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@SwtBeat @TweetPro13 @Fern26430103 @metaphrenology @twCyborg @BW No, he was given a specious argument, not a reason. This is the reality of politics: any given segment of an electorate won't get everything it wants. It has to compromise with the rest of the electorate.

@SwtBeat @TweetPro13 @Fern26430103 @metaphrenology @twCyborg @BW What you're saying is that if the city of Washington becomes part of a pre-existing state, it will lose some of its autonomy.

Yes, it will. So what? The city of Chicago loses some of its autonomy by being part of Illinois. Should we get two senators, too?

@SwtBeat @TweetPro13 @Fern26430103 @metaphrenology @twCyborg @BW While we're at it, having made Chicago into its own state, we might notice that north side politics doesn't look much like south side politics and so, applying what seems to be your proposed principle, we'd have to split Chicago into more than one state.

@SwtBeat @TweetPro13 @Fern26430103 @metaphrenology @twCyborg @BW Following this principle of "groups who want different things get their own states" to its insane logical conclusion, we'd end up with each citizen being his own state, because no two people will agree on all political matters. And a country that couldn't be governed.

@SwtBeat @TweetPro13 @Fern26430103 @metaphrenology @twCyborg @BW I don't believe I'm telling you anything that you didn't already know, @SwtBeat. I'm not saying that you're being unreasonable. I'm saying that you're being insincere.

@SwtBeat @TweetPro13 @Fern26430103 @metaphrenology @twCyborg @BW I think that you knew that your position was absurd when you advanced it, and just hoped that nobody would be able to point out why it was absurd.

You chose to engage in the shameful practice of sophistry.

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