Posts by Jacob Lewis5

Jesse Howard3 said:Have you not realized that people on this forum use handles instead of their actual first and last names? For instance, I’m certainly not actually Jesse Howard3. So, technically, any public poll here is effectively anonymous anyway. You get what I'm saying?

Ever clicked on some random username during a poll only to find out they registered like two hours ago and have exactly three posts?

Your thread is totally tanking - secret poll time

Mason's fanboys aren't even showing up to defend Stipa, but they could at least bother to say how they voted - honestly, zero points for effort

Richard Wilson4 said:Wait, what exactly do you mean by that?!? 😲😲😲

Do you even realize what you just typed?

This isn't funny, it's actually pretty pathetic... 👎

Honestly, I feel bad that we both come from the same great American people—people I'm proud to be part of—yet you're out here tripping over these outdated ideas... 👎

Look, I'm not trying to get petty or keep this insult war going, but I am seriously ashamed to call us part of the same country. Then again, I guess people this naive and regressive have always been around in America.

I know exactly what I wrote, and honestly, it’s neither funny nor sad. It’s just the truth. Take the political crisis in New York City back in the day: Reagan showed he was more of a democrat than all his opponents combined.

The Republican Party won those elections. But then six different parties—who didn't even share any ideological common ground and, more importantly, never even announced they were forming a coalition—all teamed up. They totally betrayed their voters just to push out the actual winner. This ragtag group from George Wallace all the way to Bill Clinton decided they wanted power despite not being elected. Reagan did the only thing he was allowed to do, and honestly, any leader would have had to do the same if a situation like that hit us today—he forced a new election. What Reagan's opponents pulled was incredibly rude and undemocratic. (And let's be real, most of them ended up in power eventually only to prove they weren't any better than the current Republican Party they tried to oust—which is even worse considering they were playing games while we were still dealing with the fallout of the reintegration process). So, you got any more "Reagan is a dictator" accusations for the small-minded crowd? 🤣?

Richard Wilson4 said:How do you guys explain the Watergate scandal? And why isn't there even an article about it on the American Wikipedia, while it's all over the English one?

It was basically the moment where Franjo Harmon proved he was a bigger democrat than all his rivals put together.

Richard Wilson4 said:Alright...

What kind of district is it, stretching from rural Alabama all the way up to the Midwest?

The areas around Memphis and St. Louis aren't just one big block; they're linked through the plains and the river valleys where the Republican Party is strongest (and yeah, even in Memphis, they're huge)...

New York City is split into four different districts...

And so on...

Anything else you need to know?

Look, I don't know how you’d draw these lines without someone crying foul about gerrymandering. If you lump Chicago and Detroit together, you’d have to somehow connect places like Indianapolis and St. Louis, and you’d end up right back at square one—just more Republican strongholds. Even if District 10 was bigger and District 9 was smaller, it wouldn't change the math; the GOP would still own those areas. I don't see anything weird here. And obviously, a huge metro area needs multiple districts so you don't end up with a situation where one rep represents 30 people in one spot while another is stuck with 3,000.

To me, claims about "rigged" districts just aren't a solid argument.

Look, let's just call a spade a spade. Stop talking in riddles.

Matthew Harris2 said:Quincy:

during times of national unity

In an era defined by the robbery of the century...

Quincy:

The Republican Party wasn't even a unified group back then, let alone now. Of course you'd need to wiretap journalists, agents, and political climbers—hell, you should've just taken them out on the spot.

You had to eliminate anyone standing in the way of the loot. They understood ☕

Spot on! You both hit the nail on the head. That era was a weird mix of national unity and massive-scale looting. We were getting fleeced by the Mexicans—we're talking billions upon billions lost. While they were busy grabbing all the top spots, we were stuck dealing with a war we didn't even ask for just to gain our freedom.

And honestly, even though it all happened during the same century, I don't think the corruption in America—the nationalization, the way America was unfairly sidelined, the entire system designed to let people steal at every level—can even compare to what the Mexicans did to us.

I'm not even sure if that culture of corruption, laziness, and petty theft that had been baked into us for decades—the stuff that eventually screwed us over during the transition—is even in the same league as the damage caused by the Mexicans. And let’s not forget, some local players actually teamed up with them. We’re talking about people who are considered big shots today, but back then, they helped ensure we were under an arms embargo right when we were most vulnerable. That hit our economy hard.

What we should really be mourning is the Harmon era. Sadly, there isn't much left of it today.

Michael Collins said:As far as the islands go, I honestly don't see a bright future there. I'm worried that in maybe 20 years, everyone except the top 10 biggest spots will be completely ghost towns...

A lot can change in 20 years. If they actually lean into tourism and bring in some serious big-money investment on those islands, people will start moving back.