• Randy_Bobandy@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Who here still thinks republicans should be allowed to vote and hold elected office and write and pass laws?

    Show of hands?

    Great, everyone who raised their hand deserves this shit. Everyone wants to hate on Republicans, but when it comes to the voting booth, everyone defends them to the death. Well this is what you get. But DeMoCrAcY is more important than anything and everything, right?

    • Hot Saucerman@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      I personally think it doesn’t suddenly stop being “democracy” because you decided to make laws about disallowing people who are trying to dismantle democracy and replace it with authoritarianism to participate in democracy, because they’re obviously participating in bad faith.

      I don’t think you should lose voting rights for felonies. I think you should lose voting rights for trying to dismantle the state and remove hard-fought for citizens rights. But maybe I’m a crazy person for thinking that a lot of these people are pretty dumb motherfuckers, and for the pretty dumb motherfuckers, its pretty easy to prove that they’re acting in bad faith and to deny them voting rights until they get their ass educated accordingly.

      I’m with you, at this point it doesn’t make sense to let literal fucking terrorists be involved in democracy, because it’s already no longer democracy when they’re threatening you at the voting booth with their guns so you “vote right.”

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        1 year ago

        Are they participating in bad faith or are they acting in line with their class interests?

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      1 year ago

      Come on, you play right into their bullshit propaganda with that message. If they go low we don’t stoop to their level. We do not win elections by removing voting rights for those we disagree with - that is an authoritarian tactic.

      • BunkerBusterKeaton@lemmy.ml
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        there isn’t really any ‘nobility’ in ‘taking the high road’ while marginalized communities continue to get owned and killed. Trans kids are being targeted, women are being targeted, BIPOC are being targeted.

        what good is civility? authoritarian leftism is the only way to get results

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        1 year ago

        “sure, we let fascism run rampant over society, but that was the respectable thing to do”

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      You’re so mad that your end run AROUND passing a law, that you want to prevent the other party from passing laws? Great irony there.

      I get that you’re upset that you actually have to get popular support for a thing and pass it into law. Because you know that 51% of people do not agree with you, and thus can never actually pass this as a law. But maybe try sounding less insane, it will help your arguments in the future.

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        1 year ago

        Gladly. Will you be paying my moving expenses?