Ah! Yep, "brought under control" is something I've heard said about fires before. Interesting, thank you!
Hegar
joined 1 year ago
As someone who moved from Australia to the US, I can tell you you're wrong.
Compulsory voting means you can't win by riling up your base with extremist nonsense to drive up turnout. Everyone is voting anyway, so you have to appeal more widely.
You can't drive down turnout to get a party with minority support to win, like russia did in the US.
Voter suppression by fascist politicians is much harder when people legally have to vote.
With non compulsory voting, it's always the working class who have the greatest number of pressures against voting. Compulsory voting corrects the class imbalance at the ballot box.
The idea that the masses are too stupid to be trusted with voting is an elitist lie.
A second-alarm fire broke out as a result, but was knocked down.
Has anyone heard the verb "knocked down" used like that before? Is it a regional thing? I'm used to fires being "put out".
With this picture, does that make you Cyrano de Purrgerac?
Ugh that sucks. I'll gripe at them about it next time I'm in the area.
They are just gorgeous though. They look like incredibly well-knapped flint blades.
No base + no trump = socialism? I think that's about the level of numeracy on the far right?
Yes, pretending you have questions when you just have insults is a great example of trolling.
"FreedomAdvocate" just immediately sounds like a troll account. Aaaannnnd the comment history is almost nothing but trolling. Surprise surprise.
Jesus was born 5-7 centuries after this was written down, he don't know either.
Yep! Always has been.
Ashoka the great who's credited with doing a lot to spread buddhism globally was a murderous warlord known for his personal torture prison called "Ashoka's hell". After he brutally killed uprisings against his rule he plowed state funds into a PR campaign to change his name from ashoka the cruel to ashoka of the dharma.
Bill gates is another good example, he's a pedophile known for running one of the most toxic work cultures, but he can use some of the money he made illegally stifling competition to rehab his image.
Abortion is just not analogous to voting.
We're talking about laws so 'true freedom' is irrelevant in this context.
But mostly, compulsory voting doesn't eliminate the freedom to not vote. Just go in and write bart simpson like a certain percent always do.