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Yes. Or just not requiring it, as our laws are built around free movement (you don’t need an ID or to ID yourself just because some official requests it), and voting fraud by individuals is very rare (while voting fraud by organizations that get power with certain elections is common).

Great solution for a small part of the US population. The country is designed around car transport, it’s a dead end forced on us long ago. Few cities have (and can have) adequate mass transit that serves even a fraction of the area. I’m anti-car too, but also realize that it’s how things work for most people. So yes, fuel or transportation infrastructure is a right as long as people have to get around to survive.

And agents who don’t do this, or do other illegal acts should be dealt with. Right? Hello?

Religions are very adaptable. At least the ones that survive long times. Simply need to reinterpret scripture to include the new information, even claim to predict it. I think there’s a certain percentage or type of people who need some kind of religious structure to deal with life, it’s a biological thing. Being skeptical and setting aside your own beliefs for analysis is not an easy thing to do.

Of course it could go the other way and aliens confirm that the religion is true, just maybe that our records of events is off a bit. Cue the joke about the aliens saying they absolutely know Jesus, he comes by every year because they give him cookies or chocolate, and then ask why he doesn’t come to Earth regularly, what did we give him?

So hard choices are back on the menu.

So there’s obviously a back and forth on the legal side, but presumably people are right now getting the funds when they go buy food, right? It says “will not have to make hard choices” but doesn’t specifically say there’s money for them right NOW.

This timeline they’ve already been through the system and saw our broadcasts. Guess who is on the “Do Not Contact” list for the warp capable group?

Basically, laws are only good if they’re enforced. Otherwise they’re just words on paper.

“Dude, high score!”

Amazon is its own thing. It’s not really a shipping company. And they’ve had their own layoff issues. Consumers spending less affects everyone.

I saw this movie.

And many/most Republicans. Gerrymandering, limited voting areas, and intimidation at the poll are standard tactics to try and reduce people who might vote against them.

To be fair, Democrats have gerrymandered in history as well. District lines should be an independent determination, not by who is currently in control of a state government.

Being against having many options to let your vote be heard is very anti-American.

The fact that such legal measures aren’t used on so many of our representatives when they show obvious decline (or incompetence) shows that others behind the scene are gaining from keeping them in place as long as possible. This isn’t a way to run a government.

He should have been in jail long before that, impeached with the help of his party and barred from ever serving as President again. A reminder that Trump is not the sole problem, and is more of a symptom of a bigger issue that has been allowed to grow for decades.

How much power the federal government can wield has been a debate since the founding. The first two political parties were the Federalists and Democratic-Republicans. The optimal version is probably somewhere in between, with lots of checks and balances that can vary through situations and time. We had some of that too through history.

It’s always hardest to see the best direction to take when in the middle of historical change, but it does seem we’ve slid a bit too far at this point to use the system that is broken to fix the system. I’m wondering not only what path we’re going to take to get to the next stage, but how the world is going to act while we do it, given how tangled the US with everything. Some might say to let it burn, ignore it, play isolationism, but that approach never worked out historically, nor did trying to step in and “fix” things.

It will actually break many of them. When a lot of GoFundMe are now for buying groceries, as well as credit cards being used for the same, this can’t last.

I won’t be surprised if the costs continue to increase past the first projected numbers, and somehow that money is… well, misplaced somewhere.

Some will as much as they can. This will then be used as evidence that government public support programs aren’t needed.

I don’t disagree that Democrats are problematic and have much to improve. But that “both sides” is some tart kool-aid to drink, to think that things would be the same or even worse had Trump lost. I’d like less rust, please. Also, that definition of fascist is a very broad and loose one if Harris falls into it. Must be the one that Trump used, where it’s combined with “communist”, “socialist”, and other words he has no understanding of.