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Cake day: January 16th, 2024

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  • Every single one of those footballers should’ve taken a knee on Sunday. Most shameful part of the whole damn thing (aside from the Pats offense, that is).

    Everybody talking about how Billy should’ve said something. He said enough with his set list, and really this wasn’t a political setting at all, it was honoring some of footballs greatest players. Stealing from their spotlight.

    Now, if they called him up to do the American Anthem, sure. I’d love to see that.

    For that matter, I’d say that the NFL had a hell of a message just calling up Green Day and Bad Bunny. I think that’s pretty big, at least for the NFL.

    There were two openly gay performers at the Superbowl (Brandi Carlile, and Ricky Martin), and two openly bisexual (Bill, and Gaga). I don’t think that’s ever happened.

    (Edited last paragraph to reflect corrections in LGBT performers)





  • Yep. Very easy to disenfranchise many people this way.

    Particularly, anyone whose name or SAAB on their passport or birth certificate doesn’t match their photo id. Anyone who works during DMV hours and can’t take time off to renew an ID. Especially those who don’t drive (and thus don’t need a license).

    So let’s see, that’s mainly women, genderqueer, and the working poor. Alright alright.

    Who else?

    I’m sure that a lot of the unhoused don’t have easy access to their birth certificate or passport.

    Anybody who cut ties with their parents and can’t access this paperwork. So no strong family values.

    Oh yeah. The millions of Americans who can’t even dream of leaving the country who never even got a passport in the first place.

    How is this not a poll tax?

    And I’m gonna guess that this is going to make mail in voting more difficult? Or perhaps we will have to verify our ID with an app, this getting all of our info while also removing anonymity from voting, at a time when one party is not just hostile, but downright violent towards members of the other.

    How about this…the republicans get to have a poll tax if the Democrats get to have a literacy test. If we are gonna make voting harder, lets make it harder for both sides. Deal?

    Obviously that’s quite tongue in cheek.





  • JasonDJ@lemmy.ziptoPolitical Memes@lemmy.worldReal Nazis
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    Here’s the thing: When you don’t vote, you COULD be saying that both candidates are cannibalistic racist pedophile human traffickers, and you don’t like either of them…

    Of you could be saying that both candidates are great, and you love both of them. That you’re sure either of them will do an equally good job of running the country, so it doesn’t matter who wins.

    And if you don’t feel that way, then you need to VOTE