I didn’t know how much the sheriff has to do with impd department policy/culture. In a metro department, I think that’s the chief of police, which I think is appointed?

Probably badger the city council and your local reps.

contract “options” are indeed normal. You could also lump in government contracts into the category your thinking about. I’ve never heard of a scenario where the vendor broke contract by not honoring the options. I also have never dealt with a vendor getting bought out and then not honoring existing contracts. Super fun to watch the corporate drama. I personally don’t care for the private equity style business that seems to be an even bigger problem than the investor first/profit centric model that I thought was the worst thing.

How do all these poor people do everything else?

How do they drive cars, buy cars, get paid, etc?

I can understand dealing in all cash, but you can’t legally drive cars with a DL. Is that racist? This logically means requiring motorists to have ID is racist and discrimination right?

Can anyone prove definitely that corrupt politicians are trying to keep poor voters from voting?

Still seems like an assertion that’s a matter of opinion.

Did anyone throw the same fit about driving cars? You have to take the same time off work and get all the same documents to do literally every other civil function: legally drive to work, open a bank account for direct deposit, get a credit card, get medical treatment, get insurance, file taxes, etc. You have to pay for transportation to the grocery store if you don’t have a car.

Why is just one political group making a fuss about it, which seems to be really focus on voting? You only vote once in a while. You do or use those other examples every day.

I feel like a larger issue is just being exploited for political people to make victom statements.

Why is voting less important to prove identity than buying alcohol?

I’m not a citizen of this country. You’re saying I can/should vote? That’s illegal, but what stops me. I could do it a bunch of times too, I just go to different places.

I get it, but I disagree. I don’t it’s about voting, I think it affects voting.

I’d rather fix the poor problem than allow voter fraud.

The fees for everything we need government services for, like getting a document is outrageous. Why the he’ll do we pay taxes to fund government agencies local/state/etc and then still pay fees?

That’s double taxation. I think that’s the real fight on poor people. That document fee is over some people’s hourly wage, but yet it’s required.

That’s about like having to be in debt in order to build credit. It all serves to take money from working class to wealthy.

So when I read this, don’t think: “Let’s stop ID’ing people when they buy alcohol or weed” (someday), but instead I think: “Why aren’t IDs free!?”

If it’s critical and a civil need to ID people for all sorts of valid reasons, then it should be free/tax funded.

I’d rather tax money cover something like IDs than hear agreements about trying to restrict fraud. If you want to prevent voter fraud, eliminate reasons that allow the conditions to persist.

Thanks for the read. I do t have an easy idea for the time. Indiana BMV was massively improved a while ago. Maybe we need more of that. There’s probably no getting around taking the time to establish identity or dealing with stupid documents. We have to start somewhere.

…or the government records your DNA at birth, then we’re good. - j/k, that would scare everyone into rage and riots 🙃

Could you legitimately explain this? I keep hearing that, but as far as I can tell, it’s not harder than:

ID: Buying alcohol, cigarettes?

Register: Free, fill out stupid card?

Prov identity: Get financing, open bank account, drive car - nope you don’t get arrested for not having license anymore? This list is way harder than voting.

Why is voting hard?

They look at my drivers license and then I p ress buttons.

I don’t even have to be sane, educated one way or another, sober, etc.

Personally, I am also convinced there’s unlikely to be a flip of Indiana from red to blue (unless something changes), so I have to consider which red I want, or dislike the least.

I haven’t researched the new likely front runner yet. I’ve only seen comments here, which likely won’t favor him, but I might not either after I consider his record and stances, IDK.

Rock and a hard place?

Why is nothing about this shit ever taught in school. They basically say there’s a Congress and constitution, and that’s it.

And now, we make sure not to leave our they all owned slaves, but nothing useful as a society member IMO.

I don’t know anything about this stuff

We are just a little behind trying to elect our new dictator…

But just for a day…

/S 🙄

Nice. Then what’s the Spanish equivalent?

I have only visited Rota. Neat place.

Thanks for the insight.

It’s a shame we still can all just get along. That saying is lame, but it’s ultimately the goal.

