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Anyone who spouted that bullshit line that
“America is beyond racism” “the country isn’t inherently racist” “America wasn’t built on racism!”
Better stay shut the fuck up for the rest of their natural lives
SCOTUS just said essentially " look how far we’ve come since the civil rights movement (implying it’s over) welp let’s just BRING BACK APARTHEID"
After they were done jizzing their pants, no doubt.
Southerners: “were not racist bro, the north are the real racists.”
Also Southerners:
To be clear: there is also real racism in the north, but it’s expressed differently.
Yeah your friends of 20 plus years just ostracize you if you marry a black person (sorry I’m still hurt over it)
fuck bill lee. i hope he gets pancreatic cancer.
rip the city of memphis. taxation without representation.
Man do I hope the blue wave is large enough to overwhelm these shitstains safety margins.
I’m cautiously optimistic it could backfire. Gerrymandering inherently creates weaker districts and Democrats have been over performing since 2024, some places as high as 20 or 30 points.
The Democratic party isn’t going to save us. They serve the same masters in the long run. Yes it could stop the hemorrhaging out of our neck, but the cancer has metastasized to the blood and brain.
Well you better go vote because you ain’t gonna do shit else and you know it.
lol I was literally just pushing back against others in a different thread who all wanted to go out guns blazing and I was the one saying I would take my chances with getting arrested if that means I get to see my family again by working with lawyers.
I’m not doing anything illegal until me, my family, or my close circle is directly attacked with deadly force. I will protest in the streets, vote in every election, spread info locally to try to organize and get everyone on the same page, call representatives (lol like that does anything, but I still do it), etc.
The Democratic party is going to stop the immediate fascist threat, yes, and everyone should always vote D. But they’re not going to solve any of the issues that brought about this entire thing in the first place. They represent the monied interests. There are some progressives who I fully support, and they caucus with the Dems.
The smarter monied interests will see how fucking stupid this all was, especially for the billionaires.
It’s always been better to be a billionaire in the US than a billionaire in Russia. Why they’d want to make us more like Russia doesn’t really check out.
Right? The people that keep pushing that rhetoric are either acting in bad faith or dumb enough to believe voting 3rd party actually makes a positive difference in Federal elections with FPTP voting
Edit: They also conveniently forget that the Democratic Party is an umbrella of many different beliefs, with many members having very different values, cultures, and backgrounds - whereas the Republican Party is mostly wealthy, racist white men
“Stitches aren’t going to save this patient, yes it could stop the hemorraging in their neck but they need <x treatment> anyway”
The only way that doesn’t involve the breakdown of society and total fall of the united states is through the democratic party. Everything else accelerates the fall.
Too bad the democrats are useless fucks
It’s too bad mouth breathers think the Dem party is a unified monolith instead of a big tent party encompassing everyone not full tilt racist fucking nazi. It is also too bad the dnc establishment aren’t taking seriously that we’re in the middle of a coup by the heritage foundation and federalist society funded by technofeudalists and christian death cults. But unless you’re picking up a gun you oughta be voting Dem and primarying incumbents with progressives because third party and protest votes are votes for Trump and maga. But you know that, right? You wouldn’t actively be part of the problem would you?
I can’t vote, I’m not American. I would vote Democrat if I could. I vote against the conservatives even if I expect them to win. I’m confused why people read my pessimism as saying don’t vote, you still do what you can even if it’s probably futile. In fact things being bleak are all the more reason to do whatever you can to try to improve the situation
I’m confused why people read my pessimism as saying don’t vote
Because American politics have become so extreme that simply expressing that there are problems with a candidate or party that need to be addressed means you actually support the other candidate. Most of the time there is fuck all you can do to convince partisans you’re not a conservative even when you’re criticizing from the left.
Can you tell I love it here?! 😒
First, vote Dem, vote your conscience in primaries, push for Ranked Choice Voting, overturning Citizens United (lol like that’s gonna happen) or The Transparent Election Initiative (The Montana Plan), and protest when necessary.
Now that that’s outta the way. Fuck the Democratic party. You’re surprised they “aren’t taking the threat seriously”? They benefit from this same coup, so of course they wouldn’t try to stop it, but just make some slogans and say some AI generated slop with the right buzzwords so the idiots will think they’re on their side. It’s really naive to think the DNC gives a fuck about any of this. They just don’t want it to cause too much chaos for their holdings.
What is our alternative?
Unfortunately, there is no good alternative. I was merely expressing my sorrow at the situation
Welcome to the dictatorship
You know the best part about dictatorships?
How they end?
Well then can we skip to that part? Must we wait til November to confirm it’s a dictatorship?
Indeed.
Chow
chess
coo
I’m sorry?
it’s ok I forgive you
in reference to this notorious asshole
So back to racist maps while the Supreme Court and GOP claim it the opposite.
no see the old maps were gerrymandered against the underrepresented white people, we’re just fixing that
/s because I have trust issues
If only there was…idunno…some sort of amendment specifically in place to fight against fascists. I feel like it would be the 2nd one right after the first. Drat. Oh well, we all know that the ballot box does not do crapolla against fascists so a 2nd amendment like that would be really handy
I’ve gotten downvoted before but I’ll say it again. I think it’s going to take A LOT more to push enough people to that point. The problem with fascism is that every step is just a little bit worse than before, so everyone gets used to it and only sees that the next step is just a little worse to complain about, but it’s never enough to throw up the bat signal and wake people up to significantly push back. There’s a whole quote about this somewhere I don’t quite remember.
Most people are too comfortable to take such extreme measures right now, which is actually good in many ways, but bad in the sense that doing nothing or peaceful protests won’t magically start working now. We’re going to see more onsey twosy stochastic violence events, then slowly it’ll grow, and the regime will push back even more strongly to gain more control (e.g. Enabling Act).
It’s a real fucking bad spot to be in, and 30% of the electorate still cheers it on.
edit: here’s the specific subpassage I was thinking of, from a part of Milton Mayer’s They Thought They Were Free:
“But the one great shocking occasion, when tens or hundreds or thousands will join with you, never comes. That’s the difficulty. If the last and worst act of the whole regime had come immediately after the first and smallest, thousands, yes, millions would have been sufficiently shocked—if, let us say, the gassing of the Jews in ’43 had come immediately after the ‘German Firm’ stickers on the windows of non-Jewish shops in ’33. But of course this isn’t the way it happens. In between come all the hundreds of little steps, some of them imperceptible, each of them preparing you not to be shocked by the next. Step C is not so much worse than Step B, and, if you did not make a stand at Step B, why should you at Step C? And so on to Step D.”
You might be thinking of a quote from The Handmaid’s Tale book about how if you put a frog in water and just turn the temperature up slowly, it won’t notice it’s boiling.
I fear that by the time America is willing to properly fight back, it’ll be too late
Thanks for the suggestion, but nope I went and looked it up.
It’s Milton Mayer from They Thought They Were Free about Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. Definitely an important passage everyone should read.
I think holocaust education in schools failed. There should have been more focus on understanding how it was allowed to happen
Long-term this is fucking idiocy. The party that wants to take rights away from black people will NOT be on the right side of history, and they WILL eventually be just that. History.
Do you think they care what people in the future think? They have the power for the foreseeable future
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No, they don’t.
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No, they don’t.
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It’s a .worlder, they’re delusional in their belief that western democracies actually work https://lemmy.ml/post/46963662
You’re probably right but I don’t want that “long term” - let’s fix “short term”.
Then you should wait November and dig a tunnel, Guy.
Well the first 2-3 days are always busy, and the 4th is a Wednesday (Hump day), so maybe the 5th?
Perfect
