• hydroptic@sopuli.xyz
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    13 days ago

    This is what happens when we let conservatives have any sort of power in society

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      any sort of power, they have it ALL now, because not enough Democrats figured it was important enough to simply cast a vote in Novembers election. more arab and latino americans voted for donald trump than have ever voted for any republican candidate before in american history. leftists told anyone that would listen they weren’t going to vote for “genocide joe” while marching on every major american city chanting “from the river to the sea”, while flooding social media with anti israel and anti democratic party messaging, the result of which was democratic youth vote was the lowest it’s ever been in american history, while republican youth vote was the highest it’s ever been. with everything on the line democratic youth couldn’t find it within themselves to defend the republic, by doing the lowest effort simplest action by casting a ballot in a safe, free, and fair election. donald trump won his second term as president by ~2.3% of the vote.

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        I just want to clarify that Arab and Latino Americans voting for Trump is marginal and would be insignificant if white voters weren’t in the bag for fascism already.

        White women are the only marginalized group that fuck with Republicans in numbers.

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            They are.

            Marginalized groups can be more or less marginalized than others. That does not make them powerful relative to the rich-ass white men that run the world through financial influence alone.

            Ya’ll motherfuckers act like just cause women can vote now, sexism is “solved.”

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              Women who are 50% of the US population had the opportunity to vote for the first black woman president, protect their reproductive rights and instead 53% of the women who did turn up voted for the pussy grabbing rapist.

              Maybe you should deal with the traitors in your own house.

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                Because a marginalized group has never been misled to accept and excuse abuse before. What a fuckin’ take.

                Not sure what you mean by my “own house.” American white women are a demographic I’m displaced from in a number of ways.

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              Whatever dude. People having to pretend like they give a fuck what Karen has to say is half the reason we are in this mess.

              They are powerful relative to “rich white ass-men” because they hold their cocks. Wake up.

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                It’s all about the nuances… baby boomers as a cohort are responsible for many of today’s problems and yet individual boomers are not. The elderly get roped into the defence of boomers even though there’s plenty of older people than them that actually helped setup the prosperity that boomers ruined.

                Karens are frustrating and their voices are loud, but to even compare them to predator class humans like billionaires or rapists is waay out of touch.

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              There isn’t a more protected class of people than an American white woman. You’re right, they have way more rights than men, you Goddamn misandrist.

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                You should probably not try to swallow a red pill that large. You’ll choke.

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        I voted for Harris in nov. But you are blaming the people with the least amount of power.

        Democrats could have… you know… appealed to their voters instead of fund and arm a genocide, fund the police more than has ever been done, and ran on racist border fascism. They didn’t appeal to their voters and their voters didn’t show. Harris, Biden and all the people advising them should be the ones we direct our anger at not the voters who didn’t vote for something they weren’t inspired by.

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          Yeah agreed on all of that and yet the vote was still the easiest fucking choice of our lifetimes

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            Agreed. If voting was really easy or mandatory Harris would have won. But republicans and the courts make it hard so that there are tons of barriers for people to cast non fascist votes.

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              I filled out 2 forms and mailed them to my election office during the 2 months preceding the election. How much easier can we make it?

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                Much easier. Automatic registration, mail in ballots, etc etc. More progressive states are much better at this.

                But Republicans purged voter rolls, made sure lines were extremely long by under staffing, made it illegal to hand out food and water in lines, making it illegal for felons to vote when felons are intentionally mostly poor and minorities, etc etc etc.

                your experiences are not universal. The more marginalized a person is the more likely it will be hard for them to vote.

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                  Sure, but none of that competes with the causes “I just didn’t feel like it” or “I’m not into politics”.

                  Well, grats. Politics are into you.

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                We could make it that easy in every state instead of just yours.

                To vote in Texas:

                1. Make an appointment at the Department of Public Safety. The wait time is 4 months, and the appointment has to be at least one month before the election.
                2. Have all your paperwork in order on the first try. Note that the paperwork required may have changed between the time you made the appointment and the date itself.
                3. Get a few hours off of work on election day. Companies are not required to give you that time.
                4. Wait in line, in the worst case over two hours
                5. Vote