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[–] 84 points 1 year ago (15 children)

Government is looking awfully tyrannical lately. If only there was some way to amend this issue.

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  • [–] 35 points 1 year ago (14 children)

    A certain tree needs watering...

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Nice try, NSA. I'm not putting myself on a list.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Something something John Brown did nothing wrong

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I absolutely agree. But I don’t understand the tree part.

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  • [+] -15 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    good, you shouldn't. It's a tankie dogwhistle

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Ahhh yes Tomas Jefferson, a famous tankie.

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  • [–] -4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    it doesn't matter who came up with it if only tankies use the quote

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Probably because it is a call for violent resistance which feeds into the "glorious revolution" idea.

    This quote wasn't used by other groups until now since advocating for violent revolution only makes sense when no other option is available which hasn't been true until now

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  • [–] 46 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    I don’t understand this legislation at all. You already have to be a citizen to vote. This just makes voting harder.

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  • [–] 36 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    So, you do understand this legislation, because that's the point.

    It makes it notably harder for:

    • full-time unskilled/low-skilled workers (particularly those that don't have lenient schedules for non-work obligations that have to happen during working hours, like dealing with City Hall)

    • people who live far away from where they were born

    • people with limited transportation options

    • married women who changed their name (name no longer matches birth certificate)

    • transfolk whose birth certificate reflects their deadname.

    Basically...Democrats. Or at least a hell of a lot more Democrats than Republicans.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago

    It also makes it harder for people who have lost some of these documents.

    I went through foster care and in that transition my original birth certificate was lost--I was a minor and had no idea I should look for it, or where it even was, to take it with me. It was hard to bootstrap myself after. Anyone who's lived through a domestic violence situation might have had to leave home suddenly with very little.

    And that's not considering natural disasters like floods and fires and tornados that might have destroyed paperwork for people too.

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  • That is the point. They know that they’re going to get fucking wrecked in any fair election going forward. Obviously, the solution is to make elections unfair by making it way harder to vote and way easier to challenge voter validity - a problem that, I should emphasize, is vanishingly rare. In fact, the highest incidence of voter fraud in recent years has come from Republican voters.

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  • Putting up barriers to committing a crime is more effective than punishment after the fact. It's already illegal to commit crimes with firearms, that doesn't mean they should repeal the Brady Bill. This also undermines the narratives about muh stolen election.

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  • [–] 30 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    These motherfuckers are trying to take away our mail in voting system on the West Coast. If I have to stand in fucking line to vote again for no reason I'm gonna be pissed.

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  • Yeah, I read about that yesterday and I have none of the documents listed as a valid form of ID. If this was passed, I wouldn't be able to vote.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    You can kiss American democracy goodbye.

    Americans simply aren't prepared to do what's necessary to keep it, despite having an over-abundance of guns and the Constitutional right to use them to protect said democracy.

    We're about to learn some really hard lessons.

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