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Huh, I didn't realize there was that much variance. I was also a little anxious that you were going to complain about Texas previously allowing trans people to
by kstrauser 2y ago
Huh, I didn't realize there was that much variance. I was also a little anxious that you were going to complain about Texas previously allowing trans people to update their gender or something similar.
I totally agree about voter ID laws. I'm sympathetic to at least the claimed reasons for wanting them, but in practice there's statistically insignificant amounts of provably invalid voting. It's not worth disenfranchising millions of legitimate voters to stop the handful of frauds.
- Spooky23 2y agoExactly. The problem with voting is that nobody does it! ID is a weird issue that unites the extreme left and right of the spectrum. The reactionaries are worried about the mark of the beast nonsense. When they cared about civil liberties beyond firearms, that would come up too. The left wingers are worried about disenfranchising the poor and elderly. Thats one of the reasons why the ID landscape is and has been so crazy - there was opposition to central birth records 100 years ago. Texas isn’t alone - in point it out because a few years ago a few thousand people, including serving military officers, were effectively stripped of citizenship. They were likely born in Mexico and issued a birth certificate on a fraudulent basis as an infant.