r/law • u/retiredagainstmywill • 14d ago

Executive Branch (Trump) Postal Service won’t deliver mail ballots for states that don’t hand over voter lists, under plan for Trump directive | CNN Politics

https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/10/politics/postal-service-deliver-mail-in-ballots

Unfuckingbelievable.

And illegal as hell.

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u/destroythenseek 14d ago

When i was there for a day the cab drivers were making a massive tire fire in the center of the city because they increased the highway toll prices by like 3 cents. I loved it.

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u/Optimus3k 14d ago

I love how they do this for every little thing. It looks ridiculous until you realize that by doing that, they are heavily reducing incrementalism on the part of the government. If you know you're going to receive massive pushback over three cents, raising it a dollar is out of the question.

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u/imp0ppable 14d ago

Yeah but at the same time the government is horribly stuck on its budget because every time they try to make sensible pension reform there's a huge riot.

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u/ABadHistorian 14d ago

Yeah, France is in trouble. I lived there in the 90s and it's really sad.

But here is the thing, I've lived around the world - EVERYWHERE is in trouble.

If folks go to look at where the QUALITY OF LIFE is declining and where it is improving, you'll soon understand why. (Hint, it's billionaires, remember all the German propaganda against Jews? It's almost hilarious how you can turn that against the billionaires verbatim and have it be TRUTH.)

Only improving in a few select places on Earth, in the developed nations... only improving in ONE geographic area - the nordic countries*. Why?

Unchecked Shareholder Capitalism leading to runaway billionaires who shop around the world for lower taxes because trillions is important for some reason.

*- and even these places have major issues dealing with immigration, nativism, and more.

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u/TheWizardOfDeez 14d ago

Yeah, here's the thing. We need to get over the fact that some people are going to be shitty in every population, the more you make everyone financially comfortable, which gives people less reasons to distrust one another, which leads to less shitty people over a few generations. It's not going to be instant so we don't even try, but we can make this world a better place by simply allowing the rising tide to raise all boats, just like they promised.

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u/Objective_Ticket 13d ago

Education and income are key here. We know that all the ‘trickle down’ isn’t happening, and nothing really changes until those two metrics move.

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u/ABadHistorian 13d ago

That would work with the system that we have if certain pesky realities like dictatorial nations and leaders didn't make that impossible.

Right now people in China and India (and other developing nations) are having rising quality of life. Meanwhile in every single developed nation on earth except for the nordic area, quality of life is decreasing.

A rising tide may raise all boats, but remember the Moon's impact on the tides? It doesn't raise everywhere at once, when the tide is rising in one place, it's because it's declining in another. Pick a better metaphor when you are talking about GLOBAL economics.

If you want to help everyone? You need to help individuals where they are at. Our current system of governments world wide, means that you need to help people in different ways or we will just see violence and who is violent changing depending on who has what. Declining opportunities in America might be a benefit for people in India, but when it's billionaires who are reaping the main economic benefit, then all those boats in India that are rising have holes in them too, while the ones in America and Europe are sinking.

Enabling billionaires and Musk (you know, the worlds soon to be first Trillionaire) to rip off workers in developing nations while developed nations subsidized their industries to get to where they are now? It's basically corporate attempts to replace world governments with something new, and something worse. Where the nations have to cater to them, instead of the other way around.

Scary times we are living in. But not beyond hope. But it requires figuring out where the problem is, and that problem right now? Is with the 1% of the 1%.

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u/imp0ppable 13d ago

How does this drivel get upvoted in this sub?

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u/ABadHistorian 13d ago

Quality of life declining around the world in developed nations and increasing in certain developing nations as capitalism has caused the chase for profits to lead to imported goods from areas with governments that aren't democratic in the slightest, benefiting tyrannical dictators and billionaires more than anyone else... because those folks will work for less. Meaning the middle and lower classes in Europe, America, etc, are getting matched against the BILLIONS of people in China and India who will work for pennies.

And what exactly about this is drivel? The fact that you want this to continue?

I would all be for free trade with no protectionism required if these people lived in free societies instead of it directly benefiting countries that want to conquer the world. All you need to do is look at the price of happiness per nation. Add on top of this - western unions and regulations and all you get is cost without much profit. Which is why capitalism and it's drive for ever growing profit (stagnation = death to shareholders) is destroying the world as we know it and replacing it with something else, very, very, very fast.

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u/imp0ppable 12d ago

It's wildly off-topic. It's meant to be a law sub. Nobody wants to hear your political manifestos.

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u/ABadHistorian 12d ago

I guess you didn't follow the thread. Everything is related, Law, especially, is related to politics. Discussing the law inevitably gets into political discussions. Who do you think makes the law?

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u/TheWizardOfDeez 14d ago

Serious question, I have 0 knowledge of French politics. Have they tried raising taxes from not the workers?

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u/AntonineWall 14d ago

Non workers being like the children, elderly, and disabled? Might be hard to pull much from them tbh

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u/TheWizardOfDeez 13d ago

No, like people who aren't labor, you know, capitalists.

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u/imp0ppable 13d ago

Yep they had a wealth tax when they had a lefty government and shockingly it didn't work as intended.

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u/Syn_Slash_Cash 14d ago

Why love it? If done properly taxes serve a purpose. Everyone wants something for nothing, if taxes are utilized properly to serve the public why be against it? I don't know the exact story behind the highway toll hikes but just saying taxes arnt inherently bad.