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18 Jul 2011, 10:41 am

Somalia's main industries are livestock, money transfer companies, and telecommunications. It's not a prosperous country by any measure but their economy is stronger than many other neighboring African countries and that's with a civil war going on for the last 20 years. It's actually a pretty interesting country.



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18 Jul 2011, 1:32 pm

Tim_Tex wrote:
This is mainly directed toward those in the U.S., but could apply to anybody.

What are your thoughts on direct democracy? Should Congress and the electoral college be dissolved, and all issues decided directly by the people themselves, rather than going through Congress/Parliament/(insert name of legislature here).

The electoral college is made up BS that should die.

Regarding congress, how exactly do you plan for the issues to be decided by people? A vote? You do know that democracy is not the same thing as doing what the majority says...


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18 Jul 2011, 1:43 pm

Vexcalibur wrote:
Tim_Tex wrote:
This is mainly directed toward those in the U.S., but could apply to anybody.

What are your thoughts on direct democracy? Should Congress and the electoral college be dissolved, and all issues decided directly by the people themselves, rather than going through Congress/Parliament/(insert name of legislature here).

The electoral college is made up BS that should die.

Regarding congress, how exactly do you plan for the issues to be decided by people? A vote? You do know that democracy is not the same thing as doing what the majority says...


Do you want the presidency decide by the ten most populous States?

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18 Jul 2011, 1:51 pm

You mean the states that have more people on them?

Sure, that's much better than the electoral college.

Actually, what's up with the belief that states and not people are the ones going to vote? That sounds like a terrible side effect of the electoral college. Your vote should count, not the state in which you are standing. The electoral college is non-sense in that if you live in a small state your vote has more weight than if you lived in a large state...


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18 Jul 2011, 1:58 pm

hard to imagine the country could stay together if you could just build up your popularity in one geographical location. Maybe that wouldn't be such a bad thing, this country is too big anyways. Chicago, LA, New York all could be their own countries.



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18 Jul 2011, 2:18 pm

Yeah that whole centralization deal is probably not optimal, unless you want to act in block to enter a war. But the NATO has shown that it is possible without being only a single country.


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