the GOP is the party of disenfranchisement

afoaf

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thankfully they are also the party of losing their gerrymandering court cases


Arizona Republicans’ recent crackdown on voting rights was motivated by racism. The court invalidated a law that was plainly designed to stop Native American, Hispanic, and black voters from casting a ballot—not just because it happened to burden minorities more than whites, but because it is flat-out racist.
Under the “results test” of the Voting Rights Act, states may not enact laws with a disparate impact on minority voters that is linked to “social and historical conditions” of racism. “Extensive and uncontradicted evidence,” the court explained, proves precisely such an impact here. Arizona has a long history of racist voting restrictions, one that “has continued to the present day.” Election officials did not just close polling places in nonwhite neighborhoods; they also misled Spanish-speaking voters—by, for instance, claiming that the Nov. 6, 2012, election would be held on Nov. 8 in an official Spanish elections guide, a mistake mysteriously absent from the English-language pamphlet
 

mundus

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"Win if you can, lose if you must, but cheat always" The Republican motto.
 

crustBrother

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thankfully they are also the party of losing
Does 54% sound like losing?

I didn't think so.

 
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afoaf

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this feels like when you are visiting someone's home and take a dump
that clogs the toilet, but there's no plunger in the bathroom so you're
just sitting there wondering what to do and hoping the thing eventually
just flushes on its own....
 

ElOgro

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this feels like when you are visiting someone's home and take a dump
that clogs the toilet, but there's no plunger in the bathroom so you're
just sitting there wondering what to do and hoping the thing eventually
just flushes on its own....
Put 10 liters of water in a bucket. Dump the water in the toilet.

That’s not the kinda thing that solves itself.
 

grapedrink

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A Beach
this feels like when you are visiting someone's home and take a dump
that clogs the toilet, but there's no plunger in the bathroom so you're
just sitting there wondering what to do and hoping the thing eventually
just flushes on its own....
I try to remember to preemptively double flush. Especially when I lay down a bomb- always flush before wipe.