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I would say yes for the following reasons:

1: It reduces the amount of military spending the US has to do to South Korea because North Korea and China would be too scared to fight against a US territory.  The US already spends a lot on South Korea.  If South Korea were made part of the US, it would scare North Korea to not attack South Korea.

2: It increases the US GDP, which would be helpful in staying ahead of China.

3: South Korea would probably vote GOP due to their bad experiences with communism.  To make it fair to the democrats, every US territory would become a state along with part of South Korea.

4: It doesn't have to be militarily obtained.  The US can simply tell South Korea to join the US or the US would cease all military funding to the place.  South Korea then would join the US in order to keep their military funding.  The US should stop giving foreign aid to places where we get nothing in return.

Thoughts?

There are 7.5 billion humans on earth, and our carrying capacity is only 2.5 billion humans.  These numbers need to match if we want to sustain ourselves.  There are 2 ways to do this; to decrease the population or to increase the carrying capacity.  I don't want to decrease the population.  Any ideas on how to increase the carrying capacity?

I don't know if they are.  Anyone claiming that whites are opressed should provide a reliable source.

Should there be a Union of some North American countries, similar to the EU?  The original countries would be US, Canada and Greenland once they get independence?  There would be requirements for joining the NAU.

Ask me anything.

Any questions DART users?  Ramshutu gave me the idea.  Might as well give it a try.

We need the pie chart system for how people get into the office of the president of the United States.  How this would work? Let's say you have an election and the democrats win 55% of the vote, the GOP wins 40% of the vote, and the libertarians get 5% of the vote.  Under the future NPV voting system, which I think is inevitable as more and more states are signing on to NPV whether or not you like it, the democrats could win the whole presidency even if a majority of the population doesn’t support them due to third parties.  Even if Democrats win the majority, they are alienating other non democrats by being in office. As society becomes more liberal and the democrats continue to get more and more power, they would be alienating the few right wingers that exist. With non Democrats realizing that they will never be able to win another presidency again, they would want to break away from the country causing a war.
How to prevent this: The pie chart method.  Let's say you have an election and the democrats win 55% of the vote, the GOP wins 40% of the vote, and the libertarians get 5% of the vote.  Rather than the democrats getting all of the presidency to themselves, they split it based off of their voting turnout. In the situation mentioned previously, they get their representative to be president for 55% of a term, the GOP gets their representative to be in power for 40% of a term, and the libertarians get to be in office for 5% of a term.  No one is without a voice in the presidency. Everyone gets power, and no one is left out.

We should add 3 states to the Union.  These states ought to be:

-Puerto Rico and US Virgin Islands.

-Guam and Northern Mariana islands.

-American Samoa

I think socialism is bad.  It screwed Venezuela over.

I want voters to be informed on this.

Pros to ads: 

-Generates more revenue which would provide an incentive DebateArt.com to make the site better.

Cons to ads:

-They look ugly.

-They can contain inappropriate messages.

Whatever your decision, please state why otherwise the vote won't count. 

I personally to start off pick yes because I want Mike motivated to improve the site and if that means supplying him with more money from the ad revenue, so be it.

Bernie Sanders said it could be paid for with a .5% tax on stocks and a .1% tax on bonds.  I don't think these taxes will raise that much revenue.

If you don't want to be pregnant and your female, don't have sex.

I think the left is more common then the right.  https://www.people-press.org/2015/04/07/a-deep-dive-into-party-affiliation/.  How can the Right catch up and surpass the left?

That's messed up.  It's harder being a veteran then a gay person.  Because of this, I quit gay pride month.

How many will say 19?  How many would say 21?  About to find out.

I think Ragnar, oromagi, and blamonkey should do a round robin set up.  Ragnar debates Oromagi.  Oromagi debates blamonkey.  Blamonkey debates Ragnar.  Whoever wins the round robin tournament is going to have a very high Rating.

I support nuclear power.  It is cheaper and kills less people then most to all forms of electricity and it is available year round even when it's night or not windy, so no batteries needed.

I'm undecided on this but it ought to be up for discussion.

The death penalty reduces the homicide rate.

Guns defend against a tyrannical government, which kills more people historically then any crazy shooter.  They are the real threat to life.

80% of the GOP supports artificial birth control.

The GOP supports welfare, generally, but not as a way of life.  They support things like ending single motherhood, which promote poverty by encouraging people to stay faithful to their vows.  They are also against premarital sex, that can lead to smash and dash attitudes and actions conducted by many males.  The GOP is against this.

The US military saves more then it kills.  When we pulled out of Iraq, ISIS formed and they killed a lot.  When US troops stayed, we created relative peace, like with Japan, South Korea, and Germany.

