standevstandev@mstdn.social
Oct 25, 2026, 10:25 AM@tokyo_0 for the US, a ton of overseas votes are military or military-affiliated. Probably far more than people who left the US for political reasons, even in this administration.
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Tokyo Outsider (337ppm)tokyo_0@mas.toOct 25, 2026, 10:51 AM@standev You don't think even they might have a different perspective compared to troops back home? Maybe not all of them, but some of them?
- standevstandev@mstdn.socialOct 25, 2026, 10:58 AM
@tokyo_0 sure. Probably a lot of them, but if the administration wanted to disenfranchise someone it’s probably not men in their early 20s with no college degree (the demographic average of the US military)
- Tokyo Outsider (337ppm)tokyo_0@mas.toOct 25, 2026, 11:15 AM
@standev That is true, but it's easy, and it'd take out a substantial number of voters who are not in that group.
- standevstandev@mstdn.socialOct 25, 2026, 3:31 PM
@tokyo_0 yes, but if it hits their preferred demographic more they may not want to do it. CBP being shit at the customs job in an environment of all of the dollars going to immigration and border enforcement points toward normal incompetence vs deliberate voter targeting.
Totally unrelated to the election, two weeks ago I had a letter (with tracking) go through the same USPS sorting center four times before they finally sent it to me. This administration sucks at competent government function.
- Tokyo Outsider (337ppm)tokyo_0@mas.toOct 25, 2026, 5:04 PM
@standev I think their "preferred demographic" is U.S. voters that haven't seen beyond the information environment they're immersed in, not the men and women who have and who know they'll be on the sharp end when things go wrong.
I've also never had items of post as disrupted as I have with postal votes, and a lot of people have that experience.
You've set out your perspective and you're within your rights to see things however you do but I'm within my rights to see things according to my perspective, too. We see this differently.