#buying the election

[wyrmfedgrave]

Elon Musk FAILS to BUY Trump VOTES

Oops!!

Musk sent the worst kind of people to try & but folk's votes.

But, citizen patriots didn't take the 'chance' on a cool million dollars...

Guess they know a stink pile when they smell it!

End.

[kensatou]

if nothing else can save america this zero-year-old fairy baby otter with no gender can. chiitan's platform is love. and chaos.

[kodii-ak]

KILL APATHY & VOTE

I'm tired, too, but voter resources under the cut because we're in survival mode right now:

- Find your nearest polling location: https://www.vote.org/polling-place-locator/

- Check your voter registration (some states allow same day registration): https://www.vote.org/am-i-registered-to-vote/

- Need a ride to your nearest polling location? The NAACP is giving out free Lyft codes: https://asalh.org/naacp-is-offering-free-rides-on-election-day/

- If you are still in line when the polls close, stay and request a provisional ballot.

- You are not required to disclose who you voted for.

- Many states legally allow for voter leave. Check your state to see how much time you may have for voter leave and speak with your supervisors.

- Chances are your state may have resources to track the status of your ballot. Keep an eye out!

(I create this piece and raise awareness on my own behalf)

[victusinveritas]

[collapsedsquid]

Really living in a safe state it's your duty to make sure the democrats lose the popular vote, A democratic presidential electoral college victory with a popular vote loss is possibly the only thing that will ever cause a abolition of the electoral college.

[c-kiddo]

every year i see more and more american brands and products taking all the space on the shelves of shops here. american mega chains like starbucks and taco bell replace cafes and restaurants that were around for decades beforehand. american mega-coorporations buy independent local companies and merge them into their generic goo made of the cheapest product possible . every big movie is american. its fucking dire it never ends

[hazel2468]

Look-

Anyone who tries telling you that both parties are the same and there is no point in voting? Has a fucking agenda, and it's a nasty one.

Do the Dems disappoint me? Yes, constantly. Do I have gripes with Biden? 100%.

Do I also recognize that he has GOTTEN SHIT DONE and that those things are like. NOT talked about by people my age because it feels better to be angry and constantly demanding better while being unwilling to put up with Average Joe who is ACTUALLY doing things that progressives have been asking for for AGES (putting caps on medication prices, working to cancel student and medical debt, investing in infrastructure and going after inflation, started working on protecting reproductive rights after Trump put in place the shitty judges who wrecked Roe, is trying to go after how weed is scheduled and pardoned all federal offenses, et-fucking-cetera).

Not only do I actually LIKE some of the shit Biden is doing? If Trump gets back in office? People will die. He and his have been OPEN about the fact that they want to go (somehow) even MORE fascist.

Fucking vote. Anyone telling you not to has your worst interests at heart. Be as pissed off as you want, but fucking VOTE. Because we have a chance of continuing to push a president like Biden towards the change we want to see. We have ZERO chance of that with Trump, or someone like him.

[oceanneverposts]

the tangerine twat won. brb, gotta go kiss my basic human rights goodbye

[catwouthats]

“How can this many people simply vote for Trump in the first place?”

✨Gaslighting✨

And

✨Teaching themselves apathy because they have been pushed to the brink and are only focused on their own survival and think that this guy will give it because he

gaslight themmmm✨

[timetravellingkitty]

hi! sorry this is random lmao😭 but like my friends are arguing about modi and how he is good and shit- (I am definitely losing braincells due to that conversation and I want to bang my head against the wall) can you explain some of the stuff he has done bc im having a hard time explaining it in a concise manner 💀

wow i'm so early oops but speedrunning; there's weaponsing the ed and cbi, limited press freedom, farmers' protests, wrestlers' protests, abetting ethnic violence in gujarat (2002) and manipur (2023), censoring media critical of modi, bulldozer raj, the 2020 delhi pogroms

oh and income inequality is worse now than under british rule

[tedwardremus]

The final Harry Potter book should have ended with the International Confederation of Wizards coming to Britain and setting up criminal trails for not just death eaters but ministry employees

[kimetsu-chan]

Okay, just a big fuck you to the people who were so selfish that their ideal “country” was so much more important than over half the population, because now I either have to kill myself, or try to run away to get the hell out of this country.

[snailpaste]

The United States’ electoral college system is not just severely flawed, but fundamentally undemocratic.

The system allows a candidate to win the presidency even if they lose the popular vote, simply by winning a handful of swing states. This has happened five times in American history— twice in the last 25 years. Current polling suggests it could easily happen in this election.

One major issue is the whole winner-takes-all rule applied in nearly every state (with exceptions for Maine & Nebraska). Under this system, if a candidate wins a state by even the narrowest margin, they claim all of its electoral votes. This all-or-nothing approach is absurd. A prime example is the 2000 election: George W. Bush won Florida by a mere 537 votes to Al Gore, yet this narrow margin gave him the state’s full electoral count and ultimately the White House—despite the fact that Al Gore received over 500,000 more votes nationally. In 2016, Donald Trump won the presidency with a substantial electoral margin, despite Hillary Clinton receiving 2.8 million more votes nationally.

The electoral college has a notable bias toward Republican candidates. Of the five presidents elected without winning the popular vote (minority presidents), four were Republicans. There has never been a Democrat minority President.

The U.S. is unique among presidential democracies in that it’s possible to win the most votes and still lose the election. This anomaly strongly suggests that the system fails to represent the will of the people, instead allowing a minority of voters to elevate a candidate to the most powerful position in government, and arguably the most powerful position in the world.

Again, the United States’ electoral college system is not just severely flawed, but fundamentally undemocratic.

[persephonesfill]

us elections will give you mental illnesses you've never even heard of

[thedawningofthehour]

In a little over a week we'll find out if we're about to have our first female president or live in Gilead.

To all my American readers who are adults and able to vote: please. Please vote. For the love of god, please. I can't fucking do this again.

[frogeyedape]

I am so unbelievably pissed off. FUCK HOAs

Oh, my trash/recycling bin can't be visible except on pickup day? Ok whatever fine I hate you but I can deal with this

Weekly inspections?????? FU FU FU FU FU

SECOND NOTICE ALSO WE'RE CHARGING YOU MONEY TO SEND YOU CERTIFIED MAIL OF THIS TOTALLY LEGIT TOTALLY SECOND NOTICE OF WHAT IS ACTUALLY A VIOLATION cue me: checks notes. Hmm. My recycling bin was. on the curb. on recycling pickup day. You know. The day it has to be out. The day it is motherfucking ALLOWED TO BE FUCKING OUT AND VISIBLE.

so. 1) not a violation

I have sent them the trash AND recycling pickup schedules, which are DIFFERENT, btw

I have disputed the fact of the violation

I have disputed the linking of this "violation" to a previous violation MONTHS AGO--their "first notice" in this case was a "Courtesy Notice" LITERALLY 5 MONTHS AGO and they've done so many inspections since then and my bin CLEARLY WASN'T OUT IN THOSE INTERVENING MONTHS so WTMFH

So I am posting like a crazy person here instead of sending the absolutely deranged email I almost sent (I did send a slightly less deranged version with the disputes, and requesting a hearing)

OMG. It has been. Less than one hour since I learned this fun fun news. My bin was out YESTERDAY, y'all. YESTERDAY. I am going to blow a gasket