But it's a benefit for working for us!

Them, probably.

Sure, but it's literally the easiest no brainer you could do which would free up prisons and boost the economy. Why not do something that most people wants real quick? What, you think folks can't have more than one policy occupy their mind at one time?

Folks can't wait till next month, you took food out of their mouths now!

I... You can't not hear gunshots. It was probably so they wouldn't hear anyone dying as much.

Source: fired a suppressed gun while wearing hearing protection.

Sure, once. For like a day.

I got 9 dollars from an uncashed check for jury duty that I threw out years ago because I didn't bother taking it to the bank 😆

No, I'm not. What agenda would I be pushing to do that? My experience in a town isn't going to be same as anyone else's. I simply asked what the criteria is to qualify a town as LGBT friendly. It's really not hard. At the end of the day it's a generalization. How many shitty people do you have to meet opposite of a community of LGBT support groups before you can call the whole town anti LGBT?

Everyone's experience is different, how can you say what someone's experience will likely be? This isn't black and white.

Yeah, and as someone who's non binary I'm asking how do you quantify that?

Define your requirements that need met in order to call a town LGBT friendly. You act like it's black and white, like every experience is the same. What's the criteria to define if a town is LGBT friendly or not?

It's really a simple question.

How can enough people in a town share the same idea enough to be able to answer that question? Like, what ratio of LGBT allies to homophobes are you looking for?

Why would you think an entire town could be a monolith for a singular experience? Even the small rural conservative town I live in has a business with a pride flag in the window.... There's good and bad everywhere. Typically places with higher population have more diversity. More diversity leads to acceptance of ideas. It checks out that there's gonna be more acceptance for LGBT+ folks there compared to other places but maybe less than other places.

This is a bit of an odd question to me.

Their sugar cookies are my favorite!

For me that just sounds like people can do whatever they want if they can afford it, so it only really effects poor people if anyone which is what my hangup is. To me the key is changing culture rather then policy, which I guess you'd still need to do to support said policy anyway. 🤔

So my daily driver is a compact pickup truck with a class 2 weight designation. I live in a rural area where roads don't always get plowed and I use it to haul pellets for heating... Among other useful things. My concern is that because it's not capital, or tax deductible because it's not used to earn an income; there'd be a tax Id have to pay simply for how and where I live that directly disenfranchises us as working class folks for no good reason.

Unfairly burdening the working class with taxes to fix the problems created by the free market is not a progressive idea in my opinion and I have strong reservations about it. Should it depend on my truck's weight class? That doesn't change what I need it for, but a larger truck would be more useful to me. (The reason I got a smaller truck is for fuel economy and driving in town).

I think if you believe in a healthily regulated free market under capitalism (I'm not a capitalist, but that's a whole other conversation), you need to address and consider need while also change our culture which would address the problems that American exceptionalist consumerism causes.

I typed this next part out first before adding more before it, but I'm gonna still leave this here as it expands on my point....

You seem to suggest that there are only two reasons folks have a truck and only one of them is valid and I don't understand that belief, partly because "work" is a very subjective term especially when it comes to what tax code and law considers how needs are addressed but we agree on a lot of other things regardless. Good chat all in all.

I get the sentiment about our dependence on cars, but the parking space and lane size doesn't change from Silverado to Prius, they have always been the same size. How do you account for our lack of rail and our dependence of freight trailers on the highway and city streets? How would consumer vehicle choice change that? You believe the problem across America with rail is space? It's capital and who controls it. The rest of the country has plenty of space.

I already referenced gas taxes and how corrupt politicians didn't use that for any good, as it just created more burden on the working class. The owning class is passing the buck and you're subject to their propaganda that the consumer free market has anything to do with creating actual change.

Our dependence on cars is directly tied to the choices that politicians make. Do you also believe our dependence on foreign oil is mutually exclusive to supply and demand? Because you're missing the part about money and power that American imperialism thrives on. You think the military industrial complex making us money fighting for oil and control is gonna let the free market influence change?

London is doing it, awesome. What's more likely, Brits want more options then us or our problem is unregulated capitalism?

Nah, you're just trying to pat yourself on the back. We need to cover electric transportation next? I have news for you about where our rare minerals come from.

We won't focus on the real causes of pollution and greenhouse gases because there's too much money in it for lobbyists and politicians pocket gas tax instead of funding infrastructure so sure, why not tax the working class more? That'll fix things.

For the record, registration already costs more for trucks. Where does that money end up?

Thanks for that info, I had no idea. I lived here my whole life, I wouldn't know what to do with myself in a different state lol

Now that you mention it, I don't believe I've gotten anything in the mail from them for the last few years since I started doing my local taxes online. The only reason I ever got anything was when I was late with them once. (Or maybe I wasn't... Who knows at this point). My parents who do taxes the old fashioned way gets a form every year though.

The bbb has no real authority just because they can advocate for you. Anicdotal evidence that they helped you isn't the gotcha you think it is when so many people have the opposite experience.... It's really easy to say these experiences aren't valid when you don't take the time to know how exactly the bbb works.

What an argument... Is every other country doing gun licenses right? How is it that America is compared to other countries only when it's convenient?

How do you rationalize the requirements of ID? Should homeless people not get to vote because they don't have a legal address? Should we charge people for legal documents that are needed in order to exercise their rights?

All this kind of talk does is further politician's agenda to discredit and to influence folks to lose faith in our system. What do we do when Democrats take majority and we have to fight for even more strict requirements? Are we gonna take their word that it's in good faith? Cause I'm not really here for that.

If there's no problem getting an ID and there's no good evidence that voter fraud is a wide spread problem then I have to wonder why you're not questioning why it's such a huge party platform.

Why make it harder?

You know you can't prove a negative right? If people are inhibited from voting how would you be able to keep statistics on it? Site the source of a study done on it.

When government makes things harder, it's disproportionately harder on marginalized people. I just don't get why voter ID is the one "inconvenience" you're arguing for.

The ID thing is about government agencies purposely making it difficult for working class people and folks who are marginalized by society due to hours of operation, location and price. separating working class from POC in what I said is a bad faith attempt to redirect and speaks volumes about what points you have to actually make. You didn't even address the main point about ID and licenses preventing crime or fraud.

With no real argument, what's left? You just don't care if it makes voting harder cause you buy into media bullshit and talking about race relations is nice and divisive. You can miss me with that shit, and you probably shouldn't assume someone's race on the Internet.

You know how required licensing only burdens working class and POC with owning firearms and doesn't actually stop violent crime? Why is voter ID supposed to stop voter fraud instead of disenfranchise voters when there's not any significant statistic of fraud?

And who was behind releasing these videos? Remember, you said the media is biased as fuck.

Literally none of those things proves fraud. What, someone stopped counting on video? What of the numerous State's recounts with special poll workers?recounted ballots... How do you know what it was for, if they were counted twice or just double checked for accuracy? Putting ballots in a box... Do you even hear yourself? Why don't you volunteer as a poll worker since you have so little faith in the system?

We leftists said the electoral college should be abolished, not that the results of the election.. the actual number of votes weren't legitimate. If you're gonna talk shit about something, get it right 👍