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[–] ickplant@lemmy.world 69 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 18 points 2 weeks ago

Appreciate the sourcing very much, thanks.

[–] underscores@lemmy.zip 45 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

wait, I just realized the mass deportations can be voter manipulation if he targets the right groups

[–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 63 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Here's one for the road: it's also voter manipulation if legitimate voters are too scared to vote cause they might be targeted.

[–] D_C@sh.itjust.works 21 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Exactly.
Make it difficult to vote in person. Then invade and terrorise any people that even think about voting against them.

To add more terror they'll murder mothers in their cars (Renee Good) and unarmed nurses (Alex Pretti) to show what may/will happen if you turn up to vote.

And the people saying "don't worry, we'll turn this around at the mid terms" are wondering why they've been laughed at or scorned.
You don't fight a murderous dictatorship this way. You get out there and protest. And start general strikes.
The fat orange child rapist is laughing at all this.

[–] Makeshift@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

While the in-person protests are awesome for how large they are and I feel they're good for spreading the mood, they themselves are ridiculously easy to ignore.

A bunch of people screaming on the street for a few hours. Oh no. Whatever will the administration do? How will they ever defeat that? They can just ignore people! /s

I look at protests as events to reach/inspire people who can actually figure out how to DO something other than ask Fascists to "pwetty pweeese stop :(".

[–] cynar@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Protests serve 2 purposes. They act to spread a message and connect people.

They also act as a warning. We are willing to invest effort in this to change things. If you don't change, some of us will put the effort into other methods, some of which are... far more unpleasant for you. We also act as support to the people doing this.

The latter is important. For a good example, look at the Northern Ireland troubles.

[–] D_C@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago

Protests can change things if they are big enough and are done correctly.

Which is why I also mentioned a general strike. Protests have already been ignored by the paedo in chief, but it's very difficult to just ignore strikes if they are organised and continued.

[–] inari@piefed.zip 33 points 2 weeks ago

Sucks when the data doesn't match your prejudices huh

[–] mastertigurius@lemmy.world 19 points 2 weeks ago

Wait, you don't mean they were making shit up, do you?

[–] danekrae@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Wait, isn't that like a billion votes, or is my math wrong?

[–] SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz 7 points 2 weeks ago

~10 elections with ~100M votes each puts that in the ballpark. Might only be looking at presidential elections?

[–] Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

TBH, if they're living here, they should be able to vote anyway.

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

At the minimum if they are paying taxes they should be able to vote. Taxation without representation anybody?

[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

Hell no, they pay taxes but get none of the benefits. Just like supply-side Jesus intended.

[–] PhoreTwunny@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago

Burn down your local chapter of the heritage foundation.

[–] brown567@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 weeks ago

Didn't trump appoint an FBI director with express instructions to find evidence of large-scale election fraud?

And didn't that director, after some investigation, conclude that the system's actually locked down pretty tight and what fraud does happen is so little as to not even show up in the final counts?

[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world -2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

We don't have an election integrity problem; we have a most people in this country have no integrity problem.