Olgratin_Magmatoe @ Olgratin_Magmatoe @lemmy.world

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I think they're just saying that everyone should have the option and use it.

and it only takes five minutes.

Not here it doesn't. There are constant intentional efforts to shut down polling locations in communities with a disproportionate amount of minorities. The intent is to force minority voters to travel further to get to a polling place (which may not be an option due to our joke of a public transit network), and to force them to wait in line for hours at a time to vote.

https://www.npr.org/2020/10/17/924527679/why-do-nonwhite-georgia-voters-have-to-wait-in-line-for-hours-too-few-polling-pl

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/01/04/upshot/voting-wait-times.html

In some jurisdictions, they've gone so far with their voter suppression tactics that they make it a punishable offense to provide food and water for those waiting in the hours long lines to vote.

https://www.americanbar.org/groups/senior_lawyers/resources/experience/2024-january-february/is-line-warming-legal/

And that's all before accounting for the fact that many people need to have two jobs to be stable, which makes it hard to get to the polls even if the lines are short.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/8-7-million-americans-now-193011733.html

The U.S. election system is a joke, and a sham democracy.

Watching For All Mankind makes me feel bad for present-day Russians because even those Soviet Russians have it better.

I just started watching the series and I'm in season 2. I'm loving it so far, and couldn't agree more.

Looking at you c/linuxsucks

A life sentence for attempted 1st degree murder isn't draconian. What would you have us do, set him free?

I just don't have the time/energy to prepare lunch most of the time.

At least while working from home, I'm already up and moving and have my kitchen right next to me.

Yeah, I always try to have some berries with breakfast in part because of that.

Though the days I have to go into work in person make that a lot harder.

I've had a long running problem with my sugar tooth. And I've had to take similar steps. I've switched to sugar free/low sugar chocolate/ice cream/candy, and it's helper a lot.

Sure, they aren't great for me either, but in comparison it's way better for me.

I'm not even talking about myself. Quit bullshiting

Yeah, that's shitty too.

They’re not evil, they’re not idiots.

No, they're both. They know they're spreading hate, and they find it funny.

I feel as if boycotting this election is the moral high ground and it’s fucking rude that people keep telling me it’s equal to voting for Trump

It's fucking rude that you're prioritizing a fake moral high ground over the lives of the people who will suffer and die under the fascist GOP.

Has anybody else noticed the flood of comments saying "Nice try diddy", or some variation of it on political posts on insta? It's a sad and concerning sight, even accounting for much of it being bots, and it being a terrible place to begin with.

You wouldn't be the first:

https://youtu.be/FS52QdHNTh8

we should probably burn it

Agreed

"Capitalism creates innovation" - one of the best jokes out there

As a modern state with a functionning justice system

That might just be the best joke I've heard all week.

If we could do this on a x1000 scale that'd be great. That, and unfucking zoning law, banning foreign/corporate ownership of residential buildings, putting a hard cap on how many housing units an individual can own, that'd be great to.

Do you honestly think right wing media is jumping at the chance to share the pro-hitler side of Trump?

Sad that she'll being staying here, happy that at least in this instance we can't export our crazies.