Current Events > The DNC shot down my idea of moving 200,000 volunteers around various red states

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to swing certain senate races towards Democrats

Not one forward thinking Democrat in power it seems

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did joe biden being the nominee not give you that hint prior?

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You want people to move to other states en masse to vote in Senate races?

lol dude that would be incredibly shady.

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ultimate reaver posted...

did joe biden being the nominee not give you that hint prior?

He was too busy shitposting about leftists complaining about Biden

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Damn_Underscore posted...

You want people to move to red states en masse to vote in Senate races?

lol dude that would be incredibly shady.

It's not shady at all lol just not likely to work.

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Damn_Underscore posted...

You want people to move to other states en masse to vote in Senate races?

lol dude that would be incredibly shady.

As opposed to actively working to disenfranchise millions of voters via gerrymandering or voter suppression? If one side of a fight is actively working under a set of rules that hampers them while the other is willing to do whatever it takes to win, who do you think benefits?

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lol

Also I don't think doom was talking about moving voters around, just volunteers.

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ScazarMeltex posted...

As opposed to actively working to disenfranchise millions of voters? If one side of a fight is actively working under a set of rules that hampers them while the other is willing to do whatever it takes to win, who do you think benefits?

the corporations paying them, like always.

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lol

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Balrog0 posted...

It's not shady at all lol just not likely to work.

If you see I just changed it to other states rather than red states, because if the Republican Party tried this people would be outraged for good reason.

This isn't just some clever idea, it's basically a loophole to commit election fraud without actually committing election fraud (I think, there may actually be laws against this). This would very much undermine the spirit of elections.

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ScazarMeltex posted...

As opposed to actively working to disenfranchise millions of voters via gerrymandering or voter suppression? If one side of a fight is actively working under a set of rules that hampers them while the other is willing to do whatever it takes to win, who do you think benefits?

Stop treating politics like sports teams.

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Damn_Underscore posted...

Stop treating politics like sports teams.

I'm not. Because unlike sports it has real life consequences for people as you can see from the 300k thousand dead during the pandemic. Because one side of our political spectrum (the side that fewer actual human beings voted for) that controls two out of the three branches of Government decided to politicize the response to a disease.

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Damn_Underscore posted...

If you see I just changed it to other states rather than red states, because if the Republican Party tried this people would be outraged for good reason.

That's a really bold assumption. And other parties do try it. It's been a thing libertarians have been trying to do in new hampshire for over a decade.

Damn_Underscore posted...

This isn't just some clever idea, it's basically a loophole to commit election fraud without actually committing election fraud (I think, there may actually be laws against this). This would very much undermine the spirit of elections.

Yeah bro the free movement of people between states while allowing them to retain all the rights and privileges citizens of the country have is really undermining democracy

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This is not just the free movement of people, this is organized moving of people to change outcomes of elections. There's a reason why the DNC rejected it, I'm sure other people have thought of this before. There's a reason why they do more tedious things to combat voter suppression like getting a large number of people to register or busing people to voting places rather than just moving 200k people into states to swing elections.

If you really think this is OK then it's not like I'm going to change your mind. As long as the other team does worse things then anything your team does is fair game I guess.

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Wtf are you talking about, I'm not a democrat and if I were that would mean my team specifically would not do this.

Incredible that it's so hard for you to understand that I'm okay with people moving between states that you need to make things up about me and then not even be correct about what that would imply

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Damn_Underscore posted...

This is not just the free movement of people, this is organized moving of people to change outcomes of elections. There's a reason why the DNC rejected it, I'm sure other people have thought of this before. There's a reason why they do more tedious things to combat voter suppression like getting a large number of people to register or busing people to voting places rather than just moving 200k people into states to swing elections.

If you really think this is OK then it's not like I'm going to change your mind. As long as the other team does worse things then anything your team does is fair game I guess.

I mean they don't do it because unless those volunteers are eating the moving costs themselves and don't expect the DNC give them money for leaving their jobs, then it would be extremely expensive and probably provide little results.

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