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YouTubers Will Enter Politics, And If They Do, They're Probably Going To Win (buzzfeednews.com)
A group of twentysomethings leveraged their huge YouTube audiences and actually won seats in Brazil's federal and state elections. What happens next is anyone's guess. Ryan Broderick, writing for BuzzFeed News: Kim Kataguiri is known in Brazil for a lot of things. He's been called a fascist. He's been called a fake news kingpin. Is he a YouTuber? He definitely uses YouTube. He's definitely a troll. A troll with a consistent message, though, he points out. Maybe he's Brazil's equivalent of Milo Yiannopoulos. His organization, Movimento Brasil Livre (MBL) -- the Free Brazil Movement -- is like the Brazilian Breitbart. Or maybe it's like the American tea party. Maybe it's both. Is it a news network? Kataguiri says it isn't. But it's not a political party, either. He says MBL is just a bunch of young people who love free market economics and memes. One thing is very clear: His YouTube channel, the memes, the fake news, and MBL's army of supporters have helped Kataguiri, 22, become the youngest person ever elected to Congress in Brazil. He's also trying to become Brazil's equivalent of speaker of the House.
[...] Kataguiri's political awakening is a textbook example of the way algorithms beget more algorithms. During his last year of high school, his teacher started a debate about welfare programs in Brazil. So Kataguiri started googling. He discovered Ron Paul and the Brazilian libertarian YouTuber Daniel Fraga. "Then I did a video to my teacher and my friends at school to talk about what I had found out," Kataguiri says. "There was one problem: I posted this video on YouTube. So it was public and it went viral." He says people kept asking for more videos, but he didn't know anything. So he went back to googling, and then made more videos about what he learned.
[...] Kataguiri's political awakening is a textbook example of the way algorithms beget more algorithms. During his last year of high school, his teacher started a debate about welfare programs in Brazil. So Kataguiri started googling. He discovered Ron Paul and the Brazilian libertarian YouTuber Daniel Fraga. "Then I did a video to my teacher and my friends at school to talk about what I had found out," Kataguiri says. "There was one problem: I posted this video on YouTube. So it was public and it went viral." He says people kept asking for more videos, but he didn't know anything. So he went back to googling, and then made more videos about what he learned.
Ego-stroking Talking heads will always be egoi-stroking talking heads...
The trolls get old fast, but there are others on YouTube from the UK that now has entered politics. I have no idea if their combined subscriber base of over 1mil, will be enough to change elections.
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"Brazilian Breitbart. Or maybe it's like the American tea party." - He sounds right wing, I'm surprised YouTube, in all its progressive wisdom, didn't shut that right the hell down! Think of the children and such...
Communism is the dictatorship of the proletariat.
Democracy becomes more and more the dictatorship of the proles.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
in the United States voter suppression makes this moot. For one thing young people don't like to register because it increases the odds you get jury duty. Polling places are kept away from college campus, student Ids are not valid voter Id (while gun permits are). The list goes on and on.
Young folks aren't just lazy and stupid. There's a concerted effort by the powers that be to keep them from voting.
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Isolated cases where You Tube may or may not have influenced elections does not mean that You Tubers in general have all that much power. I really doubt many people will vote XYZ just because someone on You Tube told them to.
"That's the way to do it" - Punch
Now you know that if the politics were of a different slant, this would be celebrated.
I, for one, welcome our new Pewtie Pie overlords.
You are welcome on my lawn.
Again, good for them.
Of course I'm just waiting for every politician to host their own youtube channel because some social media ninja told them that is the way to win elections. Maybe if were lucky they will put all their efforts into youtube and stay out of tv and news so I don't have to skip through the political ads anymore.
Then of course the fake politically Russian youtube channels will be blamed for their candidate loosing that election too.
My head hurts, I'm going to go lay down for a while.
We have a solution to all those problems: Voluntary trade; 2 individuals agreeing how to allocate their resources (i.e., how to interact).
