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In December 2024, in the thread "Re: BRK: Why Not XOM?", BreckHutHigh asked the members: "What about the long road trips with kids?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: Lapsody   😊 😞
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Subject: Re: Shapiro's history being scrubbed
Date: 08/04/24 4:33 PM
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And for purveyors of the raaaaaaacism argument, here you go:

No real response, just a video from the Daily Wire:

"Overall, we rate The Daily Wire Right Biased based on story selection and editorial positions that align with the conservative right. We also rate them Mixed for factual reporting due to the promotion of propaganda and a few failed fact checks."

Here's the Brennan Center:

SNIP For example, as Arizona legislators were debating new restrictive voting bills, State Rep. John Kavanagh stated that Arizona Republicans “don’t mind putting security measures in that won’t let everybody vote” and that he was more concerned with the “quality of votes” than with overall voter turnout.9 When defending two of Arizona’s restrictive voting laws before the Supreme Court in March 2021, the attorney for the Republican National Committee admitted that the party’s interest in the laws was to avoid being at “a competitive disadvantage relative to Democrats.”
footnote10 And when discussing proposals to expand access to mail voting, President Trump stated that an expansion of early and mail voting would lead to “levels of voting that if you agreed to it, you’d never have a Republican elected in this country again.”
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These statements do not represent judicial findings of intentional discrimination. But when viewed alongside the long list of instances of discrimination and racial disparities in the 2020 election cycle, these statements offer a window into discriminatory intent playing out in real time. This public rhetoric provides important context for understanding the full spectrum of discriminatory effects discussed in this report. SNIP

I remember a Republican researcher on voter suppression died and his wife gave his PC to some liberals and they found how he was recommending some things he'd researched. A new way to suppress voting that hadn't been tried yet - inventive. And sometimes y'all say the quiet part out loud - in a speech, or admit it to a journo. Maybe someone's google-fu is better than mine.

But now you seem to be doing well among Latin Americans - so it's a two edged sword. :)

Here's voting policies people support:

A majority of voters support policies that expand voting rights.

These include:

Making early, in-person voting available for at least two weeks prior to Election Day (76%),
Establishing Election Day as a national holiday (72%),
Allowing people convicted of felonies to vote after serving their sentences (69%),
Permitting any voter to vote by mail (57%),
Automatically registering voters if they interact with a government agency (57%) and
Implementing Election Day voter registration (57%).

So let us know when you stop pretending about this.

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