They support following the law.  They offered DACA for the wall to the Democrats and they refused.  They reunited families at the border that they were required to break up under previous law, Obama split up families too and the media barely said anything about it.  Trump fixed this law.

Did I miss anything?  Responders should respond 1 at a time because I don't want to respond to a dozen messages at once.  That's hard on my part.

This is not a troll fourm.

If we get rid of all the poor, stupid people(no genocide, but we merely don't allow them to reproduce) then it decreases our population and that population would get replaced by affluent, intelligent people.  This would be better for society.

2 questions:

1) Would you classify yourself as right wing or left wing?

2) Would you agree to the following compromise:

-AK 47s banned nationwide.

-Abortions banned nationwide.

This nation is divided and people talk about compromises, but I don't see much of it.  This is an idea, so do you guys agree to the compromise?

Yes.  This is to save lives.  If we take the organs from those who have good organs that would save lives, I'm pro innocent life.  The rights of the living outweigh the rights of dead bodies.

I think they should get paid on the basis of how well their constituents are doing to encourage them to help out their people.

Rape.  We all hate it.  What should the punishment be?

There have been 2 left leaning people on this site that I know of that have endorsed polygamy rights.  I as a right winger also support the right to be polygamous.  Feel free to change my mind on this if you want to.

If it was freedom, they would support gay and weed rights.

If it was life, they would support open borders, saving illegals.

I think it's personal responsibility.

Thoughts?

Hello.  If you want to post any funny memes/funny vines here, please feel free to do so.  This fourm was created by ME(me).

Did anyone get that?

It's pretty close.  RM got ahead of me as of the time of this comment, but he has a loss coming in.  It's going to be close.

I say no.  They are too different.

No: 1.  Yes: 0.

I think they should.  I have yet to read/hear a good argument from the opposing side but I'm willing to change my mind.

I like ASTAP.  It is a tax plan that I think can provide the government with the money it needs to function without taxing the rich excessively.  Let me know what you guys think on it.  The link is below:

A tiny portion of them commit homicide.  Only a tiny portion.  The US ought to treat Muslims the same way we treat guns on the basis of terrorism/shootings.

I say yes because they are minimally disturbing and they would provide revenue so Debate art, Bsh1, and Virt can get paid for their hard work to make DART a good debating site.  I don't have to agree with everything they do.  It's one thing that makes us individualls.  But lets face it, DART is better then DDO.

It also could provide the opportunity for more jobs at DART because DART will grow and when it grows beyond a certain point, I don't want the mods to get too tired out managing the site.  Otherwise, it would crash like DDO.  They won't get too tired if they get more help from people who would also become mods that could get paid from the ads.

Let me know what you guys think?

Are you for or against them?  Please state why.

The bible says that most of us will burn in hell forever and that hell is extremely painful.  Look it up if you don't believe me because I'm too lazy to get links.

The soviets accidentally discovered hell when they were competing against America to see who could dig the deepest hole.  They discovered hell in the process(http://www.amightywind.com/hell/aboutsounds.htm).

Based off of this information, the US should dig many holes to hell with ladders and geothermal powered elevators in order to free those in hell.  Change my mind if you want to.

Any ideas guys?

I think multiculturalism is dangerous for the future of the country because of the various former countries that have accepted multiculturalism and that have broken up on this basis.  All immigrants should assimilate into their country before they enter the country.  If they fail, they should assimilate in classes that they or their parents pay for.  If they can't afford it, they take out a loan to pay for it just like college.

I know he acts like a jerk, but jerks should not be banned from this site.  I know plenty of other people that act like jerks and they aren't banned.  I support free speech for everyone, even for type1.  I don't know if the mods can overturn bans, but if they can, they should limit bans to spammers and people who troll vote and leave.

Hello fellow Debaters,

Life got in the way.  I have so much to do and I thought this site was a profound distraction.  Because of this, I'm leaving the site.

When there is a mass shooting liberals tend to want more gun restrictions, even though most gun owners won't commit mass shootings.

When there is a terrorist attack, conservatives tend to want more Muslim restrictions, even though most Muslims won't commit mass terrorist attacks.

Lets judge people individually instead of their groups, whether that group is gun owners or Muslims.  Like if you agree and applicable.

Canzuk is free trade and open borders between Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the UK.  Should it exist?  If so, should the US and Ireland join it?

Post any funny memes that you want to in this thread.

They are very similar.  Also 4600th philosophy post right here.

I favor the moon due to it's extreme closeness to Earth relative to Mars's distance from Earth.

Should Cannabis/Weed be legal?  I personally think so right now, but I can have my mind changed.  I've posted a lot of right wing stuff on this site.  It's time I posted something left wing.

Should English be allowed in Quebec?  Should Quebec be it's own country?  Please comment below.

The temperature is only rising by about 2 degrees.  I can survive a 2 degree temperature increase.