Under capitalism, you vote every time you make a decision, and the weight of your vote is a privilege determined by how much control of societal resources you've managed to gain through interaction that is solely voluntary.
People need a signal for when they are making good choices, and they need a signal for when they are making bad choices. Capitalism gives us this, and Democracy, sadly, does not. Democracy is a dumb man's first draft of Capitalism.
Though failing badly, the original American experiment was to create a government that was restricted solely to protecting individual rights, chief among which are the rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Compelled speech (e.g., voting) is a direct contradiction of that goal.
You see, unlike places such as Australia, the U.S. is attempting to be a Free Society.
Stupid is relative. In many cases, elected officials could be replaced by a random number generator with better results, because random noise is less harmful than active corruption or relentless pursuit of a ridiculous ideological agenda.
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Democracy is 2 wolves and 1 sheep deciding what's for dinner.
“Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.” - Winston S. Churchill
A vote given out freely must be worth nothing; certainly, the weight of one's vote this election is almost completely divorced from one's vote last election.
"Service guarantees citizenship" - Starship Troopers
Great. So for 2 mistakes in the past (not voting), you're permanently punished for the rest of your life. No way that could be abused. No way someone missed elections because they couldn't get off work, or had a sick family member, or didn't like any candidates. Nope. No matter what, they're bad people who need to have their right to vote stolen from them forever.
How many of these idiots are popular because their message and popularity are amplified by those that would gain from their idiocy?
the growth in cynicism and rebellion has not been without cause
Nothing new 40 years ago it was the “disenfranchised youth” – US educated I might add – that overthrew the Shaw of Iran and plunged the country into Sharia law. Taking a country from a global educational and social leadership roll to a terrorist theocracy.
The problem with attempting to equate 3rd world behaviors(ie, what happens in Brazil) to the US is that people under 30 don’t vote in the US and for the most part, are so busy watching themselves on Instagram, they don't think far enough ahead to bother to vote..
Buzzfeed? Seriously? Is this the same Buzzfeed that had such extreme confidence in predicting the results of the 2016 election -- with 0% accuracy?
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So, when any politician or person running for office is banned by youtube, the company can be charged with Election Tampering ?
The question should be is this is the end of leftism and identity politics no longer hold absolute power? I hope so.
Polling places are kept away from college campus
Name one college where that is true. Usually there are polling places ON campus, because they have a lot of buildings with rooms that can be devoted to polling quite easily.
Young folks aren't just lazy and stupid. There's a concerted effort by the powers that be to keep them from voting.
Hint: When something seems wrong, always vote on lazy/stupid as being the reason.
Except that I take exception with them being stupid. Voting well takes some work to research who and what you are voting for. It's not stupid to avoid work if you don't think there is any return for doing so.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
How about we start with a mandatory by law 2 hours off work paid on voting days when part or all of your shift intersects voting hours? We can follow up with making a reasonable number of polling places within reasonable reach of the local population accessible by public transit and prohibiting gerrymandering by appointing independent governing boards and straightforward districting. Even the requirement for an identical name on all government records is BS; is a clerical error on one of the 318 government documents on me get me out of paying taxes? Right now a large portion of voters are disenfranchised or about to be disenfranchised due to one of those reasons.
> I have heard that less that 50% of the population vote, since the "middle of the road" people feel there simply is no point to vote.
Also, less than 50% of them know who the vice president is.
They are more interested in biking, playing soccer, video games, or whatever their interest is, and have very little interest in civics. Not enough to even know who the VP or the Speaker of the House are. Given they have roughly zero relevant information or understanding to draw from, when asked which candidates they support, they give reasons like "because she's a woman, so she'll support women's issues. I think. Beto is a woman, right?"
Personally, I prefer for important decisions to be made by people who have at least a very minimal understanding of the basics of the topic. I personally think that decisions about national economic policy should mostly be made by people who have read page 1 of the Economcs 101 book, so they know what the two main branches of economics are. If someone doesn't know what economics is, how can they possibly make informed decisions weighing the benefits and drawbacks of one set of economic policy proposals vs another? They can't, obviously. Their vote can be decided only by the manipulative tweets of orgainzations who stand to gain from one policy or the other.
