The Texas Supreme Court allowed Abbott’s executive order allowing early voting to start on October 13 to stand. I’ll probably vote on Tuesday after work.
Wow, early voting here in FL opens on the 19th, (my birthday, yay!) and I'm taking a personal day to be there.
Maybe I'll don a "team blue" hat or something just too piss off any "poll watchers".
Republicans have been trained to scream hysterically at mirrors.It's amazing that 61% of Trump voters think democracy is in danger, not from Trump, but because of nebulous conspiracy theory about massive voter fraud planted in their heads. It started back in the GWB years & they're really falling for it coming from Trump.
Fortunately the population centers of Texas are controlled by Democrats. All major population centers have plenty of polling locations.
While the one mail in ballot drop off per county is stupid. The number of mail in voter in Texas will be a lot lower than other states. I don’t think it’s going to have as big of effect as some. The change only impacted a few counties and it has never been an issue beforeZ
I find the ballot box thing odd. Don't mail in ballots come with prepaid postage?
I find the ballot box thing odd. Don't mail in ballots come with prepaid postage?
Politico is a leftist biased rag. Using it to prove any point, particularly this one is laughable. “Democrats are smart and Republicans are stupid” isn’t a valid point that shouldn’t be entertained by any thinking individual. It’s childish and completely untrue. Let’s all think and speak like adults here. Trash talk supported by a trash publication opinion piece. Total nonsense.
Colorado was already transitioning to be a big mail in ballot state no?Depends on the jurisdiction. The USPS delivers them as first class whether they have postage or not-
Fact check: U.S. Postal Service will deliver mail ballots even with insufficient postage
A claim on social media warns voters that two stamps are needed for mail ballots, misleadingly implying that those with insufficient postage would not be delivered to election officials in the upcoming presidential vote. This is inaccurate.www.reuters.com
There are drop boxes all over here in CO. Some people prefer to do it that way, in general, cutting out the middleman of the USPS.
You know who supports Trump?
Rosanne
Kid Rock
Ted Nugent
Scott Baio
Kanye West
That might be the worst list of supports you could possibly have. The only smart person I've seen speak out in support of Trump's Kelsey Grammer, which really surprised me. But then I realized the only reason I thought he was so intelligent was because of Fraiser. So I Googled him and sure enough, he was expelled from college and doesn't have a hair of the level of intellect that his character Fraizer did. I'm not saying all Democrats are Ivy League scholars, but I sure see an unusually high number of beyond dipshit Republicans.
Colorado was already transitioning to be a big mail in ballot state no?
Plus these guys
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We've voted by mail since 2013. In person voting is still possible but not often used. Works great. We'll never go back.
People like you don’t like it when others have their own opinions. Typical leftist nonsense. My opinion is valid. Like anyone else’s.
I read dozens of periodicals a day. No need to list them. I don’t read trash like Politico.
This new troll/bot is boring...only saving grace is his derailing hiker’s thread, like anyone could tell a difference.
I stayed away because obvious troll thread was obvious. Then I got bored and checked it out anyway. There's a 4 or 5 page stretch that's just gold. Made slogging through the other 12 pages of insipid trolling worthwhile. Thank you!
InstaBlock... It's like putting someone on ignore but faster
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i: I actually don't agree with myself on this one. After I wrote each of my responses here, it gave me something of an internal panic to review my own behavior with actively considering the question. And the results are mixed.
But I stopped judging myself pretty quickly. What I stated turned out to be an expression of a moral ideal. The way I see it at least, moralism is one way to defend against psychic conflict, and it's often a limiting one which pushes to categorize people as either good or bad. And it's a particularly limiting when you fear your own amorality.
So I'll restate my observation about the question. I think it's fundamental that, when someone judges another, they face a conflict in judging themselves in order to justify their judgment of another. When the person they are judging is different in a way they are unable to mentalize, how can they be certain they judge themselves fairly?
M: One of the elements of your original post that inspired me to call it intriguing was that what you were presenting was, as I saw it, a exactly as you say, moral aphorism or statement, again, in my opinion, on a rather lofty plain, one that could pay great dividends if sincerely aspired to. But it is the very sort of question the answer to which I believe those in denial about their own judgmental temperament might likely unconsciously overlook.
i: I'd say now it's better to state that the conflict is fundamental. Everyone deep down fears they are nothing -- that they are hypocrites ready to be exposed and rendered worthless. That is the truth regardless of whether people in general are anywhere close to this awareness. But since the conflict is there, it must be overcome in some way in order to contain that fear from escaping and overwhelming them.
M: I think the common wisdom is that this kind of madness is to be feared and avoided like the plague, that it would lead to institutionalization or worse. I also believe that much of psychiatry is directed to helping people cope with their mental illness rather than go through the kind of cathartic episodes that could cure them. My own belief is that everything we fear has already happened and all the damage is done so it is better to relive the experience and let it all out rather than become better able to keep it all bottled up.
i: I will say that, as a person moves closer to awareness of such a conflict in their own mental processes, that opens the door to discover more about the self and the other, which might lead to results someone judges as "good".
M: I would so judge.
i: I will comment here that one of the fundamental principles I have applied to my study of how the mind works -- something I have never explicitly been taught to do but have seen expressions of similar conclusions -- is that, while people's minds work in ways which are irrational, if the way in which people's minds are working is ubiquitous, then the problem is that you have simply failed to make sense of it.
