Topic: An Easter message of love and compassion from former (and future?) President Trump.
Anonymous A started this discussion 2 years ago#110,301
"HAPPY EASTER TO ALL, INCLUDING THOSE THAT DREAM ENDLESSLY OF DESTROYING OUR COUNTRY BECAUSE THEY ARE INCAPABLE OF DREAMING ABOUT ANYTHING ELSE. THOSE THAT ARE SO INCOMPETENT THEY DON'T REALIZE THAT HAVING A BORDER AND POWERFUL WALL IS A GOOD THING, & HAVING VOTER I.D., ALL PAPER BALLOTS, & SAME DAY VOTING WILL QUICKLY END MASSIVE VOTER FRAUD, & TO ALL OF THOSE WEAK & PATHETIC RINOS, RADICAL LEFT DEMOCRATS, SOCIALISTS MARXISTS, & COMMUNISTS WHO ARE KILLING OUR NATION, REMEMBER, WE WILL BE BACK!"
Anonymous G joined in and replied with this 2 years ago, 1 minute later, 1 day after the original post[^][v]#1,228,693
@1,228,648 (dw !p9hU6ckyqw)
It is because of a long history of denying blacks the vote by creating conditions at the polls. Poll taxes, literacy tests, ID cards that are easily denied for minutiae...all have been used to deny the black vote. That is the real issue.
Anonymous E replied with this 2 years ago, 9 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[^][v]#1,228,697
I’ll give you an example when I lived at home with my parents (90% white neighborhood in California) back in 2012
I would go to a church and there were five old people who have a book with all the names of people who live in the precinct and you tell them your name and then they initial next to your name in the book
The old guy who asked for my name couldn’t hear me and I’d have to repeat myself then he’d look through the book two or three times to find my name and then an old lady next to him found my name but it was filled in because my dad had already voted and they crossed off the wrong name
They were like oops and gave me a ballot anyway
It’s a question of whether people care enough to commit fraud… it would be super easy to do so even voting in person as long as you knew the name of someone in the neighborhood. If your name isn’t on the list they give you a provisional ballot that is then checked against the voter registry later. Most people now just vote by mail much easier
They check your signature with the signature on file with the registar of voters but that’s just on the envelope… in theory you could just get someone to sign an envelope and then fill out the ballot for them that’s what people are worried happens with ballot harvesting but there’s never been proof the harvesters are the ones filling out the ballots
Anonymous G replied with this 2 years ago, 9 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[^][v]#1,228,726
@1,228,715 (dw !p9hU6ckyqw)
The thing is that voting in the US takes place in local, individual districts fun mostly by volunteers. It is very easy to use some technicality to screw with a black person's vote.
Anonymous E double-posted this 2 years ago, 1 minute later, 1 day after the original post[^][v]#1,228,736
The most current argument against voter ID is that POC can’t get a drivers license or state ID because they are too poor or stupid to because of structural racism
Anonymous E double-posted this 2 years ago, 2 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[^][v]#1,228,743
I’m not sure why the focus of conversation is on the south when the states that largely don’t require voter id are big blue states like California New York and Illinois
> It seems to be a black person thing because historically they were prevented from having id and voting
How many black people between the ages of 18 and 60 were prevented from having an ID or voting?
> And I dont know how many, but its more than you would think
I don't know how you could know that since you don't know how many I think drive without a license. And I'm not sure why I'd believe you regardless because you've provided nothing to support anything you've said.
Anonymous I replied with this 2 years ago, 4 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[^][v]#1,228,763
@previous (H)
How am I to know that? It was institutional practice to keep black people from voting and acquring id during Jim Crow
You dont have to believe anything, but Ive met so many black people that didnt have id and theyd say, well my dad would always drive without a license, and similar
Anonymous H replied with this 2 years ago, 14 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[^][v]#1,228,767
@previous (I)
How many black people between the ages of 18 and 60 were prevented from having an ID or voting?
> How am I to know that? It was institutional practice to keep black people from voting and acquring id during Jim Crow
When you said "Many people drive without a license or with an expired license", I asked how many. Going on about institutional practices that ended 60 years ago is not an answer to my question.
> You dont have to believe anything, but Ive met so many black people that didnt have id and theyd say, well my dad would always drive without a license, and similar
Where do you live?
e^(i*pi) + 1 = 0 joined in and replied with this 2 years ago, 7 minutes later, 2 days after the original post[^][v]#1,228,975
@1,228,459 (dw !p9hU6ckyqw)
i still dont get why people bother to even engage in political conversation when they have zero chance of voting differently
i don't even bother voting. i'd vote for someone if they gave me a reason to not throw it away
i refuse to vote just to vote against one side. if i can't vote FOR them they don't deserve to get to fuck me. know?
You don’t get to just proclaim things as fact without any sources. Post one article of a black person being denied a vote in the 21st century. It should be a quick google search and take you less then 5 seconds to copy and paste a link here