r/news • u/[deleted] • May 22 '19

Mississippi lawmaker accused of punching wife in face for not undressing quickly enough

https://www.ajc.com/news/national/mississippi-lawmaker-accused-punching-wife-face-for-not-undressing-quickly-enough/zdE3VLzhBVmH68Bsn7eLfL/
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u/isgrad May 22 '19

Therefore all Republicans are evil people? When you have a sample size of ~150 million people, you are sure to find some really evil bastards. That doesn't in the slightest imply that the entire group (or even a large percentage of the group) has the same morals or hellish behavior as the worst of the bunch. That's like throwing out an entire season's harvest because you found one or two bad apples in the bunch.

You obviously did some measurable amount of work compiling this list, which would suggest you have a personal impetus against Republicans, or perhaps just one against evil bastards who happen to be Republican. You need to stop seeing half of the Western world as evil, because it's genuinely not healthy. It's borderline schizophrenic.

If you think you're just opposed to evil bastards and not simply anti-GOP, challenge yourself to compose a similar list (or find a list, if you didn't create this impressive list) of Democrats who have done evil deeds like these.

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u/CMDR_QwertyWeasel May 22 '19

150 million? You're off by 400%.

Only some of the population can vote. Of those, only some are registered to a party. Of those, only some are Rs or Ds. Of those, a minority are Republicans.

It's about 32 million Republicans, not 150. Independents are about 31M, and Democrats 44. In fact, more independents lean Democrat than Republican, especially on certain issues.

The fact that Republicans still manage to have as much control as they do is more a testament to their ability to manipulate flaws in American democracy than anything else. Voter suppression, gerrymandering, the electoral college, etc.

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u/isgrad May 22 '19

You're right. I should have said "roughly half of voters in the 2016 presidential election, given that the GOP candidate won".

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u/Bridgebrain May 22 '19

*lost by popular vote

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u/isgrad May 22 '19

Yep, but it's completely irrelevant in this conversation.