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lol no

it’s not really that hard to get one

That’s the rub. It is not convenient at all here to get ID. The joke universally understood here is that the DMV (the place where the vast majority get their ID) is the worst run, least efficient government body, taking hours to days to navigate.

Add to this that getting to and from the DMV is mostly car dependent. If you’re extremely lucky, you live in NYC that has good* public transportation. If you’re regular lucky, you live in a large city with a very unreliable bus system that might come by your stop once an hour. Going to the DMV becomes a day long chore. If you’re not lucky, you live in a rural area where the DMV is miles away from where you live, underfunded, and understaffed. If you don’t have car (elderly? disabled?) or you’re too busy to make it during business hours (can’t take off work? tough shit) you’ll be out of luck.

And none of this is to say that it is easy to acquire the ID once (if) you arrive. You need various forms of paperwork that may or may not be readily available to you. Sometimes you have to get paperwork from other government bodies, which are also cumbersome. Also the backlogs. In my state, the backlog for driver license renewal is months long.

To summarize: nothing is really made for convenience here as it concerns voting. Decades of Republican sabotage has put as many obstacles in place to make voting (and registering to vote) difficult as possible. Even getting ID is cumbersome and relies on being healthy enough and well-off enough to be able to afford the trouble of getting it.

I was speaking generally about the concept of deporting “the criminal illegals”.

And there’s no guarantee of justice once they leave our jurisdiction. Even assuming they got the right guy… what? He murders someone and gets to go home with no punishment? That’s a travesty.

yes

The Snyder Superman movies were good, actually.

Hope they’re gonna devote the development resources to making it actually work.

Agreed. I think we only need to really worry when they make their way up the pile and the dust is brushed off. Are we there yet? I dunno. Maybe? The existence of the plan isn’t the issue, though.

We were the ones that allowed it to happen. We’re all part of society, after all.

I’ve got bad news for you about what that says about the rest of us lol.

It is a GUI app you use locally. It renders out the finished files. And yes it supports markdown formatting.

Don’t use it if you don’t want to man. I was just offering an alternative that might happen to fit your lifestyle. If not, don’t.

I use Publii, which is a local application that supports markdown pages, has an interface similar to a CMS, and renders the entire site out to static html files that you upload to any web server. It can dump to a local folder, or ftp the files for you. It has a lot of good themes, and a blank theme that you can use to get started if you want to roll your own like I did.

That’s not what he said.

Nonsense. He would say nonsense. Because they don’t care. They care as much about sounding serious as they do about other people.

Fair. It is easy to lose the humor when things are getting worse and worse.

“Photoshopped? You can’t do that, Terry.”

LOL

Unirionically our funniest president. Shame he might be our last.

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good point and not something to be trivialized. it would be devastating and the toll to life and limb would be high. but i take solice in the fact that even then, they’d be greatly outnumbered by non-establishment citizenry. im just saying it wouldnt be a landslide victory and theyd face a (probably) reasonably well equipped guerilla resistance force that wouldnt just fade away.

side note, i also find the drone arguments to be kind of irritating. technically yes they could carpet bomb the US and drone strike every apartment building where some resistance leader is living, but then they’d just be the king of a wasteland.

you might be surprised. there are those who are very open about owning weapons, but there are just as many who do not flaunt what they’re equipped with. there are still lots of reasons left-leaning people might own guns, like hunting, self defense, pure hobby shooting, etc. i think progressive people have been stereotyped as anti-gun because they tend to be anti-kids-getting-shot-in-school, but they’re not quite the same thing.

it’s possible progressive might be out-gunned, but it’s by no means a guarantee.

LOL yeah I see what you’re talking about. It’s like the Red Scare but for illegible text and wonky pixels.