To be fair the main stream media has the consistent problem across the board of being an information entertainment service that never badmouths or negatively reports on subsidiary companies or advertisers. Top that off with 6 companies own it all and the lack of diversity and integrity forces knowledgeable people to other alternate platforms.
Off course it comes from Buzzfeed, the left's Breitbart but just because someone has a platform you do not agree with or understand, does not make it bad, fake, non-existent.
Going through YouTube and similar platforms is just the modern equivalent of sending out flyers in your mailbox and placards in your yard.
Not sure what this guy's message is per se, but the left's lunatic identity politics is turning off young men and working people across the world. You can't just re-categorize an entire population of people with mental disorders as "freedom fighters" and hope that it works.
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Same as you my friend, I watch youtube once in a blue moon to check how to repair my washing machine or my car. I don't understand people who spend hours watching youtubers.
"Science will win because it works." - Stephen Hawking
As for removing polls from campus, google.
Not one of the search results says anteing like polling places are *moved* off campus, and ignores that most colleges across the U.S. HOST polling places for the reasons I specified. Hell, one of the links talks about free buses from one campus to a polling place... making it easier for students to vote, not harder.
I said this elsewhere in this thread but, well, nothing I say is going to convince you.
You are going to have to try reality based arguments instead of describing things you imagine are true but are not.
The best we can hope for is that you're in the minority and that as more folks become aware of Voter Suppression it will be ended.
Don't worry, all of the folks pushed away by imaginary voter suppression are made up for by imaginary dead and illegal votes.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Georgia is purging them from the rolls left and right while moving polling away from campuses. This isn't propaganda, it's fact
No, it's propaganda. The people who filled out the registration form incorrectly have 26 MONTHS to fix it, and they can vote in this upcoming election. Your "facts" are disingenuous at best and are therefore propaganda. Also, I never said anything about moving polls. I didn't comment on that so why are you bringing it up?
That means you don't get to plead ignorance.
I'm not.
having decided that some people shouldn't be allowed to vote because they disagree with you.
When the hell did I say any of this? You sure are good at putting words into people's mouths.
What I hate about folks like you is you.
Folks like me? You mean, folks who can read between the lines and critically think? Folks who aren't sheep?
you won't just come out and say "I don't like Democracy"
Because I DO like democracy.
You hide behind talking points to fool people.
What talking points are those? I simply called you out on your totally incorrect statement about the 53,000 people not being allowed to vote.
Democracy is good, but only when _everyone_ votes.
False. Democracy is good when INFORMED people vote. Not sheep who just look look for the little "R" or "D" behind the name. Sorry I triggered you by pointing out your B.S. statement. Get out of your echo chamber a little more often and maybe you'll toughen up a bit. And please, for the sake of all of us, get informed before voting.
google a bit. You'll find 33 states have voter Id laws and all states use voter rolls to pick people for Jury duty.
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Jesus. Just when I think you can't possibly say anything dumber than last time, you prove me wrong.
That sounds like Soviet propaganda or North Korean tripe. Those who do not care enough to want to vote should absolutely not vote. That's not voting. That's throwing darts at a dartboard. Why not just pick names out of a hat?
"Progressives" like to throw this bullshit around thinking that the default vote for the lazy shits that can't bother to show up 90% of the time are for "their" guy. FFS, If you can't show up for four years straight or figure out how to re-register when you finally get around to voting, maybe you should bone up on civics first. What's next? Are you going to bitch about how unfair and discriminatory it is to have to renew your driver's license or register your car every year?
If you do not pay taxes, like the ~44%-plus of Americans who pay no Federal income taxes, you have no right to vote on how those taxes are spent.
As far as the 'rich' not paying their 'fair share', the top10% of Americans in income pay two-thirds of Federal income taxes while the bottom 50% pays ~3%..
