Personally, I think unfettered voting by people who don't even comprehend who or what they're voting for is worse than limiting franchise. Unpopular, but also true.
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Replying to @ItsRobbAllen
Fetishizing participatory democracy doesn't make it deliberative democracy.
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Replying to @BostonDelendEst
"REGISTER TO VOTE" - Bad. "PLEASE UNDERSTAND WHAT THE $#*&( YOU ARE VOTING ON" - Ok
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Replying to @ItsRobbAllen
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If only somebody wrote a thread on this...https://twitter.com/BostonDelendEst/status/947977899306516480 …
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Replying to @BostonDelendEst
I also think it doesn't work AT LARGE SCALES. Say... an entire country.
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Replying to @ItsRobbAllen
Depends on the size of the country, but I generally agree :)
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Replying to @BostonDelendEst
Half the states are too big IMHO. I think once you get past RI size, it's just too unwieldy
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Replying to @ItsRobbAllen @BostonDelendEst
population matters, not geographical size NJ needs to be split up, Wyoming doesn't
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Replying to @MorlockP @ItsRobbAllen
With modern technology, yes. Back before telegraph-level communications, I'd argue that physical size definitely mattered. (Cf. Battle of New Orleans occurring weeks after the peace treaty, due to informational propagation delay)
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concur; communication speed means that we could actually have decentralized states - Houston-and-NH-exclave, Austin-and-Boston, etc.
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Replying to @MorlockP @BostonDelendEst
Could you though? Seems like physical continuity is somewhat important, especially if being Awesomely Handsome like me is illegal but my drive to work takes me through an Atlanta-Miami corridor
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(illegal elsewhere, like in the Atlanta-Miami corridor I'd have to drive through to work. Man, that did NOT work in a tweet...)
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