The GOP Is Making It Harder for College Students to Vote

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[–]passionflounderIndependent 11 insightful - 6 fun11 insightful - 5 fun12 insightful - 6 fun -  (87 children)

Clearly the evil Republican party is an existential threat to Our Democracy® and must be abolished and its members imprisoned without charges.

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    [–]passionflounderIndependent 6 insightful - 6 fun6 insightful - 5 fun7 insightful - 6 fun -  (0 children)

    (No one has called for the abolition of the GOP.)

    Well they should! anyway.... Scientists have assured me that attempting to engage in any independent thought contributes to climate change. Accordingly, it's more important now than ever to take advantage of the selfless services freely available from mainstream media guardians of all things certified true to do our thinking for us.

    It is estimated by experts that a single vote for a GOP candidate is responsible for an increase of 0.00000675 degrees Celsius in the global temperature due to the 1.67 metric tons of poisonous carbon released into the atmosphere... so we all need to vote like our grandmother parts depend on it and keep electing sainted and above-reproach Democrats who can do no wrong.

    What's particularly egregious is the GOP campaign to purge voter rolls- effectively disenfranchising the politically active who are no longer alive to speak up for their right to vote Democrat.

    [–]Zapped 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (71 children)

    Student I.D. is not a government issued identification.

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      [–]MuskyIndependent 12 insightful - 4 fun12 insightful - 3 fun13 insightful - 4 fun -  (55 children)

      Getting more students to vote is good for democracy.

      Uninformed voters are good for your party you mean.

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        [–]Zapped 7 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 2 fun -  (7 children)

        Teenagers and those in their early 20's are soaking in so much new information and are eager to learn new things, but they are also the most easily manipulated by the politicians into voting a certain way. I know. I was one of them once.

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          [–]VulptexVoluntaryist 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

          Research that assumes voting Democrat is good and voting anything else is bad.

          [–]ShekelPa 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

          "research" indicates many things, your failure to provide a meaningful source renders your claim as worthless as "experts familiar with..."

          [–]passionflounderIndependent 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

          Look, everyone knows that the straw man has been the backbone of political debate since Dewey decisively trounced Truman in 1948 as evidenced by the front page of the unimpeachable Chicago Tribune being held up by what I assume to be an elated Dewey campaign worker..

          [–]scryforhelp 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

          research indicates

          Thank you for immediately proving his point

          [–]VulptexVoluntaryist 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

          I know barely any liberal gen Zers. It's always millennials. Gen Z almost seems more easily swayed towards the alt-right.

          [–]MuskyIndependent 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (15 children)

          Do you even know any college students? Well-informed is not what comes to mind.

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            [–]MuskyIndependent 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

            They spend more time absorbing useful information than the rest of us

            Maybe more than you.

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              [–]VulptexVoluntaryist 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

              That information is anything but useful. Most universities are nothing but leftist indoctrination centers.

              There probably shouldn't be taxes to pay, because there is a much better system than democracy: no government.

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                [–]ShekelPa 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

                Define useful information. Because many of them are taking in political jargon. They are told to think with emotion at the expense of logic.

                You cannot call what they learned as useful if they plunder themselves into debt without any appropriate exit strategy.

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                  [–]notafed 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

                  You must be nuts. I'm in university now, as a middle-aged man.

                  The crap they're being taught in the humanities and arts should disqualify them from voting for 10 years after they graduate.

                  [–]1Icemonkey 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

                  Informed with bullshit.

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                    [–]ShekelPa 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

                    Yet you provide no empirical evidence to justify this claim. You cannot call them informed when they act at the beck and call of the leftist indoctrination machine.

                    How can you call them informed when they preach for bodily autonomy while simulntaneously wishing severe punishments for those who refuse to take an experimental injection?

                    [–]VulptexVoluntaryist 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

                    No one is informed. It's almost impossible to be informed with how today's media works.

