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22 Democrats Sponsor a Bill That Could Censor Abortion Info From the Internet::The Kids Online Safety Act is “a blank check” for Republican AGs to "intimidate any way they can," a digital civil liberties advocate told Jezebel.

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[–] [email protected] 124 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Cmon democrats, you're supposed to be the lesser evil...

[–] [email protected] 126 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This isn't about kids and it isn't about abortion it's about limiting people's access to unmediated information. The Democrats have just as much to lose as the Republicans if a third party which is a lesser evil than either emerges. Or, seeing as this is America we're talking about, greater evil.

Whatever. They don't want people being able to just organise themselves as they please online.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

If you can only vote for one option then the better a 3rd party does the more it hurts the main party closest to it. I would expect Democrats and Republicans to be funding 3rd parties in the hopes of improving their chances of getting the most votes.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

For the 2020 election in my state, republican groups funded the campaign to collect signatures for the green party to be on the ballot. So your expectations are met.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It is depressing when people get less representation in their government by voting for a party they want the most to represent them (or worse; the only party they want, or even worse: not having the option of voting "none of these, do this again").

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Depressing but not shocking. The more niche you are the less people you can find that agree with you.

Who gets to date more people the person with low standards or the person with impossibly high standards?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

That is not an issue. When an area only gets one representative that causes a large misrepresention error.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago

I think that was to keep votes away from the Democrats but its still interesting

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Republicans have funded the Green Party for a long time now at least. I wouldn’t be surprised if Dems were funding the libertarian party.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Was there ever proof that the Republicans donated to Nader in the 2000 election? Seems they did just about everything they could to deny the popular vote...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I'm not American so I wouldn't know. Do you have 2 votes, 1 for president and 1 for insert noun here?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Barking up the wrong tree, I'm a Londoner.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

They are, but the question has always been how much evil is acceptable to you, because the democrats know what they are and they'll run whoever they can get away with. The worse the Republican option is, the lower the quality of candidate the Dems will forward. They know what their donors want.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

lesser, but still evil.

The internet threatens their power base and they value their power more than they value any principle

If the leopards don't come for their faces from the right, those they betrayed on the left will.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

If you continually vote for the lesser of two evils, youll end up with the most imaginable evil.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

They are full of baloney.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Dems are the faces, and repubs are the heels. But they're both working towards the same goals, for the same boss. Every notice how all the really damaging legislation is always bipartisan?