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Good on spreading the news, but that’s the most uncanny valley Uncle Sam I’ve ever seen.

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That’s AI generated images for ya

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I’ve never seen Uncle Sam with a mustache

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Stupid sexy uncle Sam

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It’s the stache, he’s based on Abraham Lincoln and Lincoln never had one.

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Yassified Sam

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And remember, vote with your protest boots on!

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Look, it’s another AI-generated “meme” that lacks a punchline and is just soapboxing

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Jokes use punchlines. Memes don’t need to be funny. The more you know.

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They conflated PoliticalMemes with the PoliticalHumor sub on reddit lol.

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I’m quite happy with reminders to register & vote on a political community during election season with impending registration deadlines.

I’ll down-vote if it becomes overly spammy but now and then I’m completely fine with it. This election is important and every year thanks to republican voter suppression laws many who want to vote often cannot because they didn’t jump through the myriad unnecessary hoops. So these collectively help.

Small price to defeat fascism. Up-voted.

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Small price to defeat fascism. Up-voted.

But defeating fascism is so cringe. Don’t you know the LIBERALS are the ones pushing for that? /s

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Those darn LIBERALS! Shucks, what have they accomplished other than weekends, overtime, civil rights, child labor laws, and being the gateway for literally every legislative and constitutional change we take for granted!

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It’s not even how voter suppression works…

OPs been posting a lot of stuff that sounds like it makes sense, but only if you don’t know what the words means.

So yeah, I think it’s someone trying to us AI to make memes. At least I hope it’s not a real person making all these.

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Are you talking about the post about comparing the quality of life of a farmer in the 1800s vs now, and a bunch of you madlads took the position that the miserly farmer in the 1800s had it better? Wasn’t it you that that tried to argue that OP’s data was wrong by posting links that proved OP’s data was correct?

I swear, sometimes Lemmy makes me feel like I’ve fallen into a fever dream. The quality of discourse around these parts.

It’s not even how voter suppression works…

Please do continue. I’ve done a lot of research on GOP voter suppression in places like Georgia, so I’m excited to hear what you have to say on the topic.

For those that actually want to look into it: https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/georgias-voter-suppression-law

My recommendation to anyone in a GOP state: Vote early, and I’d personally use a mail ballot to avoid their voting location shenanigans. They can’t make you wait in line for 12 hours if you get your ballot via the mail.

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Please do continue.

Voter suppression is a long process involving districting and staffing of poll locations, along with preventing other options for voting and using spurious reasons to throw out ballots.

It’s not just something that happens the day of. Which is what someone who doesn’t really know what it means would say.

They’d think Republicans are physically running around suppressing votes in real time.

I’ve done a lot of research

I’m sure you have

Edit:

Side question, why do you only seem to comment on this OPs posts?

50 comments in one year. But you show up for all of OPs posts to get his back?

Just a crazy coincidence?

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PSA About mail ballots, because I know a lot of people are worried about this stuff.

Voting by mail is safe in the US. Here are some data points:

The ACLU recommends voting by mail https://www.aclu.org/news/voting-rights/voting-by-mail-is-easier-and-safer-than-you-think-heres-how

They would not make that recommendation if they thought your vote could be easily suppressed that way.

The rejection rate of mail ballots is only around 1% https://ballotpedia.org/Election_results,_2020:_Analysis_of_rejected_ballots

Rejections happen typically because the signature on the ballot doesn’t match the signature they have on record from your ID (state or driver’s license). Another reason is that states can change the requirements, and sometimes voters are not informed on those changes. So make sure you know the latest requirements for your state to avoid problems, and double check that you’ve followed all steps and your signature matches.

Things to know: You can track your mail ballot. Most states offer online tracking so you can confirm they have it.

You could vote by mail and in person. Check the rules for your state, but in many places they can track your voting and will simply override your mail ballot if you also show up to vote in person. This is done so you can request your mail ballot, and retain the option to go vote in person if you feel like it. Check with your state website if this is an option for you.

Do this stuff early. No reason to delay. Check when your state opens early voting. If you plan to vote in person, going early gives you the best odds at short wait times. If you plan to vote by mail, voting early makes sure there’s plenty of time for your ballot to reach the counting place within all deadlines, and to deal with any clerical issues if any happen to come up, particularly if this is your first time voting.

Plus, when you vote early you get to enjoy civic pride for this cycle longer than everyone else.

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I wonder how much propaganda OP makes for actual organizing, since every lib on lemmy claims that “everybody ad-ocating for voting is also politically active in other ways than voting.” /s

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Also kinda curious how many of these memes are going to flood the Internet with nakedly erroneous information, in order to spread FUD on election day.

Fully expect to see a large police presence at voting locations popular with pocs and tons of mass media claiming “This is the law! They’re breaking the law!”

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If the police don’t have any haters, I’m dead. Fuck, I hate those guys.

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Oh fuck off with this AI generated boomer shit.

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