this post was submitted on 18 Aug 2025
288 points (98.6% liked)

politics

25292 readers
2845 users here now

Welcome to the discussion of US Politics!

Rules:

  1. Post only links to articles, Title must fairly describe link contents. If your title differs from the site’s, it should only be to add context or be more descriptive. Do not post entire articles in the body or in the comments.

Links must be to the original source, not an aggregator like Google Amp, MSN, or Yahoo.

Example:

  1. Articles must be relevant to politics. Links must be to quality and original content. Articles should be worth reading. Clickbait, stub articles, and rehosted or stolen content are not allowed. Check your source for Reliability and Bias here.
  2. Be civil, No violations of TOS. It’s OK to say the subject of an article is behaving like a (pejorative, pejorative). It’s NOT OK to say another USER is (pejorative). Strong language is fine, just not directed at other members. Engage in good-faith and with respect! This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban.
  3. No memes, trolling, or low-effort comments. Reposts, misinformation, off-topic, trolling, or offensive. Similarly, if you see posts along these lines, do not engage. Report them, block them, and live a happier life than they do. We see too many slapfights that boil down to "Mom! He's bugging me!" and "I'm not touching you!" Going forward, slapfights will result in removed comments and temp bans to cool off.
  4. Vote based on comment quality, not agreement. This community aims to foster discussion; please reward people for putting effort into articulating their viewpoint, even if you disagree with it.
  5. No hate speech, slurs, celebrating death, advocating violence, or abusive language. This will result in a ban. Usernames containing racist, or inappropriate slurs will be banned without warning

We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules, to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting. Users that post off-topic spam, advocate violence, have multiple comments or posts removed, weaponize reports or violate the code of conduct will be banned.

All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.

That's all the rules!

Civic Links

Register To Vote

Citizenship Resource Center

Congressional Awards Program

Federal Government Agencies

Library of Congress Legislative Resources

The White House

U.S. House of Representatives

U.S. Senate

Partnered Communities:

News

World News

Business News

Political Discussion

Ask Politics

Military News

Global Politics

Moderate Politics

Progressive Politics

UK Politics

Canadian Politics

Australian Politics

New Zealand Politics

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
(page 2) 24 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

WTAF. Assuming we even still have voting, I'm going to be so pissed if this dementia-addled diaper-filling piece of shit means voting in Colorado has to be in-person.

Fuck this guy.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago

Traitor. Destroying America at every turn. And not in a good way.

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 day ago (2 children)

When are they ending voting altogether?

[–] Tryenjer@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Probably never.

It will be like in Russia: your vote doesn't matter, but elections still take place as a way for the "Great Leader" to assert his power and dominance over the masses. Elections then become a lie that everyone knows but no one can publicly say, a form of exhibitionism in honor of the King's power to control the narrative, to distort reality.

Unfortunately, the new American elections will become a gruesome feast mocking democracy where every guest already knows the results.

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] Whostosay@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 day ago (9 children)

How much would it cost realistically for us to go back to paper only, each district or country or however you wanna chop it up is allotted x amount of dollars and y amount of time, and we count this shit one by one on public TV so that if you want to see your own ballot actually be counted and confirmed, you can because they'd be serialized and you could guestimate. People will have backups for calling horseshit, etc. it cannot not be worth it.

I don't give a single fuck about same day results, this is democracy and people's lives for the next decade plus.

I know for a fact it wouldn't cost a single percentage of what this administration alone has cost us.

load more comments (9 replies)
[–] Bonus@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 day ago

Terrible, idiotic lawyers but lawyers, just the same.

load more comments
view more: ‹ prev next ›