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Demoralize each major city by the time elections roll around.
this post was submitted on 23 Jan 2026
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Yep. These goons are going to be out suppressing the vote in every background district and denigration stronghold.
Man, I'm super glad that so many people voted based on their limited understanding of gender and immigration policies.
Which elections?
There's an election every day in the US and 3-4 tiers of elected governments. I think even if they use every means at their disposal its going to be very hard to even shutdown elections in a single US state. This is why the main strategy seems to be kkk style: harass brown people, women, etc so much they're afraid to visit poll sites. Use the depressed turnout to declare victory.
Edit: I'm pretty sure the end goal is to set up military check points outside of poll centers and forcibly ID card people.
Minnesota should anticipate this as a possible strategy and make ID cards free and easy to acquire in advance. They could also make them useless to the feds by allowing whatever name you want on the ID and omit your actual registered legal name placing it only behind a database requiring warrant access.
This is why the main strategy seems to be kkk style: harass brown people, women, etc so much they’re afraid to visit poll sites. Use the depressed turnout to declare victory.
Edit: I’m pretty sure the end goal is to set up military check points outside of poll centers and forcibly ID card people.
Why do you think the conservatives went absolutely fucking apeshit over mail-in ballots during Covid? They love it when voting it is difficult, particularly in areas with key demographics.
When things are more spread out - both physically via mail-in voting or being able to just drop off ballots at drop boxes, or spread out in time via things like early voting, it makes it much harder for them to do all their usual rat-fucking tactics.
You'll notice they seem to object to all of these things, by the way.
that does explain why they immediately stop counting during the election to give trump the lead in the voting polls.
Martial law and suspension of rights nationally is next. They are absolutely going to come for your guns.
There was a post in reddit's /r/daddit yesterday about a person's experience with a friend and their neighbor in a largely immigrant community in Minneapolis. Highly recommend. Great read.
Edit: archive link (thanks nimble@lemmy.blahaj.zone): https://archive.ph/QpFEa
Original reddit link for people who want to updoot or comment: https://www.reddit.com/r/daddit/s/SFWrIp5rDt
I found the kids hiding in an interior hallway of a fully dark apartment. They were scared to let me turn the lights on because la migra (ICE) might be outside. ICE had been banging on the front door of their building ten minutes ago, so they weren't being unreasonable. And they were right. La migra was loitering in the area. ICE was also, unfortunately, on the block where the mother was sheltering.
Jesus, shades of Anne Frank's Diary...
The little ones were understandably confused about why this big white guy was in their house, and they wanted to show me all their things.
🥹
That was seriously my initial thought. Like, this is way worse than most people realize.
They also shared they believe in the USA and that they don't think this situation will last. The 12 year old, in spite of all that happened to them, was still positive about how things were going to turn out.
“In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can’t build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery, and death. I see the world gradually being turned into a wilderness, I hear the ever approaching thunder, which will destroy us too, I can feel the sufferings of millions and yet, if I look up into the heavens, I think that it will all come right, that this cruelty too will end, and that peace and tranquility will return again.”
- Anne Frank
The parallels are so strong.
I never read her diary. I should. I do wonder what kind of literature we'll get from the persecuted survivors when this all ends, regardless of how it does. I did read "American Dirt", an Oprah-friendly dramatization (don't know the word, it's a first person account told as a novel) of illegally entering America. This post reminds me of that, a bit, too.
I hate how incredibly relevant it is now. I visited her hiding space many years ago and never imagined then that the US would go down the same road as Nazi Germany. Not because It Couldn't Happen Here, but because I thought we had learned from it and were better than that. I was very, very wrong.
Anne was right then and this one will end eventually as well, but I fear it will take much longer, prolonging the suffering, since there's no coalition of power that will be liberating the US like there was with Germany.
there have been big signs, trump wants to emulate hitler, most of the us is captivated by propaganda that something will stop them, or nothing serious will occur, thats how trump got in office twice. complacency.
plz don’t send us to reddit. copy paste it here. fuck spez.
Yeah....I was thinking that too. I thought giving the direct link was better for OOP, regardless of my feelings for reddit.
I do feel dirty posting a reddit link here and I appreciate someone putting an archive link. I was trying to find reddit mirror sites and completely forgot about that. I'll add it to my comment.
Jesus H Christ that was a heartbreaking read.
This is what the MAGA cucks voted for.