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Ted Cruz

7 (6.5%)

Rick Santorum

16 (14.8%)

Michelle Bachmann

13 (12%)

Chris Christie

23 (21.3%)

Rand Paul

49 (45.4%)

Total Members Voted: 107

[GreatJustice]

But we aren't dealing with "A" and "A's opposite, B", we're dealing with "A" "B" C" "D"...

Good thing the word "majority" has nothing to do with that at all.  I don't even get how you can have a "plurality" of murders when it's not like there are political factions spanning different categories of crime.

Well there's a pretty clear difference between "crimes caused by stabbing" and "crimes caused by poverty/the drug war/etc" so far as statistics go. Do you count indirect crimes, like robbing a store for drug money? You almost certainly don't count indirect crime, like when someone's family is wrecked by an arrest/drug war related killing and it leads them down a road that results in murder. It really isn't as simple as "drug war crime" and "non drug war crime"

[Leafsnail]

You're saying there aren't stabbings caused by the drug war?

[werty892]

You're saying there aren't stabbings caused by the drug war?

And what about the people stabbed by drugs?

[Frumple]

And what about the people stabbed by drugs?

Does the methamphetamine sword go snicker snack?

[Bauglir]

We are sure getting silly in here. Quick, define agnosticism [/not bitter at all]

[Descan]

Posting to wat-... Huh. Maybe I shouldn't, you all are silly folk.

[GreatJustice]

We are sure getting silly in here. Quick, define agnosticism [/not bitter at all]

Not caring.

Hey, silly beats hateful and angry, right?

[Scoops Novel]

If i might ask, I've been wondering for a while what exactly happened to the activism of the 60's and 70's. There was clearly so much left to be done, but it just seems to have died off to be fondly remembered now.

[GlyphGryph]

It triggered a major backlash and the rise of fundamentalism in politics. Without the focus of the Vietnam war, and with many of the symbols of the movement made outright illegal, it lost it's focus and unity and broke apart into factions that no longer had the strength to resist the counter-push.

[Owlbread]

Sometimes when I watch documentaries or look at photos of a ghetto in Detroit or L.A. I always think that if people had lived in such conditions with the rights that they have now back in the 1930s, they'd have a much higher chance of becoming politicised and making a difference rather than just wasting away and decaying into gang violence and drug dealing. God damn crack.

[Nadaka]

can we stop argueing the definition of majority. it is clear that my use of the term majority was not accurate,

[Sirus]

It triggered a major backlash and the rise of fundamentalism in politics. Without the focus of the Vietnam war, and with many of the symbols of the movement made outright illegal, it lost it's focus and unity and broke apart into factions that no longer had the strength to resist the counter-push.

Hold up for a second, what symbols have been made illegal here exactly?

[MonkeyHead]

The open use of drugs?

[Reelya]

Panther slogans and iconography spread. At the 1968 Summer Olympics, Tommie Smith and John Carlos, two American medalists, gave the black power salute during the playing of the American national anthem. The International Olympic Committee banned them from the Olympic Games for life.

Black Power Salute get's you blacklisted for life. I'd call that a pretty clear case of a symbol from the 60's / 70's activist movement being more or less illegal. Mind you this is just the first thing i googled, so there well may be more stuff.

[Loud Whispers]

You lot better make this woman your president.