I offer mandatory national ID as a compromise where we protect the right to vote in exchange for making it easier to tell who is undocumented in this country.
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Yea I almost posted that word salad. Heâs such a fucking tool
The Elon Musk of poker?
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Jwax has posted similar stuff from Perkins. Think the HS poker community is better than average for the rich white male demo, but its not great.
I donât think you even have to actually vote in Australia. You should show up, write âFuck offâ on you ballot and turn it in. That would be an adequate fulfillment of the requirement and there wouldnât be a fine.
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Will there be means testing to rebate some of the fine when they file for taxes next
This is correct. Itâs in fact common enough they have a name for it. Itâs called a donkey vote.
Oh, I was talking about the actual situation in Australia, where there is no such thing. Edited my post to make it clearer.
I could easily imagine what you describe if attempts to bring that to America were made.
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Yeah you donât. The requirement is to turn up and submit a ballot paper. What is on the paper is your business. Also even if you donât go the fine is generally waived on excuses like âMy big toe was a bit ouchie so I couldnât go voteâ.
I submitted a blank ballot paper one election. At the time, the Labor leader was this guy:
In November 2018, Latham announced that he had joined One Nation as the partyâs state leader in New South Wales, and would stand for the Legislative Council at the 2019 state election⌠Latham ran on a platform which opposed immigration, congestion, overdevelopment and renewable power, and proposed DNA tests for Aboriginal welfare recipients and banning the burqa in Government buildings.
Latham was successful in his bid to return to parliament, winning an eight-year term in the Legislative Council. Lathamâs maiden speech to the NSW parliament focused on criticising âleftist elitesâ, maintaining the values of Western civilisation, the importance of education and the right to freedom of speech
That was a weird time. Latham was the partyâs MAVERICK who they were running as a hail mary to try to win an unwinnable election. He was less of a weirdo back then but still seemed like a POS if you were paying attention. I also thought their policy package that election was awful.
A federal election was called here yesterday, for May 21. Inshallah we are finally going to get rid of the conservative government.
A donkey vote is just numbering the candidates in the order they appear.
This is why you never indulge bad-faith bullshit.
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Itâs June 2022. Still waiting for all the trans athletes to start dominating to the point it renders womenâs sports dead.
Itâs a good article. It goes though the different factions within the medical community, gives some insight from different actors; parents of children who claim to be trans, and the children themselves.
Based on Rivaldoâs recent horrible transphobic posts across multiple threads, I want to revisit this thread.
We fucking told you this shit was hostile, We specifically called out Rivaldo and very little was done, with the exception of us being criticised for over reacting and being shrill.
Maybe when people who recognise hate tell you something is hate, you should fucking listen.
This forum talks a good game about being progressive, but canât even provide the barest modicum of safety for our trans members.
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I havenât read Rivaldoâs posts but I take full responsibility for whatever they were - if this thread didnât exist heâd never have posted them. Thanks for keeping me in line.
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My first big twoplustwo fight was in the thread about Leelah Alcorn, where I went absolutely HAM at a number of people, the main one being Ikes Fucking Toys. Let that sink in. And you were there in that thread. We even talked in PM during it. Yet and still, when I made some posts on this forum that you deemed not boilerplate virtue signaling enough, you accused me of being transphobic. Your sibling is trans, and thatâs why you care about this topic. Itâs a trivially conservative mindset and you donât have any actual deep understanding nor empathy about the human condition. My entire family is dead from cancer but it doesnât make me a fucking oncologist. Just shut your entire mouth about all of this if you actually want to help.
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You donât need me to stand up for you, but please donât stop talking and speaking as my ally. I appreciate you.
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I love this show. It is extremely queer allied. I promise itâs just the first half of the breakdown thatâs about the bad rep in a single episode.
The other part is about the AWESOME gender funky rep in season five.
Thatâs fair. I shouldâve probably omitted that last line. Maybe the entire post.