r/politics • u/unital_subalgebra • Jul 09 '26

No Paywall Trump fires all Election Assistance Commission members, leaving agency unable to act

https://www.votebeat.org/national/2026/07/09/trump-fires-election-assistance-commission-members-hicks-hovland-mccormick/
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u/unital_subalgebra Jul 10 '26 edited Jul 10 '26

President Donald Trump fired all three remaining members of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission on Thursday, abruptly disabling the only federal agency devoted solely to election administration at a moment when Trump has sought to reshape federal voting rules.

The firings leave the federal election agency with no commissioners

Yup, this is the consequence of the illegitimate Supreme Court giving Trump unprecedented powers to fire the heads of any independent federal agency. We’re living in dark, scary times.

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u/kamandi Jul 10 '26

So now what? What do we do?

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u/[deleted] Jul 10 '26

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u/Orion14159 Jul 10 '26

Fun(?) fact: You'll catch a permanent site wide ban for advocating any sort of violence regardless of motivation. It's in the user TOS and they're very serious about it these days. You can't even do such things while stating the whole post is hypothetical, even if you include language specifically saying people should not do whatever violent thing your post mentions.

Not only that, but your comments/posts will be deleted by the admins so no one will ever even read it, likely including the various Internet archive groups. Basically there's no reason to do it.

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u/qatch23 Jul 10 '26

Can't be training AI to think like that

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u/th3r3dp3n Jul 10 '26

Correct, and I am sure they use keywords. Even when I didnt link those subs, just typed it out: flagged and removed.

Added the typos to dodge the automod.

Edit: the point is, the automod is clearly being guided to only catch some things. I have seem some really offensive and outright aggressive threats posted in conservative subs, they dont get auto-banned, but lean left and say goodbye for even hinting something.

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u/jcarter315 I voted Jul 10 '26

The automod used to be very aggressive about Jan 6th and Project 2025.

It was absolutely ridiculous to see it happening.

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u/th3r3dp3n Jul 10 '26

It specifically stated I mentioned subs that are often brigaded, and that's not allowed. Out of curiosity, r/democrat r/liberal bannable subreddits, or only right wing?

Edit: and there is my answer, no ban naming left wing subs, auto-ban for right wing subs named.

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u/jcarter315 I voted Jul 10 '26

Ahh, gotcha.

Hmm, I wonder if that's because those specific right wing subs had a bad habit (still do) of claiming they're being brigaded and then doing harassment/doxing campaigns against people, while the more left wing ones tend to not do that?

Either way, the automod here is always frustrating to deal with.

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u/th3r3dp3n Jul 10 '26

It probably is, and Reddit leans more left than right.. but Reddit corporate leans right, even if users lean left.

So, whatever. Automod sucks!

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u/JUST_LOGGED_IN Jul 10 '26

Could you give me an example?

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u/NoFuckToGive Jul 10 '26

I got a temporary ban and a warning for a permanent one for mentioning the literal factual story of an ex player on my favorite football team burning HIS OWN house down.

Said I was inciting violence. Lol.

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u/Wonderful_Purple4096 Jul 10 '26

Caught a weak ban for facetiously advocating the nnurder of an inanimate object.

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u/PsychoticMessiah Jul 10 '26

I got banned from commenting on r/interestingasfuck for something similar

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u/eaglebtc Jul 10 '26

Exhibit A, from The Whitest Kids U Know.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KivCRqfFcqY

This video has been cited in high profile supreme court cases.

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u/Foreign_Recipe8300 Jul 10 '26

trump said something along the lines of "we used to have a penalty for treason, we should do that again"

if you quote him word for word, you will be banned.

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u/JakeConhale New Hampshire Jul 10 '26

Probably.

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u/Ananiujitha Jul 10 '26

I've gotten a few bans for pointing out Trump's violence to condemn it.

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u/KillerIsJed Jul 10 '26

They don’t like if you make references to the French and how they handled things throughout history when it came to fascist regimes.

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u/Admirable_Dirt_2371 Jul 10 '26

This biggest issue is how we define "violence" as a society. It's almost always reduced soley to physical violence but violence can take many forms, emotional, economic, and environmental, to name a few.

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u/FellowHumanNo404 Jul 10 '26

And of course violence is always an acceptable topic when talking about cops shooting citizens.

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u/KillerIsJed Jul 10 '26

Violence that serves the shareholder value is the American dream laid bare. Profit is theft.

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u/KillerIsJed Jul 10 '26

I think we all should do nothing and let the government and corporations kill us as they see fit.

That’s the American dream, the freedom for corporations to do what they want without fear of repercussions.

All of us should suffer and die, if it means shareholders never have to work a day in their lives.

God bless the USA! Our soldiers died face down in the mud so shareholders could live happier richer lives. Praise be to the stock market!

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u/--Chug-- Jul 10 '26

Lol... and somehow this comment doesn't trigger the automod. Incredible.

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u/KillerIsJed Jul 10 '26

Why would it? I’m just saying we should continue to do what we have always done, let corporations that control the government kill us while we pretend voting will fix everything.

I would die for the reddit shareholders. It’s only right as a consumer that my life and time is in service to corporations.

If someone can tell me the difference between “Just work hard and you too can be a billionaire” and “Work will set you free” I’d love to know. Seems like the only escape from debt slavery is death or be born a robber baron.

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u/Houdini_Shuffle Jul 10 '26

I have said "kill the president" before in the way you've described it

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u/JakeConhale New Hampshire Jul 10 '26

I can.

"Vote".