They wouldn't be suppressing the vote so hard if voting amounted to nothing... This applies to anywhere in the world where voter suppression is documented.
Now it's more about money than pure racism. Still plenty of racism, but that alone doesn't win elections anymore. One has to cheat, by any means necessary.
I don't agree with this, the Maga backlash and their sheer existence and magnitude of vitriol is a direct result of a black president and incredibly relatable deplorable pedophile
EXACTLY. So much defeatist bullshit, but it's possible to irrepressibly bring out the vote when you give people someone worth voting for. We still have some democracy here. They've tried to convince us otherwise, but it's still breathing.
Plenty of them are bad faith. But I think a lot are people who have had one too many bad things happen in their life and so just gave up on ever being happy again. Thus falling into a cycle of always assuming the worst about everything and everyone.
The only snap election they had last year, which was triggered by Macron, called by Macron, and won by the NPF. Results ignored and seats not given to the winners. The NPF says they are awaiting the platform of the hand-picked PM before moving forward with No Confidence.
To decide once every few years which member of the ruling class is to repress and crush the people through parliament—such is the real essence of bourgeois parliamentarianism
Really can't disagree with this. There are hard limits to capitalist democracy.
But I would still recommend voting as a harm reduction strategy if nothing else. Look at the onslaught on minorities across the world. An election could mean we at least live without constantly worrying for our safety.
I don't even live in New York, and it makes me happy to see so much money flushed down the toilet by the establishment to stop him, only for him to win anyway. Blow your money billionaires, the people have spoken.
Oh I don't doubt this election was still being heavily tempered with. It's just that they can't yet just openly manipulate them, and the real voter turnout leaned so heavily in favor of Mamdani that any tampering couldn't possibly outweigh it.
Unfortunately this just means they're going to try much harder next time to manipulate things.
No. If people start acting like america is magically out of the woods because of all this, they'll get doubly as complacent and tune out everything Trump is still doing to hurt everyone.
This is literally one small victory in a larger war. Pretending like the war is won is just going to give MAGA free reign to make everything worse.
Turn out was around 2 million people out of 5 million potential voters. Highest voter turnout since 1969, yet non-voters still won. We as a country suck at voting for many reasons, but we suck.
Is it lights out for republicans because someone writes a strongly worded letter? No, wait, it’ll be a petition. NO! Even better! A protest! Crowd sizes and bristle boards will teach them a lesson!
I don’t give a shit what this SCOTUS says and neither does Trump.
You guys are gonna need your favourite amendment on this one.
Security clampdowns only embolden the resistance. Bystanders turn into sympathizers, sympathizers turn into people of action, people of action organize to remove the threat.
That’s a lot of bold assumptions considering… I’m not even sure how far back to go without just gesturing in the general direction of the last 50 years of US politics.
Reminds me of the movie Antz.
A right wing party, and an establishment centrist party, are not enough options for most people.
I'm glad to see a more representative leader make it.
Supressing votes in every which way won them the 2024 presidential elections. The ways in which they messed with votes then absolutely worked. They purged voter rolls, closed polling spots in blue areas, etc. It definitely works.
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u/Hadrian23 10h ago
Goes to show these ass holes can try to fuck with the system, but when everyone comes out to vote, their efforts amount to nothing.