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And Rohan is a filthy communist wasteland who shoul stay out of our affairs!
Wait, is the NAACP a cadre of villains now? Is that a thing people believe?
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Goddamn it this is embarrassing.
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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/03/14/un-delves-into-us-voter-id-laws/?godthisishorseshit/
everything after the ? is a value, and it's ignored.
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http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2012/04/voter_suppression.html
That's just... Wow! I knew some of that was going on, but Christ! Why don't we just get rid of universal suffrage and start persecuting sinners again?
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Have you been following the Republican Party lately? That's pretty much their entire publicly stated goal.
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yeah, it took me a long time to shift from intellectually knowing that this sort of thing happened, to really having it sink it that they're doing this on purpose.
And I'm "pretty much" a woman except for a few chromosomes.
What. The. Shit.
They need a super majority in both houses. If they don't have that, the bill can't take effect immediately. Something's rotten in Denmark. Very, very rotten.
Well this is assuming that 10 Democrats in the House are not crossing party lines. While the Democrats have less of a solid record of party solidarity, having looked over the content of some of the bills passed I'm pretty sure that at least once fewer than 10 Democrats crossed party lines.
So yeah, something screwy is going on. Especially when the Democrats demand roll call votes and are denied, and then sue their own House of Representatives because holy shit they're being completely ignored.
Are you arguing that the recent nonsense in Texas, Arizona, Virginia, etc, along with the hard tack to starboard the Republican Party is taking over contraception, denying blacks and hispanics voting rights in many areas, as well as having Rick Fucking Santorum straight up spouting religious dogma is not an indication that overall the Republican Party is not aiming for the U.S. to lean closer to a theocracy and suppressing others rights than it has ever been before?
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They'll care once white people start being affected by it.
Edit: And now I can't find it either...
Second edit: Found it. It was dailykos.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/03/29/1079060/-Michigan-Republicans-ignore-a-House-floor-full-of-Democrats-calling-for-a-roll-call-vote
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Time to invoke Article IV, Section 4 then.
If you don't own land, you shouldn't be able to vote.
If you don't have a penis, you shouldn't be allowed to vote.
Michigan is a good example. People don't care. In fact, they love the Party, and the Party loves them. The Party is Always Right.
So fuck their democracy. I hope they cry tears so bitter it turns to sand when they realize what's happened.
What I've come to realize is that no one will ever realize anything. At least, not a significant number of people, anyway. The problem is that if they succeed in making things worse, they will just keep blaming the liberal boogeyman and their supporters will keep believing it.
I've got a bunch of friends living in Flint. I had to tell them the details of the government takeover thing because they were so busy trying to work their 3 jobs and educate their kids on the side of what school was failing to do that they didn't know anything about the government of their town.
They'll get away with it because nobody who is being abused by the laws has the time or energy to pay attention.
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Well they aren't on The LOPCATGOPATA.
Election results swing much more over here with parties coming from nowhere and getting up to 7%, while others go from 14% down to 3% in 1 year.
Only thing that gives me hope is that there are still people who push education and fact finding.
Maybe when I retire I'll get into politics, or assassinate evil politicians. Whichever is less morally bankrupt
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The mind. It boggles it.
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For a lot of Republican voters, a gun is a more important right than a vote.
I really wish I was kidding.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/dirty-tricks-in-michigan/2012/04/06/gIQAD0FC0S_blog.html
Obvious reform/probe needed. This is a pretty clear infringement
e: apparently the dems haven't had control of the state legislature for a long time.
So do I.
The counter-argument I got was "Well the 2nd amendment says the right to bear arms shall not be infringed, so that's totally different."
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Yeah, and every single voting amendment has a caveat "for race" "for gender" "for age".
It's batshit that we have to be that specific.
The article doesn't say whether this is traditionally done for measures that clearly do not have the votes required or had been done to speed up the machinations of the legislature when Michigan's version of Tom Coburn tries to delay a nearly-unanimous vote.
In any case, I highly doubt it has ever been used on anything as contentious as the Ave Caesar Act of 2011 or the Fuck You TAs Bill. This is tyranny, plain and simple.
It's irrelevant since I can't find any records of when the Democrats actually had control of the legislature, but I would argue that the purpose doesn't really matter here. No one who employed this trick should be cleared just because they used it for a subjectively "better" purpose. It's wrong just the same.
Republican position on contraception/sex ed has hardly changed in the decades I've been alive, so not sure where this "hard tack" nonsense is coming from. And Santorum, really? LMAO.
Also, whining that Southern far-right states are dictating the ENTIRE Republican Hive-Mind makes about as much sense as suggesting far-left advocates are doing the same for Democrat voters.
As a previous poster said, when you start complaining that Republicans are getting away with gangster shit, that things MUST change, and then you go into the voting booth and vote Democrat because its the "lesser of two evils" - you kinda cede your ethical highground. What is happening in Michigan is hardly new or novel; pretending political abuse is unprecedented and is the signal of "the end" is just silly.