Abolish arbitrary districts. Towards Proportional Representation.
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This is either the beginning or the end of democracy.
Good.
Can someone explain to me how this matters? Do republicans really think they will take California? Many of the reds there already moved to Texas.
It means fewer Republican representatives from California in Congress. They're doing it to match the number of Democratic seats Texas is going to gerrymander out of their state.
But congress doesn’t actually do anything anymore. King Trump holds all the power and as it stands now, congress is mostly ceremonial.
Because the Democrats are the minority. If they pick up 3 or 4 seats in the midterms, they can actually do something about it
It's going to take a lot more than a slim majority to do what needs to be done.
Reminds me of 2018
That dem majority really turned things around...
Surely giving up and trying nothing will turn things around!
/s
Lol
Even blocking his agenda is something.
Congress doesn't do anything right now because the Republicans have so little of a majority they can't afford to lose votes.
If they go full majority it further legitimizes Trump's agenda when laws are written specifically for him.
And your counter suggestion is what, rolling over?
The only thing that solves fascism is incredible violence. There's just no way to get enough people to act yet. It will happen when people run out of reasons to comply with laws that only apply to them, but theres going to be a lot of suffering and misery inflicted on us all before enough people say fuck it and grab a brick.
The only thing that solves fascism is incredible violence.
That's not exactly true.
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The deposition of the Greek junta in 1974 resulted in the deaths of 24 protestors (estimated) at the hands of a fascist tank, but no large-scale violence broke out. Infighting within the junta and the junta's invasion of Cyprus caused far more death than the revolution did.
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The Carnation Revolution in Portugal that same year only resulted in 4-6 deaths, total, all caused by the reaction of the regime being overthrown; no one was killed by the revolutionaries.
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In Spain, just a year later, Francisco Franco died of natural causes; and while I wouldn't call what happened over the next few years "peaceful," it wasn't quite two years from the death of Franco to the new government's first successful election, and that time wasn't marked by anything I would call "incredible violence."
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Uruguay transitioned from a dictatorship to a democracy in the mid-1980s. It was a little over a year between the first General Strike and the inauguration of the first democratically-elected president of the new government (though some elements of democracy had been filtering back into the government for the previous few years). No one was killed by the anti-fascists.
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Pinochet's incredibly violent rule in Chile ended with an election and a peaceful (albeit extended) transfer of power between 1988-1990.
Today, all of these countries have a score of 85 or higher on the Freedom House index.
There are other similar examples: Argentina in 1982, the Philippines and the People Power Revolution in 1986, South Africa defeating apartheid in 1994, even South Korea last December. Not all of those are great examples, whether because they didn't stand the test of time or because they weren't "quite as bad" to start off with, but it certainly seems that in the modern era, defeating fascism can be done nonviolently.
Will it be done nonviolently in the US? I don't know. All I know is, every fascist regime in history has either fallen or is in the process of falling. It's just a matter of time, and how many people die along the way.
theres going to be a lot of suffering and misery inflicted on us all
Definitely true. One way or the other, this isn't going to be a fun time.
The supreme court denied the republican's claim that democrats didn't wait 30 days before passing the legislation.
Democrats used the technique of "editing" an existing bill by replacing all the text. Its not technically new legislation, its an edit, which doesn't require 30 days before passage. Clearly against the spirit but not letter of that rule.
Courts can only rule on things they are asked to rule on. The court declined to stop the bill based on the specific procedural issue in this case. The court did not rule on the merits of the redistricting law itself. There will surely be more judgments in future
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