimized by the people on this site that you voluntarily visit and comment on. You're giving us all whiplash.

"A lot of what I write is intended for those who just read but don't comment"

Then you've come to the wrong site sonny. Once again, you've made a very dumb mistake.

you're ONE cop out of hundreds of thousands.

you honestly think you CAN "represent" cops here? You think you SHOULD?

Who elected/appointed you? Why should we consider you credible in any way? Even if I had zero prior contact with you and my opinion of you was neutral or even the slightest bit positive, you're committing an appeal to authority fallacy. You just defended the notion that a cop can/should lie.

Once again, you have this problem with anecdotal evidence. You are ONE datapoint out of hundreds of thousands. You don't have this magic insight you claim to have. you...can only speak for...yourself. The cop in this video has already spoken for himself.

you have NO authority here. You're just like shinyblurry mindlessly quoting the bible as if it should mean something.

You're impotent

"i know you like to poke the hornets nest from time to time and it gives you the giggles.
ok..thats fair enough...
but stop defending the indefensible."

Isn't that the definition of trolling?

..didn't see the cavitation bubble

still even if it took 20 years to regrow a limb, that would be huge.

In the political/economic climate the US is in right now, do you think it's impossible for internet access to become a public utility?

what would it take?

I only got about a 1/3 of the way through it before it went over my head. Still too much jargon that I didn't understand.

I need the 101 class

While on one hand, I've always known that foreign aid is barely a drop in the bucket of our budget, but on the other, I'd still be hesitant to increase foreign aid to be completely honest.

so much shit that needs fixing and investment here domestically.

If we really could make a decent dent in military spending...then I'd be more comfortable with more foreign aid.

hate to say it but don't these people need to overthrow their own dictators and overlords? I'm ok with giving them some aid and giving them intel and other kinds of non-hardware military support. but they do need to fight their own damned battles.

I've been shown the equal lengths "trick" at 3:34 so many times growing up that I think I've trained my brain that I know right away that they are in fact equal length so the lower ones don't even appear to be longer anymore.

and no, contrary to popular belief, I'm not a bushman

whoever started the whole hard g soft g controversy is a troll.