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[OFF TOPIC] Politics Thread


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3 minutes ago, Olympian1010 said:

No, definitely because the federal government is failing. California has issues, but taxes isn’t one of them.

 

This is one-tunnel vision. Unless you wanna tell me there were no homeless people on LA streets when Obama was in charge of the federal government? :roflmao:

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9 minutes ago, Monzanator said:

 

This is one-tunnel vision. Unless you wanna tell me there were no homeless people on LA streets when Obama was in charge of the federal government? :roflmao:

There were less.

“Sport has the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire. Sport can create hope where once there was only despair” - Nelson Mandela

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Taxes are the most effective form of population control :p

There’s actually a lot of serious issues that lead to this. I love to praise California, and I believe it is absolutely a land of opportunity. It is insanely expensive to live in the majority of the state however. I do hope we figure out how to solve the homeless crisis, and I hope the state government aims for policies the create the conditions necessary for affordable housing. 

“Sport has the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire. Sport can create hope where once there was only despair” - Nelson Mandela

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12 hours ago, Olympian1010 said:

Interesting proposal @Maxim Fastovsky:

 

 

I knew the eventual solution will always be moving them to the desert, i was always in favor of something of sorts, not throwing them in a tent in the middle of mojave desert, but something more organized like this, but i doubt any of the politicians will agree (but i believe i heard that trump was looking into buying old hangar's to house homeless) There are always creating ideas that are going nowhere

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Apparently North Korea will be giving the US a “gift” today. Everyone on Twitter is convinced they’re nuking California, so...

My Christmas has been great so far, how has y’alls been? :p

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5 hours ago, Olympian1010 said:

Apparently North Korea will be giving the US a “gift” today. Everyone on Twitter is convinced they’re nuking California, so...

My Christmas has been great so far, how has y’alls been? :p

There's not one day in the year with less sports going on....meaning I've got time to catch up on sports of the past few days :d So, great.

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9 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

There's not one day in the year with less sports going on....meaning I've got time to catch up on sports of the past few days :d So, great.

 

The few days where sports is very secondary for me! :p

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