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[–] 35 points 1 year ago

Until the SCOTUS rules that they can, because that's what they think the founding fathers intended.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago

    Is this cancel culture?

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  • [–] 29 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Geoffrey Skelly, an analyst for Decision Desk HQ, responded on X: “If Kentucky had just remained part of Virginia in 1789, voters there could be voting for #VAGov right now. Their loss.”

    The Louisville Democratic Party responded on X: “We are here for this energy. Kentucky, put our primary May 19, 2026 and Election Day, November 3, 2026 in your calendar for our next elections!”

    Journalist Caitlin Huey-Burns wrote on X: “This is a good public service announcement.”

    George Conway, a former Republican lawyer, responded: “There is a distinct possibility that some people are too stupid to participate in a democracy.”

    is this seriously not the onion

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago

    George Conway, a former Republican lawyer, responded: “There is a distinct possibility that some people are too stupid to participate in a democracy.”

    Gee golly, I wonder whose fault that is 🙄

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago*

    Yeah I used to live there, it's like that. Some of the people who called probably wanted to vote for Mamdani too

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    “We’re getting calls about polls being closed. They are closed because we do not have elections today. Kentucky votes next year. You cannot vote today in Kentucky for the mayor of New York City or the Governor of Virginia. Sorry,” he wrote.

    In a follow-up post, he added, “Have I mentioned my repeated call for civic education.”

    Ehh...you could establish a residence in New York City and also in Kentucky and switch your domicile back and forth based on which place you want to vote in a given year.

    EDIT: It looks like the bar for both is whether you spend at least 183 days a year, with part days counting. So technically, if you spend about half the year in each place, so some of those days are partly in each, you probably could just choose, since you could meet the bar for domicile in both places concurrently (though you can't actually have domicile in both places simultaneously). I don't know how frequently you can switch, though, like whether there's a delay in voter registration taking effect or whatever.

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    [–] 132 points 1 year ago (13 children)

    It used to be funny to point out how fucking stupid Americans are

    It ceased to be funny quite a lot time ago...

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    We're idiots with nukes. 🙄

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  • [–] 33 points 1 year ago* (7 children)

    The problem is that everything has become a national spectacle even city-level elections, because both parties are grasping to make absolutely ANYTHING a distraction while they fuck us over constantly.

    NYC things don't affect ANYONE ELSE. Maybe the surrounding counties, but that's it. Yet here we are with the President of the United States trying to steer the election in one city, and the nationwide media is gobbling it up like they haven't had dinner in decades because they make money from the advertising, and angry comments it creates across social media every time they say anything.

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    There's fairly specific reasons we were watching NYC's mayoral election though, that being their use as a barometer for progressive ideals' ability to win.

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  • This right here. It's not isolated to NYC. It's a crack in the pavement of ossified ideas and outdated politics. If a more progressive platform works in one place, it could work in many more.

    the fact that both the DNC and RNC fought this is incredibly telling of how big a deal this is.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Sadly, NYC policy affects most of the rest of the state, and it reverberates to many other blue states.

    Not that I'm a conservative, but it hurts the rural parts of the state and just doesn't make any sense.

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  • [–] 127 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    I get it:

    Everyone wants to vote for Mamdani.

    And, frankly, I don't blame them.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    We can vote with our hearts 💕

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    These are Kentuckians calling a Republican to complain. They are probably not trying to vote for Mamdani. Would be interesting to know, though.

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  • [–] 56 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    Kentucky, the least educated, most unhealthy because of underfunding and they keep voting for mconell. The stupidity cycle.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    Hey now,, give them some credit! Alabama is worse!

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    As long as Mississippi still exists they both have some work to do.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    You are out of date: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi_Miracle

    "After adjusting for demographics, in 2024, Mississippi was the nation's #1 state in Reading as well as in Mathematics. The state was the state whose students' performance increased the most from 2013 until 2022, despite the Covid-19 pandemic which contributed to depressed scores nationwide.[10]

    Even without any adjustments for demographics, Mississippi ranks ninth in fourth-grade literacy. African-Americans in Mississippi outperform African-Americans in 47 of the other 49 states in reading; Mississippi's Hispanic students actually lead the nation for their demographic in reading (and second place in math)."

