• butter
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    10 months ago

    Those bastards finally got me out to vote. Not to mention, a fight with my coworks and my dad.

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      10 months ago

      Same here, havent voted once since i turned 18, but this one was bad enough it got me out there.

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        It’s almost always “I’m not into politics” until they realize that politics shape their everyday life and it comes knocking on the door.

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        “Protect the Constitution”

        never mind that they were “protecting” it by trying to gut and make useless one of the key parts of the constitution 🤷‍♂️

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          “Outside money is coming in and imposing it’s will on us…”

          Election to change it drew $30 million in outside funding.

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            Last week I got sent some propaganda, printed like a newspaper to make it seem legitimate, especially to older folks. Articles about how BLM, Antifa, and John Legend (Ohio native that moved to 😡 California) are coming for Ohioans and our way of life by supporting not changing our constitution.

            Mailed from Chicago.

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              “our” way of life. Who’s way of life? Conservatives have been coming for minorities’ way of life forever.

              Do you happen to have a photo of the “newspaper”. I’m very curious about it. I’ve heard about this before.

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              They probably used the same organizations they setup to do similar mailings in Illinois to kill a proposed progressive income tax (successfully, unfortunately) and prevent collective bargaining for government workers (failing spectacularly).

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            The part that makes no sense to me about that argument is that the measure has nothing to do with money or even out of state money. For the life of me I don’t know why people are allowed to donate to campaigns on issues that don’t affect them directly, but issue 1 had absolutely nothing to do with money.

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              You’ll find that almost no right wing legislation ever gets argued for on it’s face. There are always these obfuscations to make it look like it’s about something entirely unrelated.

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        Everyone I talked to said they wanted to ban abortion, so take it with a grain of salt. I had to explain that taking power from people in order to get their way is a bad thing.

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            That’s immediately what I thought too. Apparently to them “simple majority” = “small minority”

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            I think what they are trying to get at is that 50% of the voting public is a small minority of the community.

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    Big shout out to the corrupt ass Ohio GOP, we wouldn’t have had this record breaking August turn out with out your shady ass tactics. See you bitches in November! 🖕