The USA is rapidly becoming a full-on Authoritarian Oligarchic Kleptocracy with merely the trappings of a mock-democracy, a democracy no more valid than those 'Democratic Republic of [insert_name]' dictatorships thanks to the Leftists and their 'useful idiots' in media and academia.
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Well, why the fuck is voting during the week days?
In such a system, the companies would be required to give the time off any company who discouraged voting would have the management arrested for treason.
That's the problem... you guys do not take voting seriously. You do not deserve the vote.
Considering the backup due to the way polling stations are set up, 4hrs is a better idea.
Uncle Bumblefuck is unlikely to write the great Canadian novel. But he's literate.
John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'
... why YouTube, Facebook, et. al. aren't treated like the public square that they are?
Check your premises.
youtube is a great tool for the illiterate or functionally illiterate. People talking into a camera do so because 1. They probably couldn't write a coherent article/essay about what they're trying to say and B. their audience either couldn't or wouldn't read something like that.
You could (and many did) say that about TV.
For some of the audience, it's true enough. For others, not.
I always thought the criticism was rather overblown, and somewhat class-ist (or wannabe class-ist). Nobody gives you grief if you go see a lot of live action plays and musicals, for example. But watch them on TV, and suddenly you are rotting your brain, you are illiterate, etc.
As far as the 'rich' not paying their 'fair share', the top10% of Americans in income pay two-thirds of Federal income taxes while the bottom 50% pays ~3%..
I hate this argument because of the wealth distribution in the US. Granted this is just one of the first easy to read sources I found but you'll notice that the top 10% hold 75% of the wealth while the bottom 50% hold 1.1% (according to this chart). Given that, one could argue that the bottom 50% pay too much and the top 10% pay too little.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/203961/wealth-distribution-for-the-us/
...and it didn't turn out very well.
Politics; n. : A religion whereby man is god.
Ever since we no longer require facts or a general understanding that that is only 1 reality, pretty much anyone could win if they have the charisma and dollars.
ask "Should the Baker be FORCED" then you'll get a lot of 'No's'.
ask "Should the Baker be allowed to refuse service" and you'll get a lot of 'No's'
The end result is the same. LGBTQs are denied access to a public resource (in this case a publicly available bake shop).
Me? I just replace the word "LGBTQ" with "White Male Christian" and if I would say "that shouldn't be allowed" then there's my answer. Once you can use religion to discriminate you can do damn near anything. It'll start with baking cakes and end with riots and apartheid.
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The premise is silly. IIRC our polls open at 6am and close at 6pm. There are never lines early, rarely lines late.
People that work 12 hour days can vote early, by mail.
John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'
There is a non negligible risk of voting early by mail, it is more certain to vote in person. Add on commutes and the difficulty for some to reach polling stations and the fact that there are in fact long lines at a substantial number of polling places and you fine more democratic countries give the protections as outlined above. Hell, during the 2016 primary I had a one hour wait, lines were out the door and around the block and it was total chaos inside.
the "wrong" sort shouldn't be allowed to vote. They won't say it out loud though. They hide behind euphemisms. Most commonly they say that voting should take some work because if you're not willing to put the effort in you shouldn't be voting. This starts a discussion about how hard it should be to vote and distracts from the basic issue, which is voter suppression. It's a very effective straw man argument.
What it comes down to is conservatives want to keep progressives out of the political system. America's entire system is built to do that. It's why we have a Senate and Electoral college. We don't like to talk about it because we preach Democracy heavily. For some folks they can't even wrap their heads around how little actual Democracy exists in America.
Do you remember what your grade school civics classes taught you?
The United States is not and has never been a "Direct Democracy". It's a representative republic designed to weigh the interests of populous areas and less populous areas equally with one another.
The senate and electoral college achieve that means and it's by design from the onset. Heck, it wasn't until 1913 that we switched the selection of senators to the popular vote. Previously state governments voted on who their senators would be.
This system is why America is a large and powerful country where you have the right to move to any state you feel like with varying industries, culture, and weather.
