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Resist: It's Time
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We are still in this together, but "this" is going to be real different in the very near future. This demands a different kind of "we."
The French Resistance during Nazi occupation played important roles delivering downed Allied airmen back to safety, supplying military intelligence, and acts of sabotage.
The Underground Railroad is estimated to have brought 100,000 freedom seekers to safety between 1810 and 1850.
It's time.
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How can you be protecting democracy when democracy chose Trump to lead it? There was an election and you lost.
Let's say for the sake of argument that the 2024 election was 100% fair, completely above board, completely absent of any foreign influence.
HE'S FUCKING THE CONSTITUTION LIKE A FUCKING FLESHLIGHT!
Just because he was elected, it doesn't make what he's doing right. The maddening thing is, if he was a Democrat, we'd still be protesting but because he's Republican, the right is completely okay with it.
It's cause "the constitution" is just a slavermasters pact. This is what it was designed for. Stop worshiping dead parchment.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_religion
Ah yes, the constitution that was famously changed to include such clauses as "no more slavery" and "civil rights for all" is just a slavemasters pack. You're so clearly right and not just a contrarian fuckwit.
"Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, "
"nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law;"
Aside from being incorrect in the details, the rules as written don't matter as much as the rules as enforced. The US constitution is not producing good results for many people.
Also trump isn't eligible under the 14th amendment for the whole insurrection thing.
Yes, he's democratically elected. He also is violating the Constitution of the United States in multiple ways. Even if he were elected with a legitimate 99% of the popular vote, he should still be protested, impeached, and removed from office.
He was democratically elected through voter suppression. The more people that vote, the worse the GOP performs.
Overall voter turnout was 63.7%. Voter turnout in states where Trump won was 63.4% Voter turnout in states where Harris won was 66.4%. States with the lowest turnout included Hawaii, Texas , West Virgina, Arkansas, and Oklahoma - almost all red states.
Texas is my favorite example of voter suppression. Texas should be a swing state. The GOP never held a majority in the Texas legislature until 2002. In 2003, they went all-in on redistricting, flipping Texas from a majority-Democrat Congressional delegation to 2/3 Republican between 2002 and 2004, with the dems never recovering. They also have laws written specifically to make it harder to vote in Houston, since it's 20% black and reliably votes blue.
I heard this argument when Berlusconi was Italy's PM. It just shows a deep ignorance of the checks and balances of every Western democracy.
Democracy is the ability of the people to choose their future. You either support that or you aren't democratic.
The Italian Constitution explicitly states that
What you advocate for is populism, not democracy.
Oh god the irony.
in no small part due to Republucan run states suppressing the vote.
Why are you here?
What side are you on?
I still think he cheated, and even if he didn't, he is breaking the law.
The people voted to drive on the street, the president is driving on the sidewalk.