Out of Pod Experience

Ah, thanks. Forgot all about him.

LOL Holy crap that was funny. Stick a gun in your face? What? Go back to your survivalist compound cuz Obama's comin' fer yer gunz and them thar gays tryna turn you gay too.

WTF are you people talking about? I said that people should be forced to take a test in order to vote, that it shouldn't be a right but a privilege that you've earned.

You'd see that if you took off your tinfoil hat for just one second.

This is precisely what I'm talking about about the ridiculous mindset for individual freedoms in the US today. It's such a free country that it's perfectly ok to be stupid, yet when you try to curtail the fact that society is literally dumbing itself down every single day, out come the paranoid rednecks and tinfoil hat wearers who for the sake of ideology would rather live in something resembling Idiocracy as long as no one has to force them to think critically or intelligently. And they oh so need to be forced to think critically and intelligently. I'm talking gubment boots on their necks.

Sure, there's the slippery slope and all that, but you know what? People will at least know how to pronounce "nuclear".

Instead, we have a bunch of yokels who think it's perfectly ok to be stupid because it's their right to be stupid, and who get offended at the notion of anyone telling them they shouldn't be stupid...BUT NOT BECAUSE THEY'RE INSULTED. No, it's because it's their RIGHT to be stupid. This is usually followed by some lame quote taken out of context that they've manipulated and paraphrased to the point that what they think it is is actually the polar opposite. Look for them on the internet as signatures and in real life as, "So-and-so once said...."

At that point I've already pictured his head exploding like a watermelon from a sniper on a rooftop and I've already decided this person doesn't deserve to breathe the same air as the rest of us.

This is what we are talking about.

Here in 'murica, we used to have this really groovy set of laws affectionately know as "Jim Crow". One of the old Jim Crow laws stated that one needed to pass a literacy test before being able to vote.

So when Django goes to the poll to vote, Billy Bob throws down a Chinese newspaper and hollers "What's that say, boy?" To which Django replies, "It says negroes don't vote in Alabama!"

That's why you can't require a test for voters, much as most people would like the idea, myself included. The potential for abuse is too great.

As for forcing stupid people not to be stupid, good luck with that.

Oh it was and most indeed, back when one had to own property to actually vote.

When it becomes a privilege for the "few", the Rabble will indeed rebel....and eventually win anyway.

Why are you wanting to repeat a lesson already learned ?

What, am I suppose to sugar coat it like a good little sheep?

That's a perfect example of the difference between hyperbole and paranoia. No one's comin' fer yer guns. No one's literally going to kick in your door and make you do math problems. If you think for a second the NRA gives a crap about individual rights, then you belong in the aforementioned group of people.

If you don't want 'stupid' people to be able to get a licence to vote, we better write the test. Can you please provide the questions that should be included?
I'll start.

- In the 2012 New Zealand Sheep Dog Trials, how many were found guilty?

Always love Grimpak.