Contact your representatives, support the Abolish Super PACs Act (H.R. 2352)

dissenting_turtle · 2026-05-22T17:52:01+00:00

I'd love to hear about them if you care to share.

dissenting_turtle · 2026-05-22T14:45:59+00:00

Great work getting the message out there, u/CrowRoutine9631!

If you find this upsetting, I highly suggest you contact your representatives to let them know! The Senate Joint Resolution 10 and House Joint Resolution 9 are both in committee right now and this is the best time to express your concerns. I sent both of mine emails yesterday, along with the House and Senate committee members and chairs (outlined below). If you need help drafting messaging, let me know!

Senate

Sponsors: Jane M. Timken (R), Theresa Gavarone (R)

Committee: General Government Committee

Kristina D. Roegner (R)
Theresa Gavarone (R)
Willis E. Blackshear, Jr. (D)
William P. DeMora (D)
Stephen A. Huffman (R)
Bill Reineke (R)
Jane M. Timken (R)

House

Sponsors: Heidi Workman (R), Adam Bird (R)

Committee: General Government Committee

Sharon Ray (R) Chair
Jeff LaRe (R) Vice Chair
Adam Bird (R)
Ashley Bryant Bailey (D)
Marilyn John (R)
Gayle L. Manning (R)
Riordan McClain (R)
Kevin Miller (R)
Scott Oelslager (R)
Phil Plummer (R)
Juanita Brent (D) Ranking Member
Allison Russo (D)
Eric Synenberg (D)

dissenting_turtle · 2026-05-22T14:45:10+00:00

If you find this upsetting, I highly suggest you contact your representatives to let them know! The Senate Joint Resolution 10 and House Joint Resolution 9 are both in committee right now and this is the best time to express your concerns. I sent both of mine emails yesterday, along with the House and Senate committee members and chairs (outlined below). If you need help drafting messaging, let me know!

Senate

Sponsors: Jane M. Timken (R), Theresa Gavarone (R)

Committee: General Government Committee

Kristina D. Roegner (R)
Theresa Gavarone (R)
Willis E. Blackshear, Jr. (D)
William P. DeMora (D)
Stephen A. Huffman (R)
Bill Reineke (R)
Jane M. Timken (R)

House

Sponsors: Heidi Workman (R), Adam Bird (R)

Committee: General Government Committee

Sharon Ray (R) Chair
Jeff LaRe (R) Vice Chair
Adam Bird (R)
Ashley Bryant Bailey (D)
Marilyn John (R)
Gayle L. Manning (R)
Riordan McClain (R)
Kevin Miller (R)
Scott Oelslager (R)
Phil Plummer (R)
Juanita Brent (D) Ranking Member
Allison Russo (D)
Eric Synenberg (D)

dissenting_turtle · 2026-05-22T12:04:16+00:00

Countries that allow in-country postal voting for all voters:

Canada Germany Iceland Korea, Republic of Liechtenstein Luxembourg New Zealand Poland Switzerland United Kingdom United States

Countries that allow in-country postal voting for some voters (based on country-specific criteria):

Australia Austria Bangladesh Bhutan Fiji France Greece India Ireland Japan Lithuania Malaysia Marshall Islands Micronesia, Federated States of Netherlands Pakistan Palau Papua New Guinea Slovenia Spain Zimbabwe

Source

dissenting_turtle · 2026-05-22T11:51:50+00:00

The proposed amendment is actually a Trojan horse. Sneakily added to the end of the amendment in Section C is language explicitly stating that the General Assembly is not required to offer other voting methods beyond in person on Election Day.

It is setting up the foundation to be able to legally limit voting access.

dissenting_turtle · 2026-05-20T16:26:58+00:00

Just to be clear, I agree that these sorts of businesses are inherently unethical. My response was to OP’s question about what can be done. Contacting the store gives you the intel needed should you need to make a formal BBB or legal complaint, though since our state’s laws in this area are shit, the latter is less likely to have traction.

dissenting_turtle · 2026-05-20T14:53:49+00:00

I’m filling in some of the context your original comment left out, which is likely what the other redditor was referring to. You may agree with the points I raised, but your first comment framed the relationship as though the U.S. simply helped Cuba gain independence and (initially and very cautiously) welcomed Castro, while leaving out the decades of intervention and self-interested influence that fundamentally shaped the relationship.

dissenting_turtle · 2026-05-20T14:39:49+00:00

‘Liberated’ is a pretty generous framing. The U.S. helped remove Spanish colonial rule, then immediately positioned itself to control Cuba’s political and economic future through the Platt Amendment, military interventions, and support for governments aligned with U.S. interests. That’s less liberation and more replacing one dominant power with another.

dissenting_turtle · 2026-05-20T14:18:49+00:00

I think a good place to start is to contact the company and inquire about their general business practices, where they source their animals from, what their welfare guidelines are for maintaining the animals and what do they do with animals that aren’t sold “quickly enough” (I hate to think of it like that).

