The call, an apparent imitation or digital manipulation of the president's voice, says, "Voting this Tuesday only enables the Republicans in their quest to elect Donald Trump again."

The call, an apparent imitation or digital manipulation of the president’s voice, says, “Voting this Tuesday only enables the Republicans in their quest to elect Donald Trump again.”

  • thantik@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 months ago

    That’s already the case. If someone is deemed to be mentally unfit (retarded is NOT a slur it is legitimately a medical term and you people are too sensitive), they cannot vote. It’s ALREADY a thing.

    • osarusan@kbin.social
      1·
      10 months ago

      retarded is NOT a slur it is legitimately a medical term and you people are too sensitive

      It’s actually not.

      they cannot vote

      They actually can.

      You seem to have a serious problem with facts and with discrimination.

      You’re spouting false bullshit, and you’re prejudiced.

      You’re exactly the kind of person who should not be allowed to vote, but luckily for you being a stupid, wrong, bigoted asshole does not revoke your rights.

      • thantik@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        10 months ago

        They actually can.

        https://i.redd.it/45h41oozgag21.png

        Wrong again. They CANNOT.

        Source: https://www.bazelon.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/2016_State-Laws-Affecting-Voting-Rights-of-PWD.pdf

        Wishing for something to be the way you want, does NOT make it the way you want. Calling someone a bigot for telling you factual information just shows how brainwashed you are.

        Here’s the same with restriction on owning firearms:
        https://everytownresearch.org/rankings/law/mental-health-prohibitor/

        We CAN, and ALREADY DO restrict the voting rights of those who fail to pass a certain bar of intelligence and or mental continuity.

        And as for retarded:
        https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/11/AR2010021103896.html

        The term “mentally retarded” was itself introduced by the medical establishment in the 20th century to supplant other terms that had been deemed offensive.

        By the 1960s, “mental retardation” became the preferred medical term, gradually replacing previous diagnostic standards such as “idiot,” “imbecile” and “moron” – terms that had come to carry pejorative connotations.

        The term “retardation” was common in my home and life, but it was sterile and clinical.

        So how about you educate yourself some…

        • osarusan@kbin.social
          1·
          10 months ago

          No, man.

          You came in here posting absolutely disgusting ableist slurs and spewing discriminatory bullshit that’s not true. Then after you get called out on it by everyone, you’ve start changing your tune, cherry picking specific circumstances that if that had been what you originally said, we’d have ended up in a different conversation. But instead we’re having this garbage conversation that you decided to start.

          And as for “hey look, people used this word in the 60s all the time!” I’ll point you to every other slur, whether ableist, racist, sexist, or whatever. You know what? People used them all in the past with impunity. That doesn’t make it ok to use them today.

          Instead of just Googling things that support your prejudice and confirm your existing biases, try searching for the counterarguments.

          • thantik@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            10 months ago

            I didn’t change my tune at all, this is exactly what I was referring to, but you kneejerk reactionaries decided I was being “not nice” and that was good enough reason for you to dismiss me. “Ableist” is just another way for you to claim victimization, because that’s all the internet is now. Everyone rushing to claim victim as fast as possible because that justifies any action they take. It justifies not actually holding a discussion, because you’ve been “wronged”.

            Grow the hell up and actually discuss the topic at hand, instead of attacking the person, their characteristics, and which “team” you think they play for or ulterior motives they have. All of lemmy is populated with you victimization weirdos like it’s some sort of fetish you have to be persecuted.

            The original point I made, was that our democracy is at stake if some simple robocalls to idiots, morons, and retards can change the course of our nation. Robocalls don’t have to come from other US Citizens, so allowing this is tantamount to allowing other nations to control our voting.

            Mods here will keep deleting my PERFECTLY valid argument, because they dislike the TYPES of words that I use. It doesn’t make my argument less valid. In this particular instance, I am referring directly to intelligence and its hand in the direction of our governing. Intelligence isn’t something I am “discriminating” against here, I am using it in a technical sense to describe the problems that it comes with. But you can’t see the fucking forest for the trees.

            NORMAL people have these discussions on the daily. They don’t just turn around and walk away because someone said “retard”. Grow a thicker skin for fucks sake you absolute child.