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I read this article a few days ago and said almost exactly the same thing. The mook stuff is fun, but the line you quoted: >“We are not beefing endlessly becau

I read this article a few days ago and said almost exactly the same thing. The mook stuff is fun, but the line you quoted: >“We are not beefing endlessly because we do not desire peace or because we do not know how to engineer peace. We are beefing because we no longer know who we are, each of us individually, and collectively as a species.” is the important part of the piece for me, and I'm happy to see you and others singling it out. I really relate to what Rao is saying here. It's a sensation not unlike boredom. Like we're all waiting for something, anything to happen. A weird example: In 2016, I flew home to PA from Boston specifically to vote against Trump in a place that mattered. I stayed with my parents for the night, and when I came back from the voting booths, the TV was on and it suddenly became clear that the unthinkable was happening - Trump was winning. I vividly remember the sensation that came over me wasn't disappointment. It was excited anticipation, like the way you feel right before you leave for a big vacation. It was like "ok, here's something actually _happening_ that I'm a part of." It's kind of fucked up, but that emotion that washed over me felt "truer" than any principled argument that this guy could do real damage, etc. It felt like suddenly I was living -in- history, rather than beside it.

derp_dee_derp 7y ago
> In 2016, I flew home to PA from Boston specifically to vote against Trump in a place that mattered this is illegal if your residence is Boston. Congratulations, you committed a felony.
- kedean 7y ago
  The post is worded like they were in college at the time. College students can register to vote in either their home state or the state they attend school in, just not both.
  - derp_dee_derp 7y ago
    There is nothing on their post that implies age or student status, unless you think staying with your parents is something that only college students do and is not possible after graduation.
    - FooHentai 7y ago
      Right, so you’re taking the least generous interpretation of the OPs statements and concluding they broke the law. Please don’t that, it’s bad faith and needlessly divisive.
    - AnimalMuppet 7y ago
      There also isn't anything in their post to say that they're not. But you're assuming it was illegal, based on... what? Why assume the worst rather than the more charitable assumption?
      - derp_dee_derp 7y ago
        and you're assuming it was legal, based on... what? Why assume the best rather than the more realistic assumption?
- cyorir 7y ago
  The "if" is key. The parent post does not indicate that their voting residence is in Massachusetts - they could have maintained a voting residence in Pennsylvania instead of switching to MA. Voting residency requirements are weird because they differ from state to state, and can be very vague when it comes to maintaining residency. As far as I can tell, Pennsylvania's 30-day residence requirement only applies when registering to vote; as long as you maintain a voting residence in Pennsylvania, you can vote in subsequent elections as you do not need to register again between elections. According to Article VII of Pennsylvania's election code (qualifications of electors), however, you lose your residence if you move to another state AND do not intend to return to Pennsylvania OR you move to another state AND intend to make it your permanent residence. So it depends on the parent poster's intentions of whether they view MA as their permanent residence or they don't plan to return to PA.
- bsder 7y ago
  Are you a student? Most states don't automatically consider you a resident in that case. You won't change your driver's license, and you probably won't pay state taxes to that state. Are you a contractor, and for how long? Again, you probably don't automatically change residency until you pass some magic number of days. Many of the state laws are often a bit vague about the corner cases like students or contractors. The general principle seems to be "As long as you only vote once, in one place, you probably are within the bounds of most laws. As always, YMMV, IANAL, etc.
FooHentai 7y ago
>Like we're all waiting for something, anything to happen. I’ve noticed this trait in myself, beginning with hurricane Katrina. Half the world away, I immersed myself in New Orleans local live news streams, radio, webcams, blogs and forum threads from on-the-ground folks. I had a period of about three days solid obsessively scanning for new information. There have been several other events that I responded to in similar ways, including the last US election and that airliner that got shot down over Ukraine a few years back. The guilty enthusiasm you mention was present each time. The event is almost always something disastrous, yet the ‘rush’ to dig for information and get a sense that you’re witnessing unfolding major events is compelling. I once got drunk with a German friend and, lacking all tact, lamented that the world hadn’t been very exciting since the end of WW2 and that it felt like we were overdue for something similar. I don’t think the point I intended to express was the one that registered with him, understandably. Do you do the thing where worrying global stuff unfolding (e.g. North Korea’s periodic Sabre rattling) triggers you into obsessing about prepper SHTF stuff for a while? I feel like there’s a connection between the behaviours, but my sample size is only 1 currently.

derp_dee_derp 7y ago

> In 2016, I flew home to PA from Boston specifically to vote against Trump in a place that mattered this is illegal if your residence is Boston. Congratulations, you committed a felony.

kedean 7y ago
The post is worded like they were in college at the time. College students can register to vote in either their home state or the state they attend school in, just not both.
- derp_dee_derp 7y ago
  There is nothing on their post that implies age or student status, unless you think staying with your parents is something that only college students do and is not possible after graduation.
  - FooHentai 7y ago
    Right, so you’re taking the least generous interpretation of the OPs statements and concluding they broke the law. Please don’t that, it’s bad faith and needlessly divisive.
  - AnimalMuppet 7y ago
    There also isn't anything in their post to say that they're not. But you're assuming it was illegal, based on... what? Why assume the worst rather than the more charitable assumption?
    - derp_dee_derp 7y ago
      and you're assuming it was legal, based on... what? Why assume the best rather than the more realistic assumption?
cyorir 7y ago
The "if" is key. The parent post does not indicate that their voting residence is in Massachusetts - they could have maintained a voting residence in Pennsylvania instead of switching to MA. Voting residency requirements are weird because they differ from state to state, and can be very vague when it comes to maintaining residency. As far as I can tell, Pennsylvania's 30-day residence requirement only applies when registering to vote; as long as you maintain a voting residence in Pennsylvania, you can vote in subsequent elections as you do not need to register again between elections. According to Article VII of Pennsylvania's election code (qualifications of electors), however, you lose your residence if you move to another state AND do not intend to return to Pennsylvania OR you move to another state AND intend to make it your permanent residence. So it depends on the parent poster's intentions of whether they view MA as their permanent residence or they don't plan to return to PA.
bsder 7y ago
Are you a student? Most states don't automatically consider you a resident in that case. You won't change your driver's license, and you probably won't pay state taxes to that state. Are you a contractor, and for how long? Again, you probably don't automatically change residency until you pass some magic number of days. Many of the state laws are often a bit vague about the corner cases like students or contractors. The general principle seems to be "As long as you only vote once, in one place, you probably are within the bounds of most laws. As always, YMMV, IANAL, etc.

FooHentai 7y ago

>Like we're all waiting for something, anything to happen. I’ve noticed this trait in myself, beginning with hurricane Katrina. Half the world away, I immersed myself in New Orleans local live news streams, radio, webcams, blogs and forum threads from on-the-ground folks. I had a period of about three days solid obsessively scanning for new information. There have been several other events that I responded to in similar ways, including the last US election and that airliner that got shot down over Ukraine a few years back. The guilty enthusiasm you mention was present each time. The event is almost always something disastrous, yet the ‘rush’ to dig for information and get a sense that you’re witnessing unfolding major events is compelling. I once got drunk with a German friend and, lacking all tact, lamented that the world hadn’t been very exciting since the end of WW2 and that it felt like we were overdue for something similar. I don’t think the point I intended to express was the one that registered with him, understandably. Do you do the thing where worrying global stuff unfolding (e.g. North Korea’s periodic Sabre rattling) triggers you into obsessing about prepper SHTF stuff for a while? I feel like there’s a connection between the behaviours, but my sample size is only 1 currently.