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This is the most important election of our lives. Not important enough to hire, like, one person to watch the boxes to make sure they aren't set on fire though.

Text description of Image: Twitter post by Katu News: Watch: The moment responders remove HUNDREDS of burning ballots from a Vancouver ballot box this morning. Full story... (URL I can't read). Below that, subtweeted, by Evan Bell (@evanbellKATU) The clark county elections ballot drop box at the fisher's landing transit center was lit on fire this morning. Clark Co. Augitor Greg Kimsey says hundreds of ballots were insde at the time. The last pickiup being 11am Saturday. Full story here (incomplete URL) @katunews

Below that is an image. It is a rainy evening. In the back ground police emergency tape sections off the area. In the foreground a person is wreathed in smoke as they reach for a pile of burning material that has been pulled from an open ballot drop box. The drop box has "Official Ballot Drop Box" written on that and below that a large "VOTE" decal next to an american flag. Standing behind the smoke clouded person are two first responders. One holds a camera.

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[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 27 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Poor cops. They didn't even get a chance to shoot a dog.

[–] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 12 points 2 months ago

They still got time don't worry

[–] RNAi@hexbear.net 19 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Wait I thought Vancouver was in Klanada

[–] regul@hexbear.net 24 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Vancouver, Washington is just north of Portland, Oregon. Home to large numbers of remote-work libertarians because Washington has no income taxes and Oregon has no sales taxes.

[–] SpiderFarmer@hexbear.net 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Ngl, that sounds kinda sweet. It's like the people who work in Chicago and then live at the absolute edge of Wisconsin.

[–] combat_brandonism@hexbear.net 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Sweet for them but Vancouver (WA) is a shell of a town as a result because they spend all their time & money in Portland.

I blame Washington though for having some of the most regressive tax laws in the country.

[–] SpiderFarmer@hexbear.net 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Oof, I'm sorry. I remember wanting to move to Washington for the weather when I was younger. (That or Boston or Louisiana.) But money (or lack thereof) has largely kept me confined to the Midwest.

[–] FidelChadstro@hexbear.net 7 points 2 months ago

WA is quite beautiful if you get the chance to see it, do

[–] AcidSmiley@hexbear.net 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

You only have to move in there quietly, without shelling everything, and you can annex a good chunk of most countries, the US simply isn't telling anybody about this because they kinda just really enjoy selling bombs.

[–] Frank@hexbear.net 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Strategically mounting your border checkpoint on roller skates so you can quietly move it a meter every year...

[–] AcidSmiley@hexbear.net 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Just inching up a tiny bit every day.

[–] Frank@hexbear.net 2 points 2 months ago

Papers Please but the papers are land surveying documents.

Lol Papers Please interpretted as capitalist projection of the brutality of contemporary capitalist immigration practives projected on to "in bad country" fictional enemies of the People of NATO.

[–] Frank@hexbear.net 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I think there's a Vancouver, Washington and a Vancouver, British Colombia. Apparently it's just north of Portland, Oregon

[–] Thordros@hexbear.net 8 points 2 months ago

I thought Vancouver, Washington was next to Portland, Ontario! I need a map scientist to help me out here.

[–] Babs@hexbear.net 6 points 2 months ago

Vancouver is in Klanada.

This happened in Vantucky.

[–] blobjim@hexbear.net 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Nobody is going to employ someone to stand next to every ballot drop box, that's silly. This is extremely rare and also not worth trying to avoid.

[–] Frank@hexbear.net 13 points 2 months ago

Okay I'm yelling but I promise it's to make fun of how libs discuss this as a critical existential event but take no actual actions to secure victory, not even largely passive actions like just protecting ballots and ballot access.

spoilerBut THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT ELECTION OF OUR LIVES! DEMOCRACY IS AT STAKE! WE HAVE TO STOP FASCISM! kril-scream

[–] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 12 points 2 months ago

Wait it happened again lol?

[–] miz@hexbear.net 11 points 2 months ago

damn it's a shame all the cops didn't vomit uncontrollably until they died