#Voter awareness

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Rigged Debate: How the Media and Elites are Steering the Election—and Selling Out America

The debate last night was a glaring example of biased moderation. Throughout the event, it was clear that Kamala Harris was given a pass on fact-checking, while Donald Trump was heavily scrutinized. Harris often redirected her responses to make everything about Trump, avoiding direct answers to critical questions. This lack of transparency was frustrating to watch, as she failed to provide clear…

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Jamshedpur Finalizes Voter List for Upcoming Elections

District officials unveil updated electoral roll, emphasize transparency Jamshedpur’s District Election Officer reveals new voter statistics, urges political parties to assist in maintaining accurate records. JAMSHEDPUR – District officials backtrack on controversial Mandi Tax plan after intense discussions with trade and farmer representatives. District Election Officer Ananya Mittal convened a…

[deluxeyellowflower]

If you're USamerican and feel very strongly about how people vote in this upcoming election, if you feel hopeless about how those around you aren't voting, here's some suggestions.

Sign up to be a poll worker or election worker in your county. You might need to call or email the local election office to find out how to do this.

Get very familiar with your local voting process and its bureaucracy. Know the important deadlines and remind people of them. (Being a poll worker helps a lot with this.)

Ask your friends and family if they're voting. Have progressive voting guides on hand if they don't know who or what to vote for. Offer to drive people or go with them to vote. Fill out your mail-in ballots together.

Organize and join get out the vote campaigns. Canvass. Table. Flyer. Call. Text.

Don't shame people for ambivalence, disinterest, or hostility to voting. Be curious. Provide practical advice and tangible support.

[iersei]

[GET A SKETCH REQUEST BY: VOTING GLENN CLOSE HERE + BONUS POINTS FOR VOTING FOR NICKY AND GABLE HERE]

something about a past you can't escape and the version of yourself that you can't rewrite again

nick and nicholas bickering for @greylight32 !! oh wait, you meant it in a silly way?

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mom says it's MY TURN with the xbox

<3

[arabaka]

fucking hell shut the fuck up we know kamala sucks but we literally have no choice here shut the fuck up stop fucking shaming voters going for kamala

[monsterhugger]

sometimes I feel like non-Americans expect us to like. stage a military coup and enact an entirely new system of government

[theminecraftbee]

As quackblr’s unofficial-official ambassador, I would like to offer an alliance for the next round of voting between Quackity fans (us) and Joe Hills fans (you). (Should Quackity win this vote, that is.) Our odds on both sides tomorrow will be, frankly, a little rancid. Quackity will be facing some stiff competition, and Joe unfortunately has to face the problem of powercreep as the elections continue. Our interests shouldn’t clash too badly seeing as our Guys shouldn’t ever have to actually face each other in a vote. It’s win-win. A win for Joe, and a win for Quackity.

Regardless, good luck in the competition.

(Signed, tumblr user Anonymous-Dentist)

so there's a chance, should we both win our rounds, that we WOULD face each other. however, i think it would be a little funny for grian to lose that early a noble choice, to ally with someone we may eventually have to face. and it's true. we'll both face some stiff odds tomorrow, AND both of our guys are very sexy.

if the rest of quackblr and the joeguys agree with me, this sounds like a very reasonable alliance to me for next round. i agree with this proposal - what say you, tumblr?

[badolmen]

I can fix him*

*bad writing, underutilized gameplay mechanics, characters with unfulfilled potential, funded by bootlickers

[prettyboysdontlookatexplosions]

dark silver lining of the b*d*n age question dominating the news is that i get a temporary reprieve from my absolute least favorite part of election season discourse which is 1 million variations on “the dems are going to lose because they’re not doing the thing i want”

[jaythelay]

Kyle Gass is getting in more trouble than Dump has ever faced.

Actually he's getting in more trouble than most politicians saying the same thing. Kinda lile when Biden said there were headless israel babies but it was actually headless palestinian babies.

In fact he sure is getting a bunch of shit for a quick joke on his Bday.

A joke maaaaaaany made and makes 0 difference regardless. Would've never heard of it had JackBlack not made it so well publicised.

Anyone else notice that Dump is a pedophile wanting to destroy our democracy? Hey, quick question! Why do we care about the dude who got a shitload of undercover agents killed because he sold (realistically just gave away) information to our enemies?

Hey remember that time he lead AN INSURRECTION that tried to kill his VP? Or what about his Covid body count? Hell what about the horse paste he lead his followers into injecting? Or bleach? Hey remember how he made his fanbase wanna kill Fauci, Pelosi, and Pence?

Hey remember that time Dump saw an old man fall and hit his head, bleed, and all he could say was "That's disgusting, my marble floors are ruined!" (Legit not one empathetic action or word)

Oh wait, this is Convicted Rapist Donald Trump!

