That's its aim, yes. That's not even arguable. Now you can argue that it has some legitimate ethical basis, but that's not the basis of the strategy. Would Republicans be trying to introduce these measures if it hurt them electorally? Would Democrats be fighting the introduction of these measures if it helped them electorally? I recommend letting those stay as rhetorical questions, otherwise people will think you have brain damage.
do they have voter ID in Australia ?
If the R's were against it the D's would be for it. I am very capable with my level of brain damage.
I worry about both haha.
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Mind telling me where you stand on this opinion going around?
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Why are you white knighting for Tommy Robinson?I agree
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I don't think it's him. I think it's the moment and how primed it is for populism. If it was just him, it wouldn't be happening around the world in very different political economic systems. It's like people have gradually woken up to the fact that they actually can take over states and other institutions. The right has been better at it because they appeal to more basic beliefs that are usually inculcated in traditionally empowered people by their families and communities. But left populism took hold in Greece until recently and arguably in Spain and now here in the US it's gaining steam with Bernie, the Justice Dems, etc.
Not trying too
Shaun King praising the Antifa guy that showed up with an AR 15 amd fire bombed the immigration facility . Calling him a martyr.
Shaun King isn't what I'd ever consider a credible source for facts, opinions, or political points of view, except occasionally on police shootings where he's established himself as a semi-reliable information source, more so now that he has Greenwald as an editor. Overall, based on the testimonies of activists he's marginalized and families whose wishes he's disregarded, I'd say he's kind of a huckster who routinely plays the social media influencer game a little too hard.
It's not in and of itself. It's often how these laws are written and their implementation. They are intended to disenfranchise poor people who don't know about them, or to discourage their participation in the voting process. None of these laws include programs to make sure every citizen has one and often put a price on gaining one. The voting electorate is already low and they want to keep people disengaged by making it harder to vote, because they don't have popular support - the higher the turnout is nationally the more likely it is for the Republicans to lose.
The Insidious Libertarian-to-Alt-Right PipelineI really don't understand this board sometimes. Most of you are nominally libertarian, which means the state should be as restrained as possible. Yet here you are wishing for the state to exert it's power on protestors. There's something weird about Trump where people seem to talk about him like he's not really part of the state or he's "our guy" who's somehow captured state power and is keeping "them" (whoever it is) from ruining America. That may have been true 3 years ago and maybe even in his first months in office, but now he is in every way the state. He owns much of the apparatus. He's replaced most entrenched bureaucrats with his own people. He's appointed loyalist judges. He's got a staff and cabinet of yes men after Stephen Miller helped purge all the people GOP leadership saddled them with. He's even primaried some Republican Congress members with people who follow his lead.
So whether it's Antifa, the Proud Boys, Neo-nazis or the Young Communist League, you are objectively rooting for the state to begin a campaign of crushing it's enemies and dissenters. And why? Because Antifa, a largely disorganized ad hoc group of wannabe anarchists (also against the state) gets together via discord chats, Meetup and Facebook groups and like any poorly organized protest movement have people who lack discipline and do reckless things (see Anonymous and the materials they often randomly leaked to shame institutions without protecting victims of those institutions' privacy as an example).
Any instance of this lack of discipline is being piped directly into conservative newsfeeds via bots and other paid campaigns to promote an image of a rowdy "alt-left" being widespread and out of control, plus having media providing cover for them.@Wild for instance is no doubt getting these things in every social media feed he has, probably penned by the authors of Quilette or some other outlet. But I assure you, that's deliberate. And it's not because you're so shrewd and have access to true news "the MSM won't show you." It's because the instances are rare and usually under investigation by local law enforcement.
Further, it's surprising to me that any libertarian would be in favor of detention facilities of any kind. Whether you're a left or right libertarian, the unifying principles have always been opposition to the military industrial complex, the prison industrial complex, and the surveillance state. I can certainly understand opposing propaganda by the deed, but the criticism here isn't being articulated in a way to suggest it's about the tactics as much as a hatred of the enemy.
It's lipstick libertarianism, which is only being actually libertarian as long as your side is out of power then falling in line with law and order once someone says a few things you like. Cliven Bundy was using arms to oppose what he considered state violence and the same people who jacked off into their socks over his weekly news dispatches are likely clamoring for a state crackdown on whomever annoys them. The thing is Trump was never the guy. He never was genuinely sympathetic to either law and order or libertarianism. He just adopted the rhetoric to get elected, with Bannon whispering what to say to activate that base. Now he's running the state and mostly using it to advantage big capital, because he's a rich kid turned rich adult. He's already started rounding people up on the basis of where they're from. Now you guys want him to round up some other people. History tells us once you get the ball rolling on rounding people up, it usually doesn't stop.
that is assuming poor people dont have ID. you have to show govt ID to vote in canada. if you dont drive there is another govt ID card you can get to vote and cash cheques etc. there is nothing stopping anyone from getting such ID. its also racist to assume minorities cant afford or figure out how to get ID
that is absolutely some of the dumbest bullshit reasoning any dumbass democrat puts out there. been hearing this ridiculous shit for years. fucking idiotic dumbass bullshit. i guess having a person get a drivers license is just a way to keep minorities from driving. fucking stupid.
