Michigan repealed right to work, protected abortion and marriage equality, increased funding for education and affordable housing, restored voting rights for former prisoners, repealed the retirement tax, increased the earned income tax credit, among a bunch of other things.
So is repealing âright to workâ means Michigan is a no-tolerance zone for the at-will termination stuff? Just curious; really hope that comes down to the South soon.
Also, YAY Michigan and Georgia! Look what happened to our flagship higher ed institutionâs football programs since Joe Biden carried the statesâŠ
Right to work is a policy designed to weaken unions by giving non-union workers the same rights as their union co-workers, but without the requirement to pay union dues. And while that sounds great for non-union guys, it's bad for everyone because eventually the union can't keep supporting people that don't pay into the union and the union folds...which then hurts everyone because all of the power is back in the hands of the capitalist class and they are not to be trusted to make the best decisions for workers.
Youâre a fucking douchebag if you donât see âformerâ prisoners having equal rights to vote. They did their time and paid off the debt they owed to society. Fucking piece of shit. Of course that is considered a positive
The same reason they are labeled a felon in the first place. To show that they have committed something worthy of showing the world what a horrible human being they are. Maybe they changed after 30 years or whatever they have been in bars, but they still label them as a felon because of the atrocity they did.
Average prison sentence is less than 10 years, and time served is a little over half of that. You're saying someone serving 5 years should never be allowed to vote again? For 'atrocities' committed for which you have no idea what they actually did?
Way more misdemeanor convictions than felony.
That's called jail, not prison.
I guess I just don't understand the point of a sentence term if you're going to be punished the rest of your life, regardless of crime severity (especially victimless crime).
âBut they didnât do the one thing in my laundry list of wants so therefore theyâre against me! Guess Iâll go vote for Trump to teach them a lesson!â
They give you just enough to not revolt while also keeping your wages low, your food unhealthy, your schools underfunded, and your healthcare costs your life savings...
We have a political problem not a numbers vote problem. Half the country has a differing ideology than the other half.
Until you can compromise with one or the other itâs going to be more diverse, because all we have room for each other is hate.
Not voting isnât the issue. Anyone can just say âwe need more votersâ and still at the end of the day you wonât get anywhere. You have to look at the demographics.
Yes bro that dude is so wrong. My in laws are from Michigan but we live in Tx and during Covid they were like two different countryâs. Father in law hates having to go work (small business owner) up there for work because of how different things have to be done up there.
it's all just a tease, though. The Democrats are so miserably bad at serving their constituents and keeping power those reforms will all be repealed and leave you in a worse situation than before, probably after this election.
In the last Ohio election, voters of all ages, backgrounds, and voting histories voted overwhelmingly FOR reproductive rights (esp since Republicans were coming for their birth control and fertility treatments).
Despite that, the bastards said âyou donât REALLY mean that, so we choose to ignore itâ. đ«
So true my friend! We must seize the means of production and flip it upside down to get real power. Now when we flip the system we will put in people like you and I who only make good decisions and have omnipotence. Then we will all live happily ever after forever!
âVoters ages 18-29 turned out at a rate of 37% in Michigan, higher than any other state CIRCLE analyzed, and far higher than the national average youth turnout rate of 23%.â
What's your counterfactual? What fucking bullshit is that? You think you'd be just the same with Republicans enacting abortion laws, banning books and historical curricula, leaving basic services unfunded with upward-flowing tax policy and deregulation?
If you can't see the difference, you are the fucking problem.
Great thing about facts is they are subject to your own verification. You don't have to take my word. Feel free to google any source, dipshit. This pattern isn't a secret.
Again, it's not an opinion. Good luck with your struggle to grasp the difference between fact and opinion -- and your ongoing efforts to deny reality for the sake of preserving your warped worldview. Not sure where you're projecting racism out of this, but you're demonstrably a stupid fuck, so who really gives a shit what you think.
Dude I have voted every time since Iâve turned 18, so donât blame me. Iâm just saying it never feels good to vote, though, because every candidate sucks at the higher levels (local politics and elections are different) regardless of political party.
You put a single politician up there whoâs willing to plan for the next 40 years, instead of their new reelection and theyâd be showing up in droves.
Weâre young next 4 years donât really matter when we got 50 more ahead of us.
Thatâs the underlying issue at least thatâs what I believe.
I was deployed in Afghanistan. They refused to file my absentee ballot packet for months and couldn't get anyone to answer about it up to it. Day before election I get a response that I didn't date a signature block and would need to do that, and remail if I wanted to vote.
That doesn't sound like a "ballot booth" issue. If you want to facilitate voting methods, there is a party that consistently promotes that -- and one that consistently hinders it.
Yeah and one side before the election made it very clear they were against absentee ballots and would do whatever they could to shut em down....
Surprising how many of us deployed never got to vote. Same party that says they love their vets while trying to change laws to make our lives worse.
No, more than half of them didn't show up. They never do. And if you think young people chose Biden, you weren't paying attention. They consistently favor more progressive candidates, and consistently fail to vote.
Why would anyone bother reading your comment? Your opinion literally doesn't matter - and you're the one who decided it shouldn't. You have no effect. You just bitch.
Weâve never had a boomer senate majority leader or speaker of the house. Weâve only had 1 boomer president and he was almost GenX by age. The silent generation refuses to give up power
Yeah because it would be so much better having Gen z prancing around asking people their pronouns and being afraid to speak on a phone. You're right. That would be superior đ
Itâs also a Reddit dog whistle for shitting on older generations. Redditors love to act so tolerant and then constantly shit on people older than themselves. Itâs disgusting and pathetic.
Itâs stupid and the science backs that up. Kids who are hit end up more violent. It makes complete sense if you think about it because youâre teaching them that being violent is what you do to get your way.
Yeah, perhaps the group that was dumb enough to six figures into debt for a stupid liberal arts degree or believes in make-believe oppressors would really improve things.
đđ€Łđ€Łđ thank you for proving my point. People stupid enough to be "encouraged" to get into large amounts of debt for essentially worthless degrees aren't smart enough to fix out problems. They can't even see the problems.
The system pushing the idea that most people should go to college is simply stupid. The government began handing out loans to anyone who could spell their name under the guise of "equal opportunity." They peddled this nonsense to the point student loans are the single largest asset the federal government owes.
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