Monkey With A Shell

Then when the 5th largest economy in the world decides they don’t feel like playing with you anymore you get to find out what a budget deficit really means.

He knows just how badly she was able to pull his strings and play him like a puppet. Time and time again. The bit with poking at his rallys was priceless to see.

I’m going to try one more time here…

Nobody said ‘deny’ at any point in this exchange. The OP said mandatory/compulsory, aka force them to do so.

Deny and compel are NOT the same thing, they are in fact functionally the opposite each other.

What point is there to compel someone who self-selects as lacking in knowledge/interest in the process. You waste time and resources for the voter, the process administrators, enforcement personnel, everyone any anyone involved including the willing and eager participants by creating longer lines and a wasting their tax funds just to satisfy a mandate by having Cleatus write ‘fuck you’ on a ballot.

If that is too complicated to understand I can’t help you.

One of the few places it could be posted on Lemmy without being down voted to the abyss, but only because it can’t be.

No, it’s not. Forcing someone who is not knowledgeable or interested to vote is in no way the same as testing whether someone is educated to determine if they should be allowed to.

You’re mixing two opposite issues there, the literacy tests you mention where in an effort to exclude people from voting.

In this this topic your asking if we should FORCE the uninformed and disinterested to vote.

These are anything but the same.

Do you really want to force cousin cleatus to be involved in the leadership decisions for the country? There are entirely too many people out there with zero clue what the issues of the day even are much less to have an informed opinion on them outside what the nice person in the interwebs/TV told them is the answer.

Oh come on, you think some would do that? Go in the internet and tell lies?

I mean it is or at least should be a policy on most sites already, it’ll be nice to have some teeth beyond banning their accounts though.

Zuckerberg wrote that the censored content included humor and satire, and that administration officials “expressed a lot of frustration with our teams when we didn’t agree.”

It does, but given what it is they’re griping about being censored you can bet it was a lot of anti-vax/covid is a joke stuff. People trying to promote vaccination don’t tend to make jokes about it.

Anything specific to say they forced others not to run? The whole bit of others dropping out and endorsing happens regularly. Happened on the R side too. Bernie didn’t get nominated because not enough people showed up to vote at the end of the day. Having dedicated fans and lots of youth energy means nothing unless the vote count says what you want when it’s over.

I get the potential gripe, but realistically it’s hard to call it undemocratic even as it stands. People voted for an incumbent (essentially unopposed) ticket of Biden/Harris. Had Biden simply dropped dead this would have been the very same result. We just skipped the whole death part and moved on to the natural line of succession. Besides, how many times have we had a VP become pres or at least the candidate in the past few decades? Better than half since the 70s if I count correctly.

If they’re already giving exclusive access to Google for search and AI training, my bet is it’s all in a bid for ‘please buy us daddy Google’, and let them handle it from there.

If those people can look at Trump’s record and be fine with it, I don’t suspect the ethics of one’s work as a DA are going to be the deciding factor.

I’m not sure why there’s the need to rebrand confidence to the term dominance…

These are two quite distinct things. The former presents a self-assured certainty in your position, the latter is more aimed at a willingness to call out another on the wrongness of theirs. It’s a tough role to play when the positions of any given constituent and legislator are so entrenched, but necessary. It’s a bit like the comics of the type where you have one side saying ‘kill all X’ and the other saying ‘protect X lives’ and it’s somehow a compromise to only kill a few X…

And nobody cares that Trump is just a couple years younger… plus you know all the autocratic/dictator tendencies thing.

How would the DNC take advantage of the most racist parts of the R party abstaining over the race of the wife of their VP? They’re not going to condone bigotry and even if they where going to their own VP is Kamela…

That’s my go to for my quick scratch pad notes, generally something I only need for a one time deal.

I use the Bit Warden secure note feature for more permanent things.

If it is a more ongoing documentation deal that needs organization I like Bookstack.

All depends on the purpose one uses it for.

After all, they wouldn’t want anyone to call them out on continuing chicanery during such a trivial event as their home country’s presidential election cycle…

Who is surprised here, raise your object manipulation attachment, er, hand…

Yet I see those same posts screen-shot and posted here as though they was reliable news sources.

I have to wonder, how hard would it actually be to set up one of these ‘luxury’ brand names with 1000% markups and use it to Robin Hood the crap out of a bunch of people with too much money. Pay for the local school renovation via profits off some of those people too high on their own farts to notice those around them.