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    “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.

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      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.

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

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

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        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.

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

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    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.”

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      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.

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        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

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      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 should have voted harder” is one hell of a take.

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

        I think you think this is much more poignant than it actually is.

        Yes, in order to keep thee right to vote, you may need to vote against the people who openly want to fuck it up. How is this still controversial?

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

        why do you refer to fascists as “moderate republicans”?

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          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.

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            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

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

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        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.