I’ll trash on greedy Steve Huffman any day.
But in this particular case, we really need everyone we can get. If Reddit helps convince more people to vote (for Biden), then so be it.
Not a time to be picky about allies. Not when Trump has a good chance to become effectively the King of the USA.
Ah yes the platform notorious for banning users and running a scam upvote system for engagement wants to enlighten us plebs about voting IRL.
The 1% came from Spez
Sounds like they will give us the most realistic voting education possible.
Redditors recognize that Republicans are shit, is that a bad thing?
If Reddit is 99% Democrat, what does that say about Lemmy's userbase? Because Lemmy makes Reddit look like a platform of far right extremists.
No shit. I got downvoted for calling out a commentor sincerely advocating that biden should use systematic executions of congressional leaders that oppose him, thanks to the new supreme court ruling. It wasnt even the politics forum!
Im not being unreasonable saying that that is a horrible take. way too many people here make me feel like im living in an alternate reality. Im middle left at most, motherfuckers, yalls crazy.
I like lemmy, but there is no middle ground here at the moment. Ill keep calling it out tho.
While Reddit is definitely majority democrats I don’t buy 99%. There are plenty of conservatives on there. Must be something with how this program unfolded or who donates.
It's about the employees, not the users
Encouraging more people to vote would hurt Republicans. That's probably why the near 100% democrat number
I would say the Lemmy developer team are saving as much money as possible to pay their own bills by living as efficiently as possible. That there is no money left to contribute to politicians.
I'd say that Lemmy's tankies are doing what they can to get Trump elected, regardless of where on the "spectrum" you might place them. Politics isn't really a simple binary state.
What percentage of "Lemmy" that represents is anybody's guess.
It doesn't say anything about users. The numbers are political donations made by the company
You know what pisses me off with this crap?
The two party crap.
Yeah, yeah, Republicans are an existential threat right now, but there's a whole wide world left of the Democrat party. There's other US parties (not viable, but that's not their fault).
But crap like this not only highlights how broken the electoral system is, but it helps perpetuate it.
It just gets old
Get rid of FPTP, and get genuine representation, then you'll see some change, but since that isn't what the rich guys want, it wont happen.
Canada voted a guy in on the basis of electoral reform and nearly a decade later we have no changes there and political theatre mirroring the two party american way of "don't vote for him, he's way worse than me!"
We need our politicians to be accountable for inaction, misrepresentation, excessive lobbying, and failure to provide campaign promises.
Current parties (both of them) will never fully support ranked choice voting because both of them still like their odds in FPTP.
That is true nomatter what I said I was banned screw reddit.