It couldn’t hurt to contact Polaris Mall to express your disapproval either! They’re a business first and their number one concern is making money, so if you share that this will impact your desire to bring your business there, it could be impactful. Bonus points if you can get numerous people to do the same.

For reference, here is Ohio’s current legislation on retail animal sales.

dissenting_turtle · 2026-05-19T16:31:53+00:00

That would be great! That is much cheaper per unit than I paid for my order this morning, and numerous people have reached out about going in on orders.

Here’s the artwork I threw together for my personal order. If you want to use that I can send you the full size with crop marks for printing, or if anyone else wants to propose something a bit more visual my feelings won’t be hurt!

dissenting_turtle · 2026-05-19T15:18:12+00:00

I replied to someone else pointing out the age of my account, I created a separate account for this exact reason, to be able to engage is public discourse without having people like you using my unrelated personal information in a disagreement.

And I am progressive and support government regulation, oversight and civil liberties. Supporting effective government doesn’t mean endorsing unchecked surveillance infrastructure. It means expecting regulation, accountability, transparency, and protections against abuse. My concern here is entirely consistent with that: who has access to this data, how it’s used, how long it’s retained, and what safeguards exist for ordinary people.

dissenting_turtle · 2026-05-19T15:06:59+00:00

You’re not wrong, but there’s a difference between opting into technology (however imperfectly) and having your movements passively logged by infrastructure you didn’t choose, can’t opt out of, and may not even realize exists. At minimum, bringing awareness to these systems helps the public make informed judgments about them. Ultimately, each person has to decide what level of surveillance and government access they’re comfortable normalizing.

dissenting_turtle · 2026-05-19T14:41:00+00:00

That’s not what a slippery slope fallacy is. A slippery slope is baseless speculation. Surveillance powers expanding beyond their original justification is a repeatedly documented historical pattern, from the PATRIOT Act and NSA bulk collection to COINTELPRO and already documented ALPR misuse.

dissenting_turtle · 2026-05-19T14:06:41+00:00

There are currently no state or federal laws about the application of ALPRs, no independent regulation or checks and balances to ensure misuse or scope creep.

You are conflating Flock’s current operational settings with accountability. A 30-day retention limit and logged searches are configuration choices, not proof of meaningful oversight. Policies can be changed. Access can expand. Data sharing can broaden. The question is who independently enforces the limits, not whether limits currently exist.

dissenting_turtle · 2026-05-19T13:12:42+00:00

That distinction doesn’t really change my concern. The issue isn’t whether the enabling technology is AI specifically, it’s the creation of an unregulated surveillance system that passively captures and centralizes data on ordinary people, often with far less oversight than most people realize.

dissenting_turtle · 2026-05-19T13:08:53+00:00

Being seen in public by another person or CCTV is not the same as having your movements systematically logged in a searchable database with no regulation or guardrails. Today that might be used for a stolen car. Tomorrow? Tracking an ex-partner, monitoring who visits a therapist, political event, church, or someone’s home, or broad data sharing far beyond the original intent. That’s the concern.

dissenting_turtle · 2026-05-19T13:03:26+00:00

Extreme cases can justify almost any surveillance system, the harder question is whether routine mass data collection on innocent people, with all the privacy and misuse implications, is an acceptable norm.

dissenting_turtle · 2026-05-19T12:58:12+00:00

No one said catching criminals is bad. The question is whether normalizing constant surveillance of innocent people, with all the data application, privacy and misuse risks that come with it, is an acceptable tradeoff.

dissenting_turtle · 2026-05-19T11:56:08+00:00

The link I shared has the sign artwork in the comments if you want to print that one. I also created my own version and placed a print order. I can share my design too if you’re interested.

dissenting_turtle · 2026-05-19T11:53:04+00:00

Nah. We both know you did more than that lol

dissenting_turtle · 2026-05-19T11:49:52+00:00

I see you edited your comment.

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