lazyeye

Please don't quote a couple of left-wing advocacy sites as if that's credible evidence. And yes you are arguing that non-citizens should be able to vote by consistently attacking any kind of approach that would manage the issue. None of the things I've argued are extreme or radical, simple common-sense in most countries I think. Anyway it would be great if you could stop replying as we are just re-hashing the same arguments repeatedly.

I just feel stupid having to argue the simple commonsense that it is the citizens only that should be allowed to vote, particularly after the influx of 10 million+ (likely much more) illegals in the last 4 years of the Biden admin.

You appear to have bookmarked my comments page, which you perhaps check regularly? I'm sure I'm not the only one.

Could you do me a big favour? Could you delete my bookmark and not reply to my comments any more. I would really appreciate this.

Why didn't the Republicans do the same? You're asking why the Republicans aren't corrupt like the Dems? I don't know, you'll have to ask the Dems. We just have to deal with the consequences.

And in terms of your "criticism" of their competence, it was just a vague smear with nothing of substance behind it. Not worth acknowledging really, particularly if your benchmark is the Biden/Harris admin where we had an autopen president in the early stages of dementia and a vice-president (the border czar!) so incompetent she was too scared to go on podcasts.

Strange how the Dems always seem to find "justifications" to reduce election integrity whether it's through illegal immigration or lax election laws (promoting election fraud, ballot harvesting etc), whilst lecturing everybody about the need to "protect democracy".

This is good news that critical minerals are available locally.

I thought we were talking about rare earths?

I think you're the one making falsehoods..

1. Apportionment for both the House of Representatives and the Electoral College absolutely includes undocumented immigrants and all other non-citizens. Their presence alone allocates more electoral weight to blue states where they congregate.

2. They may not vote immediately but over time they will marry/integrate and ultimately will vote. And crucially their children will vote. In the medium term voter demographics will change radically if Democrat corruption is allowed to proceed

3. As soon as they gain power again the Democrats will take whatever steps necessary to speed up the process of getting them on the electoral role. This will be done under the guise of "compassion" but will really be about the pursuit of power.

California used to be a red state but was turned blue through immigration.

The vast majority of Democrats voted against requiring proof of citizenship to vote.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/house-passes-republica...

ok but just because they were incompetent in the past (although in the Dems case nobody is that incompetent, they were obviously manipulating voter demographics - a complete corruption of democracy). That in no way implies the govt cant properly manage the problem now.

That's a little bit simplistic. Serious question...how old are you? Your world view is what I'd expect for someone with minimal life experience as an adult. Are you under 20?

Groan...

You also have to wonder how illegal immigration is managed in Korea. I'm going to assume they take a very different approach from what they are expecting from the US.

Its so strange how illegal immigration has been completely normalised in the minds of some people.

I stopped using Chatbox as it didnt allow an Openrouter API key (which in turn allows all models Openai, Claude, Grok, Gemini etc) and started using Msty instead. I might revisit Chatbox and see if its improved.

We also dont know how much money China is investing in govt spyware either.

I dont really trust the intent of any information I read online. This article could well be part of a influence campaign by a foreign power.

"Because if you talk about something the most, this means you have it the most.." is how most people perceive things. Of course, the opposite is often true.

Weird comment? Why am I the corrupt one? I think there is a deep institutional corruption that exists across the food and health bureacracies. and it persists regardless of who is in power. And no doubt there are many Democrats too who benefit from the status quo. I dont think Michelle Obama absolves them of their sins.

Agreed. The crazy thing is that the Silicon Valley ethos has always been about disruption, challenging the status quo. Yet when it comes to the utterly abysmal state of public here they all are reflexively rushing to defend the indefensible.

1 in 3 adolescents has pre-diabetes.

https://diabetes.org/about-diabetes/prediabetes/adolescents-...

It's mystery to me why people rush to defend such extreme levels of failure.

Yes this would be their primary challenge at which they have comprehensively failed.

60% of the US population has at least one chronic disease. 60 PERCENT!

40% has 2 or more. In any other sector would this be an acceptable outcome?

https://www.cdc.gov/chronic-disease/about/index.html

The old establishment health bureacracy should not be taken seriously. By any measure they are corrupt and incompetent fools.

Populism is a democratic mandate you don't like.

And I guess it's also where a politicians lies are more simple, direct which apparently is MUCH WORSE than the more sophisticated, poll-driven lies of the establishment politician's PR hacks.

Seems like its been a "self-reinforcing loop" for decades...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth_inequality_in_the_Uni...

Those damn far-right nazis, picking up litter in the park...it's the end of democracy ; ) Only MSNBC could put a negative spin on that....thanks for the link, I had a good laugh.

Id also argue if China was open to the world we would see the level of Chinese racism against foreigners is very high indeed. Likely higher given their closed media systems unable to tolerate foreign opinion.

I'm curious to try a bedjet (no affiliation).

https://bedjet.com

Like I said "you just put words together..."

I've been wondering for a while now if you are an AI chat bot emulating a 15 yr old teenager. I think quite possibly you are.

Before we continue this chat, its very important you tell me....whats your favorite in Seattle?

You just sort of put words together that have little to no connection to reality. Deriving an immigration policy based on an environment that existed 150 years ago would be insanely stupid.

ok but I thought you were arguing that a president removing a previous appointee is heralding the end of democracy or something.

I dont know what point you are trying to make with regard to immigration but not flooding the country with millions of illegal immigrants from 3rd world countries (with everything that entails) is commonsense for most people. It doesn't mean you are racist or hate legal immigrants, it just means you haven't been successfully gaslit by Democrat propaganda.

The "remarkably worse" has already happened. It's what we are trying to get back from. It's why I used the term counter-revolution.

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/02/06/politics/biden-removing-t...

"and I agree that there was a fair bit of it..." This casual aside is really doing alot of heavy lifting here and doesnt really acknowledge the scale of the problem. Dismissing it as "muddled bureacracy" doesnt even come close.

After 4 years of the previous administration, the American people voted in the most disruptive change agent in US political history. And they did this with full knowledge of how he operates from his previous 4 years in the presidency.

There is a counter-revolution happening right now and there is a popular mandate for this. And this means a few people are going to lose their job.

I dont have any numbers for this but its probably likely that just as many, if not more, conservatives lost their jobs under the previous administration. (DEI provides a wonderful camouflage for political cleansing at scale).

Yes it was obviously a cut and paste from a previous comment for the simple reason that the same point was being made.

And honestly the idea that me putting forward a consistent point of view is somehow indicative of inauthenticity is kind of silly.

I'd say look at your own chat history. I am reminded that insufferable hypocrisy is a common thing online.

Other ways you can lose your democracy....

Using lawfare to try to take out a political opponent (ridiculous NY charge with no precedent, no victim, and from a DA who was famous for reducing felonies to misdemeanours but for Trump did the opposite)

Applying govt pressure to social media companies to censor content they dont like thereby bypassing the 1st amendment (twitter files etc)

Using the intelligence apparatus to try to take out a political opponent (russian collusion hoax, fake dossier)

Relying on the media lies to maintain power (border is secure, Biden is mentally competent etc)

Leaving the border wide open to allow in 10 million+ illegal immigrants in order to ultimately sway the voter demographics in your favor.

Compared to this sacking somebody seems rather tame actually.....