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Post by 40oz on Oct 23, 2020 10:39:36 GMT -5
I'm assuming this is in the US only, but every large internet platform I use seems to be obsessed with reminding me to vote in this upcoming election. There's a large banner at the top of almost every website telling me my vote counts, telling me the polling date, all ads I see are political campaign ads, I'm getting scripted text messages asking me who I'm voting for and if I need help submitting a mail in ballot, etc.
Anyone else in the US getting the same thing?
I've never seen the push to vote so intense before. It doesn't make sense to me that the websites I regularly attend would care about this. Especially because they are not telling me WHO to vote for, but that I should just vote regardless.
I work in data aggregation and I know large corporations pay big bucks to get people to take surveys. It's important for them to be as close to their consumers minds as humanly possible.
I don't know what it is yet, but there surely has to be some monetary incentive for this campaign to tell people to vote. There's no way they care this much. Something smells rotten about it and I don't like it.
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Post by dn on Oct 23, 2020 11:47:45 GMT -5
Money normally used for doorstop campaigning is being funneled into digital, cuz Corona.
I would personally be funneling the whole fucking corrupt canvassing empire into the nearest volcano, but that's one area where they don't want my opinion.
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Post by BIG DICK NIGGA on Oct 23, 2020 12:01:52 GMT -5
I think it's pretty clear tbh. Trump's gonna win the election most likely because he has an army of fans attracted by his views, and regardless of your personal views, I think you'll agree he's more fit to be president than poor senile Biden. Biden doesn't have that army of fans. And since (in my mind) regular users of large internet platforms lean more towards Democrat views (while Republicans get votes from rich fat white boomers), but don't generally vote because they're not interested in voting, the democrats wanna gather up as many people as possible to vote for them.
Le edit:
I think it's a great thing that they urge you to register tbh. Over here in Serbia we had a galaxy brain pro-gamer move this year on our parliament elections -- the opposition urged their voters to NOT VOTE, hoping that the percent of people who voted would be low and the elections would be declared invalid, either by ourselves or by some EU guys or whoever. For context, we are headed towards a sort of Putin-like dictatorship atm, and that started in 2012, and in the last parliament the ruling party and their associates held some 60% of all seats. Anyway... indeed no one voted, and only the ruling party, the sorta sidekick ruling party and a party that's literal fake opposition got into the parliament. And guess what happened... so far literally nothing. It's just gonna be that way. We're not gonna have a single person who isn't a part of the ruling parties or isn't in a semi-secret deal with them in our parliament.
So yeah, please do vote. Kanye 2020 all the way
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Post by Deleted on Oct 23, 2020 12:06:31 GMT -5
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Post by GRUG on Oct 26, 2020 16:16:25 GMT -5
Anyone else in the US getting the same thing? I've never seen the push to vote so intense before. It doesn't make sense to me that the websites I regularly attend would care about this. Especially because they are not telling me WHO to vote for, but that I should just vote regardless. Yes. This is nothing new. Since I was a kid growing up in the 2000's celebrities and the media push the "you must vote!" narrative down everyone's throat. It's cranked up higher than ever because we've been going through a Paradigm shift since the mid 2010's. Every social media platform is constantly reminding people how to register to vote. Even corporations hold seminars during election season to instruct their employees on how to register to vote.
Voting in a pure democracy is a failed experiment.
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Post by morpheuskitami on Oct 26, 2020 22:48:01 GMT -5
You think you have it bad. They've sent me so many physical mails about one thing or another I'm sure I've had enough to build a tree out of. Let's not talk about TV ads. Even during the best of times they're not exactly high quality. These days those joke political ads from Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines don't feel so jokey.
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