A gun rights group in North Carolina is raffling off an AR-15 rifle that comes with a photograph of Hillary Clinton that is “very popular at the range,” calling the raffle the “Hillary Clinton Special.” The raffle winner will receive the AR-15, 1,000 rounds of ammunition and the portrait of Clinton. All of the proceeds from the raffle will be put to unsettling use.
How is this not an endorsement of violence on their part?
Lately I’ve noticed people taking the quiz from iSideWith to give them an idea of who they should vote for. Having taken the quiz myself, I found that I align more with Jill Stein than with Hillary Clinton, who I will be voting for in November.
While it is absolutely necessary that voters make informed decisions, I believe sites like iSideWith are doing more harm to the voter base by including third-party candidates, especially in this election cycle. In 2012, the site featured five third-party candidates for users to “side with”. This year, there are two: Jill Stein and Gary Johnson.
Featuring these two candidates, when they will not achieve the necessary poll numbers to reach the CPD’s debate stage, and when they have no mathematical chance of winning the presidency, endangers this election, and encourages people to “vote their conscience”.
Lots of disgruntled voters have talked about this idea. Bernie-or-Busters, frustrated independents, even Ted Cruz told the RNC to vote their conscience, before throwing his support behind Donald Trump. It’s a way to protest the two-party system, they claim, the candidates both pose a threat to the nation’s future.
Consider the following scenario:
Neither Clinton nor Trump can capture 270 electoral votes. New Mexico, by a miracle, goes to Gary Johnson. What happens now?
In this event, the House of Representatives would immediately elect the next President, with each state delegation receiving one vote. 33 states currently have a majority of Republican representatives to Democratic representatives, therefore, it is reasonable to assume that those 33 states will vote for, and elect, Donald Trump as the 45th President of the United States.
And this is why “voting your conscience” is destructive and dangerous. It’s willingly giving your vote to a failed Congress that has had the lowest approval ratings in history. It’s risking the next four years of the country so you can feel pride that you “protested the system.” It’s essentially saying that you do not care who is elected president, and you don’t give a damn about the people whose livelihoods could be jeopardized as a result.
Voting your conscience is saying that your sense of satisfaction matter more than the future of the United States.
Make the right decision, and ensure that Donald Trump stays out of the White House.
Let me clarify something, because it seems that people either refuse to read my initial essay about free speech, or they are choosing to remain ignorant.
“Free speech” is nothing but a shield used to protect ideas that actively harm the oppressed.
This is in reference to people calling themselves “champions” of free speech. The sorts of people like those in the alt-right, who actively and intentionally use “free speech” as an excuse to defend their harassment and violent rhetoric.
Now read it once again, thinking of these people. Why are they so adamant about defending “free speech”? Because if people finally stand up and say that speech deserves restrictions for the protection of social progress, the are no longer able to defend the open exhibition their bigoted, harmful ideas.
To make it absolutely clear: I am not against free speech. I am against the concept of the marketplace of ideas, as well as an absolutist approach to free speech. I believe that certain forms of speech should be restricted and/or censored for the general welfare of society. That’s what my essay was all about, the necessity of placing certain limits on free speech, and not holding it as a gold standard of civilization that should never be questioned.
You don’t end hate speech with more speech. The Internet has made the marketplace of ideas irrelevant, and “bad ideas” are no longer being pushed out, they’re just moving into certain corners of society, where they are allowed to fester, and as long as they exist, we cannot progress.
I was scrolling and expected the names to stop….but they just kept going…and going…
When this is a list of men, I usually recognize more than half. This list, I’m ashamed to say, is mostly unfamiliar to me. That needs to change.
Stop the misconception that Black Men are the only ones killed. Saying protect our Sons leaves our Daughter vulnerable because their is no one to protect them. These deaths are barely mentioned. And most people can’t name at least five of these names.
My stomach just kept getting tighter and tighter the more I had to scroll, with most names unrecognizable, this has to end.
Anonymous asked: You are literally the stupidest person on this site. You are boot licking state loving Jack ass. You say a bunch of shit that is supposed to sound smart but makes you look a Clinton cock sucker. Fuck Hillary Clinton, Fuck Donald Trump. Also your free speech comment. Fuck you, you entitled piece of shit. Oppressed. You are telling people to vote Democrat.
Anonymous asked: You literally raped her how can you sleep at night? I won't say her name for her own privacy but you know who I'm talking about you sick fuck. Please kill yourself. It would honestly make the world alot safer you disgusting excuse for a human being
