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[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 43 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Great job, fascists.

Okay lefties, get squabbling.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 33 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Great job, fascists.

Moderate Republicans have been campaigning against the Voting Rights Act since August 7th, 1965. It's been a primary factor in the Federalist Society domination of the federal courts system, particularly following the election of George Bush Jr.

Abbott v. Perez

Bartlett v. Strickland

Brnovich v. Democratic National Committee

Georgia v. Ashcroft

We've been chipping away at this thing for over 20 years. They're running out of provisions to gut, nevermind a DOJ willing to faithfully prosecute under its provisions.

Okay lefties, get squabbling.

"If you wanted the right to vote, you shouldn't have been disenfranchised to begin with" is one hell of a take.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

Moderate Republicans have been campaigning against the Voting Rights Act since August 7th, 1965. It's been a primary factor in the Federalist Society domination of the federal courts system, particularly following the election of George Bush Jr.

Exactly so. They played the long game. Solidifying their voting bloc, using any means necessary to ensure both election victories and select court appointments.

"If you wanted the right to vote, you should have voted harder" is one hell of a take.

Voting harder isn’t a thing, but the circular firing squad is. When the leftists quadruple down on hating ‘liberals’ and screaming their finely crafted FSB talking points, we will once again miss a window of opportunity to take back some ground. Just like they hated Hillary and that’s how we got Gorsuch, Boof, and Amy Covid to finally give Roberts the death knell he’s sought all along.

Republican squabbling is close to non-existent except for variations in extremes. Being called a genocider by someone who (theoretically) shares 90% of the same political opinions is our lot. And it’s about to crank up again for November.

WILL ‘the left’ / ‘progressives’ / ‘liberals’ / ‘democrats’ be able to support the same thing in November?? Only TIME . . will tell. But the odds are really not great.

[–] Jhex@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Moderate Republicans have been campaigning against the Voting Rights Act since August 7th, 1965.

why do you refer to fascists as "moderate republicans"?

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The US is a country of, by, and for fascists. But the VRA has been a target of Neo-Confederate White Nationalists specifically. Their party is the Republican Party.

[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Biden tried hard to win them back by telling everyone what great pals he was with Strom Thurmond and going after efforts to desegregate schools

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

What a eulogy. Truly the statesman of our generation, standing up for poor disenfranchised segregationists like that.

[–] Whostosay@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

Likely a tomato tamato situation.

[–] Asafum@lemmy.world 41 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I still can't even get over the partisan gerrymandering being legal part... What fucking country is this?

"Yeah when one party takes full control they can just choose their voters to make sure they always win. Totally Legal and Cool™©®."

Now this bs. "In order to win your case you just have to be a mindreader. It's simple really."

[–] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

He keeps arguing that voting laws, in general, whether they be gerrymandering or other laws that objectively and overwhelmingly disenfranchise select peoples, are fine so long as they are not (provably) intentionally discriminatory based on constitutionally protected class, but rather politically motivated/discriminatory. As if political discrimination for a constitutional right, let alone one that decides the ones who set these laws, is any better or more acceptable. At this point, he'd argue that a law requiring you to vote Republican is fine since it's only politically discriminatory. Jesus Fucking Christ.

[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

At this point, he'd argue that a law requiring you to vote Republican is fine since it's only politically discriminatory.

He'd also shamelessly declare that anyone who disagreed with that law a communist, because trolling is the only thing they know anymore

[–] Malyca@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago

That and projection

[–] switcheroo@lemmy.world 27 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The Pedo Party can't win unless they cheat.

[–] Bwaz@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Why is gerrymandering, for ANY reason, legal at all?

[–] Malyca@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 week ago

I've got a better one for you, why is oligarch bribery legal? Both come from the same source.

[–] Snowies@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 week ago

Because the working poor are too tired, divided, and financially vulnerable to unite and protest in any meaningful persistent way.

We are planning a protest on May 1st. Don’t go to work and don’t buy anything. Take to the streets and make your voice heard.

Watch how it goes. Too many of us won’t even know it’s happening, or will know — but won’t be able to afford taking that day off, or will know — but won’t care.

The majority is easy to divide apparently.

[–] Bwaz@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Why not divide each state into slices like a pie with each relatively proportioned to have an equal number of citizens?

[–] i_am_not_a_robot@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

How do you prove that somebody is or is not gerrymandering for political gain?

[–] DillDough@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago

Restructure the government to operate on total votes. End districts, the EC, all this bullshit, you run for town/city, county,state, or federal and it counts every person living in those areas. Add ranked choice and either expand or reduce number of representatives.

Gerrymandering is necessary with dogshit systems like we have now, it just becomes an issue when it's weaponized and we allow blatant corruption and manipulation.

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago

A traitor to the United States of America and someone our forefathers would have dealt with swiftly and with extreme prejudice.

[–] Bluedragon012@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Hmmm.. No taxation without representation. So.. What we dumping into a body of water?

[–] CuddlyCassowary@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago

Alito and his cronies.

The blood of the fascists

[–] egerlach@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 week ago

After the leaked memos from SCOTUS recently, I'm not surprised. LegalEagle video on the subject:

[–] fartographer@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

“Vast social change has occurred throughout the country and particularly in the South, which have made great strides in ending entrenched racial discrimination,” Alito writes.

We tried and found some success. Time to shut down the experiment to find out if we can reduce the effects of racism.

/s or not-/s, IDK anymore. This shit is so blindingly stupid.

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Because he and his ilk wants racism back...

[–] Jhex@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ok Muricans... tell me again how you "aRE noT TheRe YeT"

[–] kylie_kraft@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"I still got beer and Netflix, I'm good"

[–] _fryerDan@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

basically. we're too spread out for all-out revolt

It took me a few times to read that right