eldavi

they'll not only shoot you; but each other as well. lol

i doubt it since every single monied interest has come out against this change and these people like that don't sit around and hope things change in their favor; they use their money to force it and money is the perfect thing to force a government to require a small, manipulable group to decide on who gets to judge.

what happens january 2nd?

bigotry exists in all forms; but it's only the kind expressed by the uneducated & poor that gets rebuke and this one has been committed in plain sight since the 1980's by the wealthy and educated.

i bet that the people who made this decision were dealing with the AIDS epidemic

tests have been available since the 1980's; they just don't want gays there.

I'm not allowed to give blood since I'm gay and have an active sex life

-- maybe true in soviet russia; but in capitalist america it's merely native american reservation relocation. lol

isreal is culling the native population down to a small, manageable, non-threatening population where they can throw token sorry-for-the-genocide money at their generationally impoverished reservation from now on.

linux, vegans, leftists, etc.; doesn't matter if they're right, just fuck 'em. lol

If anything, at least more people see the blatant hypocrisy, now more than ever.

the lemmyverse is one of the most progressive social media platform that has ever existed; but messages like this are banned if they come from some instances and brigaded away from existence with dog whistled moderator & admin support on the largest lemmyverse instance, lemmy.world, and yet no one on lemmy.world sees the blatant hypocrisy

the voter id thing is over simplified, easy sound bite, misdirection selected because having an id to vote has a broad consensus with everybody so long as you don't look beyond the surface of what it actually means:

voters in this country already have id's and have to show id to vote so they're not referring to the act of voting; they're referring to the act of registering to vote because the federal government doesn't define it well so the states insert their own version of it and most of the state governments in this country are republican which use "voter id" as a means to suppress democrat voters within their jurisdictions.

in other words: if you cannot register to vote, then you are not allowed to vote; it doesn't matter that the federal government could recognize your id as legitimate for voting, it only matters than your state does and your state is not legally required to match the federal government's definition of acceptable voting id if it existed. conservative states know this; are a solid majority in this country and are using their majority position to pressure the federal government into adopting it to suppress the other party's voters.

for decades, the conservative state and city governments have been receiving financial and advisory support from dark monied astro-turfed conservative movements that have spent millions of dollars and decades worth of experiments on cherry picked court cases and using their relationship with the governments to test out policies that could have the effect that conservatives desire to see in our society. using "voter id" is something that they spent a lot of time and money and effort reviewing over and over again and it was money will spent because now people think they know what it means based on it's name; but that understanding is shallow.

But I bet they won’t.

they literally didn't the last time around like they didn't every single time before then; why would they next time?