Oh dear, you think I needed to watch a video to know that was happening in the US too? Have I got news for you. Countries throughout the Western world are trying to destroy Western democracy without making it look like that's what they're doing. But thanks for your childish reaction to hearing about the fact it happens in Canada, the country you actually live in, and it's the Liberals who are guilty of it. I've really given up expecting much more from you.
Oh Jinny, Jinny, Jinny...
I haven't said anything in this thread about what I think about Canadian voting rights or the destruction of Western Democracy what so ever. It's a US politics thread and I was sticking to that. If I wanted to talk about all countries, I'd have posted in International.
But since you LOVE to assume and be wrong about me so, so much...
I'm full aware more and more "Western Civilizations" are going down the crapper. Fascism and Dictatorships for some reason are the 'cool' thing to get into now, sadly and not enough is being done to stop it; not in the US, not in Europe, and not in Canada (oh, I said Canada?). I am well aware that voting is fucked up in Canada. Hell I'll admit I voted for Trudeau the first time believing that he'd changing how voting is done, and I'll admit I was a fucking idiot to do so.
My MAIN refusal to even support his ass in any further election since HAS been his lack of dealing with the issue of voting.
I even made that bold so you wouldn't miss it. And it doesn't even have to be Trudeau; NO ONE is discussing the changes needed to voting on Canada, so that's one reason why NO ONE gets my vote and one reason why every goddamn leader of every goddamn party is trash.
You know what's really frustrating though? Watching history repeat itself as left-wing extremists slowly erode the democratic institutions the West holds dear. We saw this before with the Soviet Union before and after WW2. In fact a lot of the shit that's been going on comes straight out of the old KGB's playbook on how to bring down the West.
It discusses tactics on how to get the majority to believe they are actually in the minority. It discuses how to "infect" (my word) the Western educational system. It discusses tactics about attacking the institutions and symbols of a country. It talks about the slow, almost imperceptible erosion of rights, death by a thousand cuts so to speak. And most importantly of all, control of the media. The media can be a powerful propaganda tool, especially the news media.
I agree with you on this and it fucking sucks.
You think voting rights is the only problem in the US?
No, never have, never did; that's not the point of this post though. Too bad you missed that memo...
Think again. Gun rights are being restricted. Some states have even made self defence a criminal act. Well, at least one state did so far and that's without anyone even getting hurt or killed. And after 4 years of Democrats crying that Trump can't override state's rights, the Democrats are overriding states rights, especially when it comes to voting.
Are they now? How so?
Free speech is also at serious risk in the US and across the Western World.
Free speech, or free speech and no consequences?
So yeah, I didn't need no steenking video to know wtf is going on in the US.
Perhaps then you shouldn't have posted since watching the video was, you know, the POINT of the topic. If you weren't going to watch it, then why the hell post?
But thanks for being a patronizing twat about it.
LOLOL - the only 'twat' is you, Jinny dear, cause you got all butthurt, yet again, over something that has nothing to do with the actual topic at hand.
Let me put it this way. If the State can take it away from you then it's a privilege, not a right. Not saying I agree with the sentiment, that's just how shit works. That's why extremists don't like firearms in the hands of the "sheep". It's much harder to oppress a population who are capable of defending themselves and are willing to fight back.
Well then voting was never a right even from the get go... despite it being called so from the get go.
en.wikipedia.org
While I agree with you that if a 'right' can be taken away, it's not a right but a privilege, here's a question for you. If those 'rights' are baked into laws from the get go, and if you break those laws... is the government really taking the rights away, or did you just fuck yourself over by breaking those laws and thus removed your OWN rights?
Another question: guy goes to prison for drug charges, non violent. His voting rights are removed. Depending on the state, they may not be returned. Should that guy get his voting right back when he gets out, because he did his time? Or does he lose that for all his life? And then whose fault is it, the Government or the Individual (cause you know, personal responsibility...).
www.pewresearch.org
