Gen-X Thinks About Special Interests

[@user-VIntuitive]

My cousin is a lawyer . They said that most of those bills you should vote no on because of wording. They sound really great to start with then they trick you and go the opposite way. The only thing I voted yes on was to make everyone have to have a valid ID to vote. That’s the only question that was pretty cut and dry. Be careful with the wording. Any conjunction can change the entire meaning of the sentence. I would look it up before going into vote but if you can’t find it to your satisfaction, vote no. Like you said, they will try to sway you through emotions. Well as a Gen x I can tell you that it doesn’t work on me. Partially because I know that these stories are most likely made up. Happy day to you!

[@GenXThinks]

Yeah, they very well could be made up. They give no details in the commercials.

[@user-VIntuitive]

@@GenXThinks my cousin also said that most of these bills are designed for you to give up more money in taxes.

[@GenXThinks]

@@user-VIntuitive That, I definitely believe. 👍

[@ozarkrefugee]

@@user-VIntuitive Always.

[@ozarkrefugee]

I almost always vote no on any proposition. It may sound harmless now, but it will most likely cause problems down the road and result in more taxes for nonsense.

[@Loraann54fi10]

Special interest groups and money shouldn't even be legal. The only bill on our agenda to vote on here in NC is passing a law that only citizens can vote in any election. The thing that always bugs me about these bills we actually get to vote for is they always write them in a positive negative or a negative positive. If you vote yes than you mean no and if you vote no you mean yes. I always have to read them a million times over because I feel like they are trying to trick us. The politicians and their lawyers write things the same way they talk.

[@GenXThinks]

Yes, I have seen that a thousand times. A "yes" vote is against the bill. It's done purposefully to confuse people. We need some real changes, starting at the local level.

[@ozarkrefugee]

At least a week before one votes, it is important to look over the sample ballot, break down what is being said and analyze the circumstance/proposition, then make your decisions. This way your not at the voting booth trying figure out what is it to be voting for. All civic and wildlife laws are written in a deceiving way to cause confusion, this way the gov't always has something on you to charge you with, then they will tell you -"you need to make it a point to understand the laws." It's a rigged game.

[@Loraann54fi10]

@ozarkrefugee I was sitting at the dining room table a few days before I voted, looking that over. My 14 year old son asked me what I was reading. I told him I was studying for an IQ test. With perfect timing, he said, "You can't study for that, prepare to fail." I'm so glad he knows a good joke when he sees one.

[@GenXThinks]

@@ozarkrefugee Good advice and true 👍

[@WMoney-k8k]

Legalize freedom!!!

[@GenXThinks]

Here here!!! 👍

[@JackNickle-fk8rq]

Some politicians will use all sorts of tricks to get you on their side. I'm pro freedom 😎that's all I can say on that. God bless you all from the lonewolf prepper.😎🤘

[@GenXThinks]

FREEDOM!!! ✊✊✊

[@ozarkrefugee]

@@GenXThinks Said William Wallace.....

[@GenXThinks]

@@ozarkrefugee 👍

[@Lppolymath90]

They're often called "omnibus bills."

[@GenXThinks]

👍

[@jasonswearingin1009]

Cannabis just use the same laws regarding alcohol. The whole abortion issue is blown way out of proportion. Most states have it legal up to either 3 or 6 months and honestly IMO if you can't make up your mind within such a reasonable amount of time then accept responsibility for YOUR actions! Plenty of legal adoption option are available for those unwilling to accept the responsibility of parenthood! When it comes to minors use reason and DO NOT MAKE IT PUBLIC! Families dealing with such events are already dealing with enough trauma treating them like media targets is absolutely disgusting and disturbing!

[@GenXThinks]

Common Sense response to real problems. 👍

[@lemhanback9595]

Agreed, they should discuss the facts and only the facts. Then let us decide what side we're on.

[@GenXThinks]

Totally! 💯

[@WMoney-k8k]

Best place for special interests is also the best place for lawyers ironically.

[@GenXThinks]

Absolutely 👍

[@mikefleissner4415]

The game they play.Follow the money

[@GenXThinks]

Yeah, and never the truth.

[@ezekielmoorejr3145]

I learned along time ago never say yes or vote on something based on feelings or emotions. Do your research first then come to your conclusion and always beware of the special interests lawyers! That's my 2cents!

[@GenXThinks]

Great advice! 👍

[@RomeCreative]

Those are very good points. I have noticed and also talked with friends about this frustrating dynamic. A publication will make a sensational claim and or a headline regarding some bill that has been proposed however, they rarely link to the bill or even say the name of the bill. They will cherry-pick the terminology in the bill to present a really slanted version of what it is about.

