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  Voting, why make it easier to vote??

  by moomanchu in

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  democrats are always harping on and on about voting rights and how the ability to vote should be easier and access unrestricted.

  the most progressive ones want to allow prisoners, and illegals with no voter id the ability to vote along with the criminals, drug addicts, and uneducated low lives who already can vote.. .

  after they push for everyone and anyone to be able to vote they then tell us it is a sacred privilege, a duty and honor, and a big responsibility blah, blah ect..... if it is all those grandiose things are true i think it should be harder to vote not easier.

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  II admit, I'm a little afraid. This is just not normal.
  
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  Voting, why make it easier to vote??

  by moomanchu in

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  democrats are always harping on and on about voting rights and how the ability to vote should be easier and access unrestricted.

  the most progressive ones want to allow prisoners, and illegals with no voter id the ability to vote along with the criminals, drug addicts, and uneducated low lives who already can vote.. .

  after they push for everyone and anyone to be able to vote they then tell us it is a sacred privilege, a duty and honor, and a big responsibility blah, blah ect..... if it is all those grandiose things are true i think it should be harder to vote not easier.

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  Yep. I understand that.

  Can people with felony convictions vote? (usafacts.org)

  It's an interesting question. Does a felon lose their right of franchise because they are no longer fully citizens? Some might argue keeping a convicted felon engaged with larger society could be helpful. A large factor in recidivism is the sense of alienation from the community many felons feel.
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  Mandated Shunning is a Crime

  by Lee Marsh in

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  mandated shunning is on the rise around the world with devastating effects on millions of people.

  shunning that is mandated by organized groups to its members is a form of both physical and psychological violence against those people being shunned and cut off from their family and life-long relationships.

  mandated shunning means that the shunning is ordered from the top down.

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  'Disfellowshipped' was too self defining, it meant what it said and what it said was emotional abuse....'Removed' simply implies, taken off the church rolls. It's a strategic effort to get governments, concerned about abuse and familial alienation, off their back.
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  Voting, why make it easier to vote??

  by moomanchu in

  1. social
  2. current

  democrats are always harping on and on about voting rights and how the ability to vote should be easier and access unrestricted.

  the most progressive ones want to allow prisoners, and illegals with no voter id the ability to vote along with the criminals, drug addicts, and uneducated low lives who already can vote.. .

  after they push for everyone and anyone to be able to vote they then tell us it is a sacred privilege, a duty and honor, and a big responsibility blah, blah ect..... if it is all those grandiose things are true i think it should be harder to vote not easier.

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  liam...it's good to see some States are responsibly closing loopholes.
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  Voting, why make it easier to vote??

  by moomanchu in

  1. social
  2. current

  democrats are always harping on and on about voting rights and how the ability to vote should be easier and access unrestricted.

  the most progressive ones want to allow prisoners, and illegals with no voter id the ability to vote along with the criminals, drug addicts, and uneducated low lives who already can vote.. .

  after they push for everyone and anyone to be able to vote they then tell us it is a sacred privilege, a duty and honor, and a big responsibility blah, blah ect..... if it is all those grandiose things are true i think it should be harder to vote not easier.

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  liam.....Trump is a convicted felon yet he voted the other day. How was this possible?

  According to Forbes:

  As a Florida resident with an out-of-state conviction, Trump would only be prohibited from voting if the state where he was convicted restricts him from voting, according to the Florida Division of Elections.

  According to New York law, Trump would only be restricted from voting if he is behind bars, meaning Trump can still vote in Florida as long as he avoids prison time in New York.
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  Voting, why make it easier to vote??

  by moomanchu in

  1. social
  2. current

  democrats are always harping on and on about voting rights and how the ability to vote should be easier and access unrestricted.

  the most progressive ones want to allow prisoners, and illegals with no voter id the ability to vote along with the criminals, drug addicts, and uneducated low lives who already can vote.. .

  after they push for everyone and anyone to be able to vote they then tell us it is a sacred privilege, a duty and honor, and a big responsibility blah, blah ect..... if it is all those grandiose things are true i think it should be harder to vote not easier.

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  Gun buyers are required to submit to a background check through the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS)...The NICS has conducted more than 300 million checks since launching in 1998, leading to over 3 million denials.

  I'm assuming you know that first line is not true. The vast majority of gun sales are private and untraced. I sold a 357 handgun out of my trunk in a McDonald's parking lot, lol. I've bought and sold hunting guns off Craigslist and classified ads. Background checks, that's hilarious. The 3 million gun buyers that failed the background check just bought what they wanted at the next gun show.

  But the op was about facilitating every citizen's right to vote, If all Americans embraced that right as dearly as some embrace their '2nd amendment right', we would not be having this discussion.
  
  
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  The Question of the "Great Apostasy" and the Historical Continuity of Christianity

  by aqwsed12345 in

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  1. the continuity and visibility of the church.

  the true church must be continuous from the apostolic age.

  there is no room in christianity for a "gap" or interruption of thousands of years during which true christianity ceased to exist and then was revived in the form of another movement.

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  Not that anyone is really going to change their mind but consider that in the wheat/weed parable the field was 'Israel'. The 'time of the harvest' was thought of as imminent. The writer understood himself to be standing at the end of a long wait (not the beginning) for God to sort the 'true' Israel from the larger Jewish/Christian population. That's standard sectarian language. It has perfect parallels with Qumran writings for example.
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  Voting, why make it easier to vote??

  by moomanchu in

  1. social
  2. current

  democrats are always harping on and on about voting rights and how the ability to vote should be easier and access unrestricted.

  the most progressive ones want to allow prisoners, and illegals with no voter id the ability to vote along with the criminals, drug addicts, and uneducated low lives who already can vote.. .

  after they push for everyone and anyone to be able to vote they then tell us it is a sacred privilege, a duty and honor, and a big responsibility blah, blah ect..... if it is all those grandiose things are true i think it should be harder to vote not easier.

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  Anyone who believes qualified citizens should not be enabled to vote, should take a stand and protest the election.

  Believe me when I say, I support your right to not vote.

  Funny how those who say gun buying should be without any background checks or restrictions are the same who want background checks and restrictions on voting.
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  Are you glad you got the Covid Vaccine? Did it help?

  by liam in

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  i didn’t get the covid vaccine, but i admit, i was scared as shit i made the wrong decision because there was so much confusion out there.

  practically all my family and most of my friends took the vaccine because everyone was depending on those in charge to speak the truth.

  now a lot of them are sick, and they can't figure out why.

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  Best estimate is that the death rate of those infected with Spanish influenza was about .6%. to some today that would seem hardly worth worrying about.

  Our first set of data with COVID-19 came from China and it looked like the fatality rate was much higher , more like that of related outbreaks like SARS and MERS.

  Out of 17,238 early COVID-19 cases 321 ended in death. Nearly 2%. As we know data was incomplete and we got better at treating it and vaccinations primed immune systems to cope when they were exposed. It also helped the virus mutated to a less virulent strain. Looking back the best estimated cfr was about 1.2%

  What I'm getting at is we lived through genuine history. At least most of us did.
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  Are you glad you got the Covid Vaccine? Did it help?

  by liam in

  1. social
  2. current

  i didn’t get the covid vaccine, but i admit, i was scared as shit i made the wrong decision because there was so much confusion out there.

  practically all my family and most of my friends took the vaccine because everyone was depending on those in charge to speak the truth.

  now a lot of them are sick, and they can't figure out why.

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  https://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/forefront.20210329.51293/#:~:text=The%20current%20US%20population%2C%20a,six%20in%20every%20thousand%20people.

  The Spanish influenza compared. Read the whole thing.