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Discord has implemented the age verification requirement system per the upcoming law going into affect later this week early, so prepare yourself for other sites, which may include Tumblr given the intent is to target adult content which may affect here because of how it still does get posted here, even if the intended targets are the actual site for it.

As of writing, the official petition to have the Online Safety Act repealed is close to 30,000 signatures, but it's barely enough to garner much attention to where it may be dismissed by Parliament, or may get discussed but not getting to where it'll be repealed to actually figure a system that doesn't carry the risk of private information getting leaked.

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Then, if you can join me for Phase 2. March 7 2025 thtough March 14 2025? No Amazon. None. 1 week. No orders. Not a single item. Not one ebook. Nothing. 1 week. Just 1.

If you live outside the USA boycott US products on February 28 2025 and stand in solidarity with us and also join us for the week of no Amazon.

Are you with me?

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Outraged by the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover climbing the ranks of right-wing militias. He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell family or friends. The one person he told was a ProPublica reporter.

Weird that it went red when, like a lot of states that have a lot of Natives, it has laws that make it harder for indigenous people to vote. Like how you can't register to vote if you don't have an address the Post Office delivers to, PO Boxes don't count, but also there are laws that say you can't get US mail delivered on the Rez and have to have a PO Box.

It's almost like there are systematic reasons for places with large populations of PoC often look more conservative than they really are.

Gerrymandering, voting and ID restrictions that make it hard to register to vote, few polling places that have been purposely given not enough machines, carceral rates to strip voting rights, and other factors I can't think of right now because I'm so angry at this kind of smug self-congratulating othering bullshit all play into why this happens. No one wants to be last in education and first in poverty.

Additionally there is a significant size difference between these two states and their population densities are very different. Massachusetts has 7,001,399 people in 10,554 square miles. Oklahoma has 4,053,824 in 69,899 square miles. I wonder how population density affects availability of resources. I wonder how many of those red counties have fewer than 100 people in them.

Actually that’s exactly how it works. Here, lemme break down the numbers. I’ll be using the 2020 presidential election voter turnout.

In 2020, the total U.S. population was about 332,450,000.

Of that number, about 240,000,000 were eligible to vote.

Of eligible voters, only about 66.1% actually voted. And that’s a high turnout, historically speaking.

Of the 158,427,986 eligible voters who actually voted,

81,283,501 voted for Biden. That’s 24.5% of the overall U.S. population.

74,223,975 voted for Trump. That’s 22% of the overall U.S. population.

(I’m guessing the graphic used updated number from 2024 for population size.)

But yes, that’s exactly how it all works. Not everyone in the U.S. is eligible to vote (sometimes due to voter suppression, but also due to being too young).

Of those who ARE eligible to vote, as many didn’t vote as voted for either Biden or Trump.

Who wins is determined by who fucking shows up to vote.

Democracy works exactly as well as how much you participate in it.

Trump voters are only 22% of the general population.

They’re only 31% of eligible voters.

They’ll be easy to defeat.

Who can vote

How to register

How to fill a ballot

Where to vote

What to expect on your ballot

How to report if your voter registration is illegally denied or mishandled

How to process a change of name or address

How to get an ID card (financial assistance not available)

See, the thing a lot of people don't get is, the US system is designed to SUPPRESS AND DENY votes. Fun fact for those who went to school elsewhere: none of the stuff I linked is actually required learning in our schools. Followup fact: the reason I mention financial assistance for ID cards is, our free ID (social security card) is not valid for voting in half of states; expensive photo IDs are required.

For the Americans, you must understand: Most places with elections take the exact opposite approach. Do you know how fucked up it is that in the US you can't even get a whole day off work, despite voter queues often being several hours long due to lack of polling places? How absolutely pigshit bonkers it is that people have to PAY to vote (via ID fees)?

The international folks are appalled because that's fucked up! 18% picking your president is unhinged! It actually truly does represent a broken system!

In other words this is a real, systemic issue that can take years to overcome IF you even have the ability to do it at all.

If you're lucky enough not to face any of the hurdles, stay informed on the subject so you can help the rest of us out.

Voter suppression is not caused by personal moral failing.

Also, just as a nice tasty reminder, the electoral college sure continues to exist on top of all that.

Just. On top of OP's graphic being misleading and incorrect, there's SO MUCH SHIT going on that adds up to this shit. Up to and including the active disenfranchisement of voters, the complete and utter fucking inability for democrat leadership to take a firm stance against genocide, the baked in racism both in the american culture as a whole and in the news media landscape...