Still, I'm begrudgingly impressed that someone working directly for Hegseth has the technical wherewithal to put together a database.
this post was submitted on 30 Aug 2026
409 points (99.3% liked)
Technology
87685 readers
2780 users here now
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related news or articles.
- Be excellent to each other!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
- Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.
Approved Bots
founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
Same people who looked you dead in the face and said, “It’s government overreach to require masks!” BTW
In all fairness they only understood 4 of the 10 words they repeated.
My political affiliation is try, convict, and execute every politician, except maybe a couple dozen. With due process. Pretty sure I can say that still.
Man, this is funny, I love this guy, thanks for sharing, bookmarked.
Isn't it pretty easy in the US?
For some reason people need to register with their government what their political affiliation is. Not sure if any other country in the world does this but it's stupid as fuck for every reason.
Not all states collect political affiliations, but in any case, you don't have to register a party. I have been an Unaffiliated Independent since I first registered to vote in 1977. I can't vote in primaries, but neither party can count on my vote, and they have to earn it every election.
State of Michigan gives primary ballots with both major parties and tells you to only fill out one of the sides. Meaning your affiliation is not registered with the state.
Only some states do that. Mine doesn't
You don't need to register your political affiliation in the us. You can register as independent. As far as i know it just dictates what ballot you'll get (which is silly)
You have to be registered with a party to take place in that party’s rigged primaries.
Who wants to bet we'll see attempts to nullify votes that don't fit the declared affiliation before the next elections are over?
That's still registering your political affiliation with the government.
Which is still fucked up.
It’s unaffiliated. Independent is a party. Unaffiliated is no party.
It varies based on state. In Ohio, I select the ballot I want for primaries when I go to vote despite not being registered for any political party.
Yea it never made any sense to me
Oh look. They did another fascism.
>thisisfine.jpg
But I was told we were overreacting when we said Trump was a fascist and would do fascism.
Yeah, but it’s not like the fascists had their plan written down in a todo list or anything. Like a project or something. Scheduled for 2025 maybe.
Meanwhile, when I ask my mother her opinion about this: "but Hunter Biden made so many corrupt deals and he was doing crack!"
Yeah, whoever voted for that hunter guy must have been an idiot
Kushner would be my reply as I called the old folks homes
Trump jr definitely fits the bill too.
he's hot though
jesus christ
I respect that he pays sex-workers for sex and doesn’t offer them gigs on TV shows that he never intends to deliver on in order to score a freebie by cornering a woman in a hotel room. Rape by another name in my opinion.
MTG was obsessed with his dong.
Most sane MTG obsession.
He didn’t.
GFY Drunkseth
Poison their data? Everyone change their political affiliation to NPA. Then vote however you want.
Many states have closed primaries
I think you can freely change affiliations in those states prior to the election, as a lot of people join the other party to vote for the guy that they think is less electable when they know their own guy already is going to get it.
to vote for the guy that they think is less electable when they know their own guy already is going to get it.
I can't even compute why anyone would want to do that, much less imagine ‘a lot of people’ doing it. Is that, like, throwing a pity bone to the less-electable guy? Could this be how the US got Trump?
Yall's political shenanigans are fun, but you need ranked voting yesterday.
Oh it makes a lot of sense if the ones pushing the strategy know the electorate. The democrats don't clearly. It is a part of how the prez got elected I am sure, but if done right it is quite effective.
These are public records.
Yep. Most states already do this and have for a long time. It’s not freely accessible and searchable, but you only need to know the information of the person to find more info on the states page.
I’m a socialist liberal who thinks Donald Trump should be struck into a conscious but unable to communicate vegetative state. Ya fuck wits, register that.
I would love for him to get locked in syndrome for a few years before he dies. It would be hell on Earth for a narcissist.
Yes!!! This is even better. Watch him as he spends days fuming at the tv as they talk about how he was the worst president ever
What about stranded on a deserted island a'la Cast Away?
I want the government to treat this epidemic of lead deficiency in our political and business class. With due process.
Is there a party for that? That is going to be popular-er as we go here. The fuck all the politicians to death party if you will. With due process.
Ya mean he isn't?
Vegetables don’t talk, let alone spew toxic word shit
They are, technically.
Do you have confidence the government would actually give them to the public?
It never hurts unless you try, but I suspect filling a FOIA for them will land you on the list.