Idk, when you look at the entire picture, does Trump not have the far easier path to 270 this year? He only has to win 2 states (PA & GA) and that’s it, he wins. Kamala has to win at the minimum 3, and if she loses PA, it becomes even harder for her. Trump could just spend all of his money campaigning in those 2 states and get back in the White House. Yet these odds seem to disagree with me.

Am I trippin?

  • Björn Tantau
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    503 months ago

    It’s such a strange concept that it isn’t a national holiday to enable everyone to vote.

    • @AndrewZabar
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      373 months ago

      It’s not strange; they don’t want the poorest and lower class people to be able to vote.

    • @BigMikeInAustin
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      263 months ago

      But then Black people might vote. America still hasn’t forgiven Black people for existing.

    • @distantsounds
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      233 months ago

      If the goal was to have everyone vote, it wouldn’t be Tuesday and everyone would automatically be registered with mail-in being an option.

    • @[email protected]
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      153 months ago

      Or at least a legal requirement for employers to allow time off during employees shifts to vote.

      • @[email protected]
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        13 months ago

        Federal law doesn’t require employers to give employees any time off to vote, much less paid time off. Instead, the laws vary from state to state: Just 29 states and the District of Columbia currently require employers to give employees time off to vote in general elections.

        • @[email protected]
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          23 months ago

          Federal law doesn’t require employers to give employees any time off to vote

          I know it doesn’t.

          I’m saying it should.

          • @[email protected]
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            13 months ago

            That would be something you’d have to take up with the government. Maybe start local because every state can set different laws.

    • @Noodle07
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      In France it’s always on a Sunday, because guess what: most people don’t work on Sunday

      Also if you do work on Sunday your boss is legally bound to allow you to go vote because of course we do, it’s a democracy ffs

      • @QuarterSwede
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        The US is more like the EU than any specific country as each state has its own laws but are also bound by federal ones. In Colorado, where I live, we all vote by mail in ballot, which can be mailed in or dropped off in voting drop boxes anytime. No need to drive to a polling station or wait in line.

    • FlashMobOfOne
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      43 months ago

      Sadly, it’s not strange at all. We’re a capitalist country. This is what our votes support every two years.

    • @Atin
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      23 months ago

      Or at least on a weekend.

      • FlashMobOfOne
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        23 months ago

        It’s interesting to see this reply from someone calling themselves ‘Anticorp’.

        • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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          23 months ago

          What did I reply? I don’t remember. Whatever it was, I obviously rethought it since I deleted it right away. Somehow you still saw it.

          • FlashMobOfOne
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            43 months ago

            You said something like: “The founding fathers only intended for educated landowners to vote, and the more you see from the Internet, the more you think they were right.”

            (Something like that.)

            • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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              43 months ago

              Ah yeah, I said “I’m not sure they were wrong to not trust the uneducated masses”. But then I thought about it more and didn’t like that message, so I deleted it.