If that’s the case then there really shouldn’t be any reason to complicate it further.

Right, I get it. You have photo IDs (supposedly with chips?) but that’s not necessarily enough to prove citizenship. What should be enough for voting is a voter’s card coupled with the photo ID. And it sounds like that’s what you have now.

I think that’s the point that the MacBook Pro buyer was making.

Then I have a really hard time seeing what the problem is.

Eh? How can it be clearer? They bought it in 2014, at which point it was approximately €300. So must have seemed like a steal at the time.

They said ONE BITCOIN. That’s €68070

Can’t publish to App Store from Linux, can you?

I don’t even know what Republican talking points are. I’m commenting from a Scandinavian perspective in which a photo/biometric ID plus your voter card that gets mailed to your address is required to vote.

I’m not saying that the proposed legislagion is good or bad. I’m saying that if it genuinely is difficult for Americans to acquire proper ID then that’s a deeper problem that you should address first.

In the US?

Sounds maddening and inefficient. I still don’t see a problem with requiring proper ID when casting the ballot.

LMAO I have no idea what you’re on about. Sami and Tornedalings would laugh in your face if you presented this argument.

Maybe there are legitimate grievances for what should count as proper ID and how you can acquire them, I don’t know, I’m not that much in tune with this part of American politics. But I find it very hard to believe that the requirement of biometric/photo ID is the real problem. If it is genuinely so difficult to acquire a proper ID, then you should probably work on that issue instead of the idea of requiring them for voting.

For real, I have no fucking idea what people in Britain and the US talk about when it’s all the end of democracy for demanding proper ID at the voting booth. You think you can vote without ID in Scandinavia?

Not saying voter suppression is not happening with the gerrymandering and restrictions to voting by mail, but from Sweden the ID grievance is a bit bewildering.

Sweden. Doctor’s appointments cost ~€30, normally capped at ~€150 per year. There’s a cost ceiling for drugs at ~€300 per year. Urgent care is free. Dental is subsidized but only free up to age 19. The care itself is fine, there are multiple research hospitals and if you’re in a real bind one of the best research hospitals in the world.

I’d gladly pay higher taxes for better healthcare.