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YouTube video by Michael Burns From Waymo to ICE: How Silicon Valley is Destroying Democracy

POV: you're with me in a Waymo driving to an ICE detention center in Los Angeles

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They don't like when you tell them (your own family) that it doesnt matter how hard you try to prove youre an american, they will never see you as an american. Ever.

I need people to read @bcmerchant.bsky.social 's book "Blood in the Machine"

Fostering empathy for non human objects while actual humans have their dignity stripped away

People... are allowed to come up with mean names for inanimate objects. If you compare this practice to racial slurs, I'm going to think you believe people of other races hold the same concrete significance and value as inanimate objects. This is one of those slips that does not look good on anyone.

Honestly this is the whole struggle in a nutshell

Lmao

I have friends contacting me panicking and i remind them that this happened in 2020, but i hate catching myself downplaying it because its not to be downplayed.

Does anyone know any good good reads about Assata Shakur and her political legacy?

This non violent stuff'll get you killed

What are you reading this weekend?

moments ago, ice agents again came out of the broadview detention/“professing” facility to escort a silver suv out of the lot.

one of the agents picked up and threw congressional candidate kat abughazaleh to the ground.

Hearing this in bitsy's voice is something else

They have the United States MILITARY carrying that man’s casket for processing off Air Force 2.

Motherfucker served not ONE day in the military. He was a podcaster.

Racism is POWERFUL

Far-Right influencers literally calling for people that disagree with them to be "put to death."

getting a permit for the montgomery bus boycott

Igualmente 💜

I’m also struck by the power being assigned to debate considering one of the most decisive and well-known debates in US history, Baldwin-Buckley was about the same issue under contest now.

Yes. There's whole wikipedia pages on voter disenfranshisement if youre interested in how it works.

my team won, time to go back to sleep for 4 years

Yes, this group of people was oppressed

shouldnt be something i have to get down on eye level with people and tell them like they're hearing it for the first time

"Were all those people suppressed?"

Is a line i've had republicans say to me, libertarians say to me

but now dems, who can't be bothered to consider that voter disenfranchisement still exists and has a PROFOUND history in the US, now they're saying this line at me, like its a check mate

Yes, its called voter disenfranchisement. It has very long history in the united stated and it is EFFECTIVE at preventing about a third of the eligible voting population from voting. Thats why republicans keep pushing bills that back it, like the Save Act that was on all of our minds recently.

More people who enjoyy punching left are here than when i initially joined and it makes me never want to come back to this place again

I don't want to be comrades with folks who think that everything would have been fine if there was a dem in office

If you look at the data, by scale, these are not comparable problems. One significantly impacts voting outcomes every election.

Voter supression is more to blame than protests votes

I think about this all the time, you'd think there would be more cross racial solidarity amongst christians (i think of the st patrick's batallion anecdote), but no

I don't get that Christmas morning feeling anymore

except on 420