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He’s accused of conspiring to trick voters into using fake voting methods so they didn’t vote. How would you react if someone created a fake voting location and
by scottshamus 3y ago
He’s accused of conspiring to trick voters into using fake voting methods so they didn’t vote. How would you react if someone created a fake voting location and put a full page ad in a newspaper telling people to vote there?
- nikolay 3y ago[flagged]
- Regnore 3y agoIf society wants an educational qualification for voting it should implement a proper one. It shouldn’t rely on some online scammer trying to confuse and distract.
- nikolay 3y agoThis is good enough. It's like people who fall for spam and scams - I can't sympathize, really. Evolution punishes stupidity and it's no wonder why all the world is going downhill as this twisted form of democracy does one thing - breeds populists!
- nozzlegear 3y agoA fine idea. And we all know that people who own land are more likely to be educated anyway, so why not make owning land a requirement to vote as well?
- nikolay 3y agoYes, I support that! Rights comes hand in hand with responsibilities - I don't believe a freeloader has earned the right to steer the country in one direction or another - they should rather steer their life first before playing the rights game!
- flangola7 3y agoWhich part of the Constitution or election law are you basing this on?
- nikolay 3y agoIt's in the the unwritten part titled "Common Sense and the Survival of the Fittest."
- flangola7 3y agoCtrl + F found zero results Common sense means knowing democracy isn't democracy when you have a poll test. Survival of the fittest means kicking selfish autocrats to the curb and making their shitty ideas illegal to implement.
- rolenthedeep 3y agoAt one point, we thought black people were too stupid to vote, so we gave them "intelligence" tests, like guessing the number of beans in a jar.
- nikolay 3y ago[flagged]
- nikolay 3y ago[flagged]
- rolenthedeep 3y ago> And don't twist my words making them racist No twisting required, you just posted a whole comment full of blatantly racist stereotypes.
- nikolay 3y ago[flagged]
- deserialized 3y ago[flagged]
- dang 3y agoYou started and then perpetuated a hellish flamewar in this thread. That's seriously not ok on HN. Please don't do it again. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
- nikolay 3y agoIt's surprising how you rush to warn me about this, yet don't do anything against personal attacks in the same thread!
- dang 3y agoA couple things. First, other people breaking the rules doesn't make it ok for you to do so, and you were by far the worst instigator in this thread. It's not helpful to point fingers at others in such a case. We need you to follow the rules regardless of what other people do. Second, people certainly shouldn't be posting personal attacks—I tell HN users not to do that all the time: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=by%3Adang%20personal%20attack&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que.... If there were personal attacks in this thread that I didn't respond to, that's most likely because I didn't see them. It's certainly nothing personal or specific to you in any way. You've been a great HN user for years! (except for the flamewar comments)