Everything is on fire - the US politics thread

Musk is giving out $1,000,000 as a lottery to individuals in swing states, if they sign a petition to support the 1st and 2nd amendments AND if they’re registered voters. They’re talking about an investigation as it highly suggests that he’s trying to pay people to register to vote, something illegal in the US.

I also read something about a propaganda campaign that’s pretending to be from Harris that’s funded by musk

I think there’s a few websites floating around that make it look like you’ve registered to vote, but in fact you’ve just registered to be on a mailing list.

What a country. I’ll never complain about our system again

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But the liberals did a sign in purple

And to be fair the Queensland Liberals put out stuff like this.

Since that fucking pasty faced weirdo has turned the supposed “world’s town square” into a rich bellend’s soapbox, I’m done with it. I do miss it for football chat, but otherwise it had become a stinking pile of shite.
Hopefully the A League chat on Blue sky will increase during the season, but otherwise I’m so thankful for this place.

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What is SokkahBlueSky like? Been meaning to finally drop twitter for a while…

Not much there that I’ve seen yet, but the opportunity is there to get it going

sfcu.bsky.social

just created it.

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The Libs really do look to the GOP playbook at all times.

Unfortunately there aren’t any official accounts on there and I suspect your Aleague Memes and journalists (ok, journalist) (ok, Joey Lynch) etc aren’t going to cop the lower engagement on Bluesky.

So it’s a bit of a stalemate until it grows its user base - which means more cunts.

Wish Jon Stewart would just run for president.

One thing I don’t understand is how his cult are ok with him badmouthing people like Mad Dog Mattis, the dude is a legend of the Marines and Trump calls him an idiot and a loser and Americans are just like yeah, that’s cool.

It’s because he tells them what to think. They believe everything that comes out of his mouth and follow it. It’s literally a cult. If Trump told them that Jesus was a traitor to the American people, they’d lap it up and turn on Christianity

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Yeah the idolatry from “christians” is pretty funny.

Worse is that the rank and file marines still love him too, despite everything.

A few ballot boxes were fire bombed in states over the past few days. One had a fire suppression system (apparently that’s a thing in ballot boxes) but apparently 2 others have been destroyed and couldn’t be saved.

I wonder if the authorities are prepared for active shooters on election day.

The Musk story gets better. They’re reporting now that he was working illegally when he made his first start-up in the US

That’s been known for a looong time. One of his investors helped him sort out the situation with some creative paperwork from memory