https://apnews.com/projects/election-results-2024/south-dakota/?r=0

https://sdsos.gov/elections-voting/upcoming-elections/voter-registration-totals/voter-registration-comparison-table.aspx

If you add all registered Dems and independents it still doesn’t reach the number of Republicans that actually voted for Trump.

So again, not part of the problem, Disenfranchised.

https://apnews.com/projects/election-results-2024/south-dakota/?r=0

https://sdsos.gov/elections-voting/upcoming-elections/voter-registration-totals/voter-registration-comparison-table.aspx

If you add all registered Dems and independents it still doesn’t reach the number of Republicans that actually voted for Trump.

I live in a deep red state. Not a swing state. Not a questionable state. A state where registered red voters outnumber blue voters 2-1.

I’m not saying that this applies to everyone but even if blue had an excellent turnout including me and reds had a bad turnout, it would still be a red win with a ratio 3-2.

I’m not voting not because I don’t care, not because I don’t think it’s the right thing to do, not for some moral high ground, but because it actually doesn’t matter. I am disenfranchised, I accept it, I make the best decisions I can knowing that.

I’m sure some will still tell me I’m wrong but I’m going to focus on my own interests and mental health.

If you are in a swing state, please vote. If not for yourself, for me. I’ll consider it a favor.

(I have good reasons for living here. If you tell me I should move then why don’t you move to a swing state?)

Not a paradox. Tolerance is a social contract and need not be given to those who don’t tolerate others.

You could have made the same point without being disgusting by saying impeach.

I understand your frustration. I really, really do. But the trouble with political violence is that it doesn’t end there. Look at our justice system - it isn’t about making people whole, it’s about getting even. That’s what the other 40% of America will do. I don’t want a civil war in my lifetime.

AI will find it hard to do a hostile takeover if it’s already president!

And be president. How about 35 for the adulthood age?

I don’t have to have feelings about something to value it.

I don’t trust them first off, but even trusting them to not voluntarily disclose it doesn’t mean they won’t have a security breach and disclose it involuntarily. Also, the database has to be created and queried somehow; some employees and govt workers will be able to see what queries are made. Even trusting the business and the govt and the security of both, I don’t trust those random people having access to that info.

What evidence do you have to give the website that you are person X that they’re running the database query against? If that’s an ID there’s going to be some available online, or a kid can just sneak it from the parent. Everything I’ve heard proposed for the identification strategy is either grossly invasive or quite easy to step over.

I don’t believe that Canada will actually enforce this across all websites. If they do it on only the large/main ones, it makes it harder for kids to access the relatively safe and legal porn hosted on sites making effort to follow the law, and pushes them towards sites that aren’t making such an effort and therefore probably have more objectionable content.