uncle bernard

Given your butchering of the basic facts of this conflict on here, you don't get to say people don't know anything about the cause. The average protester (and counter-protester) knows 100x more about this than you. And yes, George Soros, a jew, clearly hates the jews. Ironic that we've circled back around to this. Soros, for years, has been the figurehead of right-wing antisemitic conspiracy and paranoia. Now the same people say he's actually attacking jews and they're defending them.

Warrants for Hamas leaders are being proposed in the same process by the ICC. All of this information is out there if you cared to look for it.

It's both a republic and a democracy because a republican government elected by the people is a type of democracy. They are not mutually exclusive terms. I know this kind of nuance is hard for many of you.

this line is the true mark of an idiot

not how that works lol there are non-federal elections too

sure but why wouldn’t you want it to be as easy as possible?

why does voting have to be important to you? we’re all citizens. this is supposed to be a democracy. make it easy as possible. why don’t you want as many people as possible to vote?

i’d start with this two part intro on anti-zionism https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/zionism-vs-anti-zionism-ep-1-w-shaul-magid/id1043245989?i=1000637860348 if you don’t want to listen to both parts listen to part 2 which covers post-1948 and the modern anti-zionist movement. haven’t listened to the whole thing yet myself but i’m familiar with this podcast and they do good work. part 2 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-dig/id1043245989?i=1000638705286

coupled with this is extremely concerning.

i don’t agree with blocking students. that’s not how every protest is.

if you’re actually interested i can point you in the right direction.

when you understand how taxes work lol

we absolutely should have a federal holiday to vote. that’s a great idea.

i think we can all agree that our current system is an embarrassment.

this is a great point. it’s a lot harder to vote when you are a service worker or nurse or someone working a long shift that takes up most of not all the voting hours.

there is some prevention baked into this. someone who wanted to vote as you would have to know that you're registered (or register for you) and also know you weren't going to show up. in PA, in order to register, you need a drivers licence # or SSN. if they don't register for you, they need to know that you won't show up too. if you show up twice, it gets flagged and investigated. so in order to pull this off they either need your license #/SSN and need you to not try to register yourself or vote too. then for it to matter at all, they would need to do this on a mass scale. that's an extensive operation and with the incessant investigations by republicans, you would think they would have found something by now right?

okay, then every citizen with an SSN is automatically registered. government should have easily accessible voting IDs free of charge for those without driver's licenses. Sign on to that and I think that's a good compromise that increases election integrity while making easier for everyone to do their civil duty.

The tweet says "because he is JEWISH", you offered no clarification of your own, and you've made that same accusation earlier in the thread so I assumed you agreed with that. If you don't, I'm happy to accept that!

that's fine. i still want to know why you should have to pay for the right to vote.

"to the whole population of the state" is there a state with 100% black population I'm not aware of?

you can comment on the original post here: I just moved it to a new thread because it has wider implications than this discussion

yes, i put my money where my mouth is. if i believe in something, i show up for it. posting with you guys just passes the time between when i do actual important stuff. not to offend any of you guys who never leave the house.

Is he being blocked because he's Jewish or is he being blocked because all students are being blocked. You guys love to complain about people pulling the race card unjustifiably. Can't have it both ways. Show me that only Jewish students are being blocked. (I don't think any student should be blocked and my local protest is not doing so)

why should you have to pay for the right to vote? that goes for any race. it's ***ducked** up you have to too.