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Posted by RogerTheShrubber
Juneau, AK
Member since Jan 2009
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Posted on 10/17/17 at 10:58 am to
Start a thread based on issues
Posted by BigJim
Baton Rouge
Member since Jan 2010
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Posted on 10/17/17 at 11:01 am to
I tend to follow La politics more closely (and Baton Rouge too, since I live here).

If there is an active federal legislative push, I love diving into that too, but I don't see any right now. There are some detailed tax reform, proposal but no actual bills.



Posted by CptBengal
BR Baby
Member since Dec 2007
71661 posts
Posted on 10/17/17 at 11:07 am to
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I beat ya to it.



so many of them are such poor caricatures. they arent even entertaining.
Posted by KiwiHead
Auckland, NZ
Member since Jul 2014
36518 posts
Posted on 10/17/17 at 11:10 am to
Why would anyone want to do this when you can talk about football players taking a knee during the national anthem, or the latest on Hillary and her balance issues. You don't think that the "issues" surrounding Cosmic Pizza are important?
Posted by bobby_3_sticks
Member since Oct 2017
245 posts
Posted on 10/17/17 at 11:18 am to
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There are some detailed tax reform, proposal but no actual bills.


there really isn't much detail here. There is more than the outline, but it isn't particularly detailed. Its 9 pages of what taxes will be eliminated, or curtailed but not really how it is going to be paid for.

LINK

There is a big budget vote this week, which there are no threads on.

Posted by buckeye_vol
Member since Jul 2014
35378 posts
Posted on 10/17/17 at 11:24 am to
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You don't start threads because doing so wouldn't allow you to wait until you'd gauged the general response on the board so that you could take a contrarian position.
This is such a lazy, default insult. I got accused of being a contrarian for adding information in a thread about an infowars story this morning, that left out some recent news about the story.
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If you started a thread, you might accidentally start one that most of the board agreed with and ya can't have that.
Well according to my research, I have started 11 political topic threads (one from the close election board), with 152 upvotes and 51 downvotes.

Problem is that only like 2 of them made it past 2 pages, and the only one to make it past 3 pages had 8 upvotes to 27 downvotes. So 144 upvotes to 24 downvotes in the 10 threads, and like 90% don't make it to a third page and 60% don't even make it to a second page.

So clearly I don't start very good threads if I can't get any discussion.
Posted by BigJim
Baton Rouge
Member since Jan 2010
15012 posts
Posted on 10/17/17 at 11:30 am to
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there really isn't much detail here. There is more than the outline, but it isn't particularly detailed. Its 9 pages of what taxes will be eliminated, or curtailed but not really how it is going to be paid for.


Well, I guess it's relative. It's more detailed than "Everyone is going to have health insurance and it's gonna be great," but I take your meaning.

Posted by The Maj
Member since Sep 2016
30551 posts
Posted on 10/17/17 at 11:33 am to
So, start a topic... I am certain you will get plenty of the partisan back and forth, "smart" comments, etc but you might also get some discussion... You will just have to weed through it...
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