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  • I feel like a cap on how much campaigns are allowed to spend would be easier to enforce

  • Voting Rights Confusion Keeps Formerly Incarcerated People from Casting Ballots, Even when they’re eligible to vote

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  • Relatedly, here's a research paper I saw a few years ago that found that just being stopped by police shortly before an election had a statistically significant association with being less likely to turn out in that election (archive link).

    One of the researchers of that participated in a reddit thread that was really fascinating which you can find here - https://archive.is/oDSkv

    They also wrote up a summary for a magazine (archive link), which has these two paragraphs that I think explain a lot of why we have red states in this country -

    These results make clear that the collateral consequences of policing—including worsening outcomes for economic security, educational attainment, and health—also extend to political participation. If the communities who are most frequently subjected to policing are also discouraged from voting as a result, it could create a vicious feedback loop of political withdrawal.

    Why would traffic stops make people less likely to show up to the polls? Past research has already established that the most disruptive forms of criminal legal contact, like arrest and incarceration, discourage people from voting. Our study shows that low-level police contact matters in the same way. If a traffic stop makes a motorist fear that the government will harm them, it can prompt a withdrawal from civic life that political scientists call “strategic retreat.” Motorists might worry that a routine traffic stop could escalate into police violence, a more common outcome for Black people in particular. Beyond justified fears of violent victimization, voters might also bristle at the perception of being targeted to raise revenue through excessive ticketing. Accordingly, if incarceration ‘teaches’ would-be voters that their government is an alienating and harmful force in their lives, traffic stops could catalyze a similar form of ‘learning.’

  • 1 in 5 Republicans want Trump to call election invalid if he loses

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  • There are 19% who give so little of a shit about democracy that they won't even try to hide it, there's definitely more who feel this way but won't admit it

  • The $5 trillion dollar issue neither campaign wants to talk about | Semafor

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  • There’s also a simple reason Harris might be reluctant to discuss the expiring Trump tax cuts: She’s promising to keep most of them. ...

    With little coming from the candidates themselves, pro-business groups are trying to fill in the blanks for voters — and for members of Congress either facing re-election or simply unacquainted with the tax code’s intricate details themselves.

    a) I truly cannot emphasize enough how much I despise both of our political parties

    b) At least once every twenty four hours since I've listened to it, I've seen at least one news story that makes me think of this interview the Know Your Enemy podcast did with the authors of "The Hollow Parties: The Many Pasts and Disordered Present of American Party Politics" and how I need to get around to reading that book

  • Progress!

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  • "Imposing any kind of environmental regulations in businesses would destroy the entire economy, concludes team of economists paid by those businesses. Coming up next - are you doing enough to protect your family from dangerous toxins in our environment? We'll tell you what a dumb and lazy piece of shit you are, after these ads!"

  • Harris just made a serious mistake with Latino voters

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  • I don't expect any politician to speak against an issue that a majority of the public supports

    This is way too simplistic and totally misunderstands the power of political leaders in democratic societies to shape public opinion. Like, the only real explanation for why public opinion on migration tanked is because Democratic lawmakers realized after 2020 that talking about ICE and CBP's deeply institutionalized problems made Biden look bad instead of Trump, so they stopped sticking up against them when more border problems inevitably came out and started blaming those on the migrants instead and the opinions of Democratic party voters followed.

    then we have the Republicans trying to ban abortion. I guess we'll see how that works out for them

    Reproductive healthcare is more restricted than it's ever been in my lifetime and there's no indication that we'll be overturning the court rulings that made that happen anytime soon. Also, all these political campaigns are sucking up all the donor dollars that reproductive healthcare funds still really need.

  • Harris just made a serious mistake with Latino voters

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  • Makes sense when neither of the two major parties is willing to speak against it. If Harris made opposition to draconian treatment of migrants a consistent part of her campaign those numbers could change, but Democratic politicians only try to lead on issues their donors care about and just weather-vane themselves into Republican-lite irrelevance on everything else.

  • [Anecdotal evidence]

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  • There are more than three things

  • [Anecdotal evidence]

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  • Not everything that is worth discussing has a source. Abstract ideas and hypothetical scenarios (among other things) have their places in rhetoric and communication.

  • [Anecdotal evidence]

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  • A lot of people who think they're saying "[actual fact]" are really just stating "[subjective opinion]" and call any criticism of their opinions "[incoherent rage]"

  • Could Trump Win? Yes, and Some Dems Are Quietly Saying They Know Why

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  • Last month, several Democratic groups circulated a memo warning that Trump is peeling off support among those constituencies. The memo concluded that underinvestments in digital communications with those groups was a major problem.

    But it turns out that a good deal of this angst was directed at Future Forward in particular. Democrats familiar with internal party communications say that the PAC—which is widely viewed as a conduit for powerful White House adviser Anita Dunn to exercise influence over party messaging and resources—is operating from too traditional a mindset. The PAC, they say, favors ads on broadcast television aimed at broad audiences—when reaching young and nonwhite voters requires a more targeted digital approach because their media sources have grown so fractured.

    Switching to Harris really starting to feel like throwing a new coat of paint on a car with a rusted out frame

  • The FBI conducted a sham investigation into Brett Kavanaugh. We shouldn't be surprised.

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  • when its not important

    It would be grounds for his impeachment if we had a sane government

  • The FBI conducted a sham investigation into Brett Kavanaugh. We shouldn't be surprised.

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  • Everyone should keep being reminded of this every time Brett makes a ruling. America's judicial system is illegitimate until he's dealt with.

  • Opinion: I'm a Republican who can't support Trump. I'm voting for Cornel West instead.

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  • He has fewer Republicans endorsing him than Kamala does

  • Biden Signs New Law Exempting Some Chip Projects From Environmental Reviews

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  • Does anyone seriously think Biden is ever going to propose any of those ideas to offset this?

  • The real oppressors

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  • "They asked me how well I understood class consciousness. I said I was a member of the conscious class. They said welcome aboard."

  • The real oppressors

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  • Ah, you're totally right,thank you, I'd been using those interchangeably without thinking about it much

  • The real oppressors

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  • Synthesis: everyone should have a well constructed residence with ample sound dampening where late night fireworks and early morning traffic noise wouldn't be a problem. Capitalist real estate developers minimizing their costs and maximizing their profits have us fighting each other when they're the real problem.

    e; I was actually thinking microphones would pick up and retransmit sounds after running it through some reverb and flanging to get a cozy underwater effect, but damping external sounds makes a lot more sense

  • What's an obscure song you like?

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