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i think some people interpret “full of” differently and that’s a fair gripe to have with this post

as i said in the body text, feel free to swap in “has a lot of” if that’s more familiar language to you :)

hence they couldn’t vote for the way things are

and still can’t. voter repression still happens. in 2025. said it before. you ignored it. brought it back up again. you called me an ass. said it a third time, and you called me bad faith.

i gave a timeline of problems (A B C) and you ignored the most recent, most relevant, date in the timeline (C) three times. three times you ignored C. just to be clear. my point is C. the current ongoing crisis is C. C is the issue i am concerned about in making this entire post. C is proof that the progress of A and B has not come to fruition.

thank you for your time.

yeah :( exactly. this conversation was about voting suppression and somehow you immediately jumped to the assumption that me recognizing that there’s an oppressed minority of good people (INCLUDING TRANS FOLKS BY THE WAY) who have by and large been kept from democratic self-determination through systemic forces means…

(shuffles chronically online internet argument deck)

that i want to ignore trans rights?

for the record, no, i believe the opposite. i believe that my trans neighbors (and family, fyi) in the south exist and are worthy of recognition and support, in spite of the voting bloc they are surrounded by and historically been kept from engaging with.

i hope this is informative and corrects your misconstruals. you are shadow boxing against a position that i don’t think anyone here has. feel free to ask any questions as i am willing to give the benefit of the doubt that this was an honest misunderstanding.

Busted 😆 I’m actually a fed, raking in thirty bucks a comment just to…

(checks notes) express solidarity with folks in deep red areas so they know they’re not alone out there.

i have no narrative or conclusion here, just sharing a thing i found, Kelly seems maybe to be lying?

there’s record of a system being installed here. very bare in details, but only a decade ago. seems like a system could last that long right? idk it’s past my bedtime

https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/kerr-co-launches-emergency-alert-system/273-264106461

partially false, you rightfully fault government officials for allowing gerrymandering but voters are never given the choice. the majority of voters oppose gerrymandering.

Sometimes seeing the numbers is the most meaningful! Even in a 70/30 state that’s still 3 in 10 people who didn’t ask for this—maybe more if, as is sometimes found, Democrats gain more votes when polls become more accessible.

Thanks for sharing!

(Personally for me it was the “cousin fucking” language that gave me the wrong impression. Not to tone police, that’s just kind of how I got to where I was because that’s very common in circles that tend to do dehumanizing .)

Hey dude I just came here to spread a message of kindness to a minority of good people in tough geopolitical situations that we see them and are there for them, and that even though they might be surounded by evil actors and a history of violence and abuse, that we will fight for them.

Your words and choices here are making that shitty. Check yourself. You’re being mean. Cheers.

i thought it was human nature for my paycheck to go to bomb apartment buildings several oceans away while my neighbors die of preventable diseases???? im confused

me: lists evidence of voter suppression in 1920, 1965, and today

you: THAT WAS OVER 60 YEARS AGO

me: i don’t think you saw the part where i said “today”

you: name calling

i love this website so much

thanks for the personal attack i guess lol you are so cool online wow so cool

still you act like 60 years is some kind of insurmountable gap in history and that’s so cringe. the echoes of slavery and native american genocide echo from before 1776 through today. MLK didn’t magically die and then fix every barrier Black people suffered in life. that’s pretty basic history lol.

I’m not sure what class disenfranchisement has to do with the part you’re angry about.

all of it you silly goose. disenfranchisement means “depriving someone of the right to vote.” when the poor are depreived of the right to vote (not directly by law, but indirectly by systemic barriers), it means shocker they don’t vote. this entire thread is in response to someone saying “i guess but they voted for that too.” that’s the context you butted into, i operate on the pretty fair premise that you knew that and read the thread. :)