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Re: Resistbot: Contact your officials by sending a text

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Post by slibhb »

gzer0 wrote: post #35
honksillet wrote: post #33

All the examples on the splash page are current Democrat priorities. Even if you are left, you are unlikely to agree with 100% of one party's platform. (If you do, start thinking critically please.) Can this tool be used to support your own priorities or is it just a retweet/amplify button for the Democrat party line?

The first example I see is expanded access to voting rights. Since when did this become a partisan issue? Between January 1 and December 7, at least 19 states passed 34 laws restricting access to voting [1]. This should be a concern for any American citizen with the right to vote; don’t turn this into some politicized drama. Let me be clear; this is the very foundation of our democracy. I find it simply appalling tha…

> Between January 1 and December 7, at least 19 states passed 34 laws restricting access to voting [1]. This should be a concern for any American citizen with the right to vote; don’t turn this into some politicized drama.

It is a politicized drama. Voter id laws are reasonable, the majority of Americans think so, and calling them "restricted access to voting" is literally true but dishonest.

"Resistbot" (from "the resistance") is kitsch, especially since the left controls the government.

Re: Resistbot: Contact your officials by sending a text

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Post by MattGaiser »

mrkentutbabi wrote: post #18

I am not familiar with US politics, but genuine question here. How effective is this? Does the respective representative have incentive to follow through or disincentive to not follow through?

Only if you actually care enough to follow up.

Re: Resistbot: Contact your officials by sending a text

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Post by [deleted] »

gzer0 wrote: post #35
honksillet wrote: post #33

All the examples on the splash page are current Democrat priorities. Even if you are left, you are unlikely to agree with 100% of one party's platform. (If you do, start thinking critically please.) Can this tool be used to support your own priorities or is it just a retweet/amplify button for the Democrat party line?

The first example I see is expanded access to voting rights. Since when did this become a partisan issue? Between January 1 and December 7, at least 19 states passed 34 laws restricting access to voting [1]. This should be a concern for any American citizen with the right to vote; don’t turn this into some politicized drama. Let me be clear; this is the very foundation of our democracy. I find it simply appalling tha…

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Re: Resistbot: Contact your officials by sending a text

#44

Post by 8note »

stevenicr wrote: post #34

I've been kicking the around to make something similar, so it's interesting. I wonder about this part near the top: '“Resistbot is the smartest technology to emerge from the disaster that was the 2016 election. No one else even comes close.” Debra Cleaver, Founder, Vote.org ' Is this meant to imply that the site or/and vote.org is anti-trump or anti-republican - or imply something else?

Isn't the Cambridge analytica stuff the smartest tech to have come out of the 2016 election?

Re: Resistbot: Contact your officials by sending a text

#45

Post by MattGaiser »

slibhb wrote: post #41
gzer0 wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The first example I see is expanded access to voting rights. Since when did this become a partisan issue? Between January 1 and December 7, at least 19 states passed 34 laws restricting access to voting [1]. This should be a concern for any American citizen with the right to vote; don’t turn this into some politicized drama. Let me be clear; this is the very foundation of our democracy. I find it simply appalling tha…

> Between January 1 and December 7, at least 19 states passed 34 laws restricting access to voting [1]. This should be a concern for any American citizen with the right to vote; don’t turn this into some politicized drama. It is a politicized drama. Voter id laws are reasonable, the majority of Americans think so, and calling them "restricted access to voting" is literally true but dishonest. "Resistbot" (from "the r…

Voter ID laws are perfectly reasonable, so long as people can easily obtain ID. That is not the case.

https://225egw40g2k99t0ud3pbf2ct-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-...

Re: Resistbot: Contact your officials by sending a text

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Post by slg »

MattGaiser wrote: post #45
slibhb wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Between January 1 and December 7, at least 19 states passed 34 laws restricting access to voting [1]. This should be a concern for any American citizen with the right to vote; don’t turn this into some politicized drama. It is a politicized drama. Voter id laws are reasonable, the majority of Americans think so, and calling them "restricted access to voting" is literally true but dishonest. "Resistbot" (from "the r…

Voter ID laws are perfectly reasonable, so long as people can easily obtain ID. That is not the case. https://225egw40g2k99t0ud3pbf2ct-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-...

Coupling a free and easy to acquire national ID for every citizen with the requirement to show your ID when voting is the obvious compromise. It makes one wonder why almost all the people pushing for voter ID laws refuse to engage with this compromise.

Re: Resistbot: Contact your officials by sending a text

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Post by slibhb »

MattGaiser wrote: post #45
slibhb wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Between January 1 and December 7, at least 19 states passed 34 laws restricting access to voting [1]. This should be a concern for any American citizen with the right to vote; don’t turn this into some politicized drama. It is a politicized drama. Voter id laws are reasonable, the majority of Americans think so, and calling them "restricted access to voting" is literally true but dishonest. "Resistbot" (from "the r…

Voter ID laws are perfectly reasonable, so long as people can easily obtain ID. That is not the case. https://225egw40g2k99t0ud3pbf2ct-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-...

As I said, this is a "politicized drama". There is no solid evidence that voter id laws have any impact on voter turnout. The vast majority of Americans (80%) of all skin color support these laws. Describing them as "voter restriction laws" is literally true but dishonest and dishonesty is bad.

Re: Resistbot: Contact your officials by sending a text

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Post by ByteJockey »

gzer0 wrote: post #35
honksillet wrote: post #33

All the examples on the splash page are current Democrat priorities. Even if you are left, you are unlikely to agree with 100% of one party's platform. (If you do, start thinking critically please.) Can this tool be used to support your own priorities or is it just a retweet/amplify button for the Democrat party line?

The first example I see is expanded access to voting rights. Since when did this become a partisan issue? Between January 1 and December 7, at least 19 states passed 34 laws restricting access to voting [1]. This should be a concern for any American citizen with the right to vote; don’t turn this into some politicized drama. Let me be clear; this is the very foundation of our democracy. I find it simply appalling tha…

> Since when did this become a partisan issue?

Right around the 70s iirc. That's roughly when the modern progressive wing of the democratic party started to coalesce, and they've always had a big focus on it.

Though it's a little weird how much heat it generates given that it's only a "top 5" issue for about 6% of people. [0] If that few people people even bring it up on polls, I'd expect any attempts to create drama out of it to fall flat much more than they do.

[0] https://apnorc.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/AP-NORC-Decemb...

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