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The fuct one!
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PostPosted: 01-25-2022 05:38 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Eraser wrote:
Maybe I'm naive, but having a valid ID when going voting is a requirement here in The Netherlands as well. It doesn't seem like an outlandish requirement to me. It's used to make sure people don't vote in someone else's name or vote twice. I feel like calling ID a method to suppress voters is an overreaction to all the other voter suppression going on in the US.


It's not that. A Republican talking point is about Voter ID on top of the numerous ways we can already prove our identity. The goal is a poll tax for the poor and to restrict access by any means on inconvenience possible. It is illegal to give someone water or food in some states now even if the folks have been waiting in line for HOURS AND HOURS because of Republicans cutting back drop box locations, voting hours, and mail-in ballots. It specifically targets minorities.

For me, let anyone who is a citizen vote. It should be a national holiday and the cost of any voter ID should be free. We have billions for endless wars but nothing for home...




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I'm the dude!
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PostPosted: 01-25-2022 09:38 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


seremtan wrote:
in the UK we just present the card we get through the mail and they tick it off their (paper) list. then again, voter fraud in the UK is effectively zero, so there's no need for a solution to a non-existent problem :!:


Who would have thought that old school "analog" paper solutions might work better than these over engineered unresponsive touchscreen voting machines running Windows XP, manufactured by companies with Republican interests, and charged to the government at overpriced rates. American capita..ahem... freedom at work!



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Arrr?
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PostPosted: 01-25-2022 03:04 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


raw wrote:
It's not that. A Republican talking point is about Voter ID on top of the numerous ways we can already prove our identity. The goal is a poll tax for the poor and to restrict access by any means on inconvenience possible. It is illegal to give someone water or food in some states now even if the folks have been waiting in line for HOURS AND HOURS because of Republicans cutting back drop box locations, voting hours, and mail-in ballots. It specifically targets minorities.




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Etile
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PostPosted: 01-26-2022 08:31 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


obsidian wrote:
seremtan wrote:
in the UK we just present the card we get through the mail and they tick it off their (paper) list. then again, voter fraud in the UK is effectively zero, so there's no need for a solution to a non-existent problem :!:


Who would have thought that old school "analog" paper solutions might work better than these over engineered unresponsive touchscreen voting machines running Windows XP, manufactured by companies with Republican interests, and charged to the government at overpriced rates. American capita..ahem... freedom at work!


yeah if there's one thing we do pretty well around here, it's run an election, without fraud, with the results mostly in by the next day

the fact that the Tories haven't found a bullshit reason to fix something that isn't broken is a minor miracle




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Canadian Shaft
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PostPosted: 06-24-2022 11:15 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


and there goes abortion rights




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Cool #9
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PostPosted: 06-24-2022 11:35 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


In the mean time in the Netherlands, last week the Dutch gov't voted in favor of getting rid of the mandatory 5 day wait time for abortions here.




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Arrr?
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PostPosted: 06-24-2022 01:50 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


HM-PuFFNSTuFF wrote:
and there goes abortion rights

RIP Roe v. Wade
Jan 1973 - Jun 2022

You were so young. :tear:




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Elite
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PostPosted: 07-07-2022 11:07 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


real talk I just moved to Austin, TX from Melbourne, Australia. Going to Dallas this weekend and am very interested in seeing a big gun and hopefully not disagreeing with anyone holding said gun.

maybe Texas will actually secede this time. hopefully the war doesn't break out in the next 2 years while I'm still holding an apartment lease




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Timed Out
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PostPosted: 07-07-2022 03:20 PM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


glossy wrote:
real talk I just moved to Austin, TX from Melbourne, Australia. Going to Dallas this weekend and am very interested in seeing a big gun and hopefully not disagreeing with anyone holding said gun.

maybe Texas will actually secede this time. hopefully the war doesn't break out in the next 2 years while I'm still holding an apartment lease


omfg, it's glossy. Long time no post. How's it going?




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Digital Nausea
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PostPosted: 07-07-2022 05:29 PM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


5 posts in over 10 years. Slacker…




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