Good on spreading the news, but that's the most uncanny valley Uncle Sam I've ever seen.
58That's AI generated images for ya
46I've never seen Uncle Sam with a mustache
13Stupid sexy uncle Sam
9It's the stache, he's based on Abraham Lincoln and Lincoln never had one.
7Yassified Sam
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I'm paranoid about absentee voting. In my State you have to have fall into a specific category to vote absentee. And if I lied, I'm scared they'd prosecute.
Plus it's easy to throw out mail in ballots for ridiculous reasons. Red States suck.
19What state has categories for mail voting? I'd like to do research to stay informed. Definitely do not lie on your mail ballot stuff.
Generally speaking, mail votes are considered very safe and respected. I posted a PSA elsewhere in this thread. The ACLU recommends mail voting. But if you prefer voting in person, that's also a great option for you. I recommend doing it early so you don't have to deal with long wait times.
If you have a reason to need to vote by mail, please do more research on your options because as I understand it mail voting is available to all Americans. If you need help with the research, feel free to ask, many of us here would be happy to help.
3New York, Texas, Pennsylvania, Arkansas, Missouri, Indiana, Kentucky, West Virginia, Mississippi, South Carolina, Delaware, and Alabama all require an "appropriate" reason to use mail-in voting, iirc. There may be a few more that I'm not remembering, because that's 12 and I think its about 15 states that need an "approved excuse" to vote by mail.
And in general I'd agree, mail in voting is just fine, but I'd make sure to get in in extra early - DeJoy will continue to fuck up USPS as best as possible I am sure, and states get to make their own decisions regarding deadlines. So any area that's iffy to start with, yeah I can see in person being a much safer and more assured option.
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Oh fuck off with this AI generated boomer shit.
8I keep saying this... be prepared for voter turnout to be down compared to 2020.
The reason voter turnout was so good was emergency covid restrictions pushing vote by mail.
Without those restrictions, vote by mail will be down and turnout will be down.
4Yeah but here's the thing, a lot of those states where people were gonna vote by mail that are now cracking down, are actually just gonna be depressing turnout among elderly folks who are stuck in home care
4A lot of states have abortion and/or cannabis on the ballot as a motivation.
2Let's hope that's a motivator!
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Fuck this AI generated garbage.
4How else would you find an image of Uncle Sam? Evaporating 5 gallons of water in energy use is better anyway
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Glad I live in Oregon. It's all vote by mail here.
3Look, it’s another AI-generated “meme” that lacks a punchline and is just soapboxing
3I'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.
20Jokes use punchlines. Memes don't need to be funny. The more you know.
10They conflated PoliticalMemes with the PoliticalHumor sub on reddit lol.
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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.
-1Are 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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And remember, vote with your protest boots on!
2Good URL choice. A dot org was linked the other day but with voting folks should start with a dot gov as a policy.
1I 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
-8Also 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!"
-4If the police don't have any haters, I'm dead. Fuck, I hate those guys.
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