Who Also Mind You told you, told just grieving parents, to "get over it" (In reference to a school shooting)

So color me fucking pissed when someone says "If Only" about the guy and that's treated as some moral boundary killer. Dump deserves no humanity. He has forgone it for every single human being. He's forgone it for himself. You cannot expect your humanity to change these people, the same who mocked Pelosi's husband being attack with a hammer by, you guessed it, a republican.

IMO: L take by JackBlack, definite strong mark against him for this. Dump told you to get over it when it was children, but you show more care for the pedo, rapist, insurrectionist, treasonous, thief than achool shooting victims, free speech, or comradery for those around you.

That tax cut Dump stuck us with definitely helped him while you can barely afford food or medicine. All that heartbreak, cruelty, death, and violent rhetoric, and the one time it gets turned back on Dump BY ONE OF HIS OWN PARTY, suddenly we gotta act like the past decade, the past several decades of Dump forcing people off their property, of Dump skipping bills for poor people and bankrupting entire towns. Of Dump being friends with our national threats and Epstein. None Of It Happened.

B- Because one of Dump's own tried to kill him.

So color me surprised when people suddenly start clutching their pearls as if Dump hasn't escalated everything to that day where a Republican tried to kill him. And then his VP pick is one that called him Hitler. Hitler. And ya wanna defend these people blaming BLM, antifa, trans, leftists and blacks for the republican shooting dump.

He raised his fist in defiance of his own tyranny, leaving everyone in the crowd, and those meat shielding him, open to more gunfire, because he desperately hoped it was anyone but a White Male Republican. That image doesn't go hard. It's pathetic. What it stands for is himself against himself. And Dems wanna let R's martyr him anyways. Pathetic.

Sometimes. It's okay to just admit how you feel when a historical event happens. It's always always always okay to mock and wish negativity upon those that make everyone, literally, fucking everyone's life, worse. Sorry, but ya'll are letting R's run the show.

In every POSSIBLE form of morality, Dump Told You To Get Over It.

It is not a big deal. He does not see shooting of children as a big deal, so why the fuck is it any deal when it's the 34 felony counter?

Leftist. Stop clutching your fucking pearls. Because you're letting R's take away what is the biggest reason NOT to vote for the child rapist. His own party is escalating political violence from insurrections targeting other officials to himself.

Allow me to say one more thing: Biden may be old, but at least his party isn't gonna kill him. Biden'll last longer in office at this rate, because again, Republicans are as they've told us, Domestic Terrorists. Who escalated from lynching blacks and beating up women in bathrooms to insurrections and killing presidential candidates.

And ya'll are enabling it to happen again and again and again. Ya'll aren't fighting political violence pretending to be bipartisan with active threats. You're coddling it. Enabling it.

Had it been a minority, anyone not republican, R's Told You It Would've Been Civil War.

They would've broken into homes to shoot people. They would kidnap and torture trans and immigrants. They'd burn your house down for having the wrong flag.

And. And we're just gonna act like...like this is fine.

When you show empathy, they take advantage. When you do nothing, they take advantage. When you stop progress. They. Take. Advantage.

Regardless of abundance of shitty people or not in the R party, all the violence has been stemming entirely from R's. But sure, commenting on that is baaaad.

But hey sure yeah we can't make jokes about the child rapist with an immense dead body count who mocked shooting victims and the dead and our veterans because one of his own shot him.

And of course it just had to be them evil leftists basing information off videos of Dump's own fucking words and actions. That's what caussd it! I say, so fucking what. The world would've been better off. Sucks to suck, maybe don't be that much of a world wide threat? Just a thought. Of course I do not wish for assassinations or any violence, but when R's are doing it, it's stupid as FUCK not to point it out and it's even dumber to act like pointing out the obvious is as bad as assassinations.

Do Not let republicans morally bankrupt you into not speaking your truth: It fucking sucks it missed. It really does. But I do not want anymore of it. At fucking all. And the only way to STOP anymore is getting Dump tf in a jail cell for the rest of his life. Not the ground. The earth deserves better than that. I do not want anybody throwing their life away because of this monster. Which is why I'm relieved it was, Once Again, a Republican.

Because that's an opening in political discourse to point out that last election Dump too lead a streak of political violence at the capitol. Now it's moving towards him and ya'll wanna be quiet.

Speak the fuck up or allow it to come to you.

It is your moral obligation to mock Dump and the situation so that he is safe in a jail cell. To not, is to enable political violence and I'm not even joking.

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Yes you have to pick ONE—NHL edition.

Quarter-final round

[onsomekindofstartrek]

The word “liberal” is so frustrating.

Okay, so internationally it means the ideology of Liberalism and everything that spawned off of it short of leftism. Personal liberty, equality in the marketplace, representative democracy, power deriving from the putative consent of the masses but not like… the masses that the people in power don’t like, and so on.

