• Syndication@lemmy.today
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    13 hours ago

    Do people just like being cucked by the rich or something? It’s gotta be some sort of fetish for Americans at this point.

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        10 hours ago

        One of the more subtle things done for voter manipulation here in OK is putting the polling places in the lobbies of nursing homes.

        You have to drive and find parking. But Gertrude, class of '65, can hobble out into the lobby and vote like Focks Noos told her to, and it only takes five minutes. And there are 200+ residents right behind her doing the same thing, at every nursing home that has a polling place in it on election day.

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        11 hours ago

        Education is a problem, yo. I see so many folks on this app run propaganda for the regime while simultaneously talking like they’re not about it. “Just following orders” is criminal but carrying water for an enemy ain’t too different.

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        10 hours ago

        She said that she hopes for higher turnout in November with Vice President Kamala Harris facing former President Donald Trump to become the next United States president.

        Boy, do I have bad news for this nearly 2-year-old article…

      • ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net
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        11 hours ago

        I think it has to do more with brainwashing than voter suppression. I don’t believe they managed to suppress 90% of voters.

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          10 hours ago
          1. Pretty sure the margin in this vote was a little less than 90%
          2. Saying “I believe other people have been brainwashed” without even making a gesture at evidence to support your own claim seems a bit ironic
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            10 hours ago

            What I meant is that vast majority of voters should support raising the minimum wage. Wealthy people that actually employ workers and pay them below proposed minimum wage should oppose it. The rest have no interest to vote against it. You would have to suppress shitload of voters to change the margins here and reject it. Hence, the majority voted against their interest.

            And please, we don’t have to proof anymore that Americans have been brainwashed. It’s been more than obvious for about a decade now.

    • zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      8 hours ago

      People with more money have more power. They indoctrinate the voters successfully. The voters are happy about the outcome, as they believe they have done something good, while they basically suffocate themselves.

      This happens, is you have a fake democracy, where money decides who is going to win.

    • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de
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      6 hours ago

      Because most voters aren’t making the minimum wage. So say the minimum wage is $10, but you’re making $16, and the min wage gets brought up by $5 to $15. The person making $16 an hour isn’t going to get a raise, or if they do, it won’t be a $5 raise. They’ll just be making $1 over minimum wage, only now everything in the state will adjust upwards in costs, because capitalism. Rent rates and used car prices will go up. Groceries will get a bit more. Places will charge more for child care.

      If you weren’t making close to minimum wage, it hurts you more than it helps.

      This is a perpetual problem. The fix is simple. Instead of trying to make low incomes higher for a short term amount of help; tax the fuck out of the top end. That will lessen the burden on everyone else, provide more money to help those in need, prevent the oligarchs from just trying to hoard their wealth and put it back out into their companies rather than paying more in taxes, etc.

      In short, raising minimum wage is a dumb thing to focus on, when the real focus should be on lowering the top.