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There is actually a term for election shenanigans.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratfucking

> The Party is correct, especially when not, and no one else may speak freely.

Fox news, #1 cable news channel for 20 years - https://www.thewrap.com/fox-news-january-2022-ratings-cnn-ms...

top link posts on facebook in the last 24 hours: https://www.thewrap.com/fox-news-january-2022-ratings-cnn-ms...

#1 Breitbart #3 Ben Shapiro #5 Sean Hannity #7 fox news #9 New York Post

Most subscribed youtube channels (news/politics): https://hypeauditor.com/top-youtube-news-politics-united-sta...

#12 Fox News #35 Jordan Peterson #39 Ben Shapiro

EDIT: downvotes are fine, I just think it's funny that there's this narrative that conservative voices are being silenced, when they're the top performing content on every social network.

(that's just out of the top 50)

If the democrats are preventing contrarian ideas from being spoken, they're doing a terrible job of it.

> Only Republicans lie about elections — when we do it, it’s “fortifying” and “election integrity”.

Bingo, it will be couched in those terms as well as "voting rights". To them, if you aren't picked up and given a free ride by an Uber to a polling place, then fed and given free water while waiting in line, then given a free ride back to your house, the election is being interf- I mean, "voting rights" are being trampled.

> then fed and given free water while waiting in line

Is this a complaint that people are opposed to the GA law that doesn’t allow people to hand out water to voters in line?

https://www.fox61.com/article/news/verify/yes-its-illegal-to...

If so, can you provide any compelling reason why that should be illegal?

If someone has to stand in line for hours to vote, you’re damn right that people should be allowed to receive water.

When republicans systemically and intentionally close polling places[1, 2] to concentrate the same amount of people into fewer places in order to deter people from voting by causing long lines and crowding. An then on top of that, preventing people in line from, you know, drinking water.

This stuff isn't an accident, it's intentional voter suppression by one party.

1: https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/19/politics/poll-closures-rural-...

2: https://www.texastribune.org/2021/05/23/texas-voting-polling...

When I was a student in Atlanta - no car, miserable public transit, before Uber and Lyft - my polling place was a small government office in a suburb halfway across the county, which is a narrow strip from one edge of the ATL metropolitan area to the other, neatly bisecting the most densely populated parts of the city. It took me nearly three hours to get out there from campus in the middle of midtown, I waited in line for another hour, they took another half-hour to find my registration, and it took me four hours to get back to my dorm. I had to skip several lectures and I'm lucky that none of my professors scheduled actual exams that day.

Why wouldn't we want to make it as easy as possible to vote? For everybody? I don't know that we have to uber everyone there and back, but why not make it super easy to vote by mail?

It's not even a partisan issue, per se, lots of elderly conservative people vote by mail, especially during covid.

Is this satire

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