From those around now, I'd say Dark Audit is closer to his opposite... and even he's nowhere near Invader levels of madness
Gas Bandit's Political Thread V: The Vampire Likes Bats
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On the bright side, @Krisken, Two-thirds of our state don't want him to run for a third term.
Dave
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Oh Alabama. You racist fucks.
http://www.al.com/opinion/index.ssf/2015/09/alabama_sends_message_we_are_t.html
http://www.al.com/opinion/index.ssf/2015/09/alabama_sends_message_we_are_t.html
Step 1: Call government inefficient, incompetent, and overreaching.
Step 2: In the name of safety/gawd/FOTM institute government overreach.
Step 3: In the name of budget/taxes/FOTM cripple government institutions.
Step 4: Step 1 is now closer to reality. Repeat from 1 for more satisfaction.
I'm headed there for a week on Sat. I doubt I'll have time to make a difference, though.
--Patrick
* only pertains to white Alabamans
Bua haha, I fucking knew it
The inconvenience has a different effect depending on the people's economic class, and all other factors correlating with it (race, party affiliation, ...), so it's seen as unfair.
If you guys had a National ID, and required that for voting, there would be no disenfranchisement argument to be made.
Trust me, where I live is close to the bottom of the economic scale for the province I live in, which has traditionally been near the bottom in terms of economics. And you DO need ID to vote here too, and have as along as I've been voting.
I just don't get the concept of what people have been doing for however long without SOME type of ID. Job? Welfare? I dunno, almost fucking anything? You need ID for pretty much everything, so how is it that this is a huge deal for elections? People WILL make the trip. Will it suck to make that longer trip? Yes, once every 5 years or so. Could it theoretically disenfranchise a few people?
If your election is that damned close that those few would have made the difference, then you NEED the IDs to tell that it's not a huge fraud in the first place!
GasBandit
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The Federal Constitution has no guarantee of any so-called right to vote. The 24th amendment only states that you can't discriminate on the basis of race when it comes to voting.
Since minorities tends to be poorer than white people, some people make the jump that anything that inconvenience is a four person more than a rich person is de facto racial discrimination.
Since minorities tends to be poorer than white people, some people make the jump that anything that inconvenience is a four person more than a rich person is de facto racial discrimination.
Last I checked, class warfare is much more politically damaging/corrosive in the United States than racial politics. Given an issue where the root cause is class-related, but where a racial correlation exists, it's much easier to fight against it from that angle.
Or, in other words, the U.S. never got over the Red Scare, so racebaiting is the next best tool in the drawer.
Which Red Scare are you talking about? The 1950s one with the McCarthy hearings, or the late 1910s one with the anarchists?
It happens every few years. Only the bogeyman changes to keep up with the most profitable fearmongering. Today it's "Muslims" and "immigrants."
I was under the impression that the name applied to both.
I consider blindness to economic classes as separate from any xenophobic FOTM/outgroup du jour, though.
Took me a bit.
And it's more like economic Gerrymandering than anything else.
--Patrick
Requiring the IDs and then closing most ID-getting places in the state is bullshit.
However, unlike that article surmises, I don't see the Justice Department (or anyone else) doing anything about it.
However, unlike that article surmises, I don't see the Justice Department (or anyone else) doing anything about it.
That's not what they're doing though. The ones they're closing are responsible for less than 5% of drivers license transactions even when combined. The places that more than a handful of people actually go to for drivers licenses are still open.
Oh, the article made it sound like they were closing down all except in two areas.
I know you're being sarcastic, but my point is that I'm in a very similar situation to those in the article (no way to get government ID anywhere close to me), along with EVERYBODY who lives within hours of me, and it's just not a problem to actually go to the "big centre" that's near us once every few months. Heck, the local facebook group OFTEN has listings of "going to Corner Brook tomorrow, anybody need something and/or a ride?" So it self-regulates a lot better, and is not a disaster.
That article also made it sound like the 8 closings they talked about were the majority of all the closings . . . until near the end where it mentions there were 31 total. It leaves a lot of questions about these closings unanswered. Including especially how is the "other" race or class affected by these closings?
I'm pretty sure talking about the Atlantic slave trade bringing over people from Africa counts as mentioning how they were slaves. Yes, they said "workers", but what sort of workers would the slave trade be bringing over other than slaves? Maybe I'm overly generous to the intentions of people I don't know, but that just logically follows for me.
Considering it's a textbook for kids, it needs to be clear.
The publisher apparently agrees, they're updating the wording of the book (see the facebook post screenshot at the bottom of the article).
If only this was the future, they could just release a patch .
.No, they'd change all copies that ever existed. What do you mean it changed? We've always been at war with EastAsia, and Eurasia is our friend!If only this was the future, they could just release a patch
Well, I mean, my son already accesses all his textbooks online with his school loaned iPad. It IS the future.
Necronic
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Make sure to go to the bathroom there as much as possible. It will help improve the quality of what gets produced in Alabama.