[@GenXThinks]

They never want to talk about the facts.

[@tyrannosapienlex]

"Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else." -- Frederic Bastiat

[@GenXThinks]

Yeah, it's a shame that we have one at all.

[@Barada73]

The situation with the 10-year-old girl sounds like a classic case of "arguing from the margins", which is the logical fallacy that takes a super-rare exception to argue for the normative on any issue.

[@GenXThinks]

Yes, I agree 👍

[@thomgri]

the state has been using maryjane laws to use individuals as indentureds. same for 🚩laws

[@GenXThinks]

I believe it

[@darksoul479]

In the age of information ignorance is a choice. You are ignorant because you choose to be ignorant. For the first time in the history of mankind we have access to mountains of information right at our fingertips, all you have to do is use it.

[@GenXThinks]

True 👍

[@thomgri]

i honestly think most do not know there is alternative ways to search information. most i meet use google search. even though it has been proven to be an engine that falsifys almost everything.

[@ljsmooth69]

We'll look at the marijuana stores that have opened people are running them but they are solely opened and guideline did by the government themselves other than that if I had the money to open up a store to sell weed I wouldn't be able to do it without the government controlling the whole aspect of it in reality

[@GenXThinks]

True 👍

[@ljsmooth69]

The abortion thing they want to keep abortion going because of the stem cell research they need stem cells fresh ones to do that stem cell research and the best possible stem cells they can get are fresh ones from aborted babies. That's the truth of the matter on that.

[@davidsonowski414]

Hey J sorry for being late today I decided after all the BS at work this week I decided to sleep a little longer today and tell you the truth I needed it as far as today's subject of special interests I agree with you I really could care less what people want as long as it affects me but its coming to the point what people want is affecting me and I don't like it living in New York there is always some sleaze ball way of influencing you like free this free that give me this and give me that well that's all BS even going to early voting yesterday you can already tell the Democrats wanting this wanting that free free free as I voted I thought this Fuk them there is nothing free and I have to work to support this shit smoke pot drink all day and be a burden on you and you have no right to say a word I look at it this way J Politicians are big thieves and BS artists they say what you want to hear and then afterwards you don't see them anymore until the next election but while they are in the people who voted for these morons are left to suffer and get left behind no wonder today's generation can't read write nor do math but can learn gender studies and other BS and that's on the politicians as I close J as a Gen X born in 1970 we were not subject to this shit separate gyms for boys and girls and the like you did your homework without comment and especially I liked civics and economics because it told you how a country ran Not this lying BS being today I hope President Trump when he gets in again tears all this shit apart and starts terminating all those with their special interests because I also know these are the ones ripping this country apart because they put themselves first and everybody last and could give a fuk if we fall I agree I'm only one Gen X and you too J your a Gen X but those other GEN Xers better get off their asses and wake the fuk up before its too late Its our time Now to shine and be heard we cannot sit in the background anymore because if we do we can kiss this Constitutional Republic goodbye Peace out J

[@GenXThinks]

It's our time! 👍🤘😎

[@ljsmooth69]

Will hemp was legal back in the day and it was actually mandatory for Farmers to have a certain amount of acres dedicated to growing hemp the hemp is not the sensimillia kind but it is the same looking type of stuff they made clothes and things like that out of it and then you know the sensimilla the weed actually got popular that people are getting high off of and the government was mad because they weren't making a profit off it they want to be able to tax it so they banded it and the first thing they had to do to band it was to make a law that stopped the farmers from having to mandatory plant the hemp on their farmland land. And then it literally took a very long time years for them to go through all the countries in the back roads at least here in Iowa to get rid of all the hemp plants that were growing everywhere so people couldn't grow the marijuana in between them and hide the fact that they were drawing the sense of Amelia that they were making money off of and the government was like we're not lining our pockets with their hard work so we're going to band it until we can come up with an ideology to where we can somewhat bring it back and say it's a good for municipal purposes so that way we can have stores open and make a profit off of it

[@GenXThinks]

It's a very useful plant.

[@ljsmooth69]

You know truthfully a lot more people did smoke the marijuana there wouldn't be so many violent people doing violent things every day because weed mellows you out causes you to get hungry sometimes and causes you to pass out

[@GenXThinks]

That's the truth 😎

[@psychoholicslag4801]

Sorry to hear ya can't get pregnant. Was it genetic? 😂😂😂😂

[@GenXThinks]

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