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Voter Suppression and Why The Republicans Love It So Much?

Yes! If we can have a holiday for anything in the U.S. we should be able to have a holiday for voting. This should be a celebration! This should be a national event.
 
One Brow said:
Just ensuring proper categorization. No joking there.


Of course. We also need to avoid confusing disagreement with skeptical thinking.
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OK. I see your point.

You mistake skepticism for being an unfounded lack of a real point of view that differs from yours.

disbelief in authoritative views, sometimes shrouded in claims of "Science" is a difficult position to take. If I adduce facts or expose problems with the authoritative claims, who the hell am I to question authority. You disallow non-establishment information or knowledge claiming it has to be peer-reviewed by established peer authority or you need not consider the information.

When I first encountered this issue in the 1960s, there was a book entitled "The New Brahmins" which I immediately understood on the basis of immediate examples within my own experience.

Government funding has corrupted Science and made a new State Religion bassackwards as the medieval clergy/kings who threw actual scientists in prisons as heretics.

Your whole system of facts is just a stinking pile of poop.

There, is that point of view different enough to challenge your orthodoxy?

I shouldn't have to be the one to challenge it point by point. You have a brain. You can take a new look at things if you want.

No belief or idea can be any better than the supporting observations/information/results/conclusions it is based on. Not even mine.

I consider the appropriation of any normative belief system into a government system requiring compliance the essence of tyranny. If the information or belief is well-founded, nothing more than education is needed. The governance should be light enough to leave it there.

The founders of the US had emerged from/fled from intense deadly religious wars, and found it necessary to agree that their government should not be empowered to impose religious beliefs or any establishment of religion. They lacked imagination to see science coming to be the tool of oppression. We need to get the government out of the belief compliance business.

No more propaganda, period.

You should advocate to privatize all education and let parents make the choice regarding how to educate the rising generation.

You won't be out of work. You just won't be abusing the children you teach with mind-numbing political propaganda.

Agenda wonks of all kinds need to reconsider their objectives, and conclude that education is OK if it is education, if it respects human rights to belief and choice and opportunity. Whatever merits a political agenda may have can be no better than the merits of the underlying beliefs and ideas. Pushing an agenda on another level of discussion is not good enough. If the cause is good, the methods need to be as good.
 
babe said:
You refuse to confuse skepticism with an unfounded lack of a real point of view, whether or not it differs from yours.
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Fixed it for you.

There are people with whom I regularly disagree that I nonetheless see exhibiting solid skeptical thinking (often at the same time). Most recently @infection and @idestroyedthetoilet, but in earlier times @Stoked, @Gameface, @JazzSpazz, and so many others I can't remember them all.
 
One Brow said:
Fixed it for you.

There are people with whom I regularly disagree that I nonetheless see exhibiting solid skeptical thinking (often at the same time). Most recently @infection and @idestroyedthetoilet, but in earlier times @Stoked, @Gameface, @JazzSpazz, and so many others I can't remember them all.
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There are literally no people in here who won't/don't/can't provide solid examples of skepticism. It's the direction of that skepticism that I'd take issue with, most of the time.

Anyone who is skeptical about my points of view, perhaps. ha ha

Teenagers develop their brains to the point where they can easily refuse the intellectual offerings of parents. College students generally want to adopt the offerings of professors as a sort of justification for their innate rebellions. Pretty normal.

Assuming we are capable of bringing elements into a discussion that others might find informative is about the best I can do for this outfit.

My complaints about agenda wonks probably means I should not assume as much as I do.
 
idestroyedthetoilet said:
Who makes people wait in line to vote? I'm wholly unaware of how polling places become organized. Is this something you or I could get involved in so we aren't making people wait in line for hours?
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Beats me.
I didn't have to wait in line cause I just put my ballot in an envelope and mailed it in. That's the way I prefer to vote

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babe said:
There are literally no people in here who won't/don't/can't provide solid examples of skepticism. It's the direction of that skepticism that I'd take issue with, most of the time.
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Skepticism is not disagreement. It's main direction is the questioning of knowledge that is insufficiently founded.
 
idestroyedthetoilet said:
Who makes people wait in line to vote? I'm wholly unaware of how polling places become organized. Is this something you or I could get involved in so we aren't making people wait in line for hours?
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www.npr.org

Why Do Nonwhite Georgia Voters Have To Wait In Line For Hours? Too Few Polling Places

The state's voter rolls have grown by nearly 2 million since the U.S. Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act in 2013, but polling locations have been cut by almost 10%.
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After reading how these lines also happened in the primaries and the 2018 gubernatorial, there does seem to be some sheer incompetence or people not acting in good faith here.
 
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