Sounds good in theory, but not when you consider that exactly the groups that the GOP want to stop from voting have local post offices that are effectively unusable for the vast majority due to being open only a few hours a year.
Viking_Hippie
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obtaining proof of citizenship should be free and simple to obtain from every municipality, state and federal office
If it was, Republicans would just find another way to suppress the vote. This isn't about citizenship or the integrity of the electoral process. It's about the GOP knowing that the fewer people vote, the better for their fascist and therefore unpopular party.
whether it's necessary to have proof of citizenship in order to able to vote. of course you should. everyone should.
That's already in place, though. When voting, you have to supply your name, address and voter registration.
If no citizen with that name is registered to that address, you don't get to vote.
It's a pernicious lie that people in any significant number is able or even attempting to vote without indirectly proving their citizenship and even requiring "free and simple" (which it probably won't be to some people anyway) direct proof will suppress the vote whether that's your attention or not.
we spend so much political bandwidth on a loser of an issue, year in, year out, for decades
Because currently there's no consequences for Republican politicians and their media echo chamber willfully misleading the people with their lies. In fact, the corrupt system encourages it.
Ceding ground to their demagoguery doesn't make it go away. They'll just have that more power to suppress the vote in additional ways.
something we should be pushing for too.
Nope. See above.
the poll tax argument no longer holds weight
It VERY much does. Any unnecessary obstacle to voting is undemocratic in the same way as a poll tax is and requiring direct proof of something you're already indirectly proven is unnecessary.
no matter how much you whine about the smallest percentage of the smallest percentage of people who find themselves disenfranchised by the requirement
You VASTLY underestimate the number of people for whom voting is already unnecessarily difficult and who will be at a greater risk of not being able to justify the cost of voting the more obstacles are thrown in their way.
Especially when you consider that in person voter fraud is so rare as to be statistically nonexistent and is never non eligible people trying to vote.
That you display your ignorance in a supremely condescending way doesn't help either.
the amount of support republicans get from this, as in issue that makes logical sense, doesn't add up.
It does when you consider how effective lying their ass off is in the current system.
They aren't right about any of this. They just have the money and media echo chamber to get their point repeated so much that impressionable people such as yourself are fooled into thinking that they are.
Because a government shutdown could permanently destroy the lives of people who are dependent on the government to function, stave off homelessness, or even survive.
a month or 2 of crappiness is nothing compared to years of a Trump presidency.
On the surface, you're right.
However, to some people, that month or two of pay could be the difference between having a home or not and, depending on where in the country they live, that could be permanent or even deadly.
I agree with you that Trump and his fascist cult MUST be stopped, but we still need to be careful not to irreparably harm innocents in the process..
...did you just have a stroke in the middle of a strawman argument?
Sew You Think You Can Darn(ce) is the main competitor show.
I'll take your word for it but I never played it myself since I'm not really into the whole survival genre 🤷
Some might be, but the Horizon games (including the PC ports) are bonafide masterpieces and I personally love the Assassin's Creed RPG trilogy and Rock Band 🤷
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The third of his name.
The only way that they're not right of center is in relation to the GOP. Do you have ANY idea how much farther right than the policy positions of the greater population the media's Overton window has drifted in recent decades?
One party's LITERALLY fascist and the other one's close enough to willingly negotiate with it on everything.
The Dem leadership is DEFINITELY right of center and so is the pro-cop pro-Israel pro- corporate billionaire-owned media.
Just because conservative Democrats are the leftmost option offered in elections where the other candidate is a fascist or an anarcho-capitalist doesn't mean that they're left of center.
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North Korean athletes undergoing ‘ideological evaluation’ for Olympic selfie
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That's a rhetorical question, in case there's any doubt. I know the exact what and why of their bullshit.
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I wish the Harris campaign would stop advertising how many awful people approve of her more than of a literal fascist. It's not the flex they seem to think it is.