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  • [–] 40 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    It's honestly insane how many people thought it was midterms...

    Like, I get time moves fast, but if they thought it was midterms they should have looked into candidates by now.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago

    if they thought it was midterms they should have looked into candidates by now

    They did, the media told them who the candidates were, the ads told them who to vote for, and the big name politicians at the federal level told them who they endorsed. Duh. The media wouldn't tell them about things that don't affect them at all. /s

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I’m curious how much press prop 50 got outside of California. With all the phone calls/texts, mailers, TV ads, people plastering freeway overpasses with signs about it, folks waving signs on street corners, it did feel like midterms.

    I’m glad it’s done. I hope it passes. 90 minutes till they start counting votes…

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago*

    By far the two largest races for my local election were nyc mayor and prop 50: all the press, all the publicity, all the talk …. And my ballot held city councillors and school board candidates who were mostly unopposed.

    It’s actually unexpected: my town has had some contentious issues lately on school funding, higher density housing , bike lanes, pedestrianizing a section of our “main” street, and a war between a strong mayor and ineffective city council …. I expected to attract more candidates, more voters

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    George Conway, a former Republican lawyer, responded: “There is a distinct possibility that some people are too stupid to participate in a democracy.”

    Glass houses, sir.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    He has turned anti-maga, even though he was a Republican lawyer. He isn’t exactly throwing stones in a glass house, he’s at least partially sane.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Yeah this is the guy that his wife was Trump's old spokes lady and he used to constantly bag on her and everything that was said and he was very anti-trump. I don't remember him actually ever being maga.

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  • [–] 31 points 1 year ago

    Ah Kentucky...

    Where men are men and sheep are nervous.

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  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago

    Lmaooooo

    Swear to god, the entire country is like The Onion personified

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    National politics has gotten convoluted if you hallucinate an election. What exactly did people think was on this non-existent ballot? If it was all about New York City then that is really sad.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago* (6 children)

    There are thousands of jurisdictions in the U.S., with plenty of elections going on, beyond the big ones in the news. My city always has something to vote on each year so I’m not surprised about some people thinking they are missing out on something. I’m actually surprised there aren’t any elections going on in Kentucky, do they have all city/town/county elections sync’d up with state/national races?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Non-Federal elections do not have a set date, like the Federal election does. Many localities have important elections on the same ballot and the same day -- not just to encourage turnout, but to save money. But some plan their elections on different dates throughout the year.

    For instance, where I live we have to vote on the local school budget and school board, and they always have that election in May because the new board and budget needs to be in place for the school year starting in September.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago* (4 children)

    Yup, that’s very true just pointing out that it’s not completely stupid that people might think they might have an election today, since it’s the default day such things occur, and contact a representative about it. Ideally, we should be encouraging people to take part in the civic process instead of casting derision on them with various snarky comments, which is what this politician did and what most comments here are doing.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Except these people aren't really trying to take part in the civic process. If they were, they would have realized a while ago that there was no local election on the ballot. The information is all public, after all.

    They are getting upset that the TV told them that a brown person was poised to win something in a multicultural city 900 miles away, and there was nothing they could do to prevent it. That's not snarky, it's what happened.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (2 children)

    There is nothing here indicating that people were actually calling about the NYC mayor or Virginia governor races, but just elections in general. The politician is the one who mentioned these races, likely to throw shade on the opposite party.

    Local elections are extremely common off cycle and they tend to be poorly advertised unless elections commissions and other organizations actually put effort into them. Often times, the first time many people see a ballot for such elections is on Election Day.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    likely to throw shade on the opposite party.

    Why does this throw shade on the six Democrats who live in Kentucky? The guy is a Republican....

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago*

    Republicans have been foaming at the mouth about these elections for the past several months and are taking every opportunity they can to cast democrats as “stupid, crazy, communists”. From what I can tell, this is just a more mild form of it, disguising it as public education. There was no reason for him to even mention these races but he did so anyways, likely to stoke controversy.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    Is this cancel culture?

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