Republican voter suppression...
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57Brave
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from the mouths of Babes
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One last time then I will drop it
Until we see how the courts view it
White people explaining Jim Crow is kinda odd --- wouldn't one think ?
Black voters my age grew up in the last days of Jim Crow --- I will accept their insight before white posters on a baseball message board. 60-70 years on
and even those a generation behind the last of those that lived through it heard the stories all their lives.
I remember hearing black people talk about the Green Book years before it became fashionable in white society to discuss that history
Well, voting rights and the restrictions on voting fall into the same category.
Please wonder, why is water in lines such a big deal ?
Wouldn't it be unnecessary if there were more polling stations, better hours, easier access to mail in balloting?
To eliminate long lines and long waits. Long lines and long waits are disproportionately are an urban experience.
So the answer is to place more restrict ions on an already dysfunctional system with discredited methods ?
Why ?
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Let's go back to ACORN and James O'Keefe
this is similar in that we have a false solution in search of a problem
And who again is claiming there is a problem ?
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Jaw
It's OVER 5,000!
Tap is a legend. Magnificent.
The sad thing is, just like with gun control measures, there are several things that are clearly wrong and easily fixable with voter registration and/or mail in voting, but neither side is actually trying to address those issues in good faith. Both sides use issues like gun control and voter registration as cover for whatever ****ty agenda they are trying to further, meanwhile nothing gets fixed.
nsacpi
Expects Yuge Games
The cause of voter participation is a very important one. But I think the outrage is misdirected in this particular instance. When you have a good cause there should be no need to manufacture a casus belli where one doesn't exist. If some good is to come of this, I hope it will be in the form of deterring other states from taking action that actually makes voting more difficult.
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striker42
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The cause of voter participation is a very important one. But I think the outrage is misdirected in this particular instance. When you have a good cause there should be no need to manufacture a casus belli where one doesn't exist. If some good is to come of this, I hope it will be in the form of deterring other states from taking action that actually makes voting more difficult.
Just MLB virtue signalling. I'm checked out on baseball. Have been since the end of last year. At best it's a broken game where a few clubs have ridiculous advantages, at worst it's rigged. But if I needed another reason to abandon the game, this certainly is one.
I find it interesting that Cuomo killed old people and covered it up and not a peep about punishing businesses in that state.
sturg33
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If it were based on literally anything real, I'd understand it somewhat.
This is a complete fabrication of reality. Makes me want to move on from baseball as well. What a joke
striker42
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Join me my friend. The only reason I hang around on these boards is I've made friends. I don't care about the game anymore. It was good once upon a time but is just garbage now.
AKA...the whole point.
striker42
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So, suppose a group of MAGA hat wearing, qanon theorists got organized enough to start pulling off some boycotts at levels capable of hurting businesses. Would you be okay with businesses caving to a right wing mob? Or is it only okay when businesses cater to causes you agree with?
Personally, I want to see businesses butt out of politics. I'd even support a constitutional amendment that limited organizational campaign contributions as well as the ability of organizations to campaign in elections. A for profit corporation is a legal fiction organized to allow the organizers to make money and limit liability. I don't need the legal fiction telling me how I should think on political issues.
GeorgiaGirl
NL Rookie of the Year
If this bill was only about the adjustment to the absentee ballot that requires an ID and shortening the runoff time (which, BTW: Shafer's complete and total clown car operation that made him and his crew look like absolute clowns only led to the GA GOP shooting themselves in the foot massively with the relative long period before the runoff in this case anyway), I really wouldn't have any issues with it at all. But it's not. There are two specific reasons why I think the bill sucks, and I am still not going to give those reasons away, as I am just going to be called a leftist.
striker42
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I'm interested in the specific reasons. So long as you have reasons supporting the objections I say you're ahead of the vast majority of people. Most people blindly follow without doing any thinking of their own. I for one will respect any opinion as long as it's the product of thought and reasoning and not just because someone told that person to believe that way.
GeorgiaGirl
NL Rookie of the Year
The Atlanta area is still very likely to be turning into Georgia's version of North Virginia. Unless you see some reversion back to where it was before in places like Cherokee and Forsyth voting wise (still red counties but not as red as they were, which is a huge blow to Republicans in the state because of how big the counties are), elections going forward are going to be tough at best, and if some of the areas surrounding Atlanta continue to shift away from voting GOP, which is very likely given the shifts you're seeing across America (there are plenty that don't like the right-wing populist game that live in the suburbs), that's the ballgame.
And given what you're seeing, there's not much that can be done to stop it.
And given what you're seeing, there's not much that can be done to stop it.
striker42
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Georgia has some interesting aspects. The metro Atlanta area has a lot of moderate conservatives in it. Ones that didn't like the...unpredictability of Trump. These are affluent, educated, business conservatives. This is also where I think the GOP struggled in the last election. They either stayed home or voted for Biden and I think they definitely stayed home in the Senate runoffs after Trump's antics.
It will be interesting to see how things go moving forward. A more stable candidate could bring these people back into the fold as they're not likely to appreciate the free spending of Biden. Another Trump type and you'll even worse struggles for Republicans ahead.
And witnessesing the absolute disaster of a progressive presidency.