In a world where enough women are searching “can my husband find out who I voted for” to make it trend in search engines and social media, there should never be a question again about the value of and right to end-to-end encrypted and private personal ...

Joe

@WhiteCatTamer And the Venn Diagram for those in abusive relationships and having an SO who is a MAGA is probably nearly a circle. @SpaceLifeForm @Tarah

Ms. Understood

@Tarah I love how the ad was not only effective to the viewer, it prompted reactionary outrage which multiplied its reach orders of magnitude more. .. my guess that was factored onto to script and production. Every step of the way, the Harris campaign has played the trump campaign and its reactionary pundits and indluencers like a fiddle.

rus

@RegGuy @WhiteCatTamer @SpaceLifeForm @Tarah The commentary from the Trump campaign complaining about the Harris ads highlighting this are exactly the reason the vote being private is important. They appear to really think women are secondary to men. It's disgusting.

I'm all in for vote by mail, but I wish that didn't make me worry about controlling spouses dictating votes. I know there are some states when you can spoil your mailed vote and recast, but I couldn't find details for my state.

George Snorewell

@jcrabapple @Tarah @corycarson
Yes. Look at this:

mekka okereke :verified:

@DoesntExist @jcrabapple @Tarah @corycarson

‍️Y'all need to stop.

There was a campaign stunt done by the Harris campaign, saying that women could hide their votes.

Then a bunch of articles picked it up.

Then it started trending.

The term wasn't trending before the articles. This isn't real demand. Y'all are making all kinds of excuses for the fact that there are more Melanias and MTGs and Stefaniks than you want to admit.

There are exactly as many MAGA women as Black folk tell you.

mekka okereke :verified:

@DoesntExist @jcrabapple @Tarah @corycarson

This is the exact same dynamic that y'all use to convince yourselves that there's a crime wave when there is absolutely none.

The press writes a bunch of articles about crime (read: hating on Black folk). Then y'all convince yourselves, saying things like "A lot of people are worried about crime! See? They're all searching for it! It's trending! People *feel* like there's a lot of crime!"

46% of white women are pro life.
>50% are Trump voters.

altruios phasma

@mekkaokereke @DoesntExist @jcrabapple @Tarah @corycarson I wonder: the trend you show only goes back to Oct of 2023… which (coincidently 0_o ) doesn’t have an election… what’s the trend of that phrase (or paraphrases) over the last 16 years? That would be a much more convincing graph… what you showed was hardly convincing at all.

If you’re going to use data to make your point: use the correct data.

Joe

@rusozoll @WhiteCatTamer @SpaceLifeForm @Tarah In all states it's a provisional ballot that is counted only after it is shown your other one was invalidated.

mekka okereke :verified:

@altruios @DoesntExist @jcrabapple @Tarah @corycarson

1. I'm not here to convince you of anything. Keep trying to free Melania if you want. Good luck with that.

2. Do your own data fetches.

3. This is the right data.

The below trends charts are what it looks like when voters really care about something. These charts: "Joe Biden Gaza" and "Kamala Harris Gaza" and "Can I vote by Mail"

rus

@RegGuy @WhiteCatTamer @SpaceLifeForm @Tarah the part I couldn't find is if I mail on my ballot, how to cancel it. In the thread, it'd be in the case of a spouse voting by mail under duress, but also applicable if someone changed their mind.

I didn't see provisions to do that in UT, but found the process for Michigan (at least for primaries, but I'd assume it applies to general) fairly quickly. Their deadline should be tomorrow 2pm.

altruios phasma

@mekkaokereke @DoesntExist @jcrabapple @Tarah @corycarson there is also this:

Error 429 (Too Many Requests)!!1

(trends.google.com)

Which shows a growing concern jumping heavily around 2020…

The phrase about the husband might be manufactured: but the sentiment may be organic.

mekka okereke :verified:

@altruios @DoesntExist @jcrabapple @Tarah @corycarson

Do you realize that search term also includes:

* Husbands afraid of their wives
* Children afraid of their parents
* Black employees of a pro-Trump white employer
* People that "have Black friends" but want to vote for Trump anyway. Shy Republicans, as they're called.

Etc etc?

And that it takes more imaginary thinking and "white women: always the victim, never the villain!" mentality to map that term to the "free Melania use case?

LA Legault 🍉 🗳️

@mekkaokereke @DoesntExist @jcrabapple @Tarah @corycarson

Where are you getting these stats from?

mekka okereke :verified:

@LALegault @DoesntExist @jcrabapple @Tarah @corycarson

"For much of the last decade, white women have been more likely to describe themselves as “pro-life” than black women have, according to a Gallup analysis of national polling data on abortion between 2010 and 2019, conducted at the request of NBC News. During that period, 46 percent of white women described themselves as “pro-life,” compared to 36 percent of black women."

It’s not just men: White conservative women have played key role in abortion policy changes this year

White women have joined men, mostly but not exclusively in the Deep South, in using their conservative majorities in multiple state legislatures to make sweeping changes to abortion policies this year.

NBC News (www.nbcnews.com)

Election results one is easily available.

LA Legault 🍉 🗳️

@mekkaokereke @DoesntExist @jcrabapple @Tarah @corycarson

ONE POLL?

LA Legault 🍉 🗳️

@mekkaokereke @DoesntExist @jcrabapple @Tarah @corycarson

You have made a gigantic insulting assumption based on one poll? Are you kidding?

LA Legault 🍉 🗳️

@mekkaokereke @DoesntExist @jcrabapple @Tarah @corycarson

“White conservative women and men are not, of course, alone in opposing abortion. A full 42 % of black evangelical Protestants and 37 % of non-white Catholics told researchers with the Public Religion Research Institute that they believe abortion should be illegal in most or all cases.”

LOOK @ the sample size & location.

There are dozens of studies breaking this down and it is not race, it is religion & geographic location

LA Legault 🍉 🗳️

@mekkaokereke @DoesntExist @jcrabapple @Tarah @corycarson

Let us not forget as well we live in a patriarchy, meaning women are rewarded and punished largely at the will of men who as a majority run our governments, institutions, employment, and lives. You have cherry-picked data to blame white women again for everything, when they’re voting for Harris & against restrictive abortion laws in bigger numbers ever seen before. If you are going to make these claims as a cheap shot, do yr research

Risotto Voted

@mekkaokereke @altruios @DoesntExist @jcrabapple @Tarah @corycarson

showing a spike on its own vs comparing it on the same axis is a bit weird. don't cherry pick.

1. Gaza is searched more, obviously, so context and size are important.
2. People are still occasionally curious about if others can see their vote, especially in 2020
3. end to end chat still has value, as does privacy from big tech.
4. marketing can bring something to light, but, as you've pointed out in the past, people are gonna watch what they're gonna watch ("silly videos get more engagement than hateful ones") so... if it has traction, it's for a reason.

This seems like a flip-flop from your usual logic that algorithms don't influence people, or that algorithms are positive-biased, or should be.

Sometimes the genuine news people need is bad, or the genuine privacy advice is that google spies on you. Is it upsetting? sure. Is it valuable to the target demographic? yes.

Is news typically racist and sensationalized, sure.

mekka okereke :verified:

@LALegault @DoesntExist @jcrabapple @Tarah @corycarson

I haven't cherry picked anything.

White women in the US consistently vote for the most racist person on the ballot. White women self-identity as pro-life.

They aren't voting for Harris in huge numbers. All the data that you can find on this smerges white women with other women to make it look like white women are significantly pro-Harris, when that's not the case.

Don't bring your indignity at the way white women vote into my mentions.