I’m a conservative. I don’t mind the liberal stuff here. It’s good to learn the other side, but I don’t want a liberal echo chamber. I’d like to be more politically balanced in the fediverse. Is there any way I can do that?

  • Jaytreeman
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    1011 months ago

    In the US the largest group of people without id’s are Democrats and black.

    It’s literally making the system more racist.

    • @[email protected]
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      -411 months ago

      Every black person has an ID, you have to otherwise you can’t do anything anyways. I have never met anyone in my community who doesn’t have some form of ID that’s valid in elections.

    • xigoi
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      -511 months ago

      So the question is, why doesn’t everyone have IDs? How does the country identify its citizens?

      • @[email protected]
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        1011 months ago

        IDs cost money, require visits to DMVs (which conservatives work hard to shut down in poor areas, or other fuckery with their hours or such), and if you want the federal level one cost more and require more paperwork

        We use the garbage and not-designed-for-this social security number for major IDing

      • @[email protected]
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        11 months ago

        Because the republicans work very hard to make it difficult for people who would likely vote democrat.

      • synae[he/him]
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        411 months ago

        If you got an ID sent to you when you turned $AGE I’d support requiring it to vote. But any proposal of free/automatic IDs gets shouted down by fanatics who think it’s the mark of the beast from Revelations. It’s a non-starter.