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My name’s not Rick.

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No matter what happens in November, I expect this US presidential election cycle to be a shit show.

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Found this online:

According to the Australian Electoral Commission, the decline in voter turnout was the driving force behind the introduction of mandatory voting. It said that voter turnout dropped from 71 per cent in the 1919 election to less than 60 per cent in the 1922 elections.

In order to address the problem, a private member’s bill to amend the Electoral Act was introduced in the Senate in 1924. At the time, it was only the third private member’s bill to be passed into law since 1901.

As a result of the law, the voter turnout at the 1925 election rose to over 91 per cent.

Gradually, states across the country introduced compulsory voting starting from Victoria in 1926, New South Wales and Tasmania in 1928, Western Australia in 1936 and South Australia in 1942.

When enrollment and voting at federal elections was introduced for Australian Aborigines in 1949 it was voluntary, and continued to be so until 1984 when enrollment and voting became compulsory for all eligible electors.

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Not to sound too tinfoil-hatty, but I wouldn’t be surprised if some of that was sock puppet accounts. When you don’t want people to unify and leave, just start a flame war!

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How were redditors treating them? Just being obnoxious and refusing to change?

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Concrete zaddy

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Everyone has different DNA and nobody refutes that, but the lines at which race are defined are completly arbitrary. Are you considered black if you have 50% sub Saharan African DNA? Most would say yes. Are you black at 25%? How about at 5 or 10%? The slew of different answers is a clue that race is just a social construct borne of perception rather than hard fact.

Similarly, a lot of groups that are considered “white” today would not have been in the slightest if you were to go back 100+ years. The Irish, Italians, Greeks, among others were not considered white until more recently than you might believe.

Thats the crux of it, race is only truly defined by these arbitrary lines in the sand that people draw, and these lines are different for different groups and individuals. Race is only real because people perceive it to be. We could divide up society based on hair color or if your ear lobes hang or are directly connected to your head and it would make just as much sense, which is to say not much.

Edit: I might add that there’s more genetic diversity in sub Saharan Africa than anywhere else in the world but they all get lumped together as black because “skin dark”. It’s stupid when you examine it.

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CRT focuses on how this arbitrary idea of race shapes how people are treated, especially on a societal scale. We divide people by wealth, by where they’re born, what gender they are, etc. All of these things affect how people are treated. I find most of the pushback is because some white people feel attacked when someone points to the fact that whiteness is a status.

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Still beats flying!

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My wife is a creative. It’s insane how many people are totally comfortable with stiffing designers

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FYI Apple Music does something similar that is also out

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It’s nice to see useful idiots aren’t just a contemporary phenomena

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I’ll go to my grave mad they cancelled Mindhunter

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I have no issue with a long movie, but I’m of the opinion that any movie over two and a half hours needs an intermission. I don’t need a UTI for your art, directors/editors.

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Ran into this last night abroad too. Took me 10 mins to watch what I wanted anyway. Stupid.

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Mario Odyssey was great and I won’t hear otherwise. Beautiful and diverse levels, lots of hidden moons, and some really complex and interesting new platform mechanics made for a fantastic game.

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It’s nice to think that most if not all these Nazi losers are dead now. I just wish their shitty ideology was too.

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Good, muthafuckas always tryin to ice skate uphill

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I don’t understand how someone could do this to a defenseless child and sleep at night.

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I too know this pain

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I think of this in the context of healthcare constantly

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Some people actually walk the walk. This is why I try not to judge people until I get to know them.

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They’re disgusting creatures. Takes a lot for me to hate anything more than mosquitos but at least they have the decency to fuck off once they get you.

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They’re not allowed to ride e-bikes so they’re riding another battery operated wheeled vehicle as a fuck you to lawmakers

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Did you subscribe through Apple’s app store or the Google play store? If you did I think you need to cancel it through the subscription pages of those apps.

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