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I suspect there will be a new rotating villain to vote for it.

Yes.

About X being a toxic platform. My point was about UK censorship and isolation.

Wild assumption, my dude.

Yeah that’s No Good™. We should let the UK do what it wants.

Who cares, let the UK isolate more. Maybe blocking X is a good thing, I’m not wading into that conversation. But broadly the UK is clamping down on their Internet, so maybe they should just go full Great Chinese Firewall and get it over with. ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

Hypocrisy does not bother these people. In fact, it’s a good thing to them if it annoys you. They believe in nothing.

Yeah, it’ll have to be done eventually. I’m ok with this. I don’t trust his intentions, but the result of getting rid of it will be good for us in the long run, I think.

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Everyone assumes he means himself, but I think this is more of a veiled threat to her safety.

Just looked at the PCB board and man that guy is such a insufferable, gatekeeping twat.

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“The gun just did that.”

We really should figure out a way to publicly shame this passive voice bullshit.

lol that looks like a parody how are people like benny not humiliated posting stuff like this?

I think he’s just lying. He might be dumb on top of it, but I think he’s just seeing what direction the wind is blowing and trying to get ahead of it.

They know. That’s not the point of these things. The point is to spy on you. It’s not any more complicated than that. They want to spy on you and they are straight up lying about it.

I have my tin foil hat on, but I’m wondering if the Sinclair owners are willing to take a loss on their media front in order to have the social influence of the local TV stations. The influence may be more valuable to them than the revenue.

Yeah, what’s the point? You get stuck listening to him ramble about something not related to your business there. The photo-ops are always humiliating, as he tries to wrap you into whatever stupid-ass controversy he’s dealing with at the moment. Not worth the time.

it’s not really that hard to get one

That’s the rub. It is not convenient at all here to get ID. The joke universally understood here is that the DMV (the place where the vast majority get their ID) is the worst run, least efficient government body, taking hours to days to navigate.

Add to this that getting to and from the DMV is mostly car dependent. If you’re extremely lucky, you live in NYC that has good* public transportation. If you’re regular lucky, you live in a large city with a very unreliable bus system that might come by your stop once an hour. Going to the DMV becomes a day long chore. If you’re not lucky, you live in a rural area where the DMV is miles away from where you live, underfunded, and understaffed. If you don’t have car (elderly? disabled?) or you’re too busy to make it during business hours (can’t take off work? tough shit) you’ll be out of luck.

And none of this is to say that it is easy to acquire the ID once (if) you arrive. You need various forms of paperwork that may or may not be readily available to you. Sometimes you have to get paperwork from other government bodies, which are also cumbersome. Also the backlogs. In my state, the backlog for driver license renewal is months long.

To summarize: nothing is really made for convenience here as it concerns voting. Decades of Republican sabotage has put as many obstacles in place to make voting (and registering to vote) difficult as possible. Even getting ID is cumbersome and relies on being healthy enough and well-off enough to be able to afford the trouble of getting it.

I was speaking generally about the concept of deporting “the criminal illegals”.