drthunder

Thank you, comrade

🛠️ (my instance doesn’t have a hammer and sickle so this will do)

I don’t even know how his name is properly spelled anymore

One of our congresspeople (iirc) bragged about it suppressing enough votes to give the state to Trump in 2016 too.

It’s been a rough fifteen years for us. At least we’re two elections away from being like Florida instead of one, like we were for a while.

100% agreed

Here’s my general summary of why this is an issue: the US has been denying people the right to vote since day 1. You had to own land to vote in 1788. Half the country seceded and started a civil war that killed more of our citizens than any war since, over the right to own people. The 15th amendment was passed in 1870 to make it so you can’t deny Black people the right to vote, but places made it happen anyway. They made it so you had to pass a “literacy test” with intentionally ambiguous instructions, or pay a poll tax, or one of your grandparents had to have the ability to vote (afaik, the origin of the phrase “grandfathered in”).

These were all legal until the 1960s. Lots of people here have parents who were alive before legislation was passed to end Jim Crow. Without that, the racists that be turned to the War on Drugs, because lots of places take away your right to vote if you’ve been convicted of a felony. They started passing voter ID laws and closing down DMVs in areas with lots of black people and reducing their hours. A politician in Wisconsin bragged after the 2016 election that these laws here threw the state to Trump. They’ve also started banning giving food and water to people in line to vote and throwing out mail-in votes that show up after election day.

This isn’t about election security and it never has been; voter fraud has never changed an election in the country’s history. The real election fraud is in suppressing people’s votes and fucking with voting machines (2004) and having allies in positions of power to throw the election your way (2000). There’s more than that too, but it’s a tangent.

Trump claimed “they’re eating the cats, they’re eating the dogs” live on national TV and it didn’t make a difference, he could run an ad about Democrats being void monsters from beyond the abyss and the average person would go with it.

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Maybe if/when the US invades, if we fight for Canada they’ll give us citizenship.

Everyone who can get pregnant has lost the ability to have safe care if they’re in a state with an abortion ban. Someone close to me was sentenced to death by the Supreme Court for the crime of having an ectopic pregnancy and only survived because she saved herself when doctors wouldn’t out of fear of being retaliated against.

But her last name is White so it’s a real dilemma for them.

That’s useful AI that doesn’t take billions of dollars to train, though. (it’s also a great idea and I’d be down for it)

I’ve mentioned in previous comments that I’m trans. The regime is specifically targeting trans people by reverting our passports, erasing us from government websites, defying court orders to move trans women to men’s prisons, making it legal to surveil us, etc.

None of this would have happened if Harris was president. I agree that a lot of Democrats fucking suck, but trans people wouldn’t be freaking out trying to figure out how to survive if Harris had won. Everyone is going through shit, but we’re going through more. Republicans’ endgame is to have us either in the closet or dead. They’re probably getting away with disappearing Mahmoud Khalil and if they do they’re probably gonna go for trans organizers at some point.

Biden being president gave us four years to breathe. Harris would have given us another four years. I think the country would have had a complete fascist takeover in the next fifteen or twenty years regardless, but we could have at least given ourselves more time to prepare.

People who refused to vote and are now complaining about either the Democrats or about Trump doing what he said he’d do are similar to people who voted for Trump and are now complaining about Trump doing what he said he’d do. Like what did you expect? And thanks for letting me as a trans person get erased from existence, by the way.

Midwest US reporting in!

Claiming that Israel and Netanyahu’s government speaks for all Jewish people is exactly what Zionists do, too. Jewish people have been co-leaders of every action for Palestine and against genocide that I’ve been part of.

The US has enough money for both universal healthcare and our obscene military budget, we just choose to only have one.