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Will MAGA condemn Texan gerrymandering and sign a petition for all States and Feds to have independent Commissions handling redistributions?

I don't know why we should consider Australia to be a good example for anything let alone this.
I'll tell you why, with evidence, and I would be very interested if you can argue against this position based on actual evidence (not just your opinion or gut feels or whatever!)

Many independent democracy-watch agencies rate Australia a FULL democracy - and America a FLAWED democracy.
That means America has significant 'democratic decline' - as measured some of these characteristics:

So who has rated American poorly? The Economist Democracy Index. There are 4 grades from FULL to AUTOCRACY - so congratulations - America has taken their first step in that direction!

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The global and largest database of democratic performance, the V-Dem Institute, calls their report "Democracy Trumped" and opens with this paragraph:

A Word from the Authors WE ARE PLEASED TO PRESENT the 9th annual Democracy Report 2025: 25 Years of Autocratization – Democracy Trumped? When we were finishing up the last touches on the Democracy Report three years ago, Russia launched its full-scale, illegal invasion of Ukraine. The war is still going on. But back then, the alliance backing this young, aspiring democracy was solid and included the United States of America.​
AS WE ARE finishing up this year’s Democracy Report, recently inaugurated President Trump is voting against NATO allies in the UN joining with autocracies like North Korea, Russia, and Sudan. Military support to Ukraine was just cut off, and the words coming out of the Trump administration echo Kremlin rhetoric. European leaders are scrambling to mount a sufficient response. The world is going through another convulsion.​

Have European thought-leaders ever reported on an American administration like this?

On page 9 they give the USA 0.7-0.8 compared to Australia's 0.9-1.0.
You have democratic decline.

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There are others - but this will do for now.
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Read something negative about curses and am discouraged

The bible says, be alert and sober the devil is like a roaring lion looking who to devour, which resist firmly in the faith.
Yes bad people can put curses on others, it actually happened to me, that is why 'spiritual warfare' exists,
to resist and be free of works of the enemy.
Watch Derek Prince if you would wish, i think he was a good deliverance minister.
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Trump Orders Flags to Half-Staff for Charlie Kirk

So what I’m hearing is it’s no biggie to kill elected officials as long they aren’t one of the big ones.

Interesting.
You need to clean out your ears then, bexauae he said nothing if the sort.
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Trump dispenses with trials, orders military strike on alleged Venezuelan drug-trafficking boat (Now up to 2, 3, 4...)

This kind of operation is best done covertly. Like, with a Mission Impossible style team or something. Maybe subs and attack dolphins.

I realize that the Trump administration wants to be showy and make a statement, but it amounts to assassination, which will encourage other countries to do the same. I suppose that (making it look like we're) taking the high ground is impossible for the Trump administration.
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Trump Orders Flags to Half-Staff for Charlie Kirk

Not good enough hey? Sorry.
No, because it's one of those qualifying statements that indicate the heart of the poster.
"any perceived injustice".
Yes. I WOULD say that's a reasonable characterization of what another person said
Its what you said.
Yes. I certainly am terrible hey?
The philosophy is terrible.
Sorry?? The LEFT did? Like when the left thought he was from Kenya?
The lack of self awareness of this political wing is shocking and I have a feeling they would say the same thing about the left.
Yes the left did. Every single one of those things I have mentioned has been part and parcel of the left, especially since Obama. The whole Kenya thing was rather stupid, but certainly did not lead to the division that the left and Democrats have gone to. And now they have gone even further into the abyss.
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Trump Orders Flags to Half-Staff for Charlie Kirk

You have yet to demonstrate how this scenario is at all comparable to me and what I have said.

It's just ad hominem.
Thats not what an ad hominem is, but ok.
Yelling at a mailbox is something an insane person would do.
You can't backtrack.
I’m not. I didn’t say you were insane. I said I won’t argue with a person yelling at a mailbox for the same reason I won’t argue with you… It’s pointless because you’re saying such bonkers things, it’s not worth arguing with.

If it walks like a duck....
Youa re delusional because you believe that an ad hominem is an argument.
Again, it’s not an ad hominem. Nor is that why you said I was delusional. I don’t care, but it does illustrate again why you’re not worth arguing with… You don’t even remember what you said. You’re just yelling things to yell them.

You have absolutely no basis to claim that what I said was "nonsense".
Saying Jan 6th was disproven and all the damage was by federal officers is complete and total nonsense. That isn’t even the mainline nonsense people use when justifying Jan 6th. It’s next tier down conspiracy theory nonsense. It’s one very small step up from saying Godzilla was to blame for the damage, something else I won’t argue against because it is so clearly a complete and total chunk of baloney that it’s a waste of my valuable time to even consider replying to it.

You are only burning down the strawman you have erected. Completely delusional.
Oh, so it’s a strawman now? Because a minute ago, it was an ad hominem. Or was it that I was delusional…?

I tell you what, you sit down, you chart out what you’re upset about with me. When you have come with an agreement with yourself about what and who I am and if I’m building strawman, lying, stating an ad hominem, or am delusional, you just let me know. We can try again.

In the meantime, I’ll go back to my show and postcards and tarot deck. My movie finished and now I’m watching Anthony Bourdain in Thailand, which is far more interesting than whatever it is you’re going on about.
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