The second America does away with those protections is the second this country fractures into small entities. And to be honest, i'm starting to believe that's what many people like yourself want.
to prevent informed people from voting. This is why older folks are such a valuable demographic.
I've told this story before. Where I am the local power company wanted to end the practice of paying solar power users for their extra power. Only thing is, that was very, very popular. Their law didn't have a chance of passing.
Well pass it did. How you ask? They ran these ads see. There were a bunch of older folks sitting around a table talking about something. Something scary. At no time during the advert did anyone say what it was. At the end was an impassioned plea to vote yes and proposition such-and-such. It passed with room to spare, and the power companies no longer had to pay for the free solar.
Those are your "informed" voter. Meanwhile you need only spend a bit of time on google to see how bad voter suppression is in this country.
It's harder for the left because we _don't_ have propaganda. We've got no Rush Limbaugh. No Fox News. No CNN pretending to be middle of the road and then pushing trickle down economics on the sly. We've got no Sinclair media buying out all the stations.
Again, I don't think I can reach you. You've got the talking points from your right wing think tanks too down pat. You were ready to go with a rebuttal because they've given you all the answers. It's tough for me to compete with a multi-billion dollar right wing propaganda machine. And again, maybe I'll get to a few you're trying to mislead. Maybe even some day you'll follow that google search above and figure out Rush is lying to you. Or maybe the American empire will just carry on it's slow, Romanesque decline...
One things for sure: I definitely pushed your buttons. Somewhere in the back of your mind you know something wrong with that propaganda you've been spoon fed. I guess I'll chalk that up as a win.
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Kim Kataguri and MBL are just a small part of the problem, here in Brazil: the likely new president, Jair Bolsonaro, is "an YouTuber": he just spread videos from his social networks, but he already tell everyone that he will not participate on TV debates - more info: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/1...
My 12 year old kid seems to be age group most youtubers are aimed at. Doesn't seem like they'll get many votes.
Does anyone else read "YouTuber" and think of potatoes?
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
uh yeah, 26 months to fix a problem where you aren't notified there is a problem. Problems like your name not being hyphenated the same way as your driver's license which disproportionately affects minority voters. Definitely a fair and honest system, where all have an equal say in democracy.
the "wrong" sort shouldn't be allowed to vote. They won't say it out loud though.
Yes, the wrong people shouldn't be allowed to vote. I've never had a problem saying it out loud, even though you usually try to put words in my mouth by trying to tell me what I mean by "wrong". Wrong means "people who should not be allowed to vote". People who are not US citizens should not be allowed to vote. People who don't live in the voting district should not be allowed to vote there. People who are not registered to vote should not be allowed to vote.
Most commonly they say that voting should take some work because if you're not willing to put the effort in you shouldn't be voting.
Yes, if you can't be bothered to pay attention to what is being voted on, then you should not vote. Your vote will be noise. It will not represent the will of the people, it will represent random data.
I suppose the problem is that you cannot tell the difference between "should not be allowed to vote" and "should not vote".
What it comes down to is conservatives want to keep progressives out of the political system.
Just as much as progressives want to keep conservatives out. That's what happens during any vote -- people vote for the ones they want, which excludes the ones they don't. Have you never voted?
America's entire system is built to do that. It's why we have a Senate and Electoral college.
If you don't really understand why we have the system we do, please don't make up absurd nonsense about it.
For some folks they can't even wrap their heads around how little actual Democracy exists in America.
Yes, and so they come up with absurd claims about why the Electoral College exists and yammer on about "voter suppression" when people who should not be allowed to vote are prevented from voting. Some folks think that "able to breathe" is sufficient to have the right to vote in any election, because 'democracy'! It's amazing that they cannot wrap their heads around what the US political system was designed to be, and what voting is supposed to accomplish.
You hate this argument because it proves you are wrong. For one thing 'wealth' is defined as net worth which puts a recent graduate earning $300,000 who has a $200,000 student debt and no other assets on that bottom percentage with a net worth wiping out $200,000 of someone else's wealth so the total looks worse...
