here in Germany, that’s a huge meme that as soon as Christmas time begins, Last Christmas is unavoidable

Same here in Denmark lol, howdy neighbor 😁

It’s even turned into a social media challenge where whomever avoids it the longest wins. I lasted to the 15th last year by avoiding shopping centers whenever possible and not listening to the radio 😄

It gives non-MAGA Republicans “permission” to also not vote for Trump

It really doesn’t, no. A few paleoconservative war criminals taking a personal dislike to him won’t sway any member of the cult away.

Blindly following Trump as if he’s the second coming of Jesus is more important to them than any other allegiance. The moment anyone speaks out against him, they become the enemy.

The only people who approve of there turncoat criminals are people who are already going to vote for Harris no matter what.

The only people whose opinion could be changed by a bunch of war criminals endorsing her are those that are already on the fence about her because of her insistence on arming Israel. Adding awful people who ALSO support that Apartheid regime blindly doesn’t help with that.

Disclaimer in case it’s necessary: while the reluctant people on the left have good reason to be wary of her, I’m 100% in favor of voting for her and then holding her accountable for her actions and lack of same, rather than let Trump become the last president of the US.

Hatia? Did America send you? 😛

Literally thousands of places. Some places, such as Trappe, MD they’ve even been without one for a long time.

Hell, some places can’t even get mail delivered, let alone show up st the nearest post office without significant expense for child care and/or risk of getting fired for going during working hours.

The crumbling and mismanaged (due to laws and a postmaster general appointment by the GOP) USPS isn’t who you want in charge of upholding democracy.

Hot take: that one’s actually not ideal

This amendment prevents any net increase in public housing stock from the number of units as of October 1, 1999.

US population 1999: 279,181,581

US population 2023: 334,914,895

That law is dystopian insanity!

Or eating Dijon mustard

I don’t think this has anything to do with covid

Tell that to Biden, who’s kept Trump’s rule about keeping people out using the pandemic as a pretense long after he declared the pandemic over.

Which is stale 90s thinking.

You might be able to convince Patriot Act cheerleaders with an image to whitewash to make a public statement, but you’re not going to convince any voter from the far right echo chamber to vote for any candidate from what they’ve been told is the party of pure evil their entire life.

The only people who haven’t decided whether or not to vote for the Mango Mussolini are accelerationist idiots who can’t be reached, people who won’t be voting, and combinations of both.

To the LEFT of the Dem leadership, on the other hand, is by far the largest group of politically disenfranchised but persuadable voters.

They’re trying to decide if Harris is too right wing to be worth overcoming the many obstacles to voting inherent to a system in the control of one party that despises them and another that takes them for granted.

I wish the Harris campaign would stop advertising how many awful people approve of her more than of a literal fascist. It’s not the flex they seem to think it is.

Something to do with Jelly Bellies or astrology, probably 🤷

Is their WORST and most overplayed song.

Last Christmas is not the best Christmas song. It’s the most overplayed one here in Denmark and probably other countries too. Last Christmas is to Denmark what All I Want For Christmas Is You is to the US, possibly worse.

Anyway, the BEST Christmas song is and will always be Queen’s Thank God It’s Christmas, in spite of the religious reference in the title and chorus.

Sounds good in theory, but not when you consider that exactly the groups that the GOP want to stop from voting have local post offices that are effectively unusable for the vast majority due to being open only a few hours a year.

obtaining proof of citizenship should be free and simple to obtain from every municipality, state and federal office

If it was, Republicans would just find another way to suppress the vote. This isn’t about citizenship or the integrity of the electoral process. It’s about the GOP knowing that the fewer people vote, the better for their fascist and therefore unpopular party.

whether it’s necessary to have proof of citizenship in order to able to vote. of course you should. everyone should.

That’s already in place, though. When voting, you have to supply your name, address and voter registration.

If no citizen with that name is registered to that address, you don’t get to vote.

It’s a pernicious lie that people in any significant number is able or even attempting to vote without indirectly proving their citizenship and even requiring “free and simple” (which it probably won’t be to some people anyway) direct proof will suppress the vote whether that’s your attention or not.

we spend so much political bandwidth on a loser of an issue, year in, year out, for decades

Because currently there’s no consequences for Republican politicians and their media echo chamber willfully misleading the people with their lies. In fact, the corrupt system encourages it.

Ceding ground to their demagoguery doesn’t make it go away. They’ll just have that more power to suppress the vote in additional ways.

something we should be pushing for too.

Nope. See above.

the poll tax argument no longer holds weight

It VERY much does. Any unnecessary obstacle to voting is undemocratic in the same way as a poll tax is and requiring direct proof of something you’re already indirectly proven is unnecessary.

no matter how much you whine about the smallest percentage of the smallest percentage of people who find themselves disenfranchised by the requirement

You VASTLY underestimate the number of people for whom voting is already unnecessarily difficult and who will be at a greater risk of not being able to justify the cost of voting the more obstacles are thrown in their way.

Especially when you consider that in person voter fraud is so rare as to be statistically nonexistent and is never non eligible people trying to vote.

That you display your ignorance in a supremely condescending way doesn’t help either.

the amount of support republicans get from this, as in issue that makes logical sense, doesn’t add up.

It does when you consider how effective lying their ass off is in the current system.

They aren’t right about any of this. They just have the money and media echo chamber to get their point repeated so much that impressionable people such as yourself are fooled into thinking that they are.

Because a government shutdown could permanently destroy the lives of people who are dependent on the government to function, stave off homelessness, or even survive.

a month or 2 of crappiness is nothing compared to years of a Trump presidency.

On the surface, you’re right.

However, to some people, that month or two of pay could be the difference between having a home or not and, depending on where in the country they live, that could be permanent or even deadly.

I agree with you that Trump and his fascist cult MUST be stopped, but we still need to be careful not to irreparably harm innocents in the process…

…did you just have a stroke in the middle of a strawman argument?

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