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Should be a wild four years.

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moocow said:
Digital ID is a joke. Anybody worth their salt will immediately obtain as many sets of false/alternative IDs as possible for "daily driver" use once such a system is implemented, because we all know it'll have holes in it like Swiss cheese.

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I'll go out on a limb to point out AI-powered security systems are a fantastic idea, but only in private hands. Imagine how fucking useful it'd be to have your own cameras (that only report to a local host on your own home network) whose feeds are monitored by a (local-only) AI agent to recognize faces and alert on repeats (anybody who visits your home more than once that you didn't invite should be an automatic red-flag).

Note: this is even beneficial (genuinely) for corporations. I love the fact that Walmart and Target (among others) now instantly get an alert, nationwide, when a known thief enters any of their stores. That's fucking great. That's a trickle-down effect that benefits the rest of us by helping prevent ever-increasing costs due to endless theft. Yeah, the tech investment was huge, but over time it pays for itself in slack reduction. You know they've got cameras in the employees-only work areas too, and I'm sure they just don't publicize the terminations and arrests they effect by catching employees in the act of thievery.

I don't want our government having access to any of that (too late, I know, but the principle stands), but it'd be brilliant for residents to be able to simply feed police, DA's, judges, etc., all the evidence of trespass and burglary/vandalism they could ever need endlessly to force local enforcement to fucking do something to punish the crime or give the public the mandate it needs to force incompetents out of office to install better replacements.
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There's only one form of digital ID in the US that I know of, "mobile driver's license", ISO 18013-5 (-7).
Afaik, it's state-level.

Instead of issuing plastic that can easily be cloned, the government will issue a digital certificate that will be stored on your phone.
Combined with zero-knowledge proofs, you can cryptographically prove facts about you (are you a resident of X state, are you over 18, 21...) without revealing anything other than the fact you have a certificate issued by the government, and the fact that is being verified.

...however, nothing stops websites from just requiring your name, address, photo, and everything else with it to grant you access, killing anonymity.
It also makes phone ownership mandatory; no phone, no ID.
Additionally, just like any trust system, it makes fraud harder but much more dangerous, if you can get one of these certificates illegitimately, nobody will think twice.
 
So, today will be fun. How many pages we thinking by midnight? I say midnight and not "by the time voting ends" because I'm sure some places will still be counting results by Christmas.
 
Burnt Effigy said:
Instead of issuing plastic that can easily be cloned
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Ought to just go the credit card route, with the little chip-and-pin circuitry in it. Harder (not impossible, but harder) to clone, and since it's a "regular" license/ID as well you can still validate it visually, and add a PIN pad and hardware verification if you really want to be a hard-ass about confirming ID.

Not perfect (nothing is, though), but harder to fake while still being detectable (same ways we detect current fake IDs -- security features on/in the printing, material used, etc.).
 
moocow said:
Ought to just go the credit card route, with the little chip-and-pin circuitry in it. Harder (not impossible, but harder) to clone, and since it's a "regular" license/ID as well you can still validate it visually, and add a PIN pad and hardware verification if you really want to be a hard-ass about confirming ID.

Not perfect (nothing is, though), but harder to fake while still being detectable (same ways we detect current fake IDs -- security features on/in the printing, material used, etc.).
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Even if we only get plastic it will still be a massive upgrade because it will create what the DNC hates most, a paper trail and concrete evidence. As it stands right now it is damn near impossible to prove voter fraud and it is beyond easy to commit it. A card will mean that it will take some effort and cash to fake it. Effort and money that people will be unwilling to do themselves. If the dems want to fortify they will need to make the cards en mass themselves and distribute it. It adds a pretty big point of failure for them because if they catch someone with a fake card they can get him to roll over on the guy next up in the chain and so on.
 
FILTH Tourist said:
Even if we only get plastic it will still be a massive upgrade because it will create what the DNC hates most, a paper trail and concrete evidence. As it stands right now it is damn near impossible to prove voter fraud and it is beyond easy to commit it. A card will mean that it will take some effort and cash to fake it. Effort and money that people will be unwilling to do themselves. If the dems want to fortify they will need to make the cards en mass themselves and distribute it. It adds a pretty big point of failure for them because if they catch someone with a fake card they can get him to roll over on the guy next up in the chain and so on.
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Plus if people are trying to add fake votes with fake cards, they have basically conjured up a completely new identity to make that card, something that after 9/11 is tremendously hard to do. You used to be able to just move a couple of states over and tell them you lost all your paperwork and that you were adopted and could assume a new identity, you can't do that shit any more with the Patriot act and the internet online.
That's pretty much the way they catch credit card scams and identity theft now. People would take fake loans under assumed names and not pay them back, now the bank puts all your stuff in and gets an alert that says "Wait a minute, this 35 year old man you're talking to has never had an income or a bill in his life ever"
They catch identity fraud that way, too. They look a 30 year old woman with a high five or low six-figure income working 50 hours a week, and go "Wait a minute, how is she working at additional 60 hours the same week being a maid at the holiday inn?"
It's getting pretty hard to fuck around with fake identities. That's the reason that the loony left doesn't want voter ID.
Right now people vote by showing some fucking volunteer a piece of paper, and she's usually a senior citizen.
Keystone said:
So, today will be fun. How many pages we thinking by midnight? I say midnight and not "by the time voting ends" because I'm sure some places will still be counting results by Christmas.
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I love how states like Florida and even swing states like Michigan can have all the votes counted night of, but it takes retarded ass Arizona 2 weeks to came back with results.
 
