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Do you have a plan to vote if you live in the US?

NacthoMan wrote:
i was considering it .. but my big question is something like will my republican vote count in full blown democrat state?

No matter how you look at it, your vote ABSOLUTELY counts. Here goes:

1. Voting is an anonymous (or public if you want) political statement. Even if you lose, you're letting your political leaders know that you're there, who their constituencies are. These things matter to them. If you don't vote, it makes it easier for them to disregard you. And yes, they care about whether they win by 20 points or if they win by 15 points. So should you.

2. It's not just the President we're voting for. If you want to vote republican, statistically speaking, the odds are you live in a republican leaning district. This means your House representative is probably Republican. Or, even they're not republican, odds are you're in a competitive district. Meaning your vote could decide whether or not whoever your representative is keeps their job or their challenger takes it.

Many if not all states are also having state legislature elections this year as well. So if you care about having more republican members in your state legislature, then you should vote. Keep in mind that even if your congressional district isn't competitive, your state legislature district very well could be.

For example, I live in a congressional district who's had Republican representing them for over twenty years. That guy retired, and now for the first time there's actually a better than 50 percent chance that a Democrat will be elected to it, according to political analysts.

However, my state legislative district is super Democratic and there's very little chance that the Democrat incumbent will lose. The reason is congressional districts and state legislature districts just don't line up the same way, so your national congressional district could be composed on more than one state legislative district.

State legislatures MATTER. You like Republicans? I'm assuming that means you like the idea of charter schools? Do you know who decides education policy for your state? Your governor and state legislature. Even if you don't have a chance to get a majority, having more Republican legislatures will mean a better chance of fighting Democratic policies that you happen not to like.

State legislatures MATTER EVEN MORE THIS YEAR BECAUSE IT IS A CENSUS YEAR. Why is that important? Because gerrymandering, that's why! State legislatures will redraw their congressional districts and the bigger majority the dominant party has, the easier it will be for them to gerrymander the heck outta your state.

https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your...

3. This is the most important reason: IF YOU DON'T USE YOUR VOTE, YOU LOSE IT. This is not a guess or some far off possibility. This is right now. The less people who vote, the less the governments invests in election infrastructure, and the more likely they are to purge voter rolls.

This happens in some states: Let's say you haven't voted in 10 years, maybe you're not very political or haven't been excited by any candidates in a while. You could literally have your voter registration revoked because you haven't voted in a while. It has happened to literally hundreds of thousands people this year alone.

The lower the turnout, the less polling stations they'll have, and the longer you have to wait to vote. Already in some places in the country people weight over 8 hours to cast their ballot. Would you wait on line for 8 hours to vote? Maybe you would, but some people can't! They work or have kids or are old and just can't stand that long.

That means you not voting is literally keeping OTHER people in your community from voting. It's not fair, but it's how it is.

Vote for God's sake. Jesus wants you to vote. Babies want you to vote. Puppies also want you to vote.

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I want someone to write my resume for me.

Crogence wrote:
I can help you do it later today, I can't guarantee how far we will get but If you want someone to write and format I'm game.
It would have to be about 3 30 or 4 PDT

I appreciate the offer, that is generous. I did not really expect someone to actually want to do it for me on here tho now that I reread the post it kinda sounds like that.

I'll do it myself i just want to b**** and moan noisily and let the world know how much I hate it. I will google some templates and get it ready and maybe try and get in touch with the career services officeni mentionednon Monday for a proofread or something.

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I want someone to write my resume for me.

Padre_J_Roulston wrote:
The downside to getting someone else to do it is you still have to tell them everything or write it down. They essentially just format it.

Honestly thats fine. At least it would ease the anxiety of having to worry about making it look professional.

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I want someone to write my resume for me.

I mean i probably have a few days at least so i can always look into that on Monday

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I want someone to write my resume for me.

Padre_J_Roulston wrote:
I know the employment centre in my town has a free service that will write resumes. It might not hurt to ask at your local employment agency.

Thats a good idea. There really isn't an "employment office" near me. But the college i graduated from does have career services and maybe they can help.

Unfortunately this is kind of time sensitive and its the weekend. Sigh.

I can do it i just HATE it so much, my least favorite part about looking for a job (or in this case a promotion).

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Ecclesiastes 3:1-8

Yes, typed this as I was falling asleep.

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brain fuzz..

The moon is made of cheese.

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so..

NacthoMan wrote:
explain how the filibuster is a problem well yea .. to me it seems like talking your head off to stop a ratification. helluva tool

Thats the thing...unless something dramatic happens no party is ever going to have sixty members in the Senate. Which means the party that "lost" will always have a sort of semi veto in place to keep the party that "won" from doing everything it wants.

I say, get rid of it. Now the party that wins can do what it wants. See how they govern. Does it make people's lives better? If so the party that's actually getting stuff done will keep winning and there will be a lot less pointless grandstanding.

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so..

also getting rid of filibuster would help since it would mean parties would have to put up or shut up when they were in power.

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so..

NacthoMan wrote:
well it would be alot more interesting to see how they would handle the presidency based on their ideological values. its something i would like to see de facto for a major change

It depends what that idealogy is right? And if its just a gimmick to get publicity. Saying off tbe wall stuff gets you publicity

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