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Because they don’t want to be the US citizen in question.

It took the USA about 80 years to build the soft power that let it influence much of the world. trump is destroying all of that in less than 6 months.

Could the court, at the next hearing on this matter, jail the DOJ lawyer representing the government for contempt?

I hate to say it, but he’s not wrong. China is a better partner that the USA under trump.

Future headline “Moscow 6 year first grader Natalya Petrov jailed today accused of calling Sergey Lavrov, senior minister of foreign affairs, a ‘poopy-head’. Her execution is scheduled for next Thursdays”

My apologies. The downvote was on my post in under 15 seconds after I posted it. I had assumed the only one that would see it would be the person alerted to it. I guess Lemmy is growing up there are downvoters waiting to pounce instantly! We’re graduating to the big leagues now!

Did you downvote me because I pointed out the latest research doesn’t agree with your position?

I know for me, I’m having more difficulty because of failing eyesight. If you can’t see the word you can’t perceive you’ve spelled it incorrectly.

You might want to look at the latest research. Its not favorable after decades of data from “whole word” reading techniques education.

you should learn it through reading text and remembering how words are spelled.

Thats the concept of “whole word”, yes, but in practice it severely limits vocabulary and comprehension apparently. That real world data tells the tale.

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”

― George Orwell, 1984

No. In my state you cannot unless you pay for the classes , fingerprinting and background checks , etc…

That’s sounds like, yes, with extra steps. I understand not liking the extra steps, but they aren’t unconstitutional.

Now if there was no cost and those were required, I wouldn’t say a word. I hope my point is a bit clearer

Your point is clear, but not supported by the Constitution. Taxes and fees, by themselves, aren’t prohibition of freedom. Poll taxes are, as they are specifically called out as outlawed by the Constitution.

Again, I think this is a tangent, but even you admit that you are able to buy a gun and own in with these taxes in place. Your 2nd Amendment right is clearly intact. There’s no Constitutional right protecting gun ownership from taxation. Where that isn’t the case with voting. The 24th Amendment protects your right to vote without any fee. Gun ownership has no corresponding Constitutional protection.

My partner kept theirs, and it tickles them pink when the systemic chauvinism gets reversed and I get called by their last name.

Same here. :)

It always seems to me that this wouldn’t be such a big problem if the US had a working bureaucracy.

As a European I have no expectation you’d had this nugget of US history, but I can fill in the gap. After slavery was outlawed in the entire USA in the 1850s (post civil war) racist bigots enacted laws preventing black Americans from using their newly gained Constitutional rights. There were lots of examples of this. In many of the southern state local leaders instituted poll taxes, which was a required fee that someone would have to pay before being able to vote, but these same laws gave exemptions to anyone whose grandfather had voted in a prior election. Because whites had a long history of voting they were exempt from these taxes. Because newly freed slaves whose grandfathers had not been allowed to vote hadn’t, the poll tax applied only to blacks. This disenfranchisement was deliberate on the part of white leaders with the intent to suppress black voting.

This is obviously fairly fucked up way to run a country, so the people of the USA passed an amendment to the US Constitution banning poll taxes on everyone. This is the 24th Amendment (passed in 1964). Better late than never.

So this new requirement on married women to pay at least $30 to get a passport card is a de facto poll tax which is outlawed by our Constitution (24th Amendment) also because it violates the 19th Amendment (the one that gave women the right to vote) as this law specifically targets married women (and not married men).

I got made fun of for using it when pulling out of my moms driveway once lol

I believe the socially acceptable retort is “if you don’t like my driving, you can get the hell out of the car. If you’re staying, you can shut up”

So your beef is with a State (or municipal) government. That isn’t quite the same as a restriction at the Federal level that we’re discussing here.

I’ve always seen the distinction as:

• knowledge = the body of facts
• wisdom = ability to apply knowledge to situations in the world and your life

In our society the word “smart” can be applied to either one. Ken Jennings, legendary game show player of Jeopardy, is considered smart because of his extensive depth of knowledge of trivia. I content Method Man (and other members of the Wu-Tang Clan) along with Raider Ruckus are wise for encapsulating the idea of “Cash rules everything around me, C.R.E.A.M., get the money, Dollar, dollar bill y’all”.

They could do that but besides still being shitty, it may not satisfy the 19th Amendment. The text of the Amendment read:

• The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

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Making married women jump through the arduous hoops of obtaining a passport card (and indirect costs associated with it such as postage and photography costs) could still be possibly considered “abridged” in violation of this Constitutional Amendment. This is especially true when this new bill effectively singles out married women. Married men don’t have to do any of this so it could also still be a violation on the “on account of sex” portion of the Amendment.

There’s been a tax on the second amendment for decades. Having to pay the fees for licensing, and the classes, means there’s a cost to exercise the right.

I looked at the receipt for a recent gun purchase, a rifle, and there are zero taxes or fees on it except sales tax which applies to nearly all items (such as video games or automobiles) for sale. There were no required licenses or classes to purchase or own this firearm.

When the smoke clears, the topic will be seared into the public consciousness. Its a rare opportunity to measure the public’s appetite for such a policy.