A reminder that you can’t vote your way out of FASCISM!

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[–] 2 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

I think elections are legitimate, in that it's two somewhat-competing friendly interests measuring public support for issues.

They both know that they depend on the other to blame for their "failures", and neither party could survive on its own.

It doesn't work with just one tag team; it's like pro wrestling, you need two teams to put on a good show, a face and a heel.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 day ago

    Moderate Rebels

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  • [–] 2 points 1 day ago (3 children)

    For some reason I misread this as like power suit suits and thought it was a Warhammer 40k meme or something.

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    Anyone who doesn't know the difference between rule by actual warlords and rule by "warlords in suits" has so much privilege and ignorance of world history that their opinions should bear a warning label.

    Pinochet used to have political prisoners - that is, his OWN people - raped by dogs. This form of torture was well known in his own country. When was the last time you heard about Mark Carney or Emmanuel Macron doing something like that?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 day ago

    The Panama papers, Epstein files, and Guantanamo Bay were all what we heard about and there are unnamed, unmarked ships and oil rigs in international waters, as well as apartments and ranches in the US.

    The Israelis own us and we do their bidding. They rape prisoners with dogs. Are you ready to defend ICE and their 4000+ missing prisoners?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

    Anyone who doesn’t know the difference between rule by actual warlords and rule by “warlords in suits”

    You can't tell the difference between the velvet glove on top and the iron fist underneath? What are you, stupid?

    Pinochet used to have political prisoners - that is, his OWN people - raped by dogs.

    Like we did to the Palestinians?

    Oh, but when Robert Kraft and Rebecca Mercer finance it, the situation is different somehow.

    When was the last time you heard about Mark Carney or Emmanuel Macron doing something like that?

    As to Carney, he inherited a state police notorious for sexual assault.

    Investigation into alleged RCMP misconduct against Indigenous girls in Prince George enters final stage

    And I can't speak to Macron directly, but Jean-Luc Brunel is a whole different story. No shortage of Epstein connections in Paris and Milan.

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  • [–] -3 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    They also let you protest and let you run for office...

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  • [–] 26 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    Voting is easy, it takes very little effort. Even just the pretense of them not being warlords and the modicum of protection that pretense provides is worth the negligible effort of voting. It doesn’t mean you should stop doing more effective things, but those things are not undermined by voting in the least.

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  • [–] 0 points 23 hours ago

    Voting is easy, it takes very little effort.

    YMMV.

    The church leader’s case fits a pattern that has emerged in Texas under Paxton: Aggressive prosecutions for alleged election fraud crimes that upend lives but result in few cases that go to trial and end in a conviction. The Republican attorney general and his supporters believe election fraud is rampant, and point to the large number of charges filed as proof. Yet many of those charged have stories like Sanchez’s.

    Civil rights groups say the charges tend to target Black or Latino voters and volunteers, many of whom are Democrats. The result has been a chilling effect on volunteers and community groups that for decades have worked to increase turnout in a state with one of the nation’s lowest voter participation rates. Critics say the charges are part of a wider effort by predominantly White, Republican state lawmakers to suppress votes in some of the fastest-growing parts of the majority-minority state: urban and suburban communities that lean Democrat.

    “The goal isn’t to get a conviction,” said Chad Dunn, legal director of the UCLA Voting Rights Project, who has defended Texan clients against election-fraud claims and won a 2021 case that curbed the attorney general’s prosecutorial power. “It’s to set up a climate of fear around voting. He uses these witch hunts to gain attention and money.”

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