I think I underestimated how reactionary Americans are. I dont understand how you can see "prohibit slavery" and then be like, no actually I like that thank you.
Only trans people should be allowed to vote. If you arent doing the pokey, you shouldnt be doing the votey
I dont understand how you can see “prohibit slavery” and then be like, no actually I like that thank you.
Because the phrasing there is not an accurate description of the proposition. Specifically, it bans sentencing someone to do labor as punishment for a crime and bans prisons disciplining prisoners who refuse to work.
Hate to break it to you but those two things are super clear cut examples of how one could prohibit slavery in the prison system.
California honestly makes me fucking vomit. Just awful state.
God CA is so fucking reactionary, and yet somehow the entire rest of the country thinks we're all communists. My fellow residents can't even vote in favor of rent control and minimum wage for fuck's sake.
Hostility towards the homeless, poor and downtrodden here has been rising sharply sadly, especially since covid forced more people to the streets.
They’re heal turning towards the right so they can join with Texas to give us the civil war that Alex Garland dared to dream of.
i couldn't even believe that was on the goddamned ballot.. why are we voting on this, why not just fucking do it?
it was hilarious that the ballot said there were no opposition groups
and yet it loses
San Francisco has also taken a hard shift to the far right. lmao this country is so fucking cooked. US is the headquarter of reactionaries.
43% of the votes have been counted. That 53% ‘no’ vote represents about 23% of the total expected votes. Broadly speaking, the first votes counted are from small and rural areas, and the last votes counted are from mail-in and urban areas. The first group tends to lean conservative, and the last tends to lean liberal or progressive or whatever. California is frequently pretty dogshit politically, but we aren’t going to know any results until like tomorrow afternoon at the earliest. People are happy to call it for Harris because it’s California, but for actually competitive issues it takes hours if not days. Something like 30% of votes were mail-in this year, and they couldn’t legally open those until the physical polls were closed.
California loves policing as a whole though. The measure to increase punishment for drugs and theft is already called for as a yes, that's a signal to me.
Palo Alto by Malcolm Harris (in the section discussing 1975-2000, California über Alles)
Show
Show
