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  • rainwall@piefed.socialtoComic Strips@lemmy.world•The Hedonic Treadmill
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    22 hours ago

    If by “heterosexual men don’t care” you mean “I dont care,” then sure. Sounds like you’re just telling on yourself for not being interested in your partners tastes and trying to pass it off as a common trait of “all straight men.”

    Nah. I can do the above challenge, as can lots of people, straight/gay/etc. If you and your partner don’t care thats fine, but dont try to paint billions of men with your same disinterest to make yourself feel better about it.


  • The protest origin was a push by teens for more teachers in schools, smaller class sizes, and repairs to thousands of rotting buildings. Many adults joined in solidarity very early, including Frances left wing party.

    French police cracked down brutally on these children, including firing a tear gas canister at point blank range into a 15 years olds face, shattering his jaw and all of his teeth, and blowing the hand off another teenager with a concussion grenade. Only after maiming these teens did the French minister in charge of police temporarily limit just concussion grenades, all while applauding the police response. This was seen as pretty tone deaf, and enraged a lot of people.

    After weeks of rioting, including blockaded and some burned school buildings and thousands of arrests of teens, Frances prime minister said they would add 3000 teachers to schools as soon as possible, and work to fix other issues. This was seen as to little, to late by many. As the article says, the protest is now widening in scope among general unrest with French’s centrist, neoliberal government.








  • I should have been more specific. The barcodes are on the return envelopes, not the ballots. They allow a ballot to be tracked by the voter to make sure its proccessed or sorted out before its tallied in the cases that a voter reports an issue, but at no point is who the person voted for tracked or logged. The tally process involved immediately discarding the envelope and separating it from the ballot itself when the votes are tallied, fully preserving anonymity.

    The envelopes include voter signatures which are checked against voter registration, and the collection and processing follows a chain of custody. The tallying itself is monitored and transparent as well. The whole process is audited, because the paper ballots are retained and can be recounted if needed. You can view the process here:

    https://www.sos.wa.gov/elections/voters/securing-your-vote

    Mail-in voting can be wholly secure, and should be the default because of its efficieny in widening engagement with democracy.


  • Lots of right wing talking points about edge cases that won’t affect 99.99999% of voters, but easy enough to address.

    Mail in ballots can be filled out anywhere. If a spouse is concerned about it, they can get the mail early and drop theirs off in any ballot drop box, which are normally next to government buildings like libraries and are designed to withstand semi-truck strikes. Washington also has a way to get a new ballot if for some reason here is an issue with yours.

    Voter coercion is a crime, and an approved case for replacement. Reporting it will resolve all sorts of issues. Ballots Return envelopes have unique codes so they can be sorted out if needed.

    As to your other right wing talking points introducing tons of overhead for voting like “must have an excuse, etc” these only serve to reduce turnout, reducing the scope and breadth of democracy. Means voting testing, which is what the above is, will always drive down participation for the poor and disenfranchised, i.e the people that the GOP dont want voting.

    How about you fuck off with your voter suppression plans and let states vote very successfully in the safe, efficent, and effective manner they already use?