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Another thing, we should most certainly not have any alternative languages for voting in the US to English. You can't read English well enough to understand the ballot? Too bad. I would not expect to go live in Japan and expect them to provide me a ballot in English for their elections (assuming I somehow became eligible in their country).

So we have both an intelligence test and assimilation test right there, with not only no extra work, but less.

Voting should remain a difficult thing to do or should become a more difficult task. If you are incapable of doing the long term planning of figuring out how to register to vote, figure out what identification you need, where and when to vote, how should I expect you to understand the consequences of who and what you vote for?

@nomebullyyou Memes like "six seven" make me feel old. Because I am now in a generation asking the younger ones what it means.

I am not really all that old. But I know that the young will always have their own memes that will signify that I am not all that young anymore.

@sickburnbro I am sure that "freedom of the press" requires all sorts of licenses and other hoops to jump through of government approval. Which of course can be rescinded at any time if the government calls it "hateful."

@EdBoatConnoisseur the live action Speed Racer movie is absolutely faithful to the source material. Though if you have seen said source material, you will realize just how bad the show was.

@BroDrillard How do you have a breaking change with dark mode? Visual settings should be one of the easiests features to enable and maintain. The most junior of developers should have no issue with this kind of work. So what could they possibly have done to screw this up?

@Tfmonkey "There's nothing in the Bible that condemns incest."

Are you for real? Leviticus 18 goes over this extensively. It does not prohibit sexual relations/marriage between cousins, so that might be a point of contention. But to say there is no condemnation of incest is just wrong.

I will not defend the whole situation with Lot and his daughters. It does not condemn or condone what happened, but rather just says that it happened.

@pepsi_man @sickburnbro Their principles are doing everything in service of achieving full equality. They will abuse every power they have, they will adopt any stance that they think will give them some amount of movement towards that goal.

That is the mindset of the true believers. Plenty of politicians will grift on that ideal for power. And it is quite effective at doing so, because of the rabid "equality at all costs" footsoldiers who rapidly change their tactics at a moments notice.

The slippery slope "fallacy" has been proven to be an effective tactic to shut down opposition to incremental enactment of unwanted policies and outcomes. In fact, I would argue that those proclaiming this as fallacious thinking are themselves are appealing to fallacious reasoning by simply declaring other outcomes as absurd. It also employs shaming tactics, where you use ridicule to suppress anyone who might see that the end outcomes are not so impossible as was implied by naysayers.

@nomebullyyou >freedom loving

Funny way to describe people coming here for economic reasons. The same "freedom loving" people will absolutely vote for bigger government policies, because for many of them, they do not see the failures of their country of origin's governments as a failure of government in general, but rather just that they need one that is relatively better.

Let's see how many of them stay for the love of freedom if the US collapses. Not many I would bet.