▲ 933 ▼ Far-right hosts are blaming the GOP's big election losses on Taylor Swift (www.businessinsider.com) submitted 2 years ago by ZeroCool@feddit.ch to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world 221 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] superduperenigma@lemmy.world 78 points 2 years ago (1 child) No, the current plan is not that "they hopefully just don't vote." The plan is to actively prevent them from voting through various forms of suppression. They're not just sit around waiting to see what happens. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Nollij@sopuli.xyz 51 points 2 years ago (3 children) TBH, actively trying to suppress voters isn't even the worst of it. The next step is making sure that it doesn't even matter if they do. You know, like they already do. Source: Am in Ohio. There are already public statements from officials that they are trying to dilute/overrule/ignore the results of our vote to legalize abortion and weed. And that's even outside things like gerrymandering. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] superduperenigma@lemmy.world 27 points 2 years ago (1 child) That's the whole point of their independent state legislature theory. They argue that the state legislature can simply declare their own election results if they don't like the voters' results and that nobody, not the executive nor the courts, can challenge them. They are literally arguing that we should dismantle democracy altogether and somehow people are still "bOtH sIdEs"-ing. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] rayyy@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago The point of The Great American Experiment was to use votes rather than bullets to select a leader. permalink fedilink source parent [–] assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago It's astonishing that their first thought is to oppose it by any means necessary when it passed with +14%. Like dude, you're just self sabotaging yourself and your party. This is just going to happen again and again until you accept it. permalink fedilink source parent [–] someguy3@lemmy.ca 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) Weed too? I only saw headlines about abortion. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Nollij@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) Yup. Issue 1 was abortion, issue 2 was weed. Both passed with about 57% support. Weed was ever so slightly more popular than abortion, but only a tiny bit permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] someguy3@lemmy.ca 1 point 2 years ago I mean I know it was on the ballot, but did the republicans says they wanted to ignore that part too? permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Nollij@sopuli.xyz 51 points 2 years ago (3 children) TBH, actively trying to suppress voters isn't even the worst of it. The next step is making sure that it doesn't even matter if they do. You know, like they already do. Source: Am in Ohio. There are already public statements from officials that they are trying to dilute/overrule/ignore the results of our vote to legalize abortion and weed. And that's even outside things like gerrymandering. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] superduperenigma@lemmy.world 27 points 2 years ago (1 child) That's the whole point of their independent state legislature theory. They argue that the state legislature can simply declare their own election results if they don't like the voters' results and that nobody, not the executive nor the courts, can challenge them. They are literally arguing that we should dismantle democracy altogether and somehow people are still "bOtH sIdEs"-ing. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] rayyy@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago The point of The Great American Experiment was to use votes rather than bullets to select a leader. permalink fedilink source parent [–] assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago It's astonishing that their first thought is to oppose it by any means necessary when it passed with +14%. Like dude, you're just self sabotaging yourself and your party. This is just going to happen again and again until you accept it. permalink fedilink source parent [–] someguy3@lemmy.ca 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) Weed too? I only saw headlines about abortion. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Nollij@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) Yup. Issue 1 was abortion, issue 2 was weed. Both passed with about 57% support. Weed was ever so slightly more popular than abortion, but only a tiny bit permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] someguy3@lemmy.ca 1 point 2 years ago I mean I know it was on the ballot, but did the republicans says they wanted to ignore that part too? permalink fedilink source parent
[–] superduperenigma@lemmy.world 27 points 2 years ago (1 child) That's the whole point of their independent state legislature theory. They argue that the state legislature can simply declare their own election results if they don't like the voters' results and that nobody, not the executive nor the courts, can challenge them. They are literally arguing that we should dismantle democracy altogether and somehow people are still "bOtH sIdEs"-ing. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] rayyy@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago The point of The Great American Experiment was to use votes rather than bullets to select a leader. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] rayyy@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago The point of The Great American Experiment was to use votes rather than bullets to select a leader. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago It's astonishing that their first thought is to oppose it by any means necessary when it passed with +14%. Like dude, you're just self sabotaging yourself and your party. This is just going to happen again and again until you accept it. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] someguy3@lemmy.ca 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) Weed too? I only saw headlines about abortion. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Nollij@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) Yup. Issue 1 was abortion, issue 2 was weed. Both passed with about 57% support. Weed was ever so slightly more popular than abortion, but only a tiny bit permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] someguy3@lemmy.ca 1 point 2 years ago I mean I know it was on the ballot, but did the republicans says they wanted to ignore that part too? permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Nollij@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) Yup. Issue 1 was abortion, issue 2 was weed. Both passed with about 57% support. Weed was ever so slightly more popular than abortion, but only a tiny bit permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] someguy3@lemmy.ca 1 point 2 years ago I mean I know it was on the ballot, but did the republicans says they wanted to ignore that part too? permalink fedilink source parent
[–] someguy3@lemmy.ca 1 point 2 years ago I mean I know it was on the ballot, but did the republicans says they wanted to ignore that part too? permalink fedilink source parent