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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Replying to @BostonDelendEst @ItsRobbAllen
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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sure, there are tricky aspects, but it's certainly plausible
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Replying to @MorlockP @ItsRobbAllen
One could argue that the "Dormant Commerce Clause," (i.e., the preemptive effect of the Commerce Clause, coupled with the Supremacy Clause) properly interpreted and enforced, would make the barriers to non-contiguity even lower.
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Let's just consider any two territories connected by a minimum of one Boring Tunnel™ to be contiguous.
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