Who did they vote for?

Boo fucking hoo.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_United_States_presidential_election_in_Wisconsin

I was in a fraternity and we never did shit like this. What the fuck.

It sounds specifically designed to replicate the viral Iowa video.

Being humiliated so that you can buy "friends" in university has never made sense to me.

no paywall: https://unwall.app/eu.jsonline.com/story/money/business/2026/09/08/more-than-40-fast-charging-ev-stations-are-coming-to-wisconsin/91657783007/

nice to see some rural towns in the list of locations

When you start arresting journalists for doing their job, there's no freedom anymore.

Happened two miles from where I live. I always thought my city was better than this, but I was wrong. I'm glad witnesses responded quickly and police did their job or this could have been worse. I'm sad that this happened at all.

I unfortunately don't have time to respond to all of your points here, so I will be brief: my point is not "vote GOP because Dems bad". My point is vote for more socialist Dems. Instead of settling for the lesser of two evils, we should be pushing for actual, meaningful plans for change, not just "tweaking around the edges" like the last two Dem administrations. We have had big problems long before Trump came into power, and they have only gptten bigger since then. Anyone who isn't proposing actual solutions to those problems need to get out of the way.

Have a good evening!

Despite having 48 or less senators for over 13 years the Biden Admin passed a lot of beneficial laws adhearing to this platform and increased audits on the rich. Obama's 2013 tax plan reduced taxes on the lowest earners and increased taxes for the top 1%. When they had 58 seats in 2010 for only two months, less actually in session, they used it to get medical coverage to 70 Million more Americans, would have given Public Option similar to Germany if they had even 1 more seat as independent Joe Leiberman was the holdout and every single GOP was against.

The current online age verification laws all passed over a decade ago, in some cases 2 decades ago, and no new bills have made it out of committee afaik.

The GOP is literally deregulating those drug manufacturers and the insurers are implementing AI, which the GOP are also promoting.

The same with topics Immigration and Palestine, these are not valid reasons not to promote dems because the GOP are always far worse.

You're just blatantly spreading misinformation.

Their platform is just lip service; Their actions say that they do not want to improve the lives of average Americans without inconveniencing the large corporations and oligarchs who fund them.

Centrist Dems say they want to make healthcare affordable, but they do the absolute minimum to regulate insurers or drug manufacturers.

Centrist Dems say they want to make groceries and gas more affordable, but they have no problem emptying the treasury to pay for Israel's free healthcare, free college, and free bombs to drop on their neighbors.

Centrist Dems say they want to expand legal immigration, but conditions at the southern border grew worse during both Trump's and Biden's terms in office.

What frustrates me most is their Project 2029 proposal: Enforcing online age verification, effectively expanding the surveillance state and destroying internet privacy, instead of directly holding social media companies and advertisers accountable for their manipulative practices and dark patterns.

I have no problems with taxing the rich, but the centrist wing of the party has been loathe to actually do it, because that's who pays them.

What specific part of the DNC Policy Platform don't you like? Here is a link for reference: LINK

Do you take taxing the rich to be "looting this country"?

Disclaimer, I don't live in Wisconsin.

The centrist Democrats are enablers and are completely beholden to the oligarchs that have looted this country, so yes I will shit on them every day because they completely deserve it.

But I will not vote for a Republican.

This is why I think it's good to shut down people who shit on Democrats and to remain stalwart about removing the enemy that is the GOP.

Don't know about wisconsin but illinois republicans have doubled down on maga messaging. Which I guess plays well in the south but is super cringe on news shows. I personally do not see republicans as being a legitimate optionin any election and everyone in the us should be looking to see them not win any race of any kind. facism is not ok. violating the constitution is not ok.

Elections have never really turned out my way since I aged into voting in 2016, but...this one hit extra hard. So I get where you're coming from.

I will absolutely show up for the general, but I'm feeling pretty demoralized and will probably not vote with my heart anymore. Crowley is still a progressive on all the issues other than data centers, but this "reach across the aisle" political style has been proven to fail since the Republican legislature stonewalls the aisle-crosser on day one, which is exactly what happened with Obama. He keeps trying to bring in center-right and Republican voters, but I haven't seen him to much to bring in progressives, and I'd like that in future campaigning.

He has the resume, the background, and the experience, but it's hard to get excited about him when he makes the same vague statements over and over. I recently watched an interview where he said that his vision is to take control of Wisconsin "for 8 to 10 years." I want a leader who is serious about making us a blue state for the foreseeable future like Minnesota and Illinois.

Sorry, rant over. Crowley 2026.

Edit: Okay, it seems like he's starting to campaign for progressive folks with his weed legalization plan. Hopefully we see more like that in the coming months!

Press release from the office of the independent monitor, which nominally holds the madison PD accountable: https://www.cityofmadison.com/independent-police-monitor/documents/blog/OIPM-Statement%20on%20Corey%20Ruiz%20Investigation.pdf

Class traitors

Unbelievably based.

The backlash should have been against the entire bill.

It's not a government's job to censor the entire internet to meet some snowflake's arbitrary standards. There are products on the market that anyone can buy if they want this.

Oh…just a mild one. That’s too bad.

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Assembly Bill 962 is fucked up.

I am not a lawyer, but the text of the bill makes it seem that many many websites, Firefox, and command line terminals are all "app stores" to be regulated, as they are able to download "apps" onto mobile devices.

The State of Wisconsin and parents could sue Lemmy "developers" (meaning server owners) unless they make you provide your ID.

For users under 18, the platform would have to set privacy restrictions to the most private level available. And the bill would ban certain “addictive” features from being used in a minor’s social media feed. That includes “infinite scrolling; a profile-based feed; push notifications; autoplay video,” the bill says.

Can we get features designed to be addictive banned, generally? Regular users need to be gained by having a good quality product, not by exploiting brain chemistry.