M: If I am getting what you are saying and perhaps I am not, but if I am than I would say that the failure to make sense of it and its universality is that we are unconsciously motivated not to examine the issue. It is easier to see that people with profoundly damaged or very poor self image, people very down on themselves exhibit unconscious self destructive tendencies. It is much more difficult to see it in one's self particularly if one is fairly well adjusted. But I believe that it is the universality of self hate and the unconscious desire not to remember that explains why denial is pretty universal. The other reason it is universal I think is that we had to die psychically as children in order to survive physically. The weight of endless resistance to the demands of conformity would have forced greater and greater torment. We are all broken children.
i: To that end, if a great number of people facing the same conflict choose to find ways to avoid awareness of that conflict altogether, then it must be that reasoning exists why doing so is "good".
M: I wouldn't say good. I would say to be expected. We live and breathe in a world of psychological darkness, unaware that the things we fear have already happened and the madness we fear will grip us already has. I suppose if everyone were to be forced awake up in a single instant there would be untold millions of worldwide deaths. The world on a bad trip on LSD.
i: So from following this exchange with you, I am concluding that my responses signaled to you awareness of this conflict within you, and you have some will to explore the ways you and others approach it. Perhaps you are now a tiny bit more free than you were previously.
M: To be sure one of the central questions of my psychic life revolves around the nature of certainty. I find the notion that I am a nobody who knows nothing very important even if it makes me know one more thing than all those who do think they know things. It's trying to live it where there's slips between cup and lip. It helps that I find my mind and my conscious awareness to be rather hilarious. How can you be human and avoid total embarrassment?
i: I will say that something else I have observed which I'm not sure anyone has actually formally taught me is that, when the conditions of someone's life and interactions with others make sense to them, they have a tendency to come to the conclusion that this is the way things are, have always been, and always will be. It's my personal hypothesis that the lack of people incorporating awareness of this conflict at this moment in history is not a good depiction of how it has always been, nor is it a good depiction of who the people who are acting that way are. It is merely the most functional way their minds have determined that they should be for the circumstances of now.
M: Mulla Nasruden ran to his neighbor's house and him that his bull and broken the fence between them and gored the Mulla's cow, to which the neighbor replied is was an act of God and no compensation could be given. To that the Mulla replied, Yes yes, of course, but I misspoke. It was my bull that broke the fence and gored your cow, to which the neighbor replied, "Now that is a completely different matter."
I started using it way back in 2004 in Nebraska, I never voted in person in the time I lived there. Makes it all the weirder to me that it's suddenly a big problem (except no, not really that weird, because it's just another peak on Bullshit Mountain)We've voted by mail since 2013. In person voting is still possible but not often used. Works great. We'll never go back.
I started using it way back in 2004 in Nebraska, I never voted in person in the time I lived there. Makes it all the weirder to me that it's suddenly a big problem (except no, not really that weird, because it's just another peak on Bullshit Mountain)
I often experience a feeling that I lack both the interpretive and communicative skills to clearly dialogue with you. This may be my own issue and have nothing to do with you. I think it can happen any time I attempt a challenging discussion or at least at times. It does not help that any approach to what I would regard some ‘deep truth’ for a lack of better words always involves paradox. To me that means that a higher insight into reality dissolves opposites one or the other of which someone else may see only one side of.In my estimation, moralism is what is driving this bus straight into a brick wall.
Perhaps the answer is better morals. Perhaps it is finding a means to steer the bus other than morality. Perhaps the best we can do is invest rapidly in seat belts and airbag installations before that collision.
To the first answer. Have you seen evidence that my original moral proposition took hold?
I often experience a feeling that I lack both the interpretive and communicative skills to clearly dialogue with you. This may be my own issue and have nothing to do with you. I think it can happen any time I attempt a challenging discussion or at least at times. It does not help that any approach to what I would regard some ‘deep truth’ for a lack of better words always involves paradox. To me that means that a higher insight into reality dissolves opposites one or the other of which someone else may see only one side of.
At any rate, I feel l may have gone aground on the ideas of moralism and morality. I use morality as a real thing, not a subjective opinion, and moralism as a bigoted judgement, a tool people use to raise their own personal stature in their own eyes above that of others. This is the disease of comparison, the disease of judgment, the disease of competition, an endless state driven by fear of failure and inadequacy.
There is no better way to steer the bus than morality, but only morality that is real. That can be had only by enlightenment, the death of the false self and the are re-acquisition of the true self. This is what I believe and can see. I do not think it is a widely shared view.
To answer whether I have any evidence it took hold, I need to know took hold in whom. For me personally, yes. It was the question that led to my personal destruction of everything sacred to me, my Christian faith. I could not find any way to prove that to be moral was superior to selfish greed which would be obvious if God we’re real, and I could not prove that he does. This robbed me of any future hope of joy.
But a funny thing happened on the way to the utter surrender to despair, the acceptance that life has no meaning. In a flash I realized that my need for meaning is as meaningless as anything else. I knew in that instant why the zen masters have the story about a man of slowly fading strength hanging from a cliff, tiger above and tiger below, who plucked a strawberry growing there that tasted so good. It has tasted good all the rest of my life. It tastes like Beethoven’s Ode to Joy or Silent Night. Who understands that God is within? You prove God exists when he reveals His face to the dead.