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[-] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 6 points 6 hours ago

Given the stark polling, I'd imagine most of the unsure people likely just haven't heard of Project 2025 / don't know what's in it

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Among all voters, the number approving is even lower at 4% and the disapproval is 57%

Even among those who described themselves as MAGA Republicans, it was 9% approval to 28% disapproval

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[-] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 0 points 9 hours ago

I think that's misunderstanding the goals of those who advocate for it. Animal rights is the movement. Veganism is advocated as a means to achieve that end by stopping the support of the harm within animal agriculture & factory farming

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Reminder that getting control of the house and senate could make stuff like this potentially get through

This proposal is not only one that expands the number of justices over time but alter things like the court's shadow docket, require justices to release tax returns, and more

[-] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 3 points 10 hours ago

Note: the original article was about people doing sticky notes. It's pretty easy to clean those up without issue

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“They’re all committed to it now, because Chuck has made them take a public position. Every Democratic challenger, I’m told, running for the Senate is taking the same position,” McConnell said. “I think they fully intend to do it if they can.”

Thanks for advocating for a good reason to have democratic control of the senate

[-] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml -4 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Do most/many social movements not do the all three at the same time? For instance, demanding that voting rights acts should be passed while simultaneously trying to nudge people and politicians to support it

[-] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 0 points 10 hours ago

Not OP, but setting aside animal rights for a moment, the rational given here is effectively an argument against all social movements

Saying that one should not ever push or nuge someone towards what you think is right regardless of how well argued or how much of a point that you have

[-] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 10 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Not OP, but that's not exactly accurate. The article itself is much less dramatic than the headline. The article acknowledges how trump's policies would absolutely be worse

Mainly talks about implicit support of factory farming in campaign stops and the like. But also notes that it's not limited to Walz and far worse on the Republican side

Kind of wish they just ran with a different headline on this

[-] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 28 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Be the change you want to see! Find people around you to join in on something like that

There's also some stickers about project 2025 on Harris's campaign store if that interests others here

https://store.kamalaharris.com/look-up-project-2025/

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[-] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 3 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

There are still some other things that can be done federally to help. If they change the size of the house (determined by legislation not constitution), it also changes electoral votes for states. Electoral votes are based on house + senate seats per state

On its own that makes the electoral college much closer to representing the population of each state

I would also presume it likely would also make the popular vote compact way closer or cross the needed majority of electoral votes. Though I haven't done or seen any analysis on that directly so not 100% sure because the ways seats are appropriated can be funky and non-linear

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[-] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 day ago

Yet it's "too late to do a debate" according to trump...

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Number of undecideds keeps going down as the race remains close. There still are a large number of undecideds out there but I think a lot of people are sleeping on this race

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[-] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 57 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

? Walz has gotten tons of progressive policies through with a single seat majority in his state

Gauranteed paid family and medical leave, universal free lunches, passed protections for trans people, put over a billion into affordable housing development, taxes corporations more, expanded union protections, and more

Not only that, but

He was a faculity advisor of a gay-straight alliance in the 90s when that was not very socially acceptable at all

He's got a strong pro-union background

He has not acted like a republican

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[-] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 56 points 2 days ago

When I first saw it, I thought it was in suport of him until I realized who was posting it

Same thing for "all lives matter" where I thought it was someone agreeing with black lives matter the first time I heard it. Didn't realize someone could get so close to the point and miss it there

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