• Substance_P@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    Congress is literally letting fascism happen. Trump needs to be impeached now! His adviser Steve Bannon has told us they are going to employ voter intimidation tactics. On his podcast he said, “We’re going to have ICE surround the polls come November”.

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      2 hours ago

      Impeachment is political process. If they remove him — that will be more worthwhile. I doubt they will.

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      4 hours ago

      Need to get 1M plus Americans who believe in democracy to sign up to stand at every single polling station in the nation and defend what they believe in - the free vote.

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      Theyve been letting it happen for decades. Incrementalism is a tool of fascism, small seemingly unrelated steps to the right.

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      8 hours ago

      They don’t have enough of their gestapo goons to stop us from voting. They are saying desperate bullshit now because they know they are going to lose.

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        This isn’t an everywhere strategy, it’s a targeted one.

        For example, doing this heavily in Fulton county (ATL) would pretty much guarantee that Georgia goes red this time.

        They only have to identify a handful of purple states, and then throw everything they have at disrupting voting in their major cities.

        And this won’t be the only thing that they do, for example they’re working on mandating a nationwide real ID requirement for voting, which would prevent literally tens of millions of people from voting.

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          3 hours ago

          In every one of those locations, the voting populace will vastly outnumber those gestapo pigs too. We just have to show up with numbers and they will not be able to do jack shit.

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        People have no idea how much goes into every American voting in the same 12 hour window…

        Like ICE is big, but the amount of voting locations is insane. Even if ICE focuses on Blue cities, it’s hard to find a polling location in a major city that’s not less than a mile from another. They’re all over the damn place and there’s now way they can cover them all

        People are stressed and not thinking logically, which is exactly what trump and the oligarchs work.

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          Also I suspect that their actual plan is to declare fraud and try to force their candidates, but I suspect that’s more likely to result in Republican candidates having UN Owen was her played with their skull by state troopers if they try to force the situation well either that or a nullification crisis.

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      And yet people continue to have the delusion that the rules will magically protect them. What don’t people understand about rules needing to be enforced?

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    This headline happens so often that it’s boring. (Which is part of the problem I know) We all know he’s going to claim the election results are rigged, we all know he’s going to say he won no matter what, we all know this and that and all the rest. We’ve seen it all before

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    7 hours ago

    Trumps acceptance or not is irrelevant to the legal process and he is simply attempting to sow more fear and hysteria

    And everyone eats it the fuck up

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    6 hours ago

    Trump does something very typically Trump. Constitution gets shit on for 3,845,520th time since 2017. People still angry, possibly angrier. However, congress does nothing and nothing really happens as a consequence.

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      It seems like something is kinda happening in response. People are buying guns and joining orgs like PSL. Maybe not enough people, but looking from afar it kinda seems like there’s interest in moving beyond the democrats for people who don’t want to accept this crap.