• peeonyou [he/him]
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    15 days ago

    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

  • SSJ3Marx
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    10 days ago

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  • machiabelly [she/her]
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    15 days ago

    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

    • Josephine_Spiro [she/her]
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      15 days ago

      Its possible it was phrased poorly (intentionally), but considering usians I do think people like slavery unfortunately

      • machiabelly [she/her]
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        15 days ago

        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.

      • -6-6-6-@lemmygrad.ml
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        15 days ago

        Oh woah! I didn't know working for nine cents-dollar an hour (variable depending on state) as a punishment for a drug charge or some other felony (ontop of getting your rights stripped) isn't slavery! I didn't know that fighting deadly fires for that same amount of money isn't slavery either. Of course, I suppose in some states the alternative is to completely forgo commission at all. You know, conditions in American prisons are just that great you can do that, right? /s

        What's even stranger is that there is certain ethnic groups targeted by the private prison complex and then sentenced to that type of "labor as punishment for crime" in the same settler state that has a history of enslaving people. Just coincidences, right?

        You're a fucking pathetic worm, wriggling your shit all over the god damn definitions and stinking up the god damn place with your empty rhetoric. Fuck you.

  • Quaxamilliom [comrade/them]
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    15 days ago

    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.

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  • junebug2 [comrade/them, she/her]
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    15 days ago

    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.

    • GoodGuyWithACat [he/him]
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      15 days ago

      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.

  • Coolkidbozzy [he/him]
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    15 days ago

    Palo Alto by Malcolm Harris (in the section discussing 1975-2000, California über Alles)

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  • Guamer [she/her]
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    15 days ago

    Hostility towards the homeless, poor and downtrodden here has been rising sharply sadly, especially since covid forced more people to the streets.

  • VILenin [he/him]
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    15 days ago

    They would vote to turn every inmate into Soylent Green if they could. The average American loves cruelty.