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   Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 01-Nov-2024 21:57:42 JST Paul Cantrell

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   And don’t forget voter suppression. We’ve really built up an impressively multifaceted system of disenfranchisement.

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     myrmepropagandist (futurebird@sauropods.win)'s status on Friday, 01-Nov-2024 21:57:43 JST myrmepropagandist

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     This morning my husband asked me "Won't most women vote for Kamala?"
     "Yes."
     "And there are more women than men, right?"
     "Yes. And women are more likely to vote than men on top of that."
     "So... why do we have this problem?"
     For a second we were both stumped. We'd *forgotten* about the electoral college. (You can see why one might want to forget.)

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     myrmepropagandist (futurebird@sauropods.win)'s status on Friday, 01-Nov-2024 21:57:44 JST myrmepropagandist

     If we can survive this election, what comes next is more important than ever. Many, Democrats will want to go back to doing what they were doing before this crisis of fascism came to a head. We cannot let this happen because even if Trump is imprisoned for his crimes the same thing will keep happening. At the root of all the problems are two major flaws:

     1. Money in politics
     2. The popular vote NOT being the foundation of congress or the presidency.

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     GreenSkyOverMe (Monika) repeated this.