I didn't say the system was perfect. Personally, I think it's a stupid rule, but saying that these people can't vote is simply wrong and it's propaganda. That's all I've ever said from the beginning. I'm not sure why this is triggering so many people who feel the need to defend this lie!
If you do not pay taxes, like the ~44%-plus of Americans who pay no Federal income taxes, you have no right to vote on how those taxes are spent.
Even people who don't pay federal income tax pay taxes.
try reading the constitution buddy.
I did. It originally required voters to be land owners. You know, people who have actual skin in the game rather than being useless eaters that will happily vote to "redistribute" (read; "steal under threat of government force) the product of the labor of others to themselves for their own selfish agendas.
I was speaking about moral right.
"When the people find that they can vote themselves money that will herald the end of the republic." -- Benjamin Franklin
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where he said he'd pay the legal fees of anyone who beat up a Democrat? Or how about all those alt-right rallies where they showed up with weapons. One guy ran over Dem protesters with his car. You guys are violent as hell.
You've let neo-nazis and white supremacists into your party. Heck, you even helped them legitimize by calling them the "Alt-Right". What did you think was gonna happen when you did that?
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seeing as how they get more federal tax dollars than they pay in. California & New York pretty much make the US work.
/.ers). What we need is to get people to the polls.
You're right about the Authoritarian Oligarchic Kleptocracy, but the solution isn't less voters, it's _more_ voters. Progressive, pro-worker policies poll in the 70s. Those include single payer healthcare, legalized drugs, college for all (good even if you're not in college, since it keeps the young'uns out of the job market for a bit so they compete less with us aging
To do that we should follow Obama's suggestion: Make voting mandatory. I can't tell you how many folks I know don't vote because their vote's suppressed. The most common one is jury duty. In most jurisdictions they pull first from the voter rolls. Working class Americans can't afford Jury duty. 60-80% (depending on how you run the numbers) live paycheck to paycheck. Add to that voting on a Tuesday, the Electoral college & Senate, and voter registration purges and you've got around 20-30% of the population effectively disenfranchised.
The best way to have Democracy is to have _everyone_ vote. When voting is mandatory then you can't use cheats to stop people from voting.
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The right wing took over the Democratic party. It happened when Clinton moved the party right to win the presidency (he needed a ton of money and couldn't get the big money donations without selling us out). Take Al Franklin, a real lefty. He was shut down by Kamala Harris and other right wing women to pave the way for her presidential bid.
Speaking as a White guy, White Privilege is real. Us White Guys are painfully aware of it. We've had decades of preferential treatment in loans, school admissions, job interviews and the like. I'm not going to argue this point, it's a historic fact. Go google a bit and educate yourself.
But thing is, so the fuck what? Your angry at people for pointing out that you started on first base, but you should be mad at the billionaires who not only started on third but sent armed goons around to kick you back to home plate (and kick your teeth in while your at it).
I keep saying this, your enemy isn't the fat chick who runs your local women's studies dept. She's powerless unless you sign up for her class, and here's a trick, just take Chinese History. It meets the requirement for "multi-culture" and it's chalk full of manly wars. Your enemy is the guy who sits on a gold throne and tells you he's a man of the people.
You've been had buddy. I know that's gotta make you pissed to think it, but the sooner you face facts the sooner you can do something about it.
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when you're out for jury duty. If you live paycheck to paycheck jury duty can cause you to fall behind on bills. You lose $40 bucks in pay, get an over draft or take a payday loan and before you know it you're screwed. If you're poor and get stuck on a jury then you can pretty much kiss anything you have goodby. Folks have lost cars, apartments and houses over it.
Basically we've got millions of people who are one car payment away from homelessness (no car == no job == no place to live). The threat Jury duty's low pay is a big part of what keeps them from voting.
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right? I just want to make sure we're on the same page. You're telling me people should be effectively disenfranchised. That you're OK with Voter Suppression.
