i give basically 0% chance of there not being martial law declared before these elections, which, if they happen at all, will be an absolute sham. unless some miracle happens
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Somewhere in that sack of shit there's a blood clot longing to break free. We can always hope.
martial law and trying to cancel elections is my red line. like out in the streets embracing 2nd amendment rights red line. like not giving a fuck what happens afterwards red line.
out in the street is where they want you. don't give them what they want
no matter how overwhelming or advanced an invader thinks they are, they'll never beat organized guerilla tactics fighting on their home turf. see vietnam, afghanistan
How long until ICE is kicking in the doors of any registered Democrat?
They can't even rely on that. My state doesn't require party registration to vote (I always thought that was a weird thing, anyway).
There’s too many Democrats for that. It will probably be a different, more scalable type of oppression. My guess is better analytics for voter suppression and gerrymandering.
I think more actual fraud at this point and random publicized door kicks not really any different than what they're doing now. Just with "demonrat" justification rather than illegal immigrant justification.
I am a registered Republican. I have never voted for a Republican in a general election in my life. You don't have to vote for the party you are registered with.
Please keep voting in the primaries.
The main reason I registered Republican was to cast my vote for moderate candidates in the primaries. Sadly, those are becoming harder to find since 9/11.
~~One could look at that as more suspicious in the context of why they may be trying to collect this data. This is the guy that wanted Georgia to "find more votes" and a registered Republican voting for a Democrat sounds like one of those things that is "obviously a mistake" as you surely intended to vote R.~~
~~A registered Democrat voting for a Democratic candidate would be largely assumed, but if all your votes are going to another party, this may be the so far undiscovered "evidence" of the Dems stealing votes or doing fraudulent mail in or drop off ballots.~~
~~I don't disagree with what you do, I just think it would stand out more if I were to be looking for statistical anomalies.~~
There is no way to tell who voted for who. That's not how the voter systems work.
You are correct. I just reeducated myself. They just have a record if you voted or not. Apologies.
I'm sure this has nothing to do with Palantir providing lists of people to target and deport
I mean, what are they gonna do, use this information to target likely dissenters against the government?? /s
Anyone and everyone who voted for this is an irredeemable piece of shit, and should be stripped of their right to vote for the rest of their miserable lives
Honestly, I see no viable recourse with those who voted for him three times now and support him whole hearted. They want to cause pain, misery, they're the opposite of compassion. They view compassion as something they should get, no one else. They live in a different world than us.
their worldview quite literally stems from the idea that there should be Out-Groups whom the law binds but does not protect, and In-Groups whom the law protects but does not bind. That's how they square their "don't tread on me" attitude with their want of big government. They recognize that in order to properly humiliate and subjugate "the others," they need a big state militarized police force and constant surveillance, but if they were ever themselves to fall victim to it, then they cry foul. They can't learn the lesson until they're caught up in it, and usually instead of updating their opinion and voting like it, they simply drop out of the democratic process all together, saying that "both parties are the same."
They are the uneducated simpletons that the founding fathers feared, which is why they originally wanted only educated people to vote. I'm, uh, starting to come around to the idea myself.
There's still educated, intelligent people who look at others that way, it's not wholly education. Though you can argue they're less likely to be conservative and more aware of the state of the proletariat.
Now there is an “alarm”?! Ffs