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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • Combining the suggestions from 1 and 3 is where things fall apart for me. If the statute does not specify what objective standards must be met in order for someone to be eligible to vote, then the ruling party gets to decide on their own.

    Maybe the next updates to the standardized test just “accidentally” favor the ruling party.


  • Some questions to challenge your proposal:

    1. What test, specifically, do we implement to tell whether or not someone “know[s] the most basic of facts”?
    2. How do we make sure that this test is kept up-to-date as information changes?
    3. Who administers this test?
    4. When is the test administered?

    No matter how I try to answer these questions in a way that’s consistent with reality, all my ideas dead-end at outcomes that suck and only get worse over time.



  • I can’t even imagine how my friend would take it.

    OK, OK, time out. You haven’t tried talking with them about it? If you have as strong a mutual (platonic(ish?)) relationship with them as you say you do, then it should be able to survive a serious conversation about your shared future, especially if you emphasize that you want to try to keep them in your life in a major way like this.

    That conversation will probably be hard, and I really can’t think of a solution that would feel perfect if I were in your shoes, but I would sure as hell rather have that conversation than the “I made a decision, and here is how you will be impacted” one, or the “I kept my life on hold because I was worried how you might react to talking about it” one.

    I don’t know your personality or your friend’s personality, so I can’t promise that you will sort it all out without emotions running high, or what the ultimate outcome of such a conversation will be.

    But jeez, bud, you’ve GOT to be able to have serious talks with people whom you trust and care about.