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tl;dr: If looking to exploit the white blue collar electorate, promise them dignity. Say it loud and long enough and nothing else will matter, including the parts that would take an ice pick to their dignity's knees.

Weird thing to me in that is that it seems to ignore that the drive for this vaguely described dignity is basically just as strong in liberal voters, they just have a different idea of what allows them to live with it. Stuff like living in a country that doesn't shit on the poor and disadvantaged, not being bigoted shitheels, having a government that acts with maturity and competence, etc., etc.

Depends on the state. Max consequences looks like felony charges. Probably a fair amount like speeding or drinking underage -- ends up hinging a lot on who and where you are, and who caught/processed you.

And ninja'd, but eh.

E: Not sure how much it'd help for voting, though. At least where I'm at you swipe your license instead of a vote critter checking it or whatev'. Fake wouldn't help much.

... having been around the sorts trying to push for these laws. No. No, they're racist, at the absolute least in part. They're other things as well, sure, but the good ol' boy core of the GOP/conservative establishment, especially on the lower levels, definitely have quite a number that are racist as fuck. I've literally been around more than a few of them, out of state, in state, blighters as high up as congress members and district attorneys, as they discussed avoiding black neighborhoods and whatnot. They ain't talkin' about the poor. These folks don't give two shits if the guy down the street is a poverty line alcoholic ex-con, so long as they're white.

Quote from: Orange Wizard on August 09, 2016, 03:10:47 pm

A degree of border control is kinda necessary for a functioning state

Shooting everyone who tries to leave is pretty dysfunctional. (see: GDR)

Shooting everyone who tries to enter is pretty dysfunctional as well. :/

Yeah, it is. Not sure what that has to do with the US, though. There's skeevy shit happening on the state side of the equation along that border but it hasn't exactly reached the point of indiscriminate mass murder of border crossers.

Got a whole pile of miscellaneous junk of similar nature. Bone dice, fossilized giant sloth tooth, bits of asphalt from near a fatal wreck, one of those plastic frame things people put around license plates, couple turquoise/bone bracelets, probably several dozen pieces of various shiny gewgaws and rocks. Most I'm not 100% sure where is at the moment (barring a ring I've been wearing almost incessantly for most of a decade now, a necklace with a latch that needs fixing, and a couple other things), but there's a bunch of the stuff. Small brass cat and owl you could pretty easily crack someone's skull with, three or four walking sticks I either picked up off the ground or uprooted/cut off. Haven't indulged too much the last few years, but most of my life I've been a sort of casual magpie.

Most of my special reasons boil down to "was shiny and no one stopped me" though. Some with memories or whatnot associated with them, but mostly just stuff you could distract a cat with. When it comes down to it I just kinda' unabashedly like small shiny things and odd trinkets.

Well, it's a nuzlocke. Ask yourself which option would make your life the most miserable and go with that.

Suddenly looking a lot like the unlivable side effects are coming back. Incident still much lower, but the intensity is getting about as bad as it ever was. Just had a moment getting up where my legs shook so badly they gave out. Straight up fell, hit the ground, tore a chunk of skin about the size of my thumb's fingernail out of my foot. Barely able to get the door open to let folks inside (was why was getting up) and walk myself into the back room to bandage up and keep myself from bleeding all over the place without falling over again.

Followup appointment was already scheduled for fairly soon, fortunately, but... not pleasant. At all. It'd been going pretty well for a good two or three months, and now this again. Hurt, unstable, day now going notably worse. Damnit all.