A reminder that you can’t vote your way out of FASCISM!
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.
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.”
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?
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.
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.
For some reason I misread this as like power suit suits and thought it was a Warhammer 40k meme or something.
In many ways, Democrats represent a sectarian split among the Adeptus Ministorum.
