you’re either terribly uninformed or willfully ignorant. lack of transportation, accommodation, childcare, time off work, current identification all contribute. gerrymandering minimizes the effects of successfully voting as well.
also, you’re not helping anything.
why didn’t you stop your neighbors from evil when you lived here?
are each of your countrymen, wherever you are now, without fault?
you justify your own hatred and desire to harm, and so you will perpetuate the harm you experienced.
we can attack and punish each other as the few would like or work together. that requires us to acknowledge common humanity and rally together for our shared well-being.
there are bad and good people everywhere. i do not endorse painting millions as deserving suffering; there’s plenty of that already.
ordinary americans can find their way out of this mess together or tear each other apart. which do you imagine suits those in power?
you are no longer here. stop trying to sow further hatred and division. i don’t want my children, my friends, my colleagues, my clients to suffer because they live on the wrong side of an arbitrary line.
there are a lot of nice people in the south. there are a lot of brown people in the south. you think everyone needs to suffer brutality for what the worst do?
probably direct support with your time and funding is a good idea, if you can. it certainly looks like federal grants are going away ☹️
except that it suggests bipoc people have value and contribute meaningfully to our country.
why not? serious question, i don’t really know a lot about military leadership.
to me, it seems like a good thing if lots of people refuse to cooperate, refuse to be made instruments of this regime. enough people refuse and the regime is disempowered.
maybe, i’m not sure. but those stats up there suggest maybe they are not willing to sacrifice themselves after all. i hope we can help them understand that society doesn’t have to be a zero-sum game, which is what i think many of them have believed.
at some point, people have nothing left to lose. enough people like that and i’m sure it will happen.
who is saying that?!
they were also children, presumably echoing the narratives of their parents. it is not a foregone conclusion that they are incapable of empathy.
to your last point, you’re not wrong. a lot of people are so fucked they know it doesn’t really matter, and i won’t blame them for the state of the nation.
where i live, voting is not necessarily easy or convenient for folks relying on public transport. that much harder if they are, say, a working single parent living below the poverty level. and my work involves talking to people like this every day - there are millions like them.
omg, the dementia is so so apparent