this post was submitted on 27 Oct 2024
164 points (98.8% liked)

Political Memes

5376 readers
3797 users here now

Welcome to politcal memes!

These are our rules:

Be civilJokes are okay, but don’t intentionally harass or disturb any member of our community. Sexism, racism and bigotry are not allowed. Good faith argumentation only. No posts discouraging people to vote or shaming people for voting.

No misinformationDon’t post any intentional misinformation. When asked by mods, provide sources for any claims you make.

Posts should be memesRandom pictures do not qualify as memes. Relevance to politics is required.

No bots, spam or self-promotionFollow instance rules, ask for your bot to be allowed on this community.

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 
top 5 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago

Stop the presses! No seriously, buy out the ownership of the newspapers and stop the presses so the riffraff don't find out.

[–] sp3tr4l 9 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

As I recall... studies showing the US is an oligarchy, by comparing special interest lobbies being successfully voted into law, vs laws with general public support, and support of demographic sets of people (age/race/religion/sex etc)...

Those studies were coming out in like 2009, 2010.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 hours ago (1 children)
[–] sp3tr4l 2 points 6 hours ago

I had not actually seen this specific study... I was getting a BA in Poli Sci and a BS in Econ from 07-11.

It's been quite a while, I don't remember specifically what papers I read, but I definitely read them, and got into arguments with my professors over them.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 hours ago

I am shocked! Shocked to hear this!