I’m sorry that you’re unable to distinguish between the voices in your head and people in the real world. But if you ever decide you’d like to try and do so, I’d be happy to answer questions.
No, I don’t repudiate my view that people who try to improve their neighbourhood by addressing antisocial behaviour are not evil criminals, and neither do I repudiate believing that anyone doing so has the (moral) right to defend themselves if attacked in the process.
I can believe that and also believe that one of the people who did just that also committed attempted murder. That doesn’t change my view on his previous actions.
Hi WillFarnaby ! You’ve never obliged us with the slightest hint of how Farnabytopia works. I know you need judges and police — are they all private? If someone cheats me do I hire a police service and have the perp transported to the private justice system for which I’m a paid-up subscriber?
Mandatory brain implants to control behavior is the only mechanism I’ve come up with that would enable your system to function. Am I on the right track?
We’re not as stupid as you think we are. Even a 25-word synopsis leaving us to fill in the blanks would give us a better clue about your political philosophy than we have now. As is, it seems you just carom from crazy Youtube to crazier YouTube parroting whichever is the craziest you’ve seen recently.
Then iiandyiiii hasn’t misrepresented your view. He hasn’t claimed – at least in this thread – that you never said it wasn’t attempted murder. Nevertheless you defend and sympathize with persons you feel have attempted murder, which is entirely on you.
Even more than that, he praises someone he feels has attempted murder as “the sort of people normal people want around them”. Steophan, combining your words then and now, and your refusal to repudiate your praise of Dunn then, you believe normal people would want an attempted murderer around them. Nuts. Hilarious, especially in light of your faux-horror about people suggesting hanging those they consider treasonous, but still nuts.
It is probably worth noting that70% of Voters Purged from Rolls by GA Gubernatorial Candidate Brian Kemp Are Black
Now, when the AG of a state that literally flies the Confederate flag in front of the statehouse every single day oversees results like this, I don’t think we have to wait for the FBI report to figure out what is going on. OTOH, is it literally treason? I dunno if I would go that far. “Anti-social”? Sure.
Yeah, I did ours a couple of weeks ago. The local council sent us a form with the previous years’ details filled in and asked us to either tell them of any changes or confirm no change (it’s done on a household basis). I waited a bit too long to do it and got a reminder from the council, along with an indication that if we didn’t respond they would send someone around to ask in person and we might face a small fee for this. I’m not sure what happens if you deliberately try to avoid providing this information but it’s certainly easy to comply - hell, as we had no changes we just had to text NO CHANGE to a number provided. Easy as that.
And it’s very clear that it’s a notice from the council, not junk mail.
I don’t think you would be. Too hostile for a Trump nuclear minion.
I understand you find it necessary for a leviathan state that will stand between you and a bottle of OxyContin, mass incarceration be damned. I opt for a non-coercive approach.
There has been much scholarship about how a noncoercive legal system would work. Indeed such systems work just fine right now in parallel with state systems. See the work of Bruce Benson and Ed Stringham.
I’m pleased to note that you think your political philosophy has some basis.
But no, I’m not going to waste a Googling. If you post a relevant URL and excerpt 2 or 3 key paragraphs I will attend to it with interest. If you can’t be bothered to do even that, that’s fine too.
That’s not actually what the original AP story says. The original story says “the list of voter registrations on hold with Kemp’s office is nearly 70 percent black”
70% of the 53,000 names that are pending. The story goes on to say “Voters whose applications are frozen in “pending” status have 26 months to fix any issues before their application is canceled, and can still cast a provisional ballot”
Doesn’t seem like that big of a deal.
Aww, you’re hurting my feelings. Nevertheless, my offer to answer any questions you have remains open. Just in case you’d like to hear what actual liberals and progressives think; and just in case you’re actually open to the possibility that your understanding of that group might be flawed.
Ok:
Many liberals and progressives can only attain their current standard of living through working for or closely with the government. Has the ascendancy of Trump caused some cognitive dissonance for these poor souls? Have they considered serving their fellow man through private endeavors, or do they glumly follow Trump’s directives and punch their pillow watching Maddow at night?
I don’t accept the premise (which seems laughable on its face – most liberals and progressives I’ve ever met work in the retail or service industries). But at least for me, working for the government, so far the mission of my job hasn’t changed in any way I’m aware of (the most important goal is still to make sure submarine sailors stay safe), and thus I feel no cognitive dissonance. If I were ordered to, say, fire on a crowd of protesters, things would be significantly different and I think and hope I have the moral strength to refuse such an order.
Ok so the answer is “you don’t know”. Very helpful.
I guess I can’t compete with those voices in your head… 
I’d have to agree with andy on this one…this premise appears to be extremely laughable. Do you have a cite that can back this up?
Most of the government workers I’ve known over the years tend to be right-leaning moderates (with some exceptions, of course.) And, of all the liberals/progressives that I’ve known, exactly two have worked for a government entity for the majority of their career.
Anecdotal evidence, to be sure, but it’s more evidence than what you’ve thus far offered.
Most of the folks in my goverment office are conservative as well. Anecdotal, of course. Among my personal friends, most are liberal/progressive, and most do not work for government or government-adjacent industries (rather, most work in retail or service jobs).
The article states that people are not notified when their registration is flagged by the exact-match system. If I didn’t care if these people voted, I would not notify them either.
And, the article states that blacks make up 70% of the purged population, which was over 600k last year, not just the 53k that are “pending”. Yes, 26 months is plenty of time to fix it, but without notification it seems the only way many will find out is by being denied the right to vote first.
Maybe I’m missing a nuance somewhere, but it seems like a big deal to me.
In Husted v A Philip Randolph Institute, a decision from this year, the Supreme Court said:
My feelings are not the proper subject of this debate.
But if you want to know: I don’t believe this kind of process is immoral, unethical, or in any way wrong. Voting, in my view, is appropriate subject to careful verification. This kind of standard process for keeping voter rolls up to date is perfectly appropriate, in my opinion.
Also, abortion is wrong. Since you are so concerned about my opinion instead of the law, I thought you should note my strong ethical and moral objection to abortion, and the fact that I am perfectly willing to acknowledge that the law should be changed by legislative action, even when my personal moral and ethical standards counsel a different outcome.
In my view, nothing about this runs counter to the sanctity of citizens’ constitutional rights, as the Supreme Court has made clear.
I don’t regard anyone concerned about removal from the voting rolls after not voting in multiple elections and ignoring mail advising them of the need to confirm their address and when they have the right to cast a provisional ballot even after such removal as a concern that society should treat seriously.
I do regard voter fraud as a concern that society should treat seriously, because even though it is ultra-rare, it creates distrust in the outcome.
Reasonable people may disagree, of course.
Not at all, in my opinion.
Not I.