One of my ideas, that isn’t terribly realistic or shouldn’t have to be resorted to, is to locate our selves in regions that are more welcoming.

There was a person at my work who was lesbian, which I suspected, but they weren’t open. One day at a social event, they brought their wife and brother (for support) and made public. I was stupid and didn’t put all that together until then.

They moved to Washington State and both have great jobs now. I felt like part of that move was related to moving to a region known to support their life style more welcomingly, at least compared to Indiana.

You shouldn’t have to do that, but if I could stack enough chips to afford doing that and needed to, I would.

I said above that you shouldn’t have to do that ever. No one should be treated like shit by whole groups of people, political, religious or other wise.

I like the idea of states competing for talent and opportunity. Washington also tried decriminalization of all drugs. Lots of people nay sayed. I thought it was great. They tried an experiment instead of just listening to a bunch of wind bags. That didn’t work as it was implemented, but we all got real world data, and identified other failures of legislation that went beyond just drugs (treatment, transportation issues, logistics, funding,.etc). I might be all talk though, I would not want to conduct that here.

Weed is the same way. All the states doing it are eventually going to have eliminated all excuses for now allowing it. Some states still might never. That’s ok. People can shuffle around based on what’s important to them.

You shouldn’t ever have to be subjected to mistreatment just for who you are though, anywhere in America.

I hate both our parties, most of all politicians, and a large majority of our policies in their current form. There’s no one for me to vote for, and no national pride in what they do or represent.

Wow, classic.

Merica

Here’s a clue:

If the paper isn’t terrible, it was AI…

😋

I enjoyed the weird feeling when all the traffic was very scarce, and even though stores and shops were open, everything seemed to stop for 30 minutes as everyone stood outside.

It was like capitalism took a 20 minute break, and I wish we could do that more often. Not a ton, just a little

Are all Republicans the ‘same’ I your opinion?

I often want to think that people can be conservative and like some Republican ideas, but without the stereotypical bigotry stuff.

Personally now, I think that’s less and less possible, but part of why I’m asking.

I feel like I’m running into less barely Republican people, and more very Republican people. I guess by that, I mean people whom are more accepting or believing that their policies are right (being very opposed to immigration, accepting LGBTQ, pro corporate, etc).

I like the Midwest, and dislike the East Coast look and feel. I haven’t been on the West Coast enough to form a meaningful opinion.

I also don’t qualify for discrimination targeting. Most of the corruption I’m surrounded by seems to relate more to socioeconomics and greedy politicians than people who care about someone’s color/etc, but again, maybe naive…

OMG, a video:

https://youtu.be/aZDAxcLU-oQ?si=AzFScngwEn9RBr8o

one of the marginalized groups

You’re a double or triple then…:)

the people who elect these bigots know exactly what they stand for, and they support it. South Dakota has a really problematic history But anyone who supports Republicans here knows exactly what they’re getting

Do you think that is a majority, or just a powerful/extreme small group?

I don’t know anything about SD, so I’ll have to google what you’re talking about.

I can’t legitimize their worldview by having anything to do with them beyond what my work requires

I can relate to this in a small way. I’m probably way more conservative then most average/stereotype lemmy users, but I find that the view points of people I work with are far more extreme/right than mine. I’m maybe barely right, or right in some things, and left in others? Who cares. I just cannot for the life of me see how they can only view things/people from one side. When they rant about left/D things, I point out the same things about right/R things, it’s like they lose their minds. It’s all fake news and brainwashing, but they don’t see the hypocrisy in anyway. I have no idea how.

I am still hoping the whole region isn’t as bad as I’m led to believe. That’s the reason some of your view points are helpful.

invalidating

Understood, Wasnt intended or criticism.

More maga I guess, and the recent proposed legislation in the cited articles the person referencing them used to justify their opinion/feeling that Republicans wanted them dead/gone.

I tend to agree with the nice and kind part of Midwest, with exception that it seems like we’re becoming more hard-line against things people call woke or alternate life styles.

I’m using a universal ‘we’ since, and I think you’re right - there’s a difference between urban city thinking and rural community thinking.

I have a whole theory about the city thinking and rural thinking having to due with ownership or property, but that’s a whole other thing…