This. I’m not actually opposed to the requirement for needing ID or proof of citizenship to vote. What I am opposed to is anything creating a barrier to voting that’s more substantial than an extremely mild inconvenience like registering.

Imo we need a national ID system anyway, so we can stop using SSN data for that purpose because it’s stupidly insecure. In the modern digital age it would be trivial to just assign a “user is licensed to drive x” flag in a digital database in your home state to your ID. Pair it with some kind of 2FA and switch government services to digital.

Easy, cheap to administer, make it free, and auto register people to vote when they turn 18. Have highschools participate in the ID issuing process, since that covers the vast majority of people.

Tbf, in 2016 the DNC and Clinton were so arrogant they literally said, “we don’t need your votes.” Like every political campaign all they needed to do was make some empty promises to try to get them on board.

In my experience, the difference between die hard Sanders supporters and other leftists or liberals is that they tend to believe that the on going class war is the single biggest issue we face in the US today. Everything else is a distraction to keep that otherwise overwhelming block of the population segmented into competing blocks of people. The Dems just foster an attitude of “competing but inter-supportive” and the GOP has one of “competing, and you should enslave your enemies.” The latter of course only really appealing to white conservatives and useful idiots.

I will personally buy at least five conservatives plane tickets if they want to go.

I also love word, publisher, and visio.

I grudgingly accept outlook.

I despise PowerPoint

Pull absolutely all support and funding, permanent ban on weapons transfers, deactivate their F35s. International financial sanctions.

Bro just use your phone. If it’s android, use AIReader. Free, incredibly configurable, can read every type of book file. Dark mode, adjustable brightness for reading before bed. It gets so dark that I can’t even read the minimum setting in a pitch black room. Best e-reader app I’ve ever found and I’ve been using it for probably 10 years now.

Keep in mind that there are also foreign intelligence interests in posting divisive shit online

Always nice to see another weevil in the wild

This was my choice and reasoning as well.

MTG and Boebert would be interesting, see if I can get them to fight over who gives a better hand job.

I’d sit next to Ted Cruz if I wanted to stroke out after having a bad faith argument where he repeatedly uses bad debate tactics as devil’s advocate.

Same with Clarence Thomas. Except my goal would be to make him strike out instead.

Right? The guy is one of the most predictable people on earth because his entire being is a sucking hole of narcissism.

You mean modern Christianity?

A meme in our last local election for governor was, “Mark Ronchetti Fucks Dogs. Bad for dogs, bad for New Mexico.”

It was hugely successful. He was actively being cyber bullied on Twitter.

The federalist papers very much show they were aware of that threat.

I don’t know that I’d call them idealistic. They were landed nobles who didn’t want to pay the increased taxes levied on them. Which in turn were to pay for the war their government had fought on their behalf to protect them from the native people whose land they had stolen. By exterminating those native people.

A civil court conviction seems like enough for me

This is how you get people to start rooting their TVs

My parents live in butt fuck nowhere and are in a fiber co-op paying like $70/month for unlimited 1gbps up/down.

Meanwhile I live in the (extremely left) Capitol City of my state and pay Comcast $165/month for like 175mbps capped at 1TB, with some absurd overage fee like $10/5GB over until I hit $100 over and then it’s “unlimited” but seems throttled.

I’ve been saying for years that the market exists for an R-rated movie about Vader hunting Jedi, but Disney doesn’t have the balls for it.

Won’t someone rid us of this meddlesome judge?

They cancel shows that aren’t binge watched in the first eight weeks because of payment agreements made with the production companies. They have to pay royalties for all views that occur outside of that defined period. Which is still profitable, it’s just less so.

But they’re not interested in making good, watchable content. They’re only interested in profit, and producing a show which is watched immediately is what maximizes that profit.