Why does fighting voter ID laws seen like an own-goal?

That’ll hold em!

(For 14 whole days)

Former food service worker here

Perfection

Having been in a similar situation when I was young, having since worked, professionally, with teenage boys in a very close environment (staff basically lived 24/7 in a group housing situation for a combination of wards of the state/ adjudicated offenders/ “problem” kids, for 4 or 5 days at a stretch), and having to still enforce boundaries with some toxic parents, I have to be real with you…

You are going to have to steel yourself and force yourself to get out of that situation and just live life. It is going to be HARD. You are going to have to set your ego completely aside. You are going to have to tell yourself that you are playing a LONG game and just persist for as long as it takes. You are going to have to abandon EVERYTHING that you assume is what your life is going to be about, and start out into the world like the archetypal “Fool”.

Keep firm hold of your values, but prepare yourself to be rid of EVERYTHING else. That might include your dignity, your social position, what others who you care about think about you.

And you are going to have to press your luck. HARD

There is a chance, though, that you might come out on the other side, years from now, able to hold your head high because you have proven yourself, to yourself. That is the only thing that will matter. You just might be able to look back on your life and realize that you performed WAY better than you once thought you would. It will be VERY satisfying, and it will make the tough times seem worth it.

I wish I could offer you more, but the above describes the journey I have found myself to have undertaken, and, as dirt poor as I am, I have good friends, solid relations with select family members, concrete things that I am proud to have accomplished, and an understanding of the world that I remain surprised to have acquired.

It was very, very hard at times. I took some serious risks and managed to choose goals that turned out to be worth it in ways that I could not have imagined.

It is up to you. Your ace in the hole right now is that you are young. Take chances, but try to avoid going against the values that you hold. Regrets are a bitch.

Go for it.

🙃

“I’M not racist! YOU’RE racist!”

You mean THIS house resolution 921?

https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-resolution/921

H.Res.921 - Honoring the 30th anniversary of the National Guard Youth Challenge Program. 118th Congress (2023-2024)

I think I smell bullshit

I have family, DEVOUT Christians, that live in the actual holy land. I asked them “who is that?” in response to their posting a picture of white-as-fuck Jesus on the Facebook page for the family village. They have yet to respond

Someone, who can stomach it, please post this on r/anarcho-capitalism or r/Austrian economics. Those morons just LOVE this guy

Wow! These guys found AND verified trillions of dollars in financial transactions in such a short period of time So much winning from only the best minds!

Congress ASSERTS financial mismanagement and fraud. The only evidence we have so far is musk and greens word. I seen to remember a LOT of baseless accusations in recent memory What were those now…?

In THIS economy?

There was a TON of organizing happening 10 years ago. Then Obama got reelected and everybody, except the people trying to do the organizing, went back to watching dancing with the stars

Nobody wanted to listen then, so now we are all getting to enjoy the same hand basket

Oh, and I forgot about the select few who decided that THEIR perspective outranked everybody else’s, and used their petit tyranny to remove some very good willed people from certain organizing spaces

So, now some of us get to at least watch while those select few get hammered by this bullshit first.

Looking at YOU Monica

You’d think with that username…

This guy

The SOUND of a fart

Imagine if they could imagine how the rest of us feel

At best, that is the nice way to describe treason.

I’m sorry but I think you fail to understand how this plays out in the real world, and you are justifying elected officials lying to the public.

Your devotion to the “team” is requiring you to perform mental gymnastics which demand that you ignore the obvious and then come up with an idealistic situation that justifies being lied to.

That is crazy scary

When you “unite” with certain people you become weaker

You mean the Hillary Clinton who said that it was okay to have different public versus private opinions on things, as an elected official, who got PAID to give speeches to wall Street, who used her influence to get the apparatchiks of the party to tip the scales in 2016 to ensure that SHE would be the nominee instead of an anti neo liberal who could have put up an amazing contrast to djt instead of her neoliberal centrism? The one who insisted that SHE needed to be president, and who very much helped us to get into the situation we find ourselves in today? Oh, cool. I am very much interested in what she has to say, because of course she holds the interests of the country above her own