I don't get it. Nobody says anything particularly stupid, there seems nothing particularly odd about vote taxis and this GOTV stuff.

AladdinSane wrote:

Dmtdust wrote:

Well, the video doesn't load, and the web site is owned by Rupert Murdoch.  The usual, thanks.

Leave it to you to come up with a conspiracy theory...

Rupert hats me.  He said so through my door knob, and the neighbors cat said so as well.

Are all those grinning black faces supposed to frighten us?  All adult Americans who are not felons have the right to vote in elections.  Are these scary dark people Americans or not?

And "uninformed"?  That sounds like elitist talk.  Who thinks there should be a current-events test for voters?  How would it be scored, and by whom?  And how do you think Sarah Palin would score on one?

George Orr wrote:

Are all those grinning black faces supposed to frighten us?  All adult Americans who are not felons have the right to vote in elections.  Are these scary dark people Americans or not?

And "uninformed"?  That sounds like elitist talk.  Who thinks there should be a current-events test for voters?  How would it be scored, and by whom?  And how do you think Sarah Palin would score on one?

Yes, everyone except felons have the right to vote, and it's so sad.  I believe we should have stayed with the property ownership requirement envisioned by the nation's founders.  So long as people can vote to take money they didn't earn and don't deserve from someone else, they're going to do it.  And so long as we have politicians spitting class hatred as the reason we should take that money, we are going to continue the slide into third world status.  People with money will take their investments, and the jobs they would otherwise create, somewhere else.

Dmtdust wrote:

Gee Willikers... Would we still have slaves as well Phwed?  You my dear are the true Paleo-Conservative, I hope you give up your gills one day, and walk on land.

Gee and I was just going to go with indebtentured servitude - Dusty goes right for the instituionalized slavery artery with nary a pause.

I don't want to live in a society with slaves. But I could put an indentured servent to good use. Maybe 2 or 3 if I could get McCain's tax deduction increase for dependents to apply to them.

Nothing can be a right AND a privilege, the two are mutually exclusive.

orangeplus wrote:

Nothing can be a right AND a privilege, the two are mutually exclusive.

Ding!

If anything, native-born Americans should possess a high school diploma or GED to vote.

Don't anyone throw shit at me for saying that -- it's just an idea.

heck being a felon or even admiitting to past felonies doesn't stop you from being elected president or senator then why should it stop anyone from voting for them?

When Nixon stumbled the halls glass in hand, yelling at the portrait of Abraham Lincoln or  when Joan threw Ted Kennedy's drunk philandering ass out of the house it didn't stop them from bellying up to the podium and voting on the people's business. Why should we be concerned about drunken homeless rodeos in front of polling places?

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sofaking wrote:

orangeplus wrote:

Nothing can be a right AND a privilege, the two are mutually exclusive.

Ding!

If anything, native-born Americans should possess a high school diploma or GED to vote.

Don't anyone throw shit at me for saying that -- it's just an idea.

Well that counts me out then. I dropped out of high school in the winter of my junior year.

I am no genius and was certainly not a go getter, but when I found out I could take a basic entrance test and sign up for classes in the state's college system, I just went down to the community college and never went back. I didn't even bother to clean out my locker.

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Johnny_Rotten wrote:

sofaking wrote:

orangeplus wrote:

Nothing can be a right AND a privilege, the two are mutually exclusive.

Ding!

If anything, native-born Americans should possess a high school diploma or GED to vote.

Don't anyone throw shit at me for saying that -- it's just an idea.

Well that counts me out then. I dropped out of high school in the beginning of my juionor year.

I am no genius and was certainly not a go getter, but when I found out I could take a basic entrance test and sign up for classes in the state's college system, I just went down to the community college and never went back. I didn't even bother to clean out my locker.

S'okay Johnny. I'd still let you vote, because going straight into college would work too under my "plan".

If I let you vote, you're gonna vote for me, riiight?

Seriously, though, I'm just thinking of a good way to weed out the uninformed. It would never work in reality.

George Orr wrote:

And "uninformed"?  That sounds like elitist talk.  Who thinks there should be a current-events test for voters?  How would it be scored, and by whom?  And how do you think Sarah Palin would score on one?

I love you.

in a non-threatening way

Test answers sheets will contain 2 columns of opposite answers. You will be allowed a passing garde only if your responses fall within at least the 75 percentile for hegemony. No mixing of column A and column B allowed.

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orangeplus wrote:

Only veterans should vote, since veterans accept personal responsibility for the safety of the body politic, of which he is a member, defending it, if need be, with his life. The civilian does not.

Now that is getteing back to the very basics of what the founding fathers of citizenship thought..

opsec wrote:

I believe the right to vote should be based on accounting principles.  Assets get to vote, liabilities don't. Every individual who contributes a net profit to the support of the government should have the right to vote, since they're the ones paying for it.

Yes, but then the next question is should it be progressive? Where he who contributes more has greater weight to his vote. Because that is pretty much the defacto system we complain so much about now.

orangeplus wrote:

you freakin weirdos. that's literally how fascism got started.

BWAHAHAHA

You should have waited a little longer for more of the sheeple to chime in.

orangeplus wrote:

you freakin weirdos. that's literally how fascism got started.

ssssssshhhhh.  They are trying to make Lad and Phwed relaxxxxxx

AladdinSane wrote:

phreddy wrote:

Yes, everyone except felons have the right to vote, and it's so sad.

Here in Alabama, some "minister" was trying to register felons last week until a court stopped it...

That's not what happened at all, and if you live in Alabama then you have no excuse for peddling that crap.  In Alabama it is legal to vote absentee from prison.  The minister had been delivering absentee ballots to prisoners, and the GOP stopped it claiming that it violated rules that say that state property can't be used to advance a candidate for election.  It's the same bullshit they used to stop voter registration drives at the VA.

"Violence, the supreme authority from which all other authority is derived."

See "2nd Ammendment" vis "reasonable restrictions".

opsec wrote:

Whoa... don't we pay them for that?

You pay Blackwater better.

You may wish to read the entire thread there ah3.14159265

tojo2000 wrote:

AladdinSane wrote:

phreddy wrote:

Yes, everyone except felons have the right to vote, and it's so sad.

Here in Alabama, some "minister" was trying to register felons last week until a court stopped it...

That's not what happened at all, and if you live in Alabama then you have no excuse for peddling that crap.  In Alabama it is legal to vote absentee from prison.  The minister had been delivering absentee ballots to prisoners, and the GOP stopped it claiming that it violated rules that say that state property can't be used to advance a candidate for election.  It's the same bullshit they used to stop voter registration drives at the VA.

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