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Comment · 3 hours ago
You aren't a functional country.

https://www.npr.org/2022/12/05/1140778386/real-id-enforcemen...

https://www.votebeat.org/2025/06/09/proof-of-citizenship-doc...

It is also funny you have at people not being real adults when the vice president of the United States - himself very worried about election fraud - is saying people in Alaska may be confused between two Sullivans on the ballot because "people are busy. People have lives. People have jobs". Apparently he thinks a large proportion of Alaskans aren't functioning adults. Funny, that.

Comment · 16 hours ago
Yeah, "all" the Democrats will throw you under the bus. All of them. You aren't delusional at all. How much better you are under the Republicans!

You would like a third, fourth choice outside of Democrats and Republicans? Well, you would need a ranked-choice voting system for that. Remind me, who is pushing to extend that system of voting? And who is completely opposed to it and is even banning it wherever they can? Dare to answer?

Comment · 19 hours ago
> When they had all 3 branches of legislature, they couldn't get stuff passed

And why? Aren't you forgetting something?

Who is hurt most by a government shutdown? What does it solve? Would Democrats have gained something politcally or lost more support?

Comment · 19 hours ago
So you think you are better? What have you achieved? Your own purity, at the expense of your trans friends' rights? "Yeah, you are hounded now by crass Republicans who use every lever of power to make your life hell, but at least I didn't vote for a Democrat who may or may not have lied about his support! Praise me!"
Comment · 21 hours ago
Which they did, so your point is?
Comment · 21 hours ago
Yeah, so, it won't be put up for a vote before the midterms. So? Are you going to vote for the party that at least proposes to do something you want, or will you vote, or leave in place, the party that has proposed nothing or the opposite?
Comment · 22 hours ago
The "silent majority" doesn't exist if it doesn't vote. Democracy isn't Halloween, ghosts don't exist.
Comment · 22 hours ago
>At least try to legislate.

It is still "puffery" if they don't have the needed majority to pass it. I am sorry, I can see you try to find any excuse, purity test, "no true Scotsman" fallacy, to rationalize not voting for the Democrats, but you will have to if you want anything to happen.

Comment · 1 day ago
>I have no issue if people want to implement measures to make it easier to get ID.

That's the big "if". That's why the current representatives who pretend to want to secure the elections are only pretending. That's why you are not answering in good faith, because you are ignoring/handwaving that crucial part.

>Sure, I mean, going to the grocery store is also very oppressive. You need money, time, transport, etc.

Going to the grocery store is not a constitutional right. We already went through this vacuous argument when Republicans pretended that "you have to show ID to have unlimited pasta at the Olive Garden" as an excuse for their sudden request to force states to impose ID requirements just before the midterms. Again: bad faith argument.

I live in a country where there is ID requirements to vote. It is also a place where we use paper ballots, and polling places have never queues longer than five minutes, and voting only happens on Sundays. There is no mail voting. There is no gerrymandering. This is all possible because the whole system is made to make voting convenient and always has been. This can't be said of the USA which has an old and present history of massive voter suppression and electoral manipulation. The current push from Republicans to "secure" the elections is a complete bad faith attempt because they are completely open, at all levels, this is only to cancel and contest Democrat votes. That's what you describe as "election security currently seems important enough to me that voter ID laws seem reasonable". You completely ignore that, as well as the lies behind the argument:

"From 16,000 to 185 to Zero: Trump’s Claims of Illegal Voting in Nevada Fizzle"

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/us/politics/nevada-voters...

https://archive.is/20260924155025/https://www.nytimes.com/20...

16000 lies.

Comment · 1 day ago
Yeah, it is not as if Trump was planning (more) massive war crimes, against Iran in particular, right now. (I mean , on top of the ongoing war crimes in the Caribbean Sea.) I am completely exaggerating here, right? It is not as if the secretary of war had fired another top ranking military officer without offering any explanation:

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/hegseth-fires-the-pent...

Or it isn't as if top oil executives are changing their business trip plans to the United Arab Emirates:

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/exxon-chevron-cancel...

No need to think anything important is going to happen with an insane president (did you know that "dumb" ends with a "b"? Did you know that?) surrounded by incompetent sycophants.

We can all see the equivalence here: some people said that Obama was the antichrist, some people say now that Trump is senile, violent, racist and unhinged. Clearly they are both wrong. Both sides. Clearly. It is obvious that both are decent, educated men who just carry their elected duties.

Comment · 1 day ago
Well, you'll see after the midterms... You know, the one where the DOJ is looking to cancel the election in Alaska, where Texas GOP officials are trying to stop the election, where Homeland Security Investigation officers are sent to a sitting Representative's home at dawn and the president is boasting she has forfeited her seat...

Totally normal stuff in a democracy, don't we agree?

Just imagine the shittiest country that you can think of. Now imagine everything I described above happening in that country. Now imagine how you would react to that, and how it would be covered in the news and punditry.

Comment · 1 day ago
>The average constitution lasts about 18 years

What

Comment · 1 day ago
>It was not particularly difficult to get.

Thank you for reminding us that you aren't working three jobs in the same day to make ends meet, have disposable income and free time to collect the documents and get to the office twice,and live in a district where said office isn't half a day of driving (with the current gas prices) away.

And of course, you are fine with people with less affodances than you not being able to vote. Such moral character on top of your comfortable life.

Comment · 1 day ago
And won.

The truth is that Americans hate the working class. They idolize the super rich.

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