Clarence Thomas has long tried to undercut the Voting Rights Act. Now, he may finally have the numbers
Clarence Thomas has long tried to undercut the Voting Rights Act. Now, he may finally have the numbers
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has been imploring his colleagues for decades to gut a crucial part of the iconic Voting Rights Act that prohibits practices denying Blacks, Hispanics and other racial minorities an equal right to vote.
This Uncle Tom, Steven Candie, house n***** is a first degree motherf*cker
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Americans need to grow a spine and some balls. It's pathetic how the entire country has rolled over and given up.
It's been six months. How long did it take in Germany? We have at least until World War o'clock.
True true, just don't cut it short! It's 5 to!
"Home of the brave".
Maybe it was at one point. Maybe it will be again.
They fought Nazis and imperial Japanese soldiers in Europe and the Pacific, now they're defending Nazis and pedos and building camps.
Yeah, although it took them a couple years to even do that. I keep wondering what their "Pearl Harbor" will be that finally gets them to take action.
Pearl Harbor happened because America, and FDR, cared just enough about Japan's invasion of China to embargo them. That's simply not going to happen with Trump.
A better source of historical comparison are rebellions and revolutions, in which case the cause is either people going hungry or Trump fucking with his own power base.
the cause is either people going hungry
Lot of empty fields out there with food that isn't getting picked right now. This may be closer than we think.
I think that time has come and gone. I hope I'm wrong.
Oh? How's Lebanon doing right now? Rule of law? Corruption? Press freedoms? Economy and unemployment? It must be all good there given how frequently you post about America.
American policies in the region are a big part of why Lebanon has issues. We at least don't pretend to be other than we are. America has become a laughing stock. Good luck in gulag.
You judge a diverse country the size of all of Europe while evidently knowing very little about it. And the fact that you blame another country for your own country's problems means you are pretending to be other than you are. We know our problems come from within.
I grew up in England thanks to a civil war, I've been to the US numerous times and have family who are American. I know very well your culture. And yes I will always blame European and American foreign policies for a lot of the world's issues because that's the truth, like it or not.
America isn't a friendly nation to a lot of the world .
Look, I think we're basically on the same side of this. My point is that England is not the US, a cousin in Texas does not give you a complete picture, heck even Americans who grew up on the East Coast don't understand the Midwest and vice versa. I've spent a month in a country in north Africa, a month in one in east Africa, I've made friends in those places and had long conversations with them about their countries, and I wouldn't dream of assuming I understand those countries because I don't. Since you have family in the US you of all people should be rooting for us to get our house in order. Posting defeatist or judgmental comments about the people who are against this, about people who are against fascism, against Israeli influence in our politics, may make you feel better in the short term, but it might be the comment that someone who was on the fence about taking action sees and pushes them into thinking "Why bother?"
Anyway, I've said my piece, I'll stop there.
Fair is fair and you're right. I am posting defeatist and judgemental comments, and it's mainly out of extreme frustration. My cousins are freaking out and while I am closely following all the insane news about what's going on internally, I can't help feeling regular people aren't doing enough to shut this down. Like there should be a general strike and cripple these billionaires!.
I guess you look at Europe and how they regularly shut shit down.(France as usual and lately the student protests in various European cities).
The issue with me is whatever government you lot have is going to have a major effect on the rest of the world, and this Trump government is a disgrace.
Fight the good fight and good luck. I will target Maga anywhere I see them.
I hear you. I think the difference is that France has way more worker protections, strong and influential unions, a solid social safety net, and frankly a less ruthless government, so there's less fear of financial ruin for work stoppages.
Meanwhile, corporations in America keep the working poor as close to bonded slavery as they can get away with without pushing them over the edge to violence, though even that equilibrium is starting to shift based on worker attitudes I hear. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the federal government as well as state governments regularly sided with corporations over workers and murdered hundreds of them, and workers mostly lost or had their lives destroyed. The frequency of conflict finally resulted in union protections... like 50 years later. Now most of those protections have been unraveled, and many low-income workers are a few months of missed rent payments away from homelessness. If they lose their job, there will be a dozen people waiting to take that job right after. So asking for a general strike is asking people to face certain financial ruin for themselves and their families.
That said, to be honest, it's a wonder to me that there hasn't been more violence between workers and corporations. As they keep taking things away from the working poor, though, I think it's coming. The problem is that propaganda is so strong that the violence may be misdirected. Either way, worker retaliation leading to a wider conflict is one of the only avenues I can see for systemic change.
That or secession.
Good luck in that clusterfuck, and yes, secession may end up the only viable recourse, given a portion of the population wants to go back in time and raise the confederate flag under a techno state, and a portion of you want to be normal, equality loving humans.