Yeah, that “I don’t get it, it don’t make no sense to normal Joes like me and you!” attitude is something I’ve always found personally disturbing.
The one thing you can’t argue is how voter ID infringes on your rights, unless your one of those who refuses to gain some sort of ID in order to vote, while my position as a voter in an area where ID is required can argue that it isn’t fair that I must show it while others do not, well you can argue it. But you wouldn’t win in court!
Actually, I specifically cited a court case where voter ID lost. Here’s another one, which specifically brings up how onerous it is for some to acquire photo ID.
120 miles. Yeah, that’s real easy - especially for people with jobs. Personally, I don’t care that voter ID infringes on rights. That’s the tricky part about it - it puts an undue and unnecessary burden on the poor, but it’s easy enough to argue, “Well, if they really wanted to vote, they would have done something 9/10 Americans did already and got ID”. It makes it easy to reframe it into a “those lazy poor people, can’t be bothered to put in the tiny bit of work needed to get ID, why should we care if they can vote or not?” Never mind that for many, getting ID is a gigantic pain in the ass. It may be constitutional, but that doesn’t make it a good law, and that doesn’t make it any less of a partisan attack on voting rights.
Are you running your posts through Google Translate or something?
I don’t use Google!
Obviously.
It’s a new program to help infuriate ex school teachers and such while distracting them from the actual topic of conversation, it’s called the Acyrologia protocol
El Rushbo’s been swiping at some low-hanging World Cup fruit with that very angle. “Oh, the US lost, but it still won! So a loss is a win and a tie is a win! Numbers are confusing, this game is stoopid huhr huhr!”
I mean, it’s a level of deliberate ignorance on the level of “mototherfuckin magnets, how do they work,” except Rush only cultivates it for the sake of his listener base.
An excuse for what? Voter ID laws disenfranchise other people. If you want to fix a problem, you must first establish whether the problem exists.
Let’s say I decided that killer penguins are a serious problem in Florida and that the government should do something about it. I call my state legislators and demand that they pass legislation to protect me from killer penguins. They introduce a bill in the legislature.
Now, let’s say somebody doesn’t want to pay for the proposed killer penguin defense program. They start asking my legislators whether there have been any killer penguin attacks. Of course, they are unable to provide any evidence, because the problem doesn’t exist.
In the sensible world, that would be the end of my anti-killer elephant program. But in the world of those who’ve been suckered in by Limbaugh and company, it wouldn’t be. Instead, it would be evidence of a conspiracy to cover up killer penguin attacks. They’ll start asking opponents questions like “why are you defending killer penguins?” and “why would anybody possibly oppose legislation that protects us from deadly killer penguins?” “What are they really protecting?”
Suddenly, to anyone that hasn’t really paid attention, the people asking difficult questions about the killer penguin program are The Enemy. So they back off. The legislation passes (the Florida legislature being Republican-dominated), and the killer penguins are stopped.
You, WWhiskey, are the victim. You’ve heard just enough about killer penguins to make them seem plausible, and you can’t see a down side to killer penguin defense. By the time people give you facts, you’re so married to the anti-killer penguin side that you are no longer able to rationally consider the issue.
But you’re safe from killer penguins, even if they never existed in the first place.
Damn killer penguins!
Penguin defense can be adequately addressed by personal concealed-carry laws.
“Taste my Magnum, Opus!”
Indictment pending.
You’re bringing a killer elephant to a killer penguin fight?
Snipping and emphasis mine
That’s like bringing a Ganondorf to a Super Smash Bros Brawl fight. You just. Don’t. Do. It.
Originally it was killer elephants, but I thought penguins sounded better. Apparently I should have “find and replace”-d. :smack:
So you missed an elephant, huh? Not something they’re used to, I’m sure.
A killer elephant, no less.
No one talks about elephants when they’re in the room.