#mass democracy

[socialjusticeinamerica]

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“A federal judge recognized a 22-year-old Kansan’s Second Amendment right to own machine guns last week.

U.S. District Judge John Broomes’ ruling is the latest in a series of contradictory interpretations of gun rights stemming from the Supreme Court’s sweeping reinterpretation of the Second Amendment in the 2022 case of New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen.

That decision, penned by Justice Clarence Thomas, said laws restricting gun rights are only constitutional if they stem from a tradition of regulation dating from some time between the signing of the Bill of Rights in 1791 and the end of the Civil War.”

[ancaporado]

[zvaigzdelasas]

No skin off my back, but isn’t the assumption of liberals that either the Republican Party would alter course and become more moderate or collapse into several smaller parties upon consecutive Democratic Party wins?

Or I guess “one party dominant” is still a distinctive political system from either orthodox multiparty liberal democracy or Marxist-Leninist single party democracy. Are American liberals typically supportive of Lee Kuan Yew? That would make sense

The most coherent plan I've seen is "unshakeable Democrat majority in all chambers until they completely trash the FPTP system, institute multi party democracy, and get rid of the electoral college, and every single SC justice becomes a democrat. Now obviously they wouldnt do this for quite a while, but -". Also has the assumption that the new parties would all be Good Parties.

As to LKY - literally have been trying to ask this exact question for months and have yet to get a meaningful response. Mainly bc vanishingly few US libs have even a rudimentary familiarity with any political system outside of North America and Europe, but for the few who do they'd have to actually consider the point "PAP actually does things that most Singaporean people want them to do, which is how they get elected again and again" which is the inverse of the carriage-driven-horse version of democracy they understand.

[beauty-funny-trippy]

[shima-draws]

Seething at one of the tags on that poll saying FMA is a military + genocide apologist anime have you even WATCHED it

[sher-ee]

I had zero celebration vibes yesterday. 🇺🇸

[politicalmo]

Iykyk

[korrasamibottles]

That different people can engage with the same piece of media and come out of it with wildly different interpretations is a testament to the evolutionary miracle that is the human brain. It is also very annoying.

[commonsensecommentary]

“If we’re waiting for politicians, bureaucrats, and the self-promoting priesthood of “experts” to save America, we’re going to have a long wait. The solution is to be found within each of us, and it’s very simple: Call out stupidity wherever you see it, refuse to comply with that which offends your sense of justice or morality, and don’t let anyone shut you up or shut you down.”

[quartergremlin]

May i send you some posts as twednesday propaganda?

I've collected some of my fav splinter/lou jitsu and/or draxum posts for inspiration

YES!!!! ABSOLUTELY!!!!!!

[rosielindy]

Migrant crime is not a real thing. It’s all based on video snippets taken out of context and media fear tactics. Calling for mass deportation is anti-American.

[usauthoritarianism]

OK So Context

I kind of progressively lost my mind in college. What with the learning about the specifics of what is going on and how it relates to what has happened in the past. -and subsequently took the time to develop a series of presentations about why the US sucks.

Specifically, the interventions in Latin American, just the astoundingly predatory nature of American Capitalism domestically and The Police, like, as a concept.

Fast forward to the Summer of 2022 and I realized that working with an editor and publishing a book is hard and expensive but its measured in thousands not tens of thousands so I committed to doing that at some point in my life with this project, and began working on adapting the presentations with more research and more connections between these different expressions of White Supremacy.

I let the research balloon. There's just so much.

Anyway, the whole social media campaign thing was to distract me from pinning all that down. -and last month one of the members of my subreddit, u/acebush1, self immolated in the time it took to get around to responding to his most recent comment. That made this all very real. The US' support for Israel and it's foundation as a settler colonial state are critically relevant.

Right, so,. Last month someone asked me how to buy the book and that was the thing I had said to myself would mark the transition back to a writing and research focus rather than just research and learning social media.

Site is up. Its an email submission form with a set your own price stripe link.

[fuckablerobotbracket]

[agentfascinateur]

Love of power is for those who stopped feeling and look for a placebo.

[beauty-funny-trippy]

⠀⠀We talk of sympathy, sorrow, outrage, and calls for action...you know, all the things we all say every time there's a mass shooting. And then, beyond all reason, we Americans keep electing politicians who vote against even the most basic, commonsense gun laws.

⠀⠀I imagine what the families of the victims really want to know is —is all this talk merely words without substance? Or, will this time be different? This time, will we actually do something about gun violence? This time, will the sincerity of our words and the depth of our compassion extend all the way to the voting booth?

[sher-ee]