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Except that Eugene will immediately secede from Cascadia, then itself will divide into two factions over whether their autonomous enclave should be named after Fredrick Douglass or Pete Seeger.
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Honestly I always thought that Douglas Fir silhouette could stand to be more stylized. Some of those little half-smoothed details in the branches look kind of ugly and not-thought-out, like someone just applied a photoshop filter to a photograph. The color choices and general idea are great, though, and more than make up for that.
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Oct 29, 2014 01:53
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I actually don't think our flag is really bad: Color scheme could be better, but otherwise it is fine.
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Oct 29, 2014 02:27
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Ditocoaf posted:Honestly I always thought that Douglas Fir silhouette could stand to be more stylized. Some of those little half-smoothed details in the branches look kind of ugly and not-thought-out, like someone just applied a photoshop filter to a photograph. The color choices and general idea are great, though, and more than make up for that. I can agree with that, but I'd probably like to make the white field into a triangle because there's no way Washington could do anything without having a reference to Mt. Rainier.
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Oct 29, 2014 02:34
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CaptainSarcastic posted:I actually don't think our flag is really bad: The color scheme owns, it's what Michigan (the university) uses. Also the back is a beaver.
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Oct 29, 2014 02:50
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my humble submission for Cascadia flag:
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Oct 29, 2014 02:54
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CaptainSarcastic posted:I actually don't think our flag is really bad:
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Oct 29, 2014 02:54
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What's the southern border of Cascadia anyway? Weed?
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Oct 29, 2014 03:20
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No, that's the contents 
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Oct 29, 2014 03:28
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FRINGE posted:Shouldnt it be old white people with rifles, young people with bongs, and some moss covered trees? Old people with bongs and young people with rifles, more like. As for liability w/r/t firearms: if we're concerned about the financial costs of negligence on the part of gun owners, isn't the more direct solution socialized healthcare?
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Oct 29, 2014 03:28
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Chantilly Say posted:Old people with bongs and young people with rifles, more like. I'm for this, but socialized healthcare tends to make people feel even more entitled to dictate the behavior of others because they're indirectly funding the medical bill when someone gets hurt.
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Oct 29, 2014 03:36
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I'd like to think of the cascadian movement as a backup plan in case the US government completely falls apart or a bunch of other states decide to secede first. A very logical and promising backup plan that I like to fantasize about every now and then.
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Oct 29, 2014 04:04
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Freakazoid_ posted:I'd like to think of the cascadian movement as a backup plan in case the US government completely falls apart or a bunch of other states decide to secede first. A very logical and promising backup plan that I like to fantasize about every now and then. Congrats, you're an honorary Confederate. Not surprising as many of them headed to the PNW after the Civil War.
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Oct 29, 2014 04:07
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CaptainSarcastic posted:I actually don't think our flag is really bad: ah yes, a flag with writing, numbers, an over-detailed seal on a plain background: a 'not bad' flag
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Oct 29, 2014 04:17
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SedanChair posted:There's no law against leaving your keys in the ignition. Know why? ~*because hand-wringing liberal simps aren't trying to ban cars through a piecemeal series of insincere strategems*~ Additionally, when you are operating a car, you are under the auspices of more laws and regulations (both civil and criminal) than at any other time in your life, with the possible exceptions of being in the military or being in prison. Because a car is a dangerous, deadly weapon, which needs to be strictly regulated. Much like guns.
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Oct 29, 2014 04:21
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SeekOtherCandidate posted:ah yes, a flag with writing, numbers, an over-detailed seal on a plain background: a 'not bad' flag But it has a beaver on the back! 
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Oct 29, 2014 04:27
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Javid posted:I'm for this, but socialized healthcare tends to make people feel even more entitled to dictate the behavior of others because they're indirectly funding the medical bill when someone gets hurt. See the nice thing about being a cascadian gun nut is, you can believe you should be able to buy an RPG-7 at Ace hardware, and you can still let go of all the other John Birch horseshit that is supposed to go along with that.
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Oct 29, 2014 05:08
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Ditocoaf posted:I don't think people take Cascadia seriously, it's just a fun idea to float. The appeal is just in, like, cultural solidarity or something. "Hey B.C. and Oregon, we like you guys, we should really be our own country" "hey yeah haha sounds cool, we'd be the best country." There aren't any practical advantages to it, but nobody's actually going to take steps towards succession. I take it seriously and have non-secessionist means of achieving it.
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Javid posted:I'm for this, but socialized healthcare tends to make people feel even more entitled to dictate the behavior of others because they're indirectly funding the medical bill when someone gets hurt. Indirectly funding the medical bill when someone gets hurt is already how health insurance works.
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Oct 29, 2014 07:56
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SedanChair posted:Except that Eugene will immediately secede from Cascadia, then itself will divide into two factions over whether their autonomous enclave should be named after Fredrick Douglass or Pete Seeger. I'm not seeing a drawback for the rest of us here.  computer parts posted:Congrats, you're an honorary Confederate. Fine, we'll set up racial quotas on immigration, no white people allowed in until we get at least a million non-whites immigrated. God, you'd think people would be more excited about the prospect of fragmenting and diluting American power.
