Wisconsin College Protest at Special Olympics

[Greenday]

Then over half the Tea Party, Oathkeepers, and the rest are "hippies". Somehow, I don't think so.

Wasn't aware the Tea Party was doing so much drugs.

[Rapscallion]

Wasn't aware the Tea Party was doing so much drugs.

It would actually explaing quite a bit, you know.

Rapscallion

[Lachrymose]

Where's the damned "Like" button when you need it?

[Greenday]

It would actually explaing quite a bit, you know.

Rapscallion

So would being mentally retarded. But that wouldn't be fair to those who are mentally handicapped.

[Andara Bledin]

What is legal is what is proper.

And you're free to think that. You're in the minority, however.

But I defend to the death their right to do it anyway. It is up to them to decide how they want to provide their message and the means in which they do it.

The moment we let "common sense" (which doesn't really exist) and courtesy override our legally-granted rights is the moment where we deserve to live under Chinese authority.

Nobody has suggested that they can't or shouldn't be allowed to, merely that it was a piss-poor decision to do so.

It's really a bad term anyway. Most of these protesters aren't hippies at all, since they didn't become so during the 1960s youth movement.

"Dirty hippy" has about as much relevance and accuracy as "dirty commie" used to. Which is to say, most of the time it's a bigoted insult by someone who didn't want to bother coming up with something that was factually correct.

Or more like college kids who hop on bandwagons, as my mother put it, they are extremely impressionable and easily swayed into causes that they don't know much about.

That describes the majority of humanity. Otherwise, that's a gross generalization and bigoted to boot.

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[linguist]

What day to day operation? Does Wisconsin have daily elections I don't know about?

do you only register when there's an election upcoming? i don't, nor does anyone i know. i always register whenever i change my address. in addition, new residents move into every state every day, which would also require the daily operation of registration offices.

Unanimous approval pretty much means can't be changed.

"pretty much"=/="impossible"

. And it's not irrelevant. I'm saying if something is stupid, we should change it.

if you think something is stupid, then by all means take the appropriate steps to change it. but until it's changed, you still have to adhere to the law as it stands.

although if you think that a constitutional amendment banning poll taxes is stupid, then i thank all the higher powers that may be that yours is not the only opinion that matters. i'd much rather not live in a country where the poor (primarily minorities and the young) are disenfranchised by burdensome poll taxes, which is what happened before the 24th amendment was passed and what would likely happen again if it got repealed.

[Greenday]

do you only register when there's an election upcoming? i don't, nor does anyone i know. i always register whenever i change my address. in addition, new residents move into every state every day, which would also require the daily operation of registration offices.

So these machines are going to cost tons of money to run a few times a week? It might in bigger cities but in suburbs and rural areas, it's not going to cost much at all.

"pretty much"=/="impossible"

When was the last time Congress or the Senate came to a unanimous decision on anything important? Seriously, if we had that attitude today, blacks would never have had rights, women would never have had rights, abortions wouldn't be legal, gays wouldn't get rights. Shit would never get done. Ever.

if you think something is stupid, then by all means take the appropriate steps to change it. but until it's changed, you still have to adhere to the law as it stands.

although if you think that a constitutional amendment banning poll taxes is stupid, then i thank all the higher powers that may be that yours is not the only opinion that matters. i'd much rather not live in a country where the poor (primarily minorities and the young) are disenfranchised by burdensome poll taxes, which is what happened before the 24th amendment was passed and what would likely happen again if it got repealed.

I never said anything about poll taxes. I dare you to find anything in any of my posts that said we should tax people for voting.

[linguist]

So these machines are going to cost tons of money to run a few times a week? It might in bigger cities but in suburbs and rural areas, it's not going to cost much at all.

i'm not sure what world you live in, but in the real world people are constantly moving into and out of areas, and thousands of new voters become eligible and register every day. have you ever spent any time in a driver's license office? those places are constantly packed, and this wouldn't be any different, and would mean more than running equipment "a few times a week." additionally, even if the equipment is not being run, the offices that house it still have to be staffed during regular state or county business hours.

When was the last time Congress or the Senate came to a unanimous decision on anything important? Seriously, if we had that attitude today, blacks would never have had rights, women would never have had rights, abortions wouldn't be legal, gays wouldn't get rights. Shit would never get done. Ever.

doesn't matter if it hasn't ever happened or if it wouldn't ever happen. your assertion was that it couldn't ever happen, which was wrong.

I never said anything about poll taxes. I dare you to find anything in any of my posts that said we should tax people for voting.

you were the one who started talking about overturning "stupid" laws when the 24th amendment was brought into the conversation. you are also the one who seems to be advocating a system wherein people would be forced to pay for ids that would be required for them to vote, which would be a poll tax.

[Greenday]

i'm not sure what world you live in, but in the real world people are constantly moving into and out of areas, and thousands of new voters become eligible and register every day. have you ever spent any time in a driver's license office? those places are constantly packed, and this wouldn't be any different, and would mean more than running equipment "a few times a week." additionally, even if the equipment is not being run, the offices that house it still have to be staffed during regular state or county business hours.

I'm not sure what world you live in, but in the real world, unless it's a city, there aren't thousands of people being born a day in every town. So there really aren't thousands of people registering every day in every town.

doesn't matter if it hasn't ever happened or if it wouldn't ever happen. your assertion was that it couldn't ever happen, which was wrong.

Just because 0.0000000000000001% chance of happen doesn't equal 0 doesn't mean that realistically, it pretty much is the same as 0. If there was a slot machine that had a 99.999999999999% chance of paying out per pull, are you going to say, "Hm, there's a chance I'm going to lose. What's the point?" No, you are going to say, "Fuck yea, ride that shit!" because odds are you will never lose.

you were the one who started talking about overturning "stupid" laws when the 24th amendment was brought into the conversation. you are also the one who seems to be advocating a system wherein people would be forced to pay for ids that would be required for them to vote, which would be a poll tax.

So what you are saying is that I never said ANYTHING about people having to pay to vote. I support voter IDs. I said I think stupid laws should be changed, including Constitutional amendments. I never said one thing about people having to pay to vote.