• @LEDZeppelin
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    How does that work with the tax exempt status from IRS?

  • @nemonic187
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    562 months ago

    So they’re ballot harvesting? I thought rePUBEicans were against ballot harvesting. Does that mean that 2000 mules was a DIY video instead of false and misleading information?

    • @Viking_Hippie
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      Their accusations are usually confessions, after all…

  • partial_accumen
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    502 months ago

    Boy are they going to be upset when they learn what Dejoy did to USPS processing infrastructure putting mail-in ballot processing at risk. Truly a “leopards ate my face” event here.

  • theprogressivist
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    472 months ago

    Tax 'em. They don’t get to have religious exemptions AND be proactively politcal for their own gain.

  • @crystalmerchant
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    They’re not skeptical of mail-in ballots, they’re skeptical of non conservative mail-in ballots

  • @Tylerdurdon
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    I bet they’re helping they choose candidates too, but let’s not talk about that.

  • @CharlesDarwin
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    ZOMG, are they doing…ballot harvesting?

    /clutches pearls

    I thought that when organizations like ACORN did something like this it was going to be the end of civilization and they had to be taken down with nonsense from the likes of James O’Keefe, for the good of mankind?

  • @[email protected]
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    Churches are social organizing spaces, they have been involved in politics since the very beginning. As long as they are doing it the right way, by encouraging voting but not voting for a particular candidate, and running voter registration drives, driving people to the polls, that’s good. We want more people to vote.

    It’s not hypocritical to once be skeptical and then learn that something is OK. That’s called learning.

    I blame people for being obtuse when they were complaining with zero evidence that there was a problem, I don’t blame people at all for working legally to increase voting.

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      They often endorse conservative candidates outright or imply who to vote for through heavy social pressure.

          • @[email protected]
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            There’s zero evidence that it’s happening “often” so I’m mostly using the space to point out that there’s more to “church” in America than the white evangelical politics-forward churches they see represented on TV. Those pastors are on TV because they are the exception.

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              Man you’ve got me conflicted. On the one hand, Internet edgelord atheists are annoying twats when it comes to projecting their specific Christian trauma onto the world, but that doesn’t mean they are wrong about Christianity specifically.

              Also not sure if we “want more people to vote.” The average American is wildly unqualified to decide the future of a nation.

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      Not to diminish from your point, yes absentee ballots are good, just

      by encouraging voting but not voting for a particular candidate

      You know this isn’t happening.

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        Every church I’ve ever been to has been carefully non-partisan on candidates. It’s not just tax status, they don’t want to cause parishioners to feel unwelcome because they need the attendance.

        I know some churches are being overly political, sure, but I absolutely believe the majority are doing the right thing.

        • @Maggoty
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          Then you’ve had good churches. But don’t discount something just because you’ve been lucky.

    • @Maggoty
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      As long as they are doing it the right way, by encouraging voting but not voting for a particular candidate

      Yeah that’s not what’s happening. They get a sermon every Sunday about horrible immigrants and the woke agenda. Then at this event they get told to make sure they vote Christian. It’s specifically the evangelical churches and mega churches doing this.

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        And at least one religious college where I live. They were bussing students to polling stations

        • @Maggoty
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          Yep. They understand it’s about getting their people to vote while making sure the other group doesn’t