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[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 27 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Hello there. Nice to meet you. My name is Jerry...Jerry Mander.

[–] Disaster@sh.itjust.works 11 points 6 days ago (1 children)

That's Gerald Manderley the 3rd, ESQ to you, sport!

[–] Phegan@lemmy.world 12 points 6 days ago

Voter suppression.

[–] MyNamesTotallyRobert@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Well YEAH but at least we (not me I voted for Harris) did the noble thing and forfeited our future and living standards in order to save the poor people in Gaza. Other people in the world have it bad therefore I deserve to have an even shittier life. Real nice. Fucking dipshits.

[–] Zeppo@sh.itjust.works 96 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Voter apathy and vote suppression. Republicans are enhancing that lately, too.

[–] pennomi@lemmy.world 59 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Gerrymandering too. I’d consider that separate from other forms of vote suppression.

[–] Know_not_Scotty_does@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ah yes, packing and cracking the obviously unethical way of manipulating votes so they don't count as much. A southern tradition.

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[–] Hellahunter@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

I’m guessing OP hasn’t paid attention to the tons of weird, arbitrary rules Republicans in the South added to make it as difficult as possible to vote in blue districts in the South. Hell, a quick Google search answers the question immediately without having to scroll past a few links.

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 60 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Unfortunately, that's only 14.4% of the US population. Quite a few people think it's far higher than that. It's not.

https://www.pewresearch.org/race-and-ethnicity/fact-sheet/facts-about-the-us-black-population/

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[–] Initiateofthevoid@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Thank the electoral college. There's a lot of additional reasons, but they all ultimately come back to the fact that Americans are not equally or fairly represented by their "representative democracy".

First Past the Post, the structure of the Senate, the capped House, and the electoral college... they all lead to some voters having more say than others.

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[–] ExtremeDullard 24 points 1 week ago

Because the south is also full of dumbass white rednecks. Duh...

[–] plyth@feddit.org 20 points 1 week ago

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_African-American_population

Alabama has the highest support but only 1/4 identify as black. Republicans need 68% of the remaining votes.

Overall, 12.4% identify as black. That's not much.

[–] neukenindekeuken@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Voter suppression, and part of that voter suppression strategy is apathy. If Black people understood they were such a powerhouse, they could change America, and then the world. But old rich white bigots have convinced many of them that their vote doesn't matter, nothing will change, etc.

[–] Notyou@sopuli.xyz 6 points 6 days ago

I was talking to one of my black co-workers before last election and his POV was that his vote didn't matter. I told him if his vote didn't matter then why are groups spending so much money to get you to NOT vote. Either by suppression tactics or tricks about where to vote, and also promoting voter apathy.

He just responded something like 'both sides' neither would work for me...I'm pretty sure he didn't vote.

[–] selkiesidhe@lemm.ee 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Imo because of repression and not having access to quick and easy voting.

The GOP fuckers gerrymander the shit out of any place they can get their sweaty hands on. So that doesn't help. Makes the people feel like no matter what, they won't be heard, won't make a difference. Then the Cons limit the ballot boxes, limit the hours for voting, limit mail in voting.... Anything they can do to keep people from voting. They know they win as long as no one shows up.

It's disgusting and very undemocratic. Everyone needs access to voting--- easy and convenient voting. I also think voting should be compulsory (by mail).

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