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                      [–]VulptexVoluntaryist 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

                      Oh that's right, I forgot, the media is always right and can't be wrong, and we should just trust everything it says without question. Unless it's Fox.

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                        [–]ShekelPa 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

                        Except no they aren't. I am in school and see how one-sided every issue is presented. You cannot declare they are more informed when they are denied any access to opposing viewpoints. This is textbook indoctrination.

                        [–]VulptexVoluntaryist 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (18 children)

                        Why stop there? We'll just bring back monarchy!

                        https://i.imgur.com/JhUVaIx.jpeg

                        [–]MuskyIndependent 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (17 children)

                        Or we could take steps to make the electorate better informed. Regulations that news shows had to give equal time to opposing sides of an issue and reinstituting the ban on domestic propaganda seem like terrific first steps.

                        Single ruler systems can work well with the right leader, until succession goes to the lesser abled, like their numbnut kids.

                        [–]VulptexVoluntaryist 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (14 children)

                        That all sounds like big government. Your regulations would silence viewpoints that aren't Democrat or Republican, and things like "propaganda" are the same excuses people use to censor the opposing views.

                        [–]MuskyIndependent 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (13 children)

                        That all sounds like big government

                        It would simply be reinstating old policies.

                        Your regulations would silence viewpoints that aren't Democrat or Republican

                        Like the Chinese point of view? Yeah, I don't really want foreign nations having a voice in America.

                        [–]VulptexVoluntaryist 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

                        Okay so now you're straight-up advocating for censorship.

                        [–]ShekelPa 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (7 children)

                        More government overreach. Rather than push stupid ass policies why not encourage people to think for themselves by teaching them how to critically assess information?

                        Are you afraid people will come to a conclusion you have deemed "problematic?" Because it seems you are more focused on controlling the flow of information than you are at teaching people how to properly screen information

                        [–]ShekelPa 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

                        lol. They are not required by law to be impartial or honest.

                        They promote their lies and then promote a retraction one week later that receives around 5% of usual traffic.

                        If you do not watch the news you are uninformed.

                        If you watch the news you are misinformed.

                        [–]MuskyIndependent 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

                        This is what I'd like back: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FCC_fairness_doctrine

                        [–]Zapped 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (13 children)

                        So you're advocating giving people the ability to vote who can't figure out (or are too lazy) to get proper I.D.?

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                          [–]ShekelPa 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

                          Using the same leftist buzzwords by the communist party. You argument is now invalid and questionable.

                          [–]Zapped 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (8 children)

                          That is disinformation, isn't it?. A student I.D. is not a government issued I.D., which is required to vote in certain States. Therefore, it is not sufficient.

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                            [–]ShekelPa 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

                            Your proposal would allow non citizens to vote. The same demographic you people cater to. Fancy that. "Educated voters" are neck deep in "misinformation" that you people approve.

                            [–]Zapped 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

                            You are stating an opinions as fact. That is misinformation.

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                              [–]1Icemonkey 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

                              Wow. No kidding.

                              [–][deleted] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

                              Go back to Reddit.

                              [–]ShekelPa 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

                              You seen numerous examples yet never provide any.

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                                [–]VulptexVoluntaryist 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

                                "Examples are only necessary for other people's arguments!"

                                [–]VulptexVoluntaryist 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

                                Only the past 3 years. And it's all because Darth Sidious encouraged the libs to riot like crazy so that others would become angry and afraid.

                                Source? I watched these people change before my own eyes.

                                https://i.imgur.com/TuHphKT.png

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                                  [–]ShekelPa 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

                                  wrong.

                                  [–]VulptexVoluntaryist 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

                                  But they weren't advocating against that back then. Regardless of what the media may have told you. Now they are, and it's only getting worse.

                                  [–]ShekelPa 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

                                  How much is biden paying you to cock suck?

                                  [–]passionflounderIndependent 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

                                  Oh I'm getting some of Hunter's artwork for free.... and a no-show government job. You have remarkable sleuthing skills.