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Answer: You weren't listening to the video

E: Though probably, if you went and caught some yerself. Assuming that's legal.

Well, we already do in a lot of cases. Many felons, for one. Folks that can't afford to get to the voting booths or understand (/afford to do) distance voting. People that don't know how to find out when the voting occurs. Etc., so forth. And honestly, at least in the states, a small pre-vote quiz would probably knock a lot of well educated people out of voting eligibility, too; strictly partisan voters who know nothing of the opposition or who they're voting for, ferex.

Though I was only ruminating on how to enforce informed voting in a mandatory vote system. There would probably be options for those who can't read (Verbal questioning), and possibly the option to only be questioned (and allowed to vote on) specific areas for those unable to educate themselves on the full spectrum of voting issues.

I'unno, I just can't help but see a mandatory voting system degenerating to the degree that everyone that's not voting now doing the voting equivalent of "Just answer C on everything." That wouldn't help the democratic process at all. There'd either need to be some kind of check for basic understanding or very strong social pressures toward informed voting.

First bit, maybe. I've never really been entirely sure about the mandatory voting thing. Better to teach better early on so folks will vote (and vote well informed) of their own volition. Mandatory voting doesn't mandate actually knowing what the hell you're voting on

I'm not even sure how you'd enforce that bit, actually. Some sort of pre-vote quiz with a small fine for failure?

Natural disasters can be quite thrilling if you survive them without much in the way of close calls.

M'quite fond of hurricanes, myself... though I'm not stupid enough to be on the coast during them. Inland a ways, though, it's just delightful. Very unique type of storm. Kinda' sad none of 'ems really reached the area I'm in the last few years. Wrecked some other places, but the places I've been have been mostly untouched.

There can be sadness involved, of course, and it's risky, but most (emphasis on the most, there, though) natural phenomena can be either avoided (Don't live on fault line/below sea level, ferex.) or road out fairly easily nowadays.

Some things are just askin' for it, though. New Orleans was a good example of that, as is some of the islands out in the Caribbean and suchlike. Some places occasionally just get flattened... and then nitwits decide to go back in and rebuild

Eh, the actual act would be more like the humps on a three humped camel molesting each other. Logical consequence of a perfect god unfortunately entails that multiplicity (differentiation between selves) is an illusion, so it's basically equivalent to God's skin bumping uglies with itself. Though technically God doesn't have skin, as it's a single undifferentiated/undifferentiable substance. The idea comes across, though. I think.

The logical consequences of perfection in theology get pretty weird.

Total agreement on the supernatural self-cloning thing, though.

And the swastika is actually, what, supposed to be invoking protection from Thor, innit? Or a Buddhist good luck symbol, depending.

Point being. Yeah, viewing th'confed flag as supporting racism is indeed ignoring swaths of history, but the actual meaning of it has been perverted in the general culture. It's used as a symbol of intolerance and racism by an unfortunate amount of people, currently, which corrupts whatever "pure" intentions might be associated with it.

That sort of thing happens when the group using the symbol has been (rightly or not) demonized. Yeah, it's perverting and misrepresenting the actual history, but good luck convincing the population at large of it.

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Fun Fact: It's the bible and thus jesus' influence [...]

Minor related-to-real-life rage: People saying that Jesus had anything direct (/at all) to do with the bible. Dude mostly likely wasn't even literate and the bloody thing was written years/decades after his death. Minor commonly-occurring nuisance, don't mind me, carry on.