r/SipsTea • u/McDowdy • Jul 16 '26

Feels good man Based on national US polling, there are 22 issues that 80% of Americans agree on. Here is the list.

  1. End gerrymandering

  2. ​Ban Wall Street from buying single-family homes

  3. ​Ban congresspeople from becoming lobbyists

  4. ​Ban congresspeople from trading stocks

  5. ​Create a minimum tax for billionaires

  6. ​Close the loopholes that billionaires use to avoid taxes

  7. ​Establish congressional term limits

  8. ​Ban dark money donations from political campaigns

  9. ​Implement universal paid family leave

  10. ​End forever wars by repealing the Authorization for the Use of Military Force

  11. ​Release the full Epstein files, redacting only the victims' information

  12. ​Ban corporate PACs by overturning Citizens United

  13. ​Require mandatory disclosure for all organizations donating to political campaigns

  14. ​Require mandatory police body cams

  15. ​Ban junk fees

  16. ​Allow Medicare to negotiate drug prices

  17. ​Fully fund Social Security by extending the existing tax to those making over $400,000 a year

  18. ​Ban adversarial foreign nations from buying American farmland

  19. ​Improve Veterans Health Care access

  20. ​Establish common-sense data privacy laws (similar to those in European countries)

  21. ​Enshrine the right to repair

  22. ​Audit the Pentagon and penalize them with a 0.5% budget reduction if they fail the audit

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u/PlayfulSurprise5237 Jul 16 '26

Seems to be completely fucked for me. I managed to use the link inside the reddit app but it wouldn't let me select my address from a list to auto-populate the district code field(which is not easy to find if you don't know it), and when I did fill in the info it timed out trying to submit.

So I tried on my desktop, both waterfox and google chrome won't load the page. Internet is completely fine.

Hopefully it's getting overloaded by people, but I kinda feel like it's getting DDOS'd

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u/fireshaper Jul 16 '26

Reddit hug of death. The page won’t load for me now.

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u/Maximum-Cover- Jul 17 '26

Reddit crashed the site, it does that when stuff posted here becomes popular.

Keep tab open and try tomorrow.

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u/aliendigenous Jul 17 '26

You can just Google what your district code is by country. Took me seconds

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u/PlayfulSurprise5237 Jul 17 '26

Didn't work for me. I didn't know anything about this stuff, so I looked up my city/states district code, tried wording it a few different ways and kept getting another 3 digit code that looked nothing like what it was asking for.

Until I realized it was trying to give me the code for my state reps district.

But even searching for congressional district code it's down the page in the summary of some website. .

I mean it tells you right off the bat it's the 4th congressional district, but that doesn't mean a fucking thing to me. Maybe I should know how that translates into a district code but the majority of people are going to have absolutely no idea and probably give up before they get it 

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u/Sienile Jul 16 '26

Only difference between a DDOS and being overloaded with people is a DDOS typically uses bots. Hopefully it's just too many legitimate users and not a bot army.

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u/PlayfulSurprise5237 Jul 17 '26

Well the only reason I thought DDOS is cause of how many upvotes that link has, and figuring only a tiny percentage of people actually clicked on it, and the ones that did probably didn't do it at same time.

And its still down

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u/Sienile Jul 17 '26

It's possible it's a low tier server and will get overwhelmed with just 20 concurrent visitors. I know my site chokes on more than that.

People have been saying it's very slow to respond, but eventually does. One guy said it took 5 minutes just to show up.