Repel the 19th amendment hashtag

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Shocking to imagine hordes of his supporters literally wanting to deprive people of the right to vote. Never mind the ones who have said it before.

This strikes me as analogous to getting outraged about the comment section on youtube.

This is, clearly, prima facie evidence of the nascent fascism which must be defeated like the Satan the same fundamentalists obsess about.

Well, either that or the country can go to being ironically like yet another Middle Eastern country where authoritarianism is so venomous civil wars last even longer than WWII.

Nothing will ever be as futile as yhat.

I'd say that outrage over randos on twitter comes close.

These two posts, back-to-back as they are, might be hilarious if the issue they highlight wasn't so depressing.

The origin of the hashtag is an account with 11 followers and no activity since 2012. The recent activity was sparked by a bunch of fallacious internet articles from hacks who have lowered the tone of the presidential election to the level of a WWE storyline - one which outrage junkies are lapping up. You can check the tag for yourselves. Some 99% or so of the tweets in the past 24 hours are variations of "I can't believe Trump supporters are tweeting #Repealthe19th".

That anyone takes this deliberately divisive click-bait seriously is the real tragedy here.

They want to believe it and that is part of the problem. All the evidence is there to call foul but doing so does not help Clinton supporters.

There are also fake trump supporters sharing disinformation articles in hopes that trump fans will jump on it, only for the articles to be easily debunked by the plants and their media associates to further discredit the opposition.

To deny the above is happening when all it takes is a closer look is disingenuous.

Nah, I don't buy that.

If a genie offered Trump the opportunity to make sure every woman, or every graduate, or every young person, or every PoC forgot to vote without arousing suspicion, then I bet he'd take it. Similarly, offer Clinton the chance to let every man, or every white person who didn't go to college, or everyone over 40, or every registered Republican forget to vote, and she'd take it. Those things might cost them some votes but they'd make significant net gains on their opponent.

Very true. In many cases their entire world view is reliant on their need to believe it. That's a multi-faceted condemnation of politics, political reporting and political education in America.



Most of the "evidence" I've seen is too easily dismissed on the grounds of either it being dumb-but-free speech (e.g. pu**y grabbing) or disreputable sources.



And there are trolls being touted as representative of entire voting demographics - primarily towards Trump's supporters. Some people seem to be such suckers for the drama that they can't tell the moves are choreographed.



Not necessarily. You may be giving people far greater credit than they deserve.



Whilst I'm not willing to claim that either candidate is prepared to win at any cost, I agree that they'd both readily take advantage of any circumstances that happen to arise if they believe they'd get an edge. Don't quite agree on your demographics though. A state-contained depopulation caused by some sort of pathogen would both do the job and carry the added benefit of plausible deniability (perhaps that needed a trigger warning for those prone to wearing tinfoil).

I feel "the ends justifies the means" applies to both candidates in a rather extreme way.

Saw a video where they had women signing a petition to remove the 19th amendment and end women's suffrage. They were like yeah we'd like to end women's suffering.

Many people are so easily confused by how things are worded. Which is why polls can't be trusted.

Bring back poll tests!

The poll test should consist of properly inserting "you're" and "your" into sentences, as well as "there", "their", and "they're".
Those tests alone would probably weed out 75% of voters.

In all seriousness, I don't like the idea of poll tests.

I've known "illiterate" people who really possess lots of knowledge of human nature, and how to get things done--both important in politics.

I especially don't like the fact that, in the South, a white person might be made to say the Alphabet, and a black person might be made to recite, from memory, the entire Bill of Rights

Hahaha! Indeed [quickly scans his posts for typos].

I never said that trump said this just mentioned it cause it was trending and no I don't think it will actually happen (besides it wouldn't affect me anyway).

I thought it was based of the stats that if only men voted trump would win in a landslide