Government is looking awfully tyrannical lately. If only there was some way to amend this issue.
this post was submitted on 11 Apr 2025
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A certain tree needs watering...
I don’t get it.
Nice try, NSA. I'm not putting myself on a list.
I'm okay with it, I'm probably already on plenty of lists; i hear there's prizes for being on more of them than anyone else
No, seriously though.
From Thomas Jefferson
It's not a long letter, and I'd recommend reading the whole thing, but the quote the other comment is referring to is in bold type near the end.
Something something John Brown did nothing wrong
I absolutely agree. But I don’t understand the tree part.
We are being intentionally oblique.
Look up “watering the tree of liberty”
Thank you.
I don’t understand this legislation at all. You already have to be a citizen to vote. This just makes voting harder.
No you understand it perfectly. The entire point is to make it harder for people to vote.
And to deny women, minorities, and the poor their right without spelling it out.
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.
So, you do understand this legislation, because that's the point.
It makes it notably harder for:
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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)
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people who live far away from where they were born
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people with limited transportation options
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married women who changed their name (name no longer matches birth certificate)
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transfolk whose birth certificate reflects their deadname.
Basically...Democrats. Or at least a hell of a lot more Democrats than Republicans.
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.
Sounds like you understand the legislation perfectly well.
I don’t understand this legislation at all.
Republicans can only win by utilizing two strategies.
Misinformation and voter suppression.
The point is that you need to be able to prove you're a citizen. The WH get to decide what is accepted a proof.
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.
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.
That's exactly what they want.
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.
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.