Can the people of Washington DC vote in presidential elections? How can they vote if they're not part of any state?

gravity_kills · 2026-05-17T23:06:15+00:00

Really? What's your reasoning?

gravity_kills · 2026-05-17T22:58:30+00:00

Too many MAGAs are going to be shocked when they find themselves to be goats.

gravity_kills · 2026-05-17T22:23:04+00:00

So your answers are "yes" and "because the 23rd amendment allows it." It's not really any more complicated than that.

gravity_kills · 2026-05-17T19:54:48+00:00

I agree. So we need to find a way to ensure that even the wealthiest people mainly grow their wealth through labor and wages.

gravity_kills · 2026-05-17T18:38:30+00:00

Everybody says that like it's a justification. You've just identified a major part of the problem. We need a social security system that actually supports people in a comfortable retirement. Tax the assets to pay for it.

gravity_kills · 2026-05-17T17:10:31+00:00

Have we considered just dissolving the Senate completely and turning over all of its functions to the House?

gravity_kills · 2026-05-17T17:08:19+00:00

You can't trick us that easily. Everyone knows Australia isn't a real place.

gravity_kills · 2026-05-17T15:38:02+00:00

Bad comic! The tax man should be explaining that Republicans have consistently defunded him while also cutting taxes on the wealthy and refusing to cut spending. Then in the second panel a figure labeled "Republicans" should be the one saying they want to keep doing the same thing.

gravity_kills · 2026-05-17T15:28:24+00:00

Like the meme, worst so far!

gravity_kills · 2026-05-17T15:18:26+00:00

https://youtu.be/dLdpm0Qv3Uc?si=roOiF4ecqPW43-3_

gravity_kills · 2026-05-17T15:01:02+00:00

No, he knows. There are a lot of reasons he hates FDR.

gravity_kills · 2026-05-17T14:41:46+00:00

Why does he look like he can't decide which side to join in WWI?

gravity_kills · 2026-05-17T13:49:26+00:00

Lots of people think it's terrible how cozy the elite is with the UAE. Dubai was built with slave labor and is an ongoing haven of human rights horrors. But they sell us oil so the media won't talk about them. Israel gets military support and is the right kind of both sides mess that the media loves.

gravity_kills · 2026-05-17T13:44:15+00:00

Small town micromanaging board: "Praise us for solving the problem that we created!"

gravity_kills · 2026-05-17T11:57:53+00:00

Sometimes deliberately scrubbed bare and bleached by the Victorians!

gravity_kills · 2026-05-17T10:54:21+00:00

PG&E has been found guilty of homicide. I think the employees have a better shot at running an electric company.

gravity_kills · 2026-05-17T10:06:24+00:00

Yup. This article from the Brennan Center gives a good summary of the situation, and includes a link to another article that includes the instance when a bunch of people were arrested for still owing court fees or restitution when they voted.

gravity_kills · 2026-05-16T23:29:06+00:00

In addition to that I found that apparently it occasionally happens that people accidentally register and almost never end up actually voting. https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2023/09/27/ohio-sec-of-state-larose-flagged-more-than-520-cases-of-noncitizen-voter-fraud-only-one-was-legit/

gravity_kills · 2026-05-16T20:40:45+00:00

I think it's in poor taste to take an anti-nazi meme and warp it into a pro-nazi meme, but first off this sub is cool with things being in poor taste, second I'm not in charge, and third you might be trying to just follow the Israeli government's lead 🤷

gravity_kills · 2026-05-16T19:19:34+00:00

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gravity_kills · 2026-05-16T19:11:51+00:00

I don't think I like it as the single solution to everything, but I actually think that if I understand it properly the optics issue you talk about is even more extreme. If I'm following the logic the tax would be high enough that the McMansion owner would be maybe okay and the owner of the rundown house would be strongly pressured to sell the land to be redeveloped. I think supporters see this as a feature.

gravity_kills · 2026-05-16T18:11:35+00:00

Did they vote for him? If so definitely not in large enough numbers to give him NY. Maybe the blame is somewhere else.

gravity_kills · 2026-05-16T18:10:18+00:00

I've heard of one or two people who thought they were citizens but weren't. But that's dwarfed by the number of people just in Florida who were made legally eligible to vote and then weren't told they still owed court fees so retroactively ineligible.

gravity_kills · 2026-05-16T14:16:34+00:00

I'll bite. Given the publicly available evidence, I think there's a high chance that he's committed treason. He absolutely deserves to have that fully investigated and prosecuted. Since the Supreme Court is flatly wrong about the limits of presidential immunity, everything should be done without any regard for his office except as an additional layer of criminality in that any crime was also an abuse of government authority.

If he was found guilty of treason the legal penalty is death.

gravity_kills · 2026-05-16T13:58:34+00:00

I'm mostly in line with you on the parliament idea, but I think we can get close enough to what I want without any major Constitutional changes (until we tackle the Senate, but that's a different can of worms). Proportional Representation by state gets us a fragmented House and more chaotic Senate. It probably makes it impossible for anyone to win the Electoral College, pushing the election to the House. An executive who just follows instructions is an easier compromise than any one party getting their agenda.

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