lol thats what most of rural kentucky, alabama, etc look like right now
I don't watch much TV but I've seen several of these passing into the Kitchen. They're absolutely horrifying. They just list off every single fear mongering apple in their basket and end with "If you vote Democrat this is what will happen" and it ends.
Yeah, I was gonna ask how they'd notice the difference. Would probably be an upgrade for some of them.
but its very quaint and we get tea time
This is white republicans' nightmare scenario? This still looks perfectly livable compared to parts of the actual country. I've lived in one town that was as run down as this in parts, and it wasn't exactly hell on earth.
This is some playground tier shit, if anyone falls for this they're a fucking child.
We're only a few days away from ads popping up urging Southerners to vote for dismantling States' rights and legalizing slavery again so that the Confederacy can be reborn [banjo music intensifies]
I mean Georgia is already openly trying to stop those darn darkies from voting and Alabama has a day dedicated to remembering the Confederacy, so they're already working on it.
For the kinds of Republicans that come up with this ad, anything below having multiple homes is probably considered unlivable.
"You mean there are buildings smaller than manors?! Dear lord, how squalid!"
Attack ads should be illegal
Let people slander whatever they want through the media and speeches, but paid attack advertisements are gross. Spend that money advertising what's good about you
But then again that's some fantasy land where policy and virtue would be more influential than anger and fear
there's an ad going around where i am which is ENTIRELY fearmongering
stuff about the "liberal mob" while showing videos of protestors and things being violent, BIG CAPITAL RED LETTERS TELLING YOU HOW SCARED YOU SHOULD BE, using 'liberal' as if it were a slur, that
kind of thing
ironically Jaywick-on-Sands is perhaps the single town in the country most at risk of being destroyed by rising sea levels, which is partly why the property is next to worthless and the infrastructure is so appallingly corroded
got this piece of art in the mail today
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/168867277062668289/507342910472192000/20181031_195540.jpg
Oh yes, she is somehow going to have illegal aliens claim from a system that arrests them if they are found out to be illegal.
the fearmongering this year has reached an absolute low, I'm not sure how effective these ads are even because the people who were going to vote gop have made up their minds months ago as have the people who were going to vote democrat, the goal this time around has been to bring people out that would normally sit home and these ads really can't be that effective
The GOP are a bunch of lying, corrupt, fear-mongering sociopaths and they need to be removed from power before they can do any more damage than they've already done to this country and world.
Is that too melodramatic?
What's with the broken grammar in those quotes?
I've gotten shit like this too, should be illegal.
I tried to fact check it, but there was literally nothing on Google supporting it.
Citizens United ruled that it's basically impossible to determine what differentiates an attack ad from a regular ad and so can't be regulated.
Oh god, I hope I get one of those.
Hopefully shit in Georgia doesn't get to heavy.
On topic though, gotta love how the Trump gang barely tries on their propaganda, it's as if they know how easy a lot of their voters are to convince.
"Do you want this BLACK WOMAN to make Georgia more like a state with better infrastructure, education, and standards of living?! Vote to shove a rusty nail through your foot today, or else Billy will shove you into the dirt and you'll never grow up to be a badass cowboy!"
We can't go back to foreclosures, unemployment, and economic recession!
Wait, so which party's president led the US to that most recently, and which one clawed the economy back out of it?
Have you noticed billboards that are like "TOO POOR TO VOTE REPUBLICAN" with a giant hammer and sickle in the background? Or like other weird first photoshopped attack ads towards republicans that look extremely suspicious and falseflaggy?
I literally could not find the PAC that funded it because they hid the name in extremely EXTREMELY fine print on the bottom corner. I swear it said "the INGSOC society for a better georgia".
They are sourcing from the future, of course the reference numbers don't lead anywhere. This is crazy shit.
So basically an overall improvement from the current state of things?
In GA? I've noticed a radio ad, and maybe a couple signs, nothing to bad, except my landlord telling us "don't vote for that black lady, she'll cause trouble" or whatever. I'm near
Macon, so maybe being in a small town has made things quiet.
People are stuck in a farm life here it seems. Like farming is a lot of families lively hood, but that's the problem, what else is there here? Oh, ya, you can work at a fucking waffle house, or a Zaxbys. I know the A has big shit, but that's about it, and good luck getting a job there, my ex was an intern for like 12 different companies, I still don't
even know if she landed a gig.
I love Georgia, but goddamn, I can't help but shake my head at some of the folks here.
Whats the logic behind that?
Is "paid message from party A saying negative things about specifically party B" too hard to define?
I misremembered
In Buckley v. Valeo, decided in January 1976, the United States Supreme Court limited the reach of campaign finance laws to candidate and party committees, and other committees with a major purpose of
electing candidates, or to speech that "expressly advocated" election or defeat of candidates. In footnote 52 of that opinion, the Court listed eight words or phrases as illustrative of speech that qualified as
"express advocacy".
The eight words and phrases appearing in Buckley were "vote for," "elect," "support", "cast your ballot for", "Smith for Congress", "vote against", "defeat", "reject", or any variations thereof.
However, rather than using them as examples, many found it easier to just leave out the "magic words" and claim their communications to voters were fine. By 1996, interest advocacy groups were spending
millions of dollars on campaigns claiming their advertisements were "issue only" since they left out the "magic words."
By 2000, voters were inundated with $500 million worth of this type of advertisement. Owing to the "shame issue ads," scandals, and the amount of spending, Congress held a congressional investigation. It
reinvigorated campaign finance reform, and led to the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act in 2002, which is more commonly known as McCain-Feingold
In 2003, in McConnell v. Federal Election Commission, the Court detailed the difference between interest versus express advocacy. It ruled looking for "magic words" as "functionally meaningless" since an
advertiser can communicate its intention to voters without them. Therefore, instead of looking for words, the Court again ruled that if a communication to voters had "no reasonable interpretation other than
as an appeal to vote for, or against, a specific candidate," it is "the functional equivalent of express advocacy."
In 2010, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission determined, among other things, that it would be basically not possible for the federal government to be in the business of determining what does and
does not constitute issue advocacy or express advocacy.
this town already looks worse than that image in parts
oddly enough the frequency of trump signs also increases around those parts.
literally down the road from me there's an old woman whose boarded all of her windows, posted a giant trump sign on her door, and made a no tresspassing sign in her lawn.
right where we live there's some decent homes but go over the tracks and it's pretty bad.
Hi, alabama resident
Yes it does.
That man was the last thing that house had to live for?
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