There was a statehood initiative , but that was completely symbolic as it carries no force of law and Congress will completely ignore it . Other than that , nope . <| sep |> Same question , but for bars . Preferably downtown and not a sports bar . <| sep |> I have this whole collection of poor photoshops where a changed all album covers to say Melattica and my face is also in it somewhere <| sep |> Hey you know what fixes this kind of thing in the real world when you dont have some sort of dictatorship style power over people ? You apologize and talk to them . <| sep |> If i want an alternative to the military , I have to pay for it myself . How in the world do you think could be peaceful competition between different military protection agencies . Can you show me one example ? I can show you thousands of educational models and institutions that compete with each other . If i want an alternative to the military , I have to pay for it myself . Why not just buy everything collectively ? Anyway you ' re not really making an argument , you ' re just saying this is the way we do things now how could it ever be different ? Did public education fail you too ? and yes , people who advocate the destruction of public schools through defunding them in favor of sending kids to private schools are exactly the problem . if anything , we should require equity in schools by making the rich go to normal schools . not by letting them go to insane private schools and defund the public schools and withdraw resources and capacity from public schools . Typical busybody . Worry about your own kids and let other people worry about theirs . Don ' t punish people for being successful and wanting to create a better life for their children . If your children fail , it is not because rich parents didn ' t want to go to bad schools it ' s because you failed .