Paul D. Ouderkirk
Randahl FinkAt this point, the election of Donald Trump has cost so much money globally, I think it would be far cheaper if the world started funding the American school system.
swggrkllr3rd@randahl That's just half the problem, you can lead the child to school, but can you make it read ??
Tea time.@randahl This is why I stress voter registration as something ANYONE in the world can do to help make America a fairer, less ignorant, more accountable nation.
Latinos are drastically under-registered. Whites and blacks now register to vote ~65% of the time, but Latinos are at ~40%. The way to fix this is give orgs like Votolatino.org enough $$ to hire staff in key states.
You get TX races raising more than VotoLatino raises to register 36.2M voters, where Dems lose by 100-200k votes.
Latinos are drastically under-registered. Whites and blacks now register to vote ~65% of the time, but Latinos are at ~40%. The way to fix this is give orgs like Votolatino.org enough $$ to hire staff in key states.
You get TX races raising more than VotoLatino raises to register 36.2M voters, where Dems lose by 100-200k votes.
Leeloo
Joe Brockmeier@leeloo @KraftTea @randahl Voter reg isn't enough either: you need to ensure that people have ID now. In NC, you get ID through the DMV, generally a driver's license. Guess what, though? Most of the DMVs are understaffed and have huge wait times.
The GOP is doing everything it can to suppress the vote. Fighting mail-in voting, sabotaging the post office, changing the rules around when mail-in votes are counted, trying to kill early voting, screwing with poll places... unless the public is leaning more than +5% DEM in an election, the GOP putting its thumb on the scales turns it into a toss-up or lean GOP, because DEM voters are least likely to have ID, have time to go vote, etc.
@jzb @leeloo @randahl Sure, but... the army(ies) you need to focus on ID issues is the same army you need to register voters.
Voter suppression only works in passivity. If you have the money and push a message of "hey, these people are trying to rob you of your vote," that message resonates and voters - especially those who feel targeted by such laws - have a habit of punishing such efforts at the polls, by voting in a lopsided fashion.
So, even if some can't vote, the lopsidedness still wins.
@jzb @leeloo @randahl Which I guess is to say we can't allow voter suppression to be some kind of monumental barrier that we make excuses for, limiting the actions we can take today.
And when politicians like Beto O'Rourke can raise $60M in Texas - about $20M more than VotoLatino raises for registration nationwide -and lose in a close race because maybe a $1M more needed to be spent on registering voters first? Well... that just shows a need to focus more spending on registration, really.
@randahl A book called "Brown is the New White" by Steve Phillips goes into details as to why there already is a Democratic majority, but that Democrats overlook the kind of 50 state, minority-focused registration and GOTV efforts led by minorities for minorities needed to change the nature of elections and establish a more lasting majority.
Phillips is good at pointing out that wealthy, white political experts fixate on & overspend on fickle white voters... and on their fellow white experts.
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Anton Zadorožnyj@randahl giving money to poor people?! What is it, China?
Gondor@randahl
At this point i rather question the (indirect) support still uphold by so many governments. 🤨
Military bases are still open to US. Everything authoritarian what happens on national or international level is downplayed politically, even "not happening" in media....
Apparently it is not the money and not even their school system. It is the *violent*, superior, racist, alpha male mindset. And it is now, finally, at government level in all it's greedy insanity.
#toleranceparadoxon 🤨
CM Thiede@randahl if everyone had a choice, but that money is being pumped into the ultimate intelligence instead, and burning a hole through the planet in the process!
CM Thiede (@[email protected])
From child prodigy to a race to be the one that puts humans in a zoo. Great look into our current trajectory. Who will wield the stick? https://www.tribecafilm.com/films/thinking-game-2024 https://youtu.be/d95J8yzvjbQ #DemisHassabis #AGI #AI #LLM #DeepMind #Google #Geopolitics #ProteinFolding #Science #ThinkingGame #MachineLearning #Energy
GhostOnTheHalfShellYes please
Nicole ParsonsThat's the neat thing about the corrupt Supreme Court decision on Citizens United
Anyone can buy an American election now. Anyone.
It might be a good idea to help democracy globally by buying pro-democracy media outlets, subsidizing higher education, & bolstering literacy & child health programs.