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[–] 49 points 9 months ago (5 children)

Also, ICE doesn't need to be everywhere, they need to be at a few dozen key locations in swing states.

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  • [–] 34 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah...... People seem to be forgetting that bush stole an election via the brooks brothers riot in one county. With just how fucked up the American electorial system evolved it only takes one country to vastly change the course of American history.

    As far as the courts, just in the last couple years we've seen the judicial branch is more than willing to reinterpret history and law to empower the current administration.

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  • [+] 18 points 9 months ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 child)
  • [–] 8 points 9 months ago

    Excellent post. Thank you for taking the time.

    I can only add that if we keep on showing up to resist, to make our peaceful non-consent loud and obvious like we did on the last Friday in January, the less support any of this planned and possible election fuckery will have. The people who desperately want to get or keep power do not want to actually have to take on the public hate of the entire country, like ICE has. But it's up to us.

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  • [–] 12 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

    yes, I do think they under-anticipate the way that ICE could be used surgically - just flipping a few elections could be crucial ...

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  • [–] 10 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    I'm concerned that they've already undermined trust in the elections so much that neither side will accept a losing outcome as legitimate. The larger attack on democracy has already succeeded. I hope I'm wrong.

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago

    I think the GOP's support for trump has always been an endgame. Demographically speaking - their party was dying. This was always one last chance to drive the bus completely off the cliff - destroy education, trust in institutions, the US's international cooperation from aid to NATO, wreck it all, if they can't drive the bus forever then no one gets to.

    Like we see from the files, it's a cabal of evil fucks from a huge variety of motivations - racists, sexists, climate denial, oligarchs and techbros all lining up together to fix this whole liberal democracy problem.

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