A huge fraction of people (again, poor people, whom I’m sure you’re too privileged to associate with) do not file taxes and are not required to file taxes. See we’re getting into that thing I mentioned earlier where I give a thousand examples and you individualize each one.

How would an illiterate dude living in a cave register to vote?

If he knows his date of birth and his social security number, he can register in California. If he doesn’t know his SSN, they can look it up for him. In Texas, he doesn’t get to vote.

Worked on Al Franken tho

Nope. Voting is a fundamental right of a citizen. An illiterate dude living in a cave who has never even seen a concrete building should have the right to vote, if he’s a citizen. It is a civic responsibility for us to lower the bar for voting as low as possible to disenfranchise as few people as possible.

All those things you said about IDs are true, and yes we should be helping people get them. But in the mean time we must not disenfranchise them.

Proving my point here. Yes, that’s privilege. It seems like normal to you, as all privilege does. But it’s very difficult for a lot of people.

That’s called privilege. You literally don’t realize what a burden it is for some people to comply with voter registration requirements, because your life is such that it’s easy for you.

I could try and explain it, but in my experience every example I give, you’ll take out of context and come up with a simple fix. Because you aren’t able to understand the cumulative effect of thousands of these examples all happening all the time. You’ll just pick each one, imagine it happening to you in your life once, and think “oh that’s not a big deal I could handle that”. But it’s death by a thousand cuts. “That” is not a one time aberration. Your whole life is nothing but “that”.

You just have to believe those of us more experienced in that kind of hardship than you.

Or, alternatively, believe the Republicans who have been caught on a hot mic saying that they implent voter ID laws specifically to suppress Dem votes.

I’ve been hearing a lot more interest in on site power generation, which would be nice except it will probably end up being natural gas.

Voter suppression go brrrrrr

Fuckin told ya! It’s just another elaborate goddamn “bothsides”

Great analysis, thank you

And you fuckers called me crazy for saying there was a concerted propaganda effort to conflate “neoliberal” with “liberal”

Neoliberals are Republicans.

Liberals are Democrats.

I like my job. They pay me fairly for 100% effort, so I give 100% effort. It’s the only place in my career where I feel like that’s the case though, so you’re mostly right. But there are exceptions.

I’m so lucky with my job. Whenever I see something that needs improving, my bosses are behind me 100% and I get loads of support. We just don’t have enough people, is the only problem, because the company refuses to hire more. We have the support but not the manpower.

Growing up poor (in a poor area especially) is such a different experience. My tree was barren from age 13 or so when I realized that if you don’t have money, you can’t do any of that stuff anyways. The idea of wasting my life away sounded like such a luxury. I didn’t have options, I had needs.

Every day at work, Bao Minh spends only two hours creating posts for his company’s social media with ChatGPT and the remaining six hours on watching movies.

And that’s…bad? Sounds awesome to me

Torment Nexus

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You must be very naive

No one is buying the bullshit you’re selling.

mandate

Aka you have no response

2008 was bad for all Americans.

This is a classic “blame the Democrats for the mess created by Republicans” right wing tactic. Republicans shit their diapers, then get voted out, then immediately start complaining that it smells awful and why would the Democrats do this