The new law requires either a birth certificate or passport to register to vote. A driver’s license or state issued ID isn’t good enough.

Lots of people don’t have passports (and they can take a LONG time to get) and don’t have updated birth certificates (mostly women since they’re the ones primarily to change their name).

I considered it until I saw the price was $100

While I agree with most of what you said, I think you are underestimating the huge cultural differences between NJ, CA, and TX. They very much feel like entirely different countries. Very big differences in culture, linguistics, religion, etc.

USA -> States is very similar to EU -> member countries. I understand that within the EU, member countries have their own concept of “states” that are very similar to the US, but I don’t believe most EU countries prioritize local regions over their country as much as the US does. Keep in mind, Europe as a whole is only slightly bigger than the USA (10m sq k vs 9m sq k)

For instance, someone from Texas self-identifies as a Texan first, and then an American second. It’s why one of the first things an American asks when meeting a new American is “where are you from”. The state they’re from will (usually but not always) tell you a lot about them, their priorities, what their culture is, etc.

Personally I think it’s stupid (I’m not a big fan of “states rights”), but I’m very much in the minority in that.

Oh no I used auto-complete to help write this message. Here comes the Lemmy police to remove my post.

…yea that sucks. Like I said, our election system sucks. All I pointed out is your assertion that electors are getting new cars in order to vote against the wishes of their state isn’t really a thing.

Our election process sucks, but it’s not because of faithless electors. The vast majority of times it was because the candidate died before the election.

Since 1900, there have been only 16 faithless electors who defected for individual reasons

Oh you got added to the top-level security clearance discord group as well?

She

Well that was an unexpected pronoun.

Rich people? I don’t think I follow what’s in common with all those people you mentioned.

Some interesting facts about excel I learned the hard way.

1. It only supports about a million or so rows
2. It completely screws up numbers if the column is a number and the number is over 15 digits long.

Not really related to what you said, but I’m still sore about the bad data import that caused me days of work to clean up.

The problem with your analogy is the third choice wasn’t don’t get shot. We had three choices.

1. Choose to get shot in the arm with a .22
2. Choose to get shot in the arm with a .50
3. Do nothing and get shot in the arm with a .50

This wasn’t the trolley car problem. Simple game theory can be applied.

I agree the Dems need to do better but Trump is objectively worse in every way. Forget his political views, he’s just a garbage human being. He’s everything that’s bad about humanity, or at least of capitalism, and it saddens me that 60% of my fellow Americans are just cool with that.

And Trump wants to deport 20 million people, yea, exactly the same.

Get out and talk to people. It’s 100% believable he won the popular vote, let alone the election.

I just don’t buy it. I’ve worked at plenty of companies and I never saw it work that way. Sure, I’ve seen “we have to interview more candidates” or “we need to write our job applications to be more inclusive”, but I never saw “we need to hire the lessor candidate because they’re x”.

In my experience when someone is whining that they lost a possible job to a “DEI hire”, they’re usually just butthurt that someone was better than them.

I’d love to hear a coherent reason backed by facts and evidence about why DEI is bad?

Whenever someone tells me they don’t like DEI and I ask why, it’s always some unhinged spiel about women and immigrants taking their jobs.

Funny enough the only people who are going to feel it are the low level retail managers who are going to get yelled at for not meeting their YoY, and then not a peep the next day when they do double the sales

I have some bad news about farmers for you…

Tell me you didn’t read the article without telling me you didn’t read the article.

This bill was introduced by two Democrats to highlight how all these policies are being enacted by Republicans that target women but not men.

I bet you could make the best proggies though.

Have you seen our defense budget?