Texas

I wasn’t talking about the ruling. I was talking about how people in here feel about kids accessing pornography

My question was for a purpose, but it wasn’t disingenuous. I seriously am concerned that lemmy users might not think there’s anything wrong with kids seeing pornography.

I don’t think that this law should go into effect, but that’s also not what I asked. I asked nothing about the law or the ruling, because I already agree that this isn’t the solution.

What I was worried about was that we might not be aligned as to why it wasn’t the solution. Or that there was even an issue at all to solve.

And like I said, the visceral negative reaction I’ve received even asking that question really tells me all I need to know.

Now voter ID just makes sense. When I walk up to a voting booth I say “my name is Strangle” and they cross me off the list and hand me a pencil. I could go the next town over and say “my name is SCB, give me a pencil”

That’s obviously fraud and it’s against the law, but if you were a corrupt politician, you could - let’s say - get a bunch of deceased people on the voter registration list, and then send some cronies to those booths claiming to be those people and manufacture votes that way.

Voter ID would go a long way to limit that kind of exploitation of the system.

Of course, this only makes sense if you actually want a legit election. If all you care about is going further and further left every election and going right at any point is a step in the wrong direction, you won’t understand that.

There are people who literally think anything, hook or crook, is worth it to stop a Republican from office.

That’s scary, cause people who think that think breaking the law or whatever (censoring news stories during an election and banning newspapers from Twitter) is justified because ‘democracy is at risk if we don’t elect a democrst’