I don't understand the voter suppression concept, first who does not have an ID and how is ID voter suppression. In all reality if you don't have an ID before it's time to vote you were not motivated enough about voting in the first place imo.
The eyes look too nice to be Trump.
unless someone slipped him some Ecstasy.
Would Ecstasy make Trump a better president ?
It would be a really good idea if everyone read up a bit on socialism before tossing the term around in ignorance. Many of the comments using the word socialist as an evil or an insult show nothing more than a lack of understanding.
The very short definition of socialism is a political and economic theory of social organization which advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole.
Substituting this definition in the places it has been used here proves the point. Water was the closest to reality referencing roads and public schools. These social services are somewhat socialistic. In Europe, Countries did own and operate some businesses like airlines as Lufthansa, British Arways, Air France, Sabena, Scandi etc. The survivors now exist as private companies. These countries were socialistic but not really socialist. They all have a socialist political party, but this is just one of several political parties and a part of the democratic decision making process.
So....you guys wanna get high...
It would be a really good idea if everyone read up a bit on socialism before tossing the term around in ignorance. Many of the comments using the word socialist as an evil or an insult show nothing more than a lack of understanding.
The very short definition of socialism is a political and economic theory of social organization which advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole.
Substituting this definition in the places it has been used here proves the point. Water was the closest to reality referencing roads and public schools. These social services are somewhat socialistic. In Europe, Countries did own and operate some businesses like airlines as Lufthansa, British Arways, Air France, Sabena, Scandi etc. The survivors now exist as private companies. These countries were socialistic but not really socialist. They all have a socialist political party, but this is just one of several political parties and a part of the democratic decision making process.
I am completely aware of what socialism is. What you aren't understanding is, exactly what you stated, is what I am opposed to. I do think the fact that you are essentially asking the government to force this on people who may not want it. I don't think the farm that has been in the family for 3 generations should be controlled by the people (in reality government).
The reason a business owner makes profit, is
1. He invest the money, and labor.
2. He takes all the risk.
Why would anyone build something if control and reward for the risk is turned over to the people. People who risked nothing, and invested nothing. The actual risk is still placed on the business owners. So, they get all of the down side, but none of the reward.
I do realize their are countries with a major social safety net, that have capitalist economies. Those countries generally have extremely high taxes, high value added taxes, a much smaller and more homogeneous population. Oh, and those extreme taxes start at like 60 grand a year.
You want to tell the American truck driver making 70 k a year, your going to take 40 grand of it, and then charge him a outrageous value added tax, on damn near everything he buys.
No dullard. Its why I pay taxes. I just dont want to pay more than I have to because I work my ass off for what I have. Not to give it to lazy and stupid people who are basically a waste of skin and never will amount to anything.
Let’s start with driver’s licenses, the gold-standard for photo ID in the USA. Easy to assume that everyone drives and everyone has a license, so yeah, what’s the catch?I don't understand the voter suppression concept, first who does not have an ID and how is ID voter suppression. In all reality if you don't have an ID before it's time to vote you were not motivated enough about voting in the first place imo.
Not all by itself, it wouldn’t....DAMN!
Would Ecstasy make Trump a better president ?
Let’s start with driver’s licenses, the gold-standard for photo ID in the USA. Easy to assume that everyone drives and everyone has a license, so yeah, what’s the catch?
It turns out, not everyone has one, for a variety of reasons: they may have never owned a car and never driven one; they may not own one or be able to drive now; they may not be able to produce the evidence now required for one; they may not be able to reach a DMV office on foot or by public transportation or via family / friends; their work schedule may make it impossible for them to be at the DMV during business hours.
#1 - the DMV in many/all states will issue a state photo ID to non-drivers, so that takes care of a fair number of folks, but this only applies to those not caught by the others
#2 - many of those who could otherwise get that photo ID fall afoul of needing to *get* there, but can’t
#3 - once upon a time, to get a DL in my home state, you needed to have one already, or be accompanied by an adult with a valid DL showing they were over 21, in which case they could *vouch* for you. I have had a DL in the same state for more than 50 years, and when it was time to renew it this last time, I needed to bring my birth certificate and proof of current residency, in addition to the license...and I’m a perfectly ordinary overage white boy on the outside.
What about everybody else? Here’s where it gets sticky.
Let’s talk about getting to the DMV. For the moment, ask yourself how long it would take you to get to your nearest office if a car was not an option? What if it’s raining? Or freezing? How far away is that?
In Alabama, within the last few years, has closed every rural DMV office in the state: what might have been an hour’s walk or more could take a day or more. Anyone poor enough to live in the boonies (*most* of Alabama) and not have a car stands little chance of getting to and from the DMV in a day, or even two, if the lines are long enough. Most poor people have jobs that will fire them for being late or not showing up, and poor people can’t afford to do any of that, despite the most fervent desire to cast a vote.
Last year, a county in South Georgia did something similar: they closed 9 of the county’s 12 polling places...requiring every voter in the county to go all the way to the county seat to vote...and it’s a bigger county than many.
Voter suppression is about making it hard, expensive, impossible to end up in a voting booth, casting your ballot.
But they’re not doing that to everyone, obviously - *you* probably don’t have to go through any of that - so who ARE they doing it to? Well, poor people are the obvious target, and there’s two reasons that stick out to me: one is that a great many poor people work service jobs, and service jobs have crappy schedules to go with their crappy pay, so two, keeping them away from the voting booth *keeps* their working lives from getting better, keeps them in three jobs trying to make ends meet.
It also happens that the bigger bulk of citizens affected by these tactics are black, so they’re expected to vote for Democrats....
There’s more to it, but it boils down to actively putting up roadblocks to political participation by citizens who are entitled to participate, and it’s done for political and economic gain.
#4 - many people born out beyond the lights get born at home and not in a hospital, but a hospital-issued birth certificate is one of the required forms of proof of identity and citizenship. Without that, your rights as a citizen can be infringed under pretext.
Hope that answers some of it...
maybe you should just stop using words: it’s like you just stab yourself in the face over and over as if that makes you *something* in your own eyes.All this is complete bullshit. Read the Harvard (liberal as fuck) study I posted and you will see this ‘narrative’ is trash. The ONLY people voter ID prevents from voting are 3rd world rape-u-gees. Quit spouting this garbage. *honk honk*
I am completely aware of what socialism is. What you aren't understanding is, exactly what you stated, is what I am opposed to. I do think the fact that you are essentially asking the government to force this on people who may not want it. I don't think the farm that has been in the family for 3 generations should be controlled by the people (in reality government).
The reason a business owner makes profit, is
1. He invest the money, and labor.
2. He takes all the risk.
Why would anyone build something if control and reward for the risk is turned over to the people. People who risked nothing, and invested nothing. The actual risk is still placed on the business owners. So, they get all of the down side, but none of the reward.
I do realize their are countries with a major social safety net, that have capitalist economies. Those countries generally have extremely high taxes, high value added taxes, a much smaller and more homogeneous population. Oh, and those extreme taxes start at like 60 grand a year.
You want to tell the American truck driver making 70 k a year, your going to take 40 grand of it, and then charge him a outrageous value added tax, on damn near everything he buys.
If his taxes went towards helping him and his family live a better/healthier life than I bet he would choose that over his taxes going to the military and where in turn he gets almost nothing out of it.
people in other countries are shocked that americans are willing to give up there social care in order to finance the imperialistic goals of our military run gov.