• @Zombiepirate
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    2210 days ago

    The move was part of a nationwide campaign by MAGA activists to block those donations, which they call “Zuckerbucks,” based on the prominent role of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg in funding nonpartisan election-support charities. “I consider Facebook to be an enemy of the people” for Zuckerberg’s role in funding election-administration charities, Trump told CNBC in March.

    Of all the shitty things Facebook gets away with, this is what makes them “enemies of the people?”

    Republicans just REALLY hate democracy.

    • @cultsuperstar
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      210 days ago

      They don’t hate democracy. They just have their own vision of it, and it’s Christian authoritarianism. It’s why they keep taking away rights that are generally accepted, because those rights don’t fit into their vision. And why the bible is anbasis for all the laws they want.

  • @grue
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    1911 days ago

    What’s good for the goose is good for the gander: it’s time for patriots to start challenging the fraudulent voter registrations of Republicans in places like North Fulton County.

    • @rayyy
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      310 days ago

      it’s time for patriots to start challenging the fraudulent voter registrations of Republicans

      You do know that Republicans have deep pocket financiers who can foot the bill for these challenges and pay for man power whereas average working people simply do not have the money or time.

      • FenrirIII
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        29 days ago

        It’s easier for them to just buy the judges since we clearly have no oversight or recourse.

  • AutoTL;DRB
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    911 days ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    It’s happening throughout the country: Nearly every leader who matters in various state GOPs, the national Republican Party, and within the conservative movement is playing part in a well-funded, coordinated attempt to corrupt American elections in a way so transparently cynical, so authoritarian, that it makes the right’s “voter fraud” crackdowns of the pre-Trump era look like a flicker of intellectual calm by comparison.

    “The effort to suppress the vote in Georgia happens year-round, and the countereffort needs to be equally, if not more, robust,” says Saira Draper, a Democratic state representative who worked on voter-protection issues for the Biden campaign in 2020.

    The move was part of a nationwide campaign by MAGA activists to block those donations, which they call “Zuckerbucks,” based on the prominent role of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg in funding nonpartisan election-support charities.

    Ed Lindsey, a Republican member of the state election board, landed in the former president’s crosshairs after he opposed an end to no-excuse mail-in voting, which allows registered voters to submit their ballot by mail without providing a reason.

    “Together they must not only be strong and diligent enough to root out those who wish to cheat the system through fraud or suppression, but also wise and judicious enough to identify, expose, and call out others who cynically spread false claims of the same for cheap personal or partisan gain,” he wrote.

    “The MAGA Republicans have made it clear they are planning to try to block certification of November’s election, and this is a transparent attempt to set the stage for that fight,” the Georgia Democratic Party said in a statement responding to Adams’ suit.


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  • @800XL
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    610 days ago

    This year if you are in a hotbed area where election tampering or voter intimidation is possible, bring some sort of weapon with you to beat the ever-living fuck out of any fascist who would attempt to keep you from exercising your right to vote. And make sure that when they leave they leave with a body part that will never work quite right again so they always remember what happens when they attempt to bully others.