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This season of House of Cards is thrilling!
grabs popcorn
oh wait, I'm living inside the tv show... 🫠
Well done american voters! And a special shoutout to all the sitouts who stood idly by and let a fascist child rapist in on their watch.
When the fuck do we just start killing politicians and billionaires? Seriously. Why are we still pretending like laws mean anything in this fucking country?
They most certainly killed a lot of people too. If not directly, then indirectly. Don’t see anything wrong with returning the favor
Imagine if all those school & mass shooters instead chose corrupt politicians and billionaires...
Luigi showed us the way.
MORE killing is never the answer. Did you know that there were really... effective "instruments" in the old ages?
GOP is scared. They know, short of gestapo-like tactics this November, their days are numbered.
Sucks that they're capable of gestapo type tactics, then.
It's not what they're capable of, it's what they are able to do without repercussions. When there is no penalty people can do very bad things, like in war.
Married women can't vote because the names don't match.
This will skate through the Senate. Elections in the USA won't mean shit after this.
And wtf can be used as "proof of citizenship"
Some paper you lost 30 years ago
Here we go. This is how they're going to further oppress the opposition and keep the regime in power. Anything to keep Trump from paying for his crimes.
The alternative was a woman! Of color!
/s for the fucking halfwits
The db0 shitters wanted this. The ml shitters wanted this.
They want an excuse to see fires and blood. They want an excuse for violence. And they'll throw everyone else vulnerable into harms way first to get their shot at an imaginary revolution. They play the disinformation game to get their own way.
Don't trust them. Don't believe them.
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Some yes, those whose only political view is "America bad", and doesn't think about the potential fallout of the US disappearing from the world.
When the Soviet Union fell apart, the USA and EU filled its place for the most part.
If the USA falls apart, get ready for traditional Chinese medicine and faux gay conversion therapies pushed by Russia to get mainstreamed by the WHO.
I can understand if someone, to reduce harm, voted (or will vote) for Kamala Harris. Sometimes I even think that would have been the obvious choice, but she and Biden didn't do the obvious of arresting diddler Don. I cannot really think the same with Gavin Newsom.
To everyone saying people needed to wait until the mid-terms to take action: Fuck You.
Last election several individuals committed voter AND election fraud. They were all Republicans.
Let’s see ‘em in the comments if you’re inclined to display them.
This mandates government registration to access an essential right of a citizen in a democracy. Ask for the same thing for gun ownership though and the right would lose their minds.
What’s interesting, is that many of us already do register with the state governments.
Its goal isn’t to regulate voting. It’s to suppress it.
Yep. Very easy to disenfranchise many people this way.
Particularly, anyone whose name or SAAB on their passport or birth certificate doesn't match their photo id. Anyone who works during DMV hours and can't take time off to renew an ID. Especially those who don't drive (and thus don't need a license).
So let's see, that's mainly women, genderqueer, and the working poor. Alright alright.
Who else?
I'm sure that a lot of the unhoused don't have easy access to their birth certificate or passport.
Anybody who cut ties with their parents and can't access this paperwork. So no strong family values.
Oh yeah. The millions of Americans who can't even dream of leaving the country who never even got a passport in the first place.
How is this not a poll tax?
And I'm gonna guess that this is going to make mail in voting more difficult? Or perhaps we will have to verify our ID with an app, this getting all of our info while also removing anonymity from voting, at a time when one party is not just hostile, but downright violent towards members of the other.
How about this...the republicans get to have a poll tax if the Democrats get to have a literacy test. If we are gonna make voting harder, lets make it harder for both sides. Deal?
Obviously that's quite tongue in cheek.
The goal here is to keep women from voting: the SAVE act very specifically requires that you
Because women often change name when they get married, they'll have a mismatch, and need to spend time and money to be able to vote. If the legislation passes, it will block about 20 million Americans from voting. Because of gender disparities in voting, Republicans see this as to their advantage.
Give your Senators a call at 202-224-3121 and ask them to block this change.
It's a disgusting attempt to disenfranchise millions of women and anyone else who changes their name, or doesn't have time/money for the hassle, but it's also only one prong of the attack. The name match requirement would be at the time of voter registration, so wouldn't affect current voters unless..... Massive swaths were purged from the voter rolls - this is a reason why the feds keep suing for voter roll information from states, and why red states have complied
Well fuck there's that other shoe... I was wondering where I put it
I'm a Canadian so I don't have to put up with this... but I don't think I could legally prove citizenship on the spot though.
I do have a birth certificate, but it's damaged, and would be considered invalid. It would cost me money to replace.
twist: They look at the ID, proclaim it's fake and add them to the ICE bus waiting outside.
In this case it literally doesn’t even begin to matter for us because all we need is our voter registration paper that government mails to us. We can bring other stuff but that’s it.