GreyEyedGhost

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[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Well, all you've said is that you think it should be verifiable. What reasons do you have to support your argument? If you've read the theory, you should be able to point me in the right direction or give me an answer.

[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 1 points 11 months ago (3 children)

This topic has been discussed for a couple thousand years now, and you clearly have access to the internet. Feel free to search for the answers on your own.

[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 1 points 11 months ago (5 children)

What's to stop me from filling it out the way I said I would, going to the voting office and saying the ballot I had previously was lost/damaged/spoiled and then voting differently than how I was paid to vote?

The premise behind a secret ballot is it can't be proven how you vote. You can still sell your vote (illegally), you just can't prove you voted the way you said you would. As shown above, absentee ballots don't remove that distinction. I suppose the criminals could just trust each other...

[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 1 points 11 months ago (7 children)

Back to school. Vote-buying breaks democracy. Not having proof of who you voted for makes vote-buying pointless. Yes, your vote could be miscounted. This is generally less of a problem than the general population being able to sell their votes and can be mitigated in a variety of ways which don't tie votes to voters.

[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I'm sorry, I think I misread what you were saying. I thought you were referring to the kid in the picture and not his classmates. But perhaps this kid's actions will give them some insight into the flaws of the system and just how little it would take to improve it.

[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 0 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Or, just maybe, he realizes he's in a better position than most of those around him, and is willing to give extra so their lives would be better. You know, socialism.

[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 5 points 11 months ago

There are two valid reasons that tariffs are normally applied. The first is to protect the local economy. This usually makes sense where there are marked differences in the cost of living in two regions, giving a financial advantage to the region with the lower CoL. The second is to counteract subsidies in one region allowing a lower sale price in another region. The idea here is to remove the unfair advantage the subsidized companies are enjoying.

There are other reasons, such as simple protectionism, where relative competitiveness is ignored and is more broadly applied to restrict foreign goods and services from flooding a market.

The reason for not applying tariffs for locally-made products is pretty straightforward. Employees are local, goods produced are local, business taxes (if actually paid) are local. Profits will undoubtedly be siphoned off to China, but that's the case for any foreign owned business.

[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 14 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I personally found the part where they tell her to not contact certain people. Which people? It's never mentioned in the video. Is she just not supposed to say anything on social media again? How is that a reasonable response?

Now, if she was being blocked and creating new accounts to harass people, that would be more reasonable. Or if she was actually convicted of a crime. But until then, the police should just have to learn the difficult fact of life that people may not agree without any laws being broken.

[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Alternatively, we could put units in something the majority of internet users use and let the minority take that extra step...

[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 7 points 11 months ago

Aluminum is in antiperspirants, not deodorants (usually).

[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 2 points 11 months ago

Holy fuck, you come across as such an entitled asshole! "How can I make my life better. No comments about other people's lives getting better in the time frame I mentioned, those things weren't a problem for me and I don't care." Also, "I want the blissful ignorance of my childhood [guessing here] without acknowledging the reality of that time that led to the consequences I wish I wasn't living in right now."

So, back to the question. I don't know l, maybe hit yourself in the head with a rock until you have the intellect of a six-year-old and have your parents take care of you for the rest of your life? Find some other way to reject the negative reality of the present as much as you reject the positive reality of the present and the negative reality of the past?

[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 2 points 11 months ago

Why do you keep posting the same question in different communities?

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