What scares me the most is how many Americans just cannot imagine their #democracy can collapse.
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Mastodon Migration VOTEDreplied to Madeleine Morris last edited by [email protected]
@Remittancegirl @humanhorseshoes @Pineywoozle
Saw a post the other day by a woman who had lived through fascism in Argentina and had had some of her family 'disappeared.' We are heading into very dangerous territory.
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Madeleine Morrisreplied to Mastodon Migration VOTED last edited by
@mastodonmigration @Pineywoozle @humanhorseshoes
There are people like that in every country and every society. Autocracy gives them license and legitimacy to enjoy the practice of cruelty.
What is fundamentally different now, in the US, are the number of guns.
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Mastodon Migration VOTEDreplied to Madeleine Morris last edited by
@Remittancegirl @Pineywoozle @humanhorseshoes
Great point.
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Madeleine Morrisreplied to Mastodon Migration VOTED last edited by
@mastodonmigration I know a number of Chilean families who lost members and, to this day, have no idea what happened to them. @humanhorseshoes @Pineywoozle
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Mastodon Migration VOTEDreplied to LuigisApartment last edited by [email protected]
@LuigisApartment @Remittancegirl
This is what is meant by 'failure of imagination'. It can always get worse. You think because things are bad that's it, game over. But it can get so much worse. When they are hunting you and your friends through the woods with their AR-15s, perhaps you will remember this reply.
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Madeleine Morrisreplied to Mastodon Migration VOTED last edited by
@mastodonmigration I think @rgarner and @Eetschrijver are right. It's a troll.
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Mastodon Migration VOTEDreplied to Madeleine Morris last edited by
@Remittancegirl @rgarner @Eetschrijver
Yup, but a good opportunity to make a point.
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@pineywoozle (s) for HARRISreplied to Madeleine Morris last edited by
@Remittancegirl Oh that was so brave of both of them. I heard someone describe the last years of Franco’s regime as if the entire population felt like a black person in America. Know your place, keep to it and everything will be OK…until it isn’t.
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TCat - Vote Blue, Vote Harrisreplied to @pineywoozle (s) for HARRIS last edited by
@Pineywoozle @Remittancegirl @humanhorseshoes @mastodonmigration
Maternal mortality (in TX and elsewhere) is one of the canaries in the coalmine that America is ignoring.Even post-pandemic, overall life expectancy is going down...led by "red states"
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cwicseolforreplied to TCat - Vote Blue last edited by
@TCatInReality @Pineywoozle @Remittancegirl @humanhorseshoes @mastodonmigration People are ignoring that canary BECAUSE it happens to be singing in so-called "red states." They imagine most everyone living there resembles the leadership, a tiny minority of stale, pale, male plutocrats, and thus can be safely written off as "deserving" their fate.
We're gerrymandered, voters intimidated and suppressed, but it's still a chance.
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Madeleine Morrisreplied to cwicseolfor last edited by
@cwicseolfor @TCatInReality @Pineywoozle @humanhorseshoes @mastodonmigration
Wise, wise words. It's so easy to generalize, to refuse to see the complexity of those red states. No one deserves that fate. Even the ones who brought it about.
That chance... that's everything.
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TCat - Vote Blue, Vote Harrisreplied to cwicseolfor last edited by
@cwicseolfor @Pineywoozle @Remittancegirl @humanhorseshoes @mastodonmigration
Well said. IMO, there are no "red states", only suppressed states.
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cwicseolforreplied to Madeleine Morris last edited by
@Remittancegirl @TCatInReality @Pineywoozle @humanhorseshoes @mastodonmigration One of the complexities I can't understand people refusing to see is that largely they were, and remain, slave states: large portions of the population are of-color or otherwise minoritized and suffer most our robust and profitable prison pipeline. Thus incarcerated, captive, forced to labor, denied enfranchisement - but still counted as population.
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cwicseolforreplied to TCat - Vote Blue last edited by
@TCatInReality @Pineywoozle @Remittancegirl @humanhorseshoes @mastodonmigration The data confirms. My state Texas has been ~5% closer each presidential election to turning blue - 2020 just 5.6% red edge among the ~2/3 of eligible voters who voted!
Why only 2/3? I stood 40min outside in a thunderstorm, no overhead shelter. No mail option. Unannounced closures. Black neighborhoods, police escorted MAGA convoys by polling places!
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Mastodon Migration VOTEDreplied to cwicseolfor last edited by
@cwicseolfor @TCatInReality @Pineywoozle @Remittancegirl @humanhorseshoes
Recall last election when they changed the rules at the last minute to only have one early voting location per county, which conveniently made it easy for rural voters predominantly Republican and next to impossible for urban voters where most Democrats live.
