I make people upset just by using my eyes and brain, as such please be careful to ensure your tears do not get into your electronics, thank you

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  • It says electioneering is prohibited. It does not elaborate on what that actually means, and whether that covers apparel. Other states do. This one doesn’t. I don’t know why this is so hard for you to comprehend.

    Murder is defined rigorously in laws concerning it. You’re right, they do not specify method, but they do have incredible detail and granularity in what constitutes 1st degree murder vs 2nd degree murder vs 3rd degree murder vs manslaughter (which is distinct from 3rd degree murder, though similar), and go into detail clarifying which is which so that criminals may be prosecuted accordingly.

    There is no such granularity or clarity on the definition of electioneering in the statute as written. This is not up for debate, it just straight up doesn’t bother defining it. It is plainly visible that it just says “x is prohibited”, without actually defining what is and is not considered x, where other states DO. Your inability to comprehend this is not my problem, if you choose to extract meaning from text that is not there, I don’t know how to help you and will not be engaging with you further since you choose not to listen.

    BTW, Its quite ironic your calling someone stupid for lack of reading comprehension

    Lastly, *it’s & *you’re. I could also call you stupid for your grammar, if you prefer.

    Best of luck in life, sport.



  • It doesnt need to say it explicitly and its wording is all exclusive.

    actually, yes, most laws do have to explicitly lay out what is considered illegal, so that you can be charged with a crime under them. That’s kind of a critical part of lawmaking, painstakingly defining what constitutes breaking the law is what prevents legal loopholes. I really hope your day job isn’t in law, if you don’t know that. In this case, they failed to adequately define what constitutes electioneering.

    Or are you going to try and argue a shirt that litterally says "Vote for " isnt soliciting because “the law didnt say anything about shirts!”

    I didn’t wear a shirt that says “Vote for” though. I wore a shirt like this and a hat like this. You’d know that if you actually bothered to read what I wrote. They don’t endorse any specific candidate. Nice strawman tho.


  • I see you didn’t actually bother to read what I posted. In that link, it says

    “21 states prohibit campaign apparel/buttons/stickers/placards” and “Table 2 provides additional information for the 21 states that have statutory restrictions on apparel in the polling place.”

    If you scroll down, you will further see that Pennsylvania is not one of those states. The shirt isn’t a poster on a wall. The shirt isn’t soliciting anyone’s vote for any particular candidate. The actual code, as you have so helpfully posted, makes no mention of apparel. It says no person shall solicit people or hang signs, neither of which I did – and the shirt doesn’t count as a person, nor does it count as “posting a sign within the room”. It’s fucking wearing clothing. You could argue that clothing is electioneering all you want, but since the law doesn’t explicitly say wearing clothing is electioneering – where many other states have made the distinction that apparel is or isn’t – I doubt that would hold up in a Pennsylvania court if you had even a slightly competent lawyer, since the law does not codify that wearing clothing is considered electioneering.

    You’ll also note that neither the shirt or the hat makes any particular endorsement of any particular candidate, they don’t even specifically name Trump. They do strongly imply I want to be rid of a particular candidate, but it doesn’t tell people to vote for any specific opponent. This also means it fails the “for any political party, political body or candidate” part – they don’t tell anyone to vote for a particular candidate.

    It’s okay, I forgive your stupidity.


  • Actually no, because there isn’t a provision about apparel in my state (Pennsylvania) and is thus not considered electioneering. Signs, banners, literature, all a no-go within ten feet (and the line was so long that, if this was enforced, I’d simply go shirtless and hatless for the last… ten minutes we were there?), but it doesn’t say a damn thing about clothing. But thanks for playing.

    Edit: lmao @ all the people downvoting as if I’m wrong when not one person there told me I couldn’t wear what I wore. Not the two cops at the metal detector at the front, not any of the cops inside the building, nor the election worker who we got ballots from. I think if it was illegal, they’d have been the first to ask me to leave (and they didn’t), but clearly you all know the local laws better than… people working in the county courthouse. Yeah, I’ll bet lmao



  • I went to vote early wearing a bright orange “vote | removes stubborn orange stains” t shirt + a pseudo-MAGA hat saying “Make lying wrong again”. The person I went with to vote thought I would get my ass kicked by someone for wearing it. I’m a 6’4 man and wanted someone to start some shit like this in the courthouse, I’d have them on the floor before security could intervene – and of course nobody did because fascists are also fucking cowards and only punch downwards. What a fuckhead, I hope they try him as an adult.











  • “I’m OK with companies using incredibly shitty, intrusive software practices because I don’t think they’ll affect me personally” is such a shit take for so many reasons, to name a few:

    1. giving software kernel access, especially when it does not or should not need kernel access, is a security risk, and does open the door for malicious actors to take advantage of vulnerabilities even if the software is not malicious in and of itself

    2. occasionally, intensively intrusive programs like this do break things unintentionally, which can lead to all sorts of fun issues. StarForce DRM is a good example from years past.

    3. just because you do not have anything on your PC that you consider sensitive, does not mean that applies to everyone.

    4. Kernel level anticheat can be bypassed. It’s usually not cheap/easy, but it can and has been done. Meaning, for all of the above concessions you make, there is no real benefit.

    these are just the few I can think of immediately.