For all the aspiring online sofa lawyers on the Offtopic:
http://online-learning.harvard.edu/course/american-government
Thank Harvard for this.
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Literacy tests are illegal. Also discriminates against those without internet connection.
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Then go to a community college or something and take a basic political science class. If you don't have a community college in your town, go to the next town and take the political science class there. If there is somehow no higher education (even a community college) institution somehow within a 50 mile radius, then you're shit out of luck.
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What if you're a single parent with a newborn? What if you don't own a vehicle? What if you can't get time off work? All this does is create barriers to voting that should not exist.
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Edited by Section Ratio General: 12/13/2017 3:36:17 AMFor the single parent with a newborn, ask a friend to watch over them. My friend brought her newborn to college from the bay area 5 days a week and asked me every single day to watch over and I agreed. The bay area is 150 miles away from here, so she took the train every single day to go to college here until her last 2 years, since she moved in with her aunt. Take the train, Uber exists. If you can't get time off from work, be a part time student or take online classes. Mostly everyone has a smartphone nowadays, since flip phones are now obsolete. If someone still can't get access to college (and by this point, an argument against going to college is just grasping at straws) even through the use of Uber, or if they don't have even a very basic smartphone, either they live in Bumshit, Nowhere, or they're Amish. Edit: And again, the internet exists. If the person doesn't have internet, go to a library, or a public place with Wifi. A very basic netbook fresh out of the box is ~$150 USD. The netbook is barebones and is pretty much used only for work related purposes. If the person still can't for the life of them, find some way to access the internet, or go to a community college, then they must be an Amish or live in a forest picking berries off the ground or some situation where they have no technology available to them.
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After all I've heard about colleges being liberal echo chambers? Surely you jest.
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Liberal echo chamber? First time I've heard of that outside of Berkeley. The colleges I attended embraced free speech and even gave the local redneck confederate white supremacist groups in this area a platform to spew their bullshit, even if no one paid attention to them. The last one I went to and got my bachelor's in had a group of Pro-Lifers that showcased very grotesque pictures of aborted babies (though, it was found out later that all of the images came from conditions where the baby was essentially miscarried) and often told students that passed by (and didn't agree) that they were going to burn in Hell or that they should have been aborted for not supporting Pro-Life issues (the irony). You shouldn't generalize colleges as echo chambers, much like people shouldn't generalize all liberals as whiny babies who get triggered easily, and much like no one should generalize all conservatives are dumbasses that have sex with their sister.
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I was being sarcastic. The point is, though, that there would be too much potential for this to be a platform for propaganda.
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And that's why contacting your representative would get a lot of things done. If your representative lives in DC (much like mine does), there's usually local offices around the county where you live where you can visit and relay a message over to them (or you can visit their website and contact them there). Get in contact with your representative in the house, introduce yourself, introduce the issue and what you think about it, and your solution to it. Representatives love it when their constituents contact them about things that affect them. That's what I do when it comes to things related to education, as well as the local Democrat and Republican clubs at the community college in this area do very frequently.
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But what if the opposition controls Congress? This could too easily become Jim Crow 2.0.
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You mean like how it is right now for the current congressman here in this area? It still helps to contact your representative. Not only does it show your congressperson that you care, but if you end up having the chance to meet them face-to-face, it looks good to have someone with a lot of influence shaking your hand, calling you by your first name, and the developing networking connection is great for references. If your issue doesn't get all the way to the bill-making process, you're still accomplishing something by talking to someone with influence.
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Still, the Jim Crow thing. Voter suppression and electoral rigging are still too prevalent without adding things like this.
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Get more people to be more politically active. A silent voice is essentially a voice of agreement. If you get a group of people who are willing to speak out against it in a non-violent or non-confrontational way, then that will be good. Also, get more politically active at the local level and build it up, since it can build up a movement. That's how the Civil Rights Movement started.
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So this is a good idea because people will be able to get rid of it? Sounds like an argument not to do it in the first place.
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It's an idea that will get people educated about politics of their country. In the process of learning about the political system, people can get access to the internet and take that political science class I linked in the OP while being active.
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[quote]For all the aspiring online sofa lawyers on the Offtopic: http://online-learning.harvard.edu/course/american-government Thank Harvard for this.[/quote] Good comment. The only way to learn anything is to seek education. Very many prestigious schools are proud to offer their lectures to the outside world for free. It’s an advertising tool for them, and allows the average joe to learn from some of the best lecturers and classrooms throughout academia. Personally, I’m interested in high level mathematics and physics. You can’t learn anything about that stuff with just a little effort. I turn to places like Stanford and MIT to give myself a basic overview before I take courses, and it’s helped me significantly. I know it’s of a different context, but that’s just my anecdote to saying that the internet can be used as a very good education tool.
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If Cal Poly did something like that and offered it to everyone, I can see a LOT of people going for more STEM majors in California. Stanford, definitely though. I've been taught by two professors who both studied in Stanford, and while they pretty much railed most of the class's grades, they knew what they were talking about. The ones that survived it ended up getting more recognition from the professors than the ones who were extremely passive in the class.
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Why not just watch Rick and Morty?
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[quote]Why not just watch Rick and Morty?[/quote] If they don't watch R&M then they couldn't possibly understand. Their IQ is low, which explains it. It
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Bad meme. I am very ashamed of you
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No, you lack the intellectual capacity to accurately understand the meme.
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