• Initiateofthevoid@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    7 days ago

    Thank the electoral college. There’s a lot of additional reasons, but they all ultimately come back to the fact that Americans are not equally or fairly represented by their “representative democracy”.

    First Past the Post, the structure of the Senate, the capped House, and the electoral college… they all lead to some voters having more say than others.

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    Well YEAH but at least we (not me I voted for Harris) did the noble thing and forfeited our future and living standards in order to save the poor people in Gaza. Other people in the world have it bad therefore I deserve to have an even shittier life. Real nice. Fucking dipshits.

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    Voter suppression, and part of that voter suppression strategy is apathy. If Black people understood they were such a powerhouse, they could change America, and then the world. But old rich white bigots have convinced many of them that their vote doesn’t matter, nothing will change, etc.

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      I was talking to one of my black co-workers before last election and his POV was that his vote didn’t matter. I told him if his vote didn’t matter then why are groups spending so much money to get you to NOT vote. Either by suppression tactics or tricks about where to vote, and also promoting voter apathy.

      He just responded something like ‘both sides’ neither would work for me…I’m pretty sure he didn’t vote.

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    Imo because of repression and not having access to quick and easy voting.

    The GOP fuckers gerrymander the shit out of any place they can get their sweaty hands on. So that doesn’t help. Makes the people feel like no matter what, they won’t be heard, won’t make a difference. Then the Cons limit the ballot boxes, limit the hours for voting, limit mail in voting… Anything they can do to keep people from voting. They know they win as long as no one shows up.

    It’s disgusting and very undemocratic. Everyone needs access to voting— easy and convenient voting. I also think voting should be compulsory (by mail).

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    7 days ago

    This is why Black republicans scare me. Like, dude, do you not see with your eyes what is happening??

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      They think they have made it into the in-group and will be spared. As history has proven time and time again, they will not.

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        6 days ago

        Racists tend to be Republican, but not all Republicans are racist. I imagine most black Republican voters are voting right for the same reason everyone else does. Ultimately everyone is the same, black or not.

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    7 days ago

    Part of it is institutional hurdles to voting.

    The other part of it is the Democratic Party making big promises and then doing jack shit to fulfill them once they’re elected.

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      Im sure you have numbers to prove that there are fewer blacks voting than whites.

      In the local elections, there is gerrymandering to make sure minorities doesn’t actually get a voice in the decisions of the state.

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        In the local elections, there is gerrymandering to make sure minorities doesn’t actually get a voice in the decisions of the state.

        I know. That’s what I meant by ‘institutional hurdles’. (Among other things.)

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    Democrats have spent decades disenfranchising their own voters.

    The Republicans want non whites to be enslaved or exterminated

    The Democrats want non whites to be slaves but not understand they are slaves.

    People are stupid, but they aren’t that stupid.

    I don’t think I’ve met a single POC that has faith in either party after 2016.

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      I don’t think I’ve met a single POC that has faith in either party after 2016.

      Nailed it. Also why 10,000,000 former voters opted not to miss a day’s work in 2024.

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      Imma let you in on a little secret. If your sentence starts with “all [category of people]” it is an incorrect and stupid sentence.

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      As a white person in the north, I absolutely despise whites in the south.

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        I knew some people in the South who never accepted the civil war loss and refused to work with or associate with Northerners. This was in the 90s. One got mad because I said to move on and act like an American and we almost wound up throwing hands over it.

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      I’m white and from the south and this is definitely not true for me. Now there are some people down here that definitely fall into that category but it is far from universally true. I’d even go so far as to say they are a small, but yes very vocal, minority.

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        Be real careful because even the ones you think arent racist and are super polite and nice will let it slip eventually.

        Glad to be out of there

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        A “small but vocal minority” doesn’t keep institutional racist policies if “we the people” aren’t also voting for them.

        You are doing yourself a disservice by assuming the ones being vocal about their beliefs are the only ones holding those beliefs.

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      You say that, but it sounds like you have never actually been to the southern US. I lived in Arkansas for 9 years and this kind of broad statement does more harm than good.

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        Parents from Arkansas. Born in Alabama. Raised in NC. Spent most of my life throughout the Southern US. I have a pretty real good idea. They’ll talk real nice and polite but invariably it will show at some point…every single time.

        Also, if you’ve lived in Arkansas you are surrounded by people whose religion claims that black people are the Mark of Cain and are controlled by Satan. Dont let their outward demeanor fool you.

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    7 days ago

    It would be interesting to see a comparison of percentage of black people per state alongside this to see if there is any correlation