(US-Election) So howsabout voting by mail?

[Mythical]

Why shouldn't the election work exactly the same as any election in the past? I'm ok with social distancing and masks being required, but it's an election, not a poll. Too much opportunity for fuckery and everyone knows it. Of course, fuckery inures to the benefit of Democrats. Everyone knows that too. Everyone knows this push for universal mail-in voting is a bullshit smokescreen to steal the election.




No, I did not post evidence of it happening. Because the postal service shouldn't have anything to do with the casting of ballots in an election, other than specifically requested absentee ballot requests that are granted for good cause. No mail-in voting, no problem. The Democrat argument sounds a lot to me like, "We think Trump is fucking up our plans to eliminate him by trickery!!" And I'm about as sympathetic for that as I am for Antifa twerps who want police protection when they're outnumbered.

fuckery benefits both parties. Ain't no way that large a group of people is going to social distance properly either.

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and smokescreen? It's p obvious that trump supporters don't believe in the virus more than most people ergo they'd feel just fine going in person while there are other people who could and will die if they get covid

 

[Xzi]

Let's find out why.

The "why" is obvious. Republican leadership makes no qualms about being anti-weed, anti-LGBTQ, anti-video games, anti-immigrant, anti-healthcare, anti-first amendment, anti-science, etc and so forth. Basically the only thing they aren't against is straight, white, Christian males. Democratic leadership, OTOH, goes for a "big tent" strategy, and thus appeals to a much larger segment of the population in a country as diverse as the US.

Not to say there aren't problems with the way the Democratic party operates, or that there aren't big problems with any two-party system in general, but that's the gist of it.

 

[UltraSUPRA]

anti-weed

Because God forbid we keep people from getting stoned.

anti-video games

No.

anti-immigrant

Correction: we're against illegal immigration.

anti-healthcare

We're against people not getting paid for their labor.

anti-first amendment

I didn't hear about that time Trump decided to censor bigots on Twitter.
Wait a minute, that was Twitter themselves.

Did you even see my links?

 

[Xzi]

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I said Republican leadership, not you personally. Though if you disagree with them on so many topics I have no idea why you would remain a registered Republican. I changed my own registration to unaffiliated a good while back (there was no option for Independent in my state).

Did you even see my links?

I did, though I'm not going to waste my time reading opinion pieces from blatantly partisan sources. Like I already said, the reasons why there are more registered Democrats than Republicans are obvious to anybody with at least two brain cells to rub together.

 

[UltraSUPRA]

Though if you disagree with them on so many topics I have no idea why you would remain a registered Republican.

1. The problem is that you aren't doing your own research and are instead relying on the (highly biased and false) media.
2. I'm not old enough to register.

I did, though I'm not going to waste my time reading opinion pieces from blatantly partisan sources.

At least read the names of the articles.

 

[Xzi]

The problem is that you aren't doing your own research and are instead relying on the (highly biased and false) media.

I can easily find video/audio examples of Republican leaders denouncing each of the things I listed, media analysis is irrelevant when it comes to direct quotes.

I'm not old enough to register.

Ah I see.

At least read the names of the articles.

What good does that do if the sources themselves can't be trusted? The titles of the articles aren't going to be any more accurate than their content.

 

[Mythical]

Being not old enough to register but getting super heated on politics and voting when you haven't even lived out in the real world (atleast you probably haven't) is super cringe

 

[UltraSUPRA]

I can easily find video/audio examples of Republican leaders denouncing each of the things I listed, media analysis is irrelevant when it comes to direct quotes.

Post up those quotes, then.

What good does that do if the sources themselves can't be trusted? The titles of the articles aren't going to be any more accurate than their content.

I guess I don't have to read any of your "reliable" sources, either.

Being not old enough to register but getting super heated on politics and voting when you haven't even lived out in the real world (atleast you probably haven't) is super cringe

Yet you support highly flawed voting practices.

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Here's a hivemind of people protesting against voting in person.

 

[Mythical]

Post up those quotes, then.

I guess I don't have to read any of your "reliable" sources, either.

Yet you support highly flawed voting practices.

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Here's a hivemind of people protesting against voting in person.

The whole system is flawed, and that picture proves just how much of a mess voting in person would be. If you don't realize we should adapt to this pandemic we don't have a cure for you're stupid.

 

[UltraSUPRA]

If you don't realize we should adapt to this pandemic we don't have a cure for you're stupid.

What about Sweden?

 

[notimp]

Ups bad journalism, according to a medium reporter:

 

[Mythical]

What about Sweden?

We're not talking about sweden. Wtf does sweden have to do with anything!? This conversation is about us politics in reference to mail in voting.

 

[UltraSUPRA]

We're not talking about sweden. Wtf does sweden have to do with anything!? This conversation is about us politics in reference to mail in voting.

I'm saying Sweden isn't doing anything differently.

 

[Mythical]

I'm saying Sweden isn't doing anything differently.

I'm not from Sweden, You're not from Sweden, Sweden isn't relevant to this topic.

 

[UltraSUPRA]

I'm not from Sweden, You're not from Sweden, Sweden isn't relevant to this topic.

I'm using Sweden as an example of how to respond to the Coronavirus.

 

[Mythical]

I'm using Sweden as an example of how to respond to the Coronavirus.

Bad example. It's a different culture, different country, different size (which matters a hell of a lot), different population, different political focuses, and once again unrelated

 

[notimp]

Ups bad journalism, according to a medium reporter:

Content:
Sorting Machines are not decomissioned to impact mail voting.
Postal agency head honcho might not have been a political pick (?).

Trumps statement, that hed want to defund the postal office, also seems to be instigating bravado, but not rooted in fact.

(edit: Was meant to be an edit and not a quote, sorry.)

 

[UltraSUPRA]

Bad example. It's a different culture, different country, different size (which matters a hell of a lot), different population, different political focuses, and once again unrelated

So all countries have different cultures that don't work in other countries. How interesting.

 

[sarkwalvein]

So all countries have different cultures that don't work in other countries. How interesting.

What did you mean?
Are you trying to say all countries have different cultures, so what works in a country may not work in another?
Or are you trying to say something else?
Not clear.

 

[Mythical]

So all countries have different cultures that don't work in other countries. How interesting.

You make it sound like cultural diffusion has been so widespread that all cultures are the same OR that implementing cultural behavior and comparisons to another country is valid, WHICH IT ISN'T. People from the USA act very different from other countries and vice versa. This is just derailing the conversation by trying to bring in obtuse unrelated information that you feel is valid but isn't once you think 5 seconds past the surface.