The guys of American Thinker posted a rant about Tucker Carlson's rage.
November 4, 2025

The Roots of Tucker Carlson’s Rage​

By Joseph Ford Cotto

Tucker Carlson’s post-Fox News trajectory is a timeline of escalating provocation and plummeting credibility.

Its culmination: His Oct. 28 interview with Nick Fuentes, a sworn enemy of Donald Trump, the Republican Party, and an America worth living in.
After leaving Fox in 2023, Carlson pivoted toward an independent, subscriber-based platform that increasingly catered to extremist voices, abandoning the broad conservative appeal that had made him a household name.

His Sept. 3, 2024 hosting of Holocaust denier Darryl Cooper drew sharp rebukes from influential Republicans, highlighting Carlson’s willingness to amplify venomous narratives.
By Sept. 10, leading conservative outlets decried Carlson’s endorsement of Cooper as “the best and most honest popular historian.” The episode was a campaign season snag as November approached.

While Donald Trump clearly won the election, Carlson lost trust into 2025.
On June 17, he accused the president of complicity in war during Israel’s strikes on Iran, exposing tensions among MAGA supporters over foreign policy. The next day, Carlson confronted Sen. Ted Cruz, aggressively framing U.S. support for Israel as a betrayal of “America First” priorities.

Trump dismissed Carlson as “kooky” and emphasized his focus on preventing Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, signaling a rift. Carlson seemed unfazed.
His eulogy at Charlie Kirk’s memorial service on Sept. 21 prompted credible accusations of antisemitism.
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FILTH Tourist said:
Even if we only get plastic it will still be a massive upgrade because it will create what the DNC hates most, a paper trail and concrete evidence. As it stands right now it is damn near impossible to prove voter fraud and it is beyond easy to commit it. A card will mean that it will take some effort and cash to fake it. Effort and money that people will be unwilling to do themselves. If the dems want to fortify they will need to make the cards en mass themselves and distribute it. It adds a pretty big point of failure for them because if they catch someone with a fake card they can get him to roll over on the guy next up in the chain and so on.
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That's not how they stole 2020. They just stuffed the ballot boxes after the polls closed and the counting started. They manufactured tens of thousands of ballots across various battleground districts with the "correct" votes, and in any precinct where the numbers weren't what they wanted, they kept "finding" whole boxes of "previously misplaced" mail-in ballots and said "hey whaddya know, these were just in my trunk, lol, what can 'ya do, eh? Better get counting, sport!" They didn't even bother getting people to go vote multiple times en masse (though I'm sure plenty of people did because of the weak-sauce voter ID laws, if any, that were in place).

What's crazy is how resistant even SCOTUS is about every fucking attempt to prevent voter fraud. Practically every time a state has tried to actually enforce its own ID-required laws, they get challenged and SCOTUS usually strikes the laws down. God forbid the feds speak up and say "hey could you faggots at least try to do this legitimately?" ... SCOTUS loves spanking those directives down.
 
Blewberry Nausea said:
No running to Texas New Yorkers
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I'm not trying to concern troll or anything since this is based as hell, but assuming he wasn't joking what would this even look like? Has taxing people moving in from out of state been done before? I guess the closest thing I can think of is universities charging out the ass for out-of-state tuition. genuine question
 
slungus22 said:
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Statistically, Americans without college degrees are more likely to identify as Republican. So why aren't you liberal yet? no degree yourself?
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Americans without college degrees are also way less likely to have student loan debt so that must mean everyone with a college degree is bad with money.

College students are more liberal because they're kids whose lifestyle usually revolves around drinking and partying and lack a lot of adult responsibilities. When I was in college I was more liberal because I was worried about what frat parties to attend, not about abuse of the welfare system or illegal immigration.

P.s. @slungus22 you never told me your favorite color on your thread and that made me sad :heart-empty:
 
Judex Meus said:
I'm not trying to concern troll or anything since this is based as hell, but assuming he wasn't joking what would this even look like? Has taxing people moving in from out of state been done before? I guess the closest thing I can think of is universities charging out the ass for out-of-state tuition. genuine question
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Probably tax reform. Texas is a weird state, no income tax, low taxes in general accept in property tax. That would probably be the one of the paths used.
 
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