Applies to Lemmy too.

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    19 hours ago

    We’ve never canceled elections, even in wartime. You’re engaging in voter suppression by spreading this.

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      19 hours ago

      Yet ™️

      We’ve never had a twice impeached president, until now. We’ve never had a pedo-rapist president before (at least with serious evidence behind), until now We’ve never had fascists in power here, until now.

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        6 hours ago

        Jefferson might count as a pedo-rapist, Sally Hemings was like 14 or 15 at the start of their ‘relationship’. The Behind the Bastards episodes are worth a listen. Your point stands though that Trump is unpresidented.

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        18 hours ago

        There is no mechanism to cancel elections. They’re run by the states, and the states need to have them, even the red states. There are 9000 seats up for election at varying levels, midterms have already started, and for a party that’s allegedly canceling midterms the GOP is sure doing a lot of campaigning for them.

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      18 hours ago

      nothing about this is precedented, he wants a third term, he wants to control the midterms, he wants an artificial crisis to do it

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        18 hours ago

        There is no crisis short of the dissolution of the United States of America that would cause states to cancel their elections. I will be working the polls in March and November, hope to see you all there. Better yet, sign up to work the polls as well.

        Nobody who claims “elections will be canceled” has ever worked an election, you can bet on that.

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          18 hours ago

          I’m not saying he’ll cancel them, but there will definitely be some interference, besides all the voter suppression that’s happening already.

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            17 hours ago

            I agree. Voter suppression has always happened in the USA. We fight it.

            It’s important to be specific about threat assessment so we know how to defend against it. A vague “we won’t have midterms” isn’t helpful.

            They have been and will continue to be trying to gain access to states’ voter rolls. They will try to unregister people. They will attempt to gerrymander in their favor. There will probably be ICE and other federal agents at some polling locations.

            Furthermore these are all things that are already happening. There won’t be some villainous master stroke at the final hour. The real threats are here now and there are actionable responses to them, but resorting yourself to doom is allowing yourself to give up entirely.

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              17 hours ago

              they aren’t trying though, they are doing it in the open? they just barred trans people in Tennessee from voting. by having voter ID and revoking all trans people driving licences they practically disenfranchised a whole demographic. this election will be nasty.