Comments by "yessum15" (@yessum15) on "Nate The Lawyer" channel.

  1. Not a great idea. This video is very misleading. The maker is concealing some major facts: 1) The women were offered the same pay structure as men, but at much smaller numeric amounts. That's why they were forced to reject it. It was a far inferior deal. Now USSF is using their rejection as proof that they liked the current pay structure. 2) The women did indeed end up getting paid more than the men, but that's because they vastly outperformed the men. They won a World Cup that the men did not even qualify for. Had the men performed equally to the women, they would have been paid vastly more than them. That's the basis of their discrimination lawsuit. It's not equal pay for equal work. This video is pure propaganda and if the maker is ready to be so dishonest on this issue, I'd be reluctant to judge his opinion on anything else.
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  2. It's deeply misleading to suggest that Democrats overwhelmingly voted in favor of voter ID laws. They voted in favor of the HAVA act which includes many provisions, only one of which was a very weak voter ID law. For many, it was simply a matter of a trade off. It's also important to understand that not all voter ID laws are identical, with some having a greater suppressive effect than others (either due to the written law or it's implementation). For example, Georgia's decision to enact a last minute voter ID law and then shut down the DMV offices right before the Abrams election did have a suppressive effect. Finally, you can't use recent presidential election turnout to claim that there is no suppressive effect, since it is possible that a suppressive effect is actually present but is being overcompensated for by new voter activation (for example).
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