- Widespread Errors: An expanded federal tool for identifying noncitizens on voter rolls is making persistent mistakes, particularly in assessing citizenship for people born outside the U.S.
- Banned From Voting: In Missouri, state officials told local clerks to temporarily ban flagged voters from casting ballots, even though hundreds turned out to be citizens.
- Texas Confusion: As errors emerged in SAVE data, local clerks said the state hadn’t provided them with clear guidance and worried about disenfranchising eligible citizens.
It’s a feature, not a bug.
This has happened all over there US already. Someone challenges your right to vote and it’s your job to prove your eligibility. Can’t show up to your appointment? No ID? No bills going to that address? Only have a PO Box address? No voting for you!
This is how political cleansing begins. Once the system is turned on, voting for anything slightly left will cast you as a criminal of the state.
Certainly they won’t use years of collected metadata from social networks about political sentiment, right? …right?
And still, americans believe the democrats will win… Even after everything in the past, everything being said in the present, they’re still only going to protest.
What do you want Americans to do? Start an open insurrection? Do you really realize how many thousand of people would die the instant a semi-armed civilian led force tried to fight back?
Fewer than will if they continue to do nothing.
People want them to do literally anything at all
The perception is you’re taking it lying down
I’m genuinely losing my mind at this take. For the last 13 months we’ve seen thousands of human people walked to their death – watched planes of human beings take off and return empty; and still half of the comments I see that suggest taking action beyond peaceful marches and waiting for the 2026 midterms get this “smarter than thou” smug response from people, some claiming to be 50501 liberals. Sometimes it’s, like, 15 lines and a song quote; with the occasional ALL CAPS “DO NOT TAKE THE BAIT”.
People are dying, folks; now. Come to reality. A clash with ICE, especially in the first months when they were untrained and barely armed, wouldn’t have accelerated anything–because we didn’t have that and yet we are here. This mythical “Insurrection Act” invocation wouldn’t have caused the terrorism we are witnessing now; nor the deployments in LA or Portland. Yes, people will die in clashes with the state; but what’s the alternative? Letting people die in raids from the state? We watched camera footage with video of pro-Palestinian activists getting disappeared. We’ve seen masked agents killing hundreds of people across the states, every month. We’ve seen them raid neighborhoods, and pull people into vans. We’ve seen our police watch, do nothing, then arrest the bystanders for “causing a disturbance”. Every. Day.
The part of me that is clinging onto some partial hope in human nature wants to blame this widespread passivity propaganda for the reason it took a year to have the resistance effort in Minneapolis, which there had been nothing like until that point. Really, though, I sense the real reason behind these arguments and the wider inaction, is that the targets of ICE have been predominantly people of color, and mainly Hispanic folks. So, too, were the kids in cages through the first Trump and Biden administrations.
I understand that Holocaust poem in a depth that I just didn’t understand before. I understand the Holocaust documentaries and testimonies I’ve watched in a depth I hadn’t gotten before.
You aren’t outsmarting the Republicans by standing back as they kill thousands; tens-of-thousands; hundreds-of-thousands of people of color. You’re giving them exactly what they wanted: A “second American Revolution”; [white]-bloodless “if the left allows it to be.”
How many people have you gone out and killed? It sure sounds like you are imploring people to take to the streets and violently attack the government. What have you done in support of this goal?
If you think things are already as bad as they can get, then you lack perspective.
There’s still a chance of electoral victory. Progressives across the country are having punishing victories. Don’t throw away that momentum by being too trigger-happy. People are waking up, don’t put them back to sleep.
If the republicans rig or steal the election (which they certainly intend to, but it’s not yet certain how successful they’ll be), then all gloves are off and the third and fifth sentences of the Declaration of Independence kicks in.
Until that point, the fourth sentence still applies.