I'd like to say you don't know what you're saying, but I get the idea that you know exactly what you mean. Like I said elsewhere, I'm not a strong enough person to get guys like you to understand the ramifications of your mistake. All I can hope for is that other people will read your post and be so appalled by it they'll react against it and marginalize you, make you not matter.
Sad thing is you're kind's useful to the billionaires. You vote how they tell you when they tell you and fight to keep anyone else from voting....
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is fucking with them and basically just put a right wing whack job in charge of the country in clear defiance of the will of the people. Seriously, google it. We've been fucking with them like crazy and the American Voter (yes, that includes you) looking the other way.
This is the one thing I'm scared of: will the ruling class let us have Democracy. So far with Gerrymandering and Voter Suppression the answer has been 'no'. But but guys like you haven't been trying very hard. Maybe if you did....
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for posting bits of cartoon girls with bouncy boobs than Republicans. Youtube bans what the advertisers don't like. Blame the advertisers if you don't like it.
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Democracy is a governmental one. The two aren't related.
You're reciting a right wing talking point meant to give Democracy a bad name. Somebody wants to turn you into a fascist so they can take your stuff. Now you just have to figure out who.
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you should read Radio Warfare: OSS and CIA subversive Propoganda. If you think Karl Rove perfected this, this book will blow your mind. This shit has been tooling up since WWII.
Assuming Voter Suppression doesn't shut them down the young'uns they're gonna come back with a vengeance. Their completely weighted down by debt. Usually that means they'll want progressive policies.
OTOH they might just turn against the old folks. Demand an end to Social Security, Medicare, shutting down the VA & military pension programs, etc, etc. Hard to say.
But given how screwed they are (they make 20% less than baby boomers with more education) they're gonna be more political, Youtube or not.
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No problem. Those people also reserve the right to ignore any civic responsibilities, and are automatically exempted from the military, civil judgments, or jury duty, since they can't vote and don't get any benefit from the above. Maybe then we will stop sending our people to die when it is only the rich who can be sent off to war. Also, since they can't vote, they are not bound by any law passed by those who did vote. So no taxes can be levied against them, and also they are exempt from any civil crimes (ie they can pollute at will). Then maybe you can understand why we gave everyone the franchise to begin with. You take away voting, you take away the only skin people have in the game, and so YOU become free game.
Name one college where that is true. Usually there are polling places ON campus, because they have a lot of buildings with rooms that can be devoted to polling quite easily.
Well the last election I was in college for was 2004, and it was certainly true there. UMiami had plenty of room on campus, and heck we hosted a Presidential Debate there that year (a massive circus like you wouldn't believe), but come election day, there was no polling place on campus. We had to go to a public library that was about a 10-15min drive from campus, was not accessible by public transportation, the university offered no shuttle service, and the wait was around 2 hours.
Specious argument at best. But sure, let's play the math game.
The top 10% currently own 77% of American wealth., and the wealth inequality trend is getting much worse for the poor. WIth that, I'd call the rich paying 66% of the taxes to be a lighter burden than you'd have us believe.
With some context, the original Constitution also severely limited women's rights to vote, beyond this whole land-owner argument. This among, many, many other changes that were badly needed.
which is exactly what ANTIFA is. And nobody's laughing at the neo-nazis. We're terrified of them and of how mainstream they've become. I'll take a bit of heckling at a restaurant to a lynch mob's noose any day of the week.
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I spend hours watching youtube. Lots of CSPAN and congressional hearings, police bodycam/dashcam footage, and other first-hand raw video.
Why? It's helpful to come to my own conclusions. Added bonus: when the event is reported on by a deceptive media, it becomes immediately obvious.
"Serving gays" and "making a gay wedding cake" are two different things. In the first case you refuse to hand over a certain demographic something everyone else gets ( a regular wedding cake ) while in the latter case you are forced to make something you regularly don't offer. The latter case has sustained in court - otherwise shops that only serve a certain demographic ( like female hairdressers or male shoe shops ) wouldn't be possible.