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Uh huh.
Look, Donny boy, the only thing that is going to distract us from all the child rape is your obituary.
And the states can all just ignore him. And hopefully will.
And the states can all just ignore him
That’s the theory. In practice, we’re almost certainly going to see Trump’s majority in Congress and the Courts try to decertify elections with outcomes he doesn’t like
I really really wish you weren’t right
Again
North Carolina used a gerrymandered legislature and conservative supreme court to win the long battle to require ID, which conveniently ignored language in the state Constitution that had previously kept the requirement banned.
There are other states who already have the requirement as well, and more that will obey the diaper king if so instructed.
Every other (democratic) country in the globe does it though, what’s the issue with that?
It’s used as a method of voter suppression.
The United States does not issue a mandatory stnadard ID card to all citizens the way a lot of nations do. The “but gubmint overreach” crowd won’t hear of it. Mostly because Fox News has propagandized against it so they can use voter ID laws to suppress votes.
So we don’t have a standard citizen ID card. We got lots of government agencies that issue photo IDs. By looking at what demographics are likely to have a particular kind of ID, you can cheat your way to victory by allowing this kind of ID but not that kind. Redneck shitheads are more likely to have hunting licenses, educated young people are more likely to have university campus IDs. Accept hunting licenses but not campus IDs as voter ID at the polls and the Republicans are more likely to win.
And that’s not hyperbole.
I used to be in firearm sales, and we obviously had to check ID, and those exact examples were used in gun sales.
The crazy part was the hunting licenses. I could turn you away for not having a valid license (usually an old address on the DL), and you could go to customer service, buy a hunting license where they just put whatever you want on the card, then bring the license back and use it as “proof” of address and buy a gun.
Oh wow… That sucks. It should definitely be standardized and national :/
I think we’re going to need a war to get it done at this point. I’m kind of hoping to die in it.
Very edge lord of you but before that you could like fight the good fight now lol
Deny the parasite profit etc
I did not know that the US didn’t have an official ID card.
This is from Wikipedia:
All legislative attempts to create a national identity card have failed due to tenacious opposition from liberal and conservative politicians alike, who regard the national identity card as the mark of a totalitarian society.[1]
This leads to another, unrelated problem. Just because we don’t have a universal ID doesn’t mean we don’t need one…and almost have one.
Social Security. Our government run mandatory pension/welfare system the fascists are going to plunder and destroy. Social Security is paid for essentially by an income tax, there’s a line item deduction from your paycheck. Used to be you’d sign up for Social Security and get issued a Social Security number when you got your first job, because that’s when you become relevant to the Social Security office. Until the government issued a tax deduction for parents of children. Which caused people to file their taxes claiming to have way more children than they did. The solution the government used was to require the children be registered with Social Security to claim the tax deduction. This solved the problem of “paper children” and also meant that with a few exceptions every citizen of America would be issued a Social Security Number shortly after birth. Mine absolutely is not 457-55-5462.
So, we have a situation where America does not issue a mandatory citizen ID card, but you are assigned a badly designed yet permanent account number, and often that is forced to do. They print them on plastic now, but a social security card used to be a slip of paper with your SSN and name printed on it alongside the words NOT FOR IDENTIFICATION. It isn’t periodically re-issued, mine was printed in the late 80’s shortly after I was. It’s both bad and common practice to use the SSN as a personal ID number, especially at banks, the very trailing edge of information security.
In most countries its not mandatory just the most normal and expected thing. For instance in Canada the vast majority of people vote with their government ID (note that you can also get ID for free) but those that don’t can have someone that knows them vouch for them. The UK and Australia have similar rules.
This is a pretty important exception that allows the homeless to vote (its hard to get ID when you don’t have a mailing address), those too old for administrative processes and those who have bad luck (say you get your wallet stolen on the way to the polling station).
Its not done in Australia or Britain.
Why embarrass yourself publicly like this?
Some people don’t know things, and asking questions is how you find out.
It’s not an unreasonable question if you live in a country with mandatory government-issued ID, like most do, which you then use to vote.
Also, being a dick is a bit of a dick move.
A lot of people on lemie don’t seem to understand that you can ask stupid questions to Google instead of other humans. Furthermore, they didn’t even ask a real question. They made a false assertion either out of intentional ignorance and laziness or malicious intent.
Maybe you and I have a different standard of reasonableness, but to me “Why can’t the US do X?” Is perfectly reasonable.
If I were to talk about the fact that government-mandated occupational health and safety standards are impossible to do in Sweden, an American or Canadian might be very confused. Why would “Why can’t that be done in Sweden?” be unreasonable? Bonus points if you can tell me why.
That would be reasonable but it’s not what he wrote
Mostly left/right circle jerk USia politics… It foes have some historical reasoning for why people would oppose it but no in 2025.
They fight over anything except what actually matters.
Maternity leave is non starter for example.
Get fucked, Cheeto chimp!
