The onus is on the state not to kill people, not the people not to act up.

If the state starts executing political dissidents, it creates more political dissidents.

You cannot scare people into being how you want, en masse, forever.

It never works.

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I woke up and opened this app to look at some news and saw this first thing and…. holy shit.

I feel like… that is the most jarring and darkly absurdly ironic way to wake up I ever have…

What a surreal way to start a day. Fuck.

But how will they feel smart then?

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I think there’s an important distinction between making voting accessible and ensuring that voters understand the institutions and decisions they’re being asked to influence.

We already accept that voting eligibility can be subject to legal qualifications, although the reasons for those qualifications differ. (I.E. children, people deemed legally mentally incompetent, US Residents who aren’t US Citizens, convicted felons in many states, people still serving prison sentences in many states, etc etc.)

My question is whether civic competence should have any place in that discussion.

If someone cannot explain the basic structure of government, distinguish established historical facts from misinformation, or demonstrate a basic understanding of the economic and political systems affected by elections, what consequences does that have for democratic decision-making?

You wouldn’t give someone a gun without them knowing how they work or what happens to people when they shoot them…

So why give them the power to decide which man controls all the people with guns in the whole government when they don’t understand that power or the government?

I am aware that requiring a test raises serious concerns about discrimination, abuse, and the right to political representation. But I think those concerns deserve examination alongside the consequences of widespread civic ignorance.

Even if we disagree about restricting eligibility, can we at least agree that improving civic knowledge is essential to a functioning democracy?

And that maybe civic knowledge should be required in schools, or in adult life perhaps before accepting Jury Duty or something… or at some point in a citizen’s existence before they step into a voting booth?

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Imagine having that man as your father.

No wonder his kids are so fucked up.

I’m not sure how to respond to that other than to say I hope it’s not true.

The “you, not me” attack being normalized will be the downfall of civilization.

People who value the truth and experience empathy and instinctively do critical thinking cannot tolerate life under these conditions indefinitely.

Everything will break down.

I am so sick of this battle with willfully ignorant xenophobic sociopaths.

They are the blight of humanity.

All they do is evil shit that holds us all back. Everything is some kind of attack with them.

I want to be free of them.

I don’t want to live amongst these fucking people anymore.

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We are in World War 3, and it’s international pedophilic imperialism vs the rest of humanity.

Anyone who touts themselves as “conservative” and/or “pro big business” is an unwitting stooge for the purest evil humanity has ever refined.

We need to stop dismissing this as a decentralized and coincidental set of problems.

They are colluding en masse. The net effect is that they all work together towards the same ends of exploiting and enslaving us all, raping our children, and derailing the progress of the human race to serve the selfish interests of a few thousand billionaires.

This is and has been the biggest problem in the entire world.

Vote and advocate for the most socialist candidates you can find, and arm yourselves for the inevitable alternative.

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Knee-jerk had me suspicious of OP’s framing and the validity of the article.

OP is kind of right though.

Shit did get way worse for immigrants in ‘96.

If someone is just going to choose to be a destabilizing agent in society and deliberately psychologically assault people, they should be removed.

Send them to prison like Johnny Somali.

Great, you’re expressing great frustration without explaining any specific details. That’s not what you’re supposed to do.

Try telling us what to do.

My girlfriend thinks capitalism is fine and doesn’t care about billionaires existing.

She’s never had a minimum wage job or worked in the service industry 🙄