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More Blind Lunacy.

This place has got some serious right wing nut job vibes.

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[–] 89 points 3 days ago (25 children)

Oh they think they're being so very clever not saying specifically that they want to repeal women's right to vote.

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  • [–] 96 points 3 days ago (17 children)

    This reads more like satire, but I don't know the author.

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  • [–] 36 points 3 days ago (4 children)

    It reads like satire, but there is a real faction that are trying to repeal the 19th amendment.

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  • [–] 15 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

    Oh absolutely, but I haven't seen people sincerely saying the way to remedy it is by removing single men's suffrage. The vibe I got was that this was using the real opinions and arguments of the people who oppose women's suffrage then humorously turning it on its head by arguing against men's suffrage, which is an equally reasonable (completely unreasonable to be exact) remedy to the arguments as what those people will claim.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 days ago (3 children)

    It is. A few far right morons are starting to tout the whole, "Women dont vote right we should repeal the 19th" out loud instead of just thinking it privately. This is pretty clearly mocking that.

    That being said, fuck it, no one gets to vote. Were going ancient athens and just doing it by lotto. You can do your year and go home and face the repercussions without security and pension for a life.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 days ago (2 children)

    Harvard Law Professor Lawrence Lessig proposed a Jury-like system for passing legislation. The idea is that regardless of someone's stated political party, people will vote for individual laws that benefit them on a case by case basis before following hard party lines and it would be too costly and complicated for malicious groups to bribe individual citizens the same way they give "campaign contributions."

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  • [–] 1 point 2 days ago (1 child)

    What you are describing is supposed to be the role of the parliament in a well functioning democracy: you should be able to vote for the person representing your values, not choose the least bad option amongst two.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 3 days ago (4 children)

    Being in the platform it’s not.

    It’s a shame this cesspool is the only place to get tech industry tea.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 days ago (3 children)

    LinkedIn should be destroyed for the blight that it is on working people, but strawmanning the obvious, self-conflicting satire is not the move

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  • [–] 1 point 3 days ago (2 children)

    Is it a strawman when this is being treated as a legitimate position these days?

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  • [–] 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

    yes the joke is that you expect that to be the point but they subvert it by targeting an even more vulnerable group instead (/s since we need that here apparently)

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  • [–] 5 points 3 days ago (1 child)

    Yes it’s a about erasing women from the thought process regarding the 19th amendment.

    Human rights are indelible. They exist as something you really are entitled to by virtue of the fact that you exist as a human being.

    That said, legal rights which is what we discuss here, have only ONLY ever happened after a fight. No shit. All of them only come to us after a fight. Look up the history of the 19th. It almost didn’t happen. It wasn’t easy. It wasn’t a forgone conclusion. You need to realize that, internalize that, to fully understand what we are talking about here. None of this is something that cannot be legally ripped from us.

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