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Oct 29, 2014 18:23
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:Fine, we'll set up racial quotas on immigration, no white people allowed in until we get at least a million non-whites immigrated. That should be implemented in Seattle post-haste- every new face this year is paler than the last, and with fewer opinions than legal weed and 15 an hour being cool beans.
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Oct 29, 2014 18:47
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Gerund posted:That should be implemented in Seattle post-haste- every new face this year is paler than the last, and with fewer opinions than legal weed and 15 an hour being cool beans. Just for reference: http://www.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2014/10/28/the-morning-news-seattle-is-getting-whiter
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Oct 29, 2014 19:01
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Anyone in Seattle want to weigh in on proposition 1A vs. 1B? 1A sounds better but 1B comes with a funding source attached. I understand there will be a legal obligation to fund 1A somehow if it passes, but how likely is it that it would cause cuts to other social services?
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Oct 29, 2014 19:49
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A Bag of Milk posted:Anyone in Seattle want to weigh in on proposition 1A vs. 1B? 1A sounds better but 1B comes with a funding source attached. I understand there will be a legal obligation to fund 1A somehow if it passes, but how likely is it that it would cause cuts to other social services? quote:Look, if we had to make our endorsements based on how we felt about the political side of things—and there's been a total shitshow behind the scenes on this one—we'd have to endorse just scrawling a bunch of obscenities over this portion of your ballot and moving on. League of Women Voters advises "No," but to support 1A of the two. Their reasoning is here (PDF).
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Oct 29, 2014 20:13
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Thanatosian posted:The Stranger endorsed 1B. Their reasoning: Thanks for posting that League of Women Voters piece, I hadn't read that yet. I think I'm going to reject (or synthesize?) both of these analysis and vote yes and 1A. It's an ideological rather than practical vote, I think people can get a bit cynical about bold ideas if they're not exactly right. As a whole, proposition 1A is too reasonable to reject.
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Oct 29, 2014 20:30
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SedanChair posted:What's the southern border of Cascadia anyway? Weed? The State of Jefferson, duh.
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Oct 29, 2014 21:27
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Cascadia would be rad since I feel like government spread over a huge landmass seems pretty rough  Then we could enact all kinds of progressive legislation and hold hands and sing songs by the fire.We'd have to deport all the shitheads first obvs.
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:Fine, we'll set up racial quotas on immigration, no white people allowed in until we get at least a million non-whites immigrated. This would unironically own because then you could see who in your community are racist shitheads. Doubly so if it was actually poor people too. (It would be most everyone)
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Oct 29, 2014 21:48
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Some gold in the county election packet: The name "biome" and occupation in organic food gave me some preconceived notions of what that wall of text was gonna be about and then the dude proceeds to go 90 degrees from anywhere I thought he would.
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Oct 29, 2014 22:42
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SeekOtherCandidate posted:Kshama Sawant as Dear Leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Cascadia The Alaska state flag loving owns.
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Oct 30, 2014 04:47
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computer parts posted:Congrats, you're an honorary Confederate. Too bad they didn't bring their snappy uniforms! Imagine what a cascadian uniform would look like.
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Oct 30, 2014 04:56
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Freakazoid_ posted:Too bad they didn't bring their snappy uniforms! 
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I think that was a Portlandia sketch
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Oct 30, 2014 05:12
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KCTS poll out today with some interesting results. I-594 is ahead 64-31. I-591 doing its job of confusing voters is tied 45-43. I-1351 is way ahead, even in eastern WA, 60-31. The really surprising question: "Do you agree or disagree with the creation of a state income tax on wealthy households?" it's slightly ahead 48-42. Of course, the question of how we should balance the budget has nearly half of the respondents answering with mostly or entirely spending cuts. 
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oxbrain posted:KCTS poll out today with some interesting results. I-594 is ahead 64-31. I-591 doing its job of confusing voters is tied 45-43. I-1351 is way ahead, even in eastern WA, 60-31. which initiative is which, for those of us too lazy to use google
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Oct 31, 2014 03:13
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Accretionist posted:Cascadia: 
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Oct 31, 2014 03:20
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Hedera Helix posted:which initiative is which, for those of us too lazy to use google I-594 would make all private sales and transfers of firearms require a background check. I-591 does the opposite. It prohibits the state from requiring a background check for any gun sales or transfers. I-1351 is the class size reduction one.
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Oct 31, 2014 03:32
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oxbrain posted:I-594 would make all private sales and transfers of firearms require a background check. Well that's not true about I-591, it still requires sellers to do background checks if they're required under Federal Law.
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Oct 31, 2014 04:50
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oxbrain posted:I-591 does the opposite. It prohibits the state from requiring a background check for any gun sales or transfers. That would be amazing buuut somehow I don't think that Eric Holder would be as accommodating as he's been about "legal" weed
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oxbrain posted:KCTS poll out today with some interesting results. I-594 is ahead 64-31. I-591 doing its job of confusing voters is tied 45-43. I-1351 is way ahead, even in eastern WA, 60-31. Back when Bill Gates Sr. had his "income tax for high earners to fund education" initiative, it polled that well or better. Of course, that was before right-wing groups dropped a few ads, and Washington's voters remembered that they're willing to do absolutely anything for education except fund it.
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