• PugJesus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    20·
    3 months ago

    Good on spreading the news, but that’s the most uncanny valley Uncle Sam I’ve ever seen.

  • yesman@lemmy.world
    111·
    3 months ago

    I’m paranoid about absentee voting. In my State you have to have fall into a specific category to vote absentee. And if I lied, I’m scared they’d prosecute.

    Plus it’s easy to throw out mail in ballots for ridiculous reasons. Red States suck.

      • curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        2·
        3 months ago

        New York, Texas, Pennsylvania, Arkansas, Missouri, Indiana, Kentucky, West Virginia, Mississippi, South Carolina, Delaware, and Alabama all require an “appropriate” reason to use mail-in voting, iirc. There may be a few more that I’m not remembering, because that’s 12 and I think its about 15 states that need an “approved excuse” to vote by mail.

        And in general I’d agree, mail in voting is just fine, but I’d make sure to get in in extra early - DeJoy will continue to fuck up USPS as best as possible I am sure, and states get to make their own decisions regarding deadlines. So any area that’s iffy to start with, yeah I can see in person being a much safer and more assured option.

    • bbuez@lemmy.world
      3·
      3 months ago

      How else would you find an image of Uncle Sam? Evaporating 5 gallons of water in energy use is better anyway

  • jordanlund@lemmy.world
    2·
    3 months ago

    I keep saying this… be prepared for voter turnout to be down compared to 2020.

    The reason voter turnout was so good was emergency covid restrictions pushing vote by mail.

    Without those restrictions, vote by mail will be down and turnout will be down.

  • brbposting@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    1·
    3 months ago

    Good URL choice. A dot org was linked the other day but with voting folks should start with a dot gov as a policy.

  • Squorlple@lemmy.worldEnglish
    43·
    3 months ago

    Look, it’s another AI-generated “meme” that lacks a punchline and is just soapboxing

    • lennybird@lemmy.worldEnglish
      53·
      3 months ago

      I’m quite happy with reminders to register & vote on a political community during election season with impending registration deadlines.

      I’ll down-vote if it becomes overly spammy but now and then I’m completely fine with it. This election is important and every year thanks to republican voter suppression laws many who want to vote often cannot because they didn’t jump through the myriad unnecessary hoops. So these collectively help.

      Small price to defeat fascism. Up-voted.

      • PugJesus@lemmy.worldEnglish
        31·
        3 months ago

        Small price to defeat fascism. Up-voted.

        But defeating fascism is so cringe. Don’t you know the LIBERALS are the ones pushing for that? /s

        • lennybird@lemmy.worldEnglish
          12·
          3 months ago

          Those darn LIBERALS! Shucks, what have they accomplished other than weekends, overtime, civil rights, child labor laws, and being the gateway for literally every legislative and constitutional change we take for granted!

          • Prunebutt@slrpnk.net
            21·
            3 months ago

            Shucks, what have they accomplished other than weekends, overtime, civil rights, child labor laws, and being the gateway for literally every legislative and constitutional change we take for granted!

            Lol. Those were socialists, not the libs. Liberals opposed that stuff.

            • lennybird@lemmy.worldEnglish
              03·
              3 months ago

              Please list the socialists in Congress who turned said ideas into law? I’ll wait.

              You confuse activism for legislating. Thank you for proving the point that, as stated, liberals were always the gateway for socialist ideas to become law.

              • Prunebutt@slrpnk.net
                21·
                3 months ago

                Please list the socialists in Congress who turned said ideas into law? I’ll wait.

                Lol. The congresspeople listened to the demands from mass movements to appease them, because that’s how progressive politics happen. No martyr of the haymarket massacre was in congress. Socialists and liberals are politically opposed to each other.

                Your stockholm syndrome for electoralism is embarrassing.

                • lennybird@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  13·
                  3 months ago

                  Correction: Liberals in Congress listened to the people.

                  There’s really no deflection you can use to squirm out of the fact that all leftist policy has gone through Congress under liberals, and by contrast conservatives would have largely ignored those activist calls while doubling-down on fascism if they could go unimpeded.

                  That rings just as true today and for this very election. Or wait, do you believe conservatives have an equal odds of passing Universal Healthcare? lol.

                  While we’re here, who ended pre-existing conditions?

    • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
      01·
      3 months ago

      It’s not even how voter suppression works…

      OPs been posting a lot of stuff that sounds like it makes sense, but only if you don’t know what the words means.

      So yeah, I think it’s someone trying to us AI to make memes. At least I hope it’s not a real person making all these.

        • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
          0·
          3 months ago

          Please do continue.

          Voter suppression is a long process involving districting and staffing of poll locations, along with preventing other options for voting and using spurious reasons to throw out ballots.

          It’s not just something that happens the day of. Which is what someone who doesn’t really know what it means would say.

          They’d think Republicans are physically running around suppressing votes in real time.

          I’ve done a lot of research

          I’m sure you have

          • Protoknuckles@lemmy.world
            0·
            3 months ago

            I mean, standing outside polling areas and harassing people does happen. Hell, they even took to destroying ballot boxes. Just because one thing happens, doesn’t mean something else isn’t also happening.

            • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
              01·
              3 months ago

              standing outside polling areas and harassing people does happen

              Got an example that didn’t end in arrest? If say one where they did it for an extended period of time uninterrupted, but we can set a real low bar for this one

              Hell, they even took to destroying ballot boxes

              I’m assuming you’re referring to mail in ballot boxes…

              Those things that aren’t just out on election day?

              And can (and do unfortunately) get vandalized on other days besides election day?

              Did you mean to agree with me?

  • Prunebutt@slrpnk.net
    01·
    3 months ago

    I wonder how much propaganda OP makes for actual oroanizing, since every lib on lemmy claims that “everybody ad-ocating for voting is also politically active in other ways than voting.” /s

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      3 months ago

      Also kinda curious how many of these memes are going to flood the Internet with nakedly erroneous information, in order to spread FUD on election day.

      Fully expect to see a large police presence at voting locations popular with pocs.