And American leftists correctly use it in that sense. Historically both parties in almost all versions of the American party system have been liberal in that sense. Like, understand that when the Republicans came into existence as a radical abolitionist party under Preston Blair and fought the Democrats who were largely pro-slavery or pro-incremental change, this was a purely internal disagreement within liberalism as to who counted as a person under. Liberalism can be better than the alternative but in the sense understood by people internationally it’s not even a position or even a narrow range of positions on the left-right spectrum. You can see a pretty far right liberalism, typified by American libertarianism, and a pretty far left liberalism, typified by radical social democrats like Sanders (although the former turn into fascists the moment they’re inconvenienced and the latter are 100% ineffectual at achieving substantial left-wing goals).

But because it naturally sounds like the opposite of “conservative,” Americans use it to mean the mainstream center-left, and to some extent the actual left too, since the average US moderate can’t tell the difference between social democrats and actual socialists.

The unfortunate and yet mildly redeeming thing about it is that as the conservatives in America are increasingly total fascists, this usage actually kind of becomes accurate again, as long as you only mean the political mainstream. It is finally, in reality, liberals versus non-liberals.

I just think that’s funny. But it does underscore that you should be happy to vote for the liberals as a leftist. For the time being there’s literally no equivalency.

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Political Tensions Escalate in Jamshedpur Over NGT Letter

BJP, Congress leaders clash over Arjun Munda’s alleged NGT application regarding Jamshedpur settlements Controversial claims and counterclaims emerge as local politicians debate the truth behind a disputed NGT letter. JAMSHEDPUR – A heated dispute has erupted among political figures over an alleged National Green Tribunal application concerning Jamshedpur settlements. Binod Singh, BJP’s Ranchi…

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[landboundstar]

Random Serious Post

Okay, I don't normally post on politics. And no, I am not going to post about who I am voting for.

But I am irritated at hearing people around me saying voting interference and suppression does not happen.

Even ignoring people being taken off of voter registries - which seriously, no should not be ignored - I can think of a bunch of ways it is interfered in.

1 ) There are fewer polling places. Yes, we might know this as a stat, but the polling place being a quarter mile down the road when I started voting versus 5 miles away before I moved.... well, I had a car. But if you don't have a car, that might be a deal breaker. When my car broke down and I had to walk four miles, it took the better part of an hour to get to where I needed to go, and that was when I felt safe walking along the road. Not everyone has that option. It might not be a safe neighborhood, or maybe it is not safe to walk along the roads where you are.

2) Trying to get to the polls before open or close. Seriously, trying to get to polls before or after work sucks. And if you have a job where you can get mandated for overtime - you might have just lost any chance you had to vote because you have to work. And I've only voted twice when I've had a line. If you have to wait in line for hours, that is brutal. Personally feel election day should be a half day or full day off of work.

3) Weird absentee or mail in ballot rules. Yes, trying to get any ballot postmarked on Election Day or prior counted is important. Yes, some people might vote absentee if they cannot get to their polling place. But does the drop off for not mailed in absentee ballots need to be a weird back hallway of the courthouse two towns over? (Yes, I know someone this happened to. She needed to ask directions to drop off her ballot.)

4) Gerrymandering. I despise this. Everyone I know despises it. Does it still happen? Yes. I live in an area where for a while, they took a small piece across part of my county and attached it to two counties on either side to create one district that pretty much bypassed the rest of the county, to get votes to go one way. And that was not one of the more interestingly shaped examples.

5) Outright intimidation. If you have never had that happened.... well, good for you. I have. Not talking last minute campaigning. When someone is standing directly in front of the door, yelling at you, demanding you to tell them who you are voting for - even with poll workers repeatedly telling them to back away from the doors, not a pleasant experience. The one thing I have loved since moving is the town I am in now, regardless of who I vote for, I don't have that. But before I moved.... not only was it at my polling place, with two poll workers needing to tell a guy that his pickup needed to move so people could open the door to vote for anyone, but someone shouting at anyone voting at another polling place when I went to get groceries. And I was one of the people they hassled less - they missed me on the way in, so were yelling at me after I voted. And I didn't tell them who I voted for.

Are there more ways than this? Absolutely. I just felt like only listing five.

Please make a plan if you are able to vote to overcome these obstacles. Get a ride. Find out about deadlines or drop offs. Have your IDs and voter registration cards. Go with someone if you know there are assholes by your polling place. I do believe voting matters.

But please don't tell me voter suppression does not exist.

[kubfoo]

i find this sentiment so frustrating that everyone is like "dont split the vote!!! until we have ranked choice election (WHICH WE DEFINITELY WILL HAVE!!!!) its one or the other!!!" like Ok is one of them going to give me ranked choice election?