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Arizona Democrats fret about discovery that coud see rigged election (www.dailymail.co.uk)

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Tldr: DNC knows that a lot of voters haven't shown proof of citizenship.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

In 2004, Arizona passed a law requiring voters to provide proof of citizenship to vote

Prop 200, the 2004 Arizona law that started all this trouble, was pushed hard by republicans and in particular promoted by the Federation for American Immigration Reform.

The Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) is a nonprofit, anti-immigration organizationThe Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) is a nonprofit, anti-immigration organization in the United States. The Southern Poverty Law Center classifies FAIR as a HATE GROUP with ties to WHITE SUPREMACIST groups. FAIR was founded in 1979 by Michigan surgeon and white nationalist John Tanton.[13][14][15] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federation_for_American_Immigration_Reform

So the strange story here is that republicans and white nationalists, in an effort to stop nonwhite people from voting, created this situation in which a large number of white republicans are in fact ineligible to vote, and have been voting illegally for years.

Now that democrats have discovered this issue, white nationalist republicans are trying to blame democrats for the problem that white nationalist republicans created.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

How come every post on this sub is so absolutely full of shit?

What a fucking joke

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

If they weren't full of shit they wouldn't be conservatives. Republicans are firmly in the post-truth era.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Dude give it up, conservative values just aren't popular

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Not on Lemmy at least, but I think most people like being able to own a home

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, I'd like to own a home. What the fuck are Republicans going to do to help me with that? They seem entirely disinterested in helping people like me who are priced out of home ownership. They'll just tell me to stop eating avocado toast or some nonsense about accountability.

At least Democrats are actually acknowledging the housing crisis and trying to come up with a plan to fix things. Hell, think of how many college graduates might finally be able to afford a mortgage if Republicans didn't block student loan forgiveness at every turn.

Hell, you folks insist that taxation is theft. Forgiving a student loan is just giving some of that money back, right?

But now, when the government takes money, it's "theft", and if they give money it's a "handout". Nothing is ever good enough. You folks wont' stop until the government is completely destroyed and we have no public institutions anymore.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You're anger is valid. You're missing what the underlying connection to why you can't afford a home.

It's not democrats or Republicans. Your boss pays your salary.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

My boss doesn't tax my unrealized gains.

And before you say that only applies to the rich, the income tax only applies to the rich at first. Now everyone pays taxes

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You probably don't even own a Honda civic making "unrealized gains"

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I actually do own a house, it's not exactly some crazy rich thing to have.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah, and how old are you and when did you buy it?

Or better yet, whose money bought it? Daddy's?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Mid thirties, and I bought it in my mid twenties. And I have a mortgage, so technically the banks money.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Oh, you bought your house a decade ago. In your 20's too, which either means you live in a cheap shit hole, or mommy and daddy's money helped you out (either directly, or by shielding you from things like student debt).

I'm assuming that your house is a Patrick Star style rock, and you've been living under it for this whole time, because house prices are up 60%+ since then, in some places more than doubling, all while wages stagnate.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Where did "I think taxes on unrealized gains are a bad idea because house prices go up" become "I don't think house prices go up"?

That doesn't even make sense.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If you're paying a mortgage on a house you bought in your 20's, you aren't going to be affected by the taxes on unrealized gains exceeding $100,000,000, because if you had that kind of wealth you wouldn't have a mortgage...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

And how long before it gets lowered? Remember where income tax started? We have historical evidence of government greed.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

Bullshit. The Arizona Supreme Court rules on this that those voters can legally vote. There's no scandal except for the attempted disenfranchisement of 98,000 Arizona citizens.