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There are currently 389 voter suppression bills in progress in 48 states across the USA. This is not a one off arbitrary situation, but a determined and specific attack on democracy by the GOP in order to gain advantage.
The GOP are using the big lie of the stolen election to bring in changes that pander to their base because keeping their jobs is more important than honesty, integrity and self reflection.
This needs to be stopped before it is too late.
LordAdamant
The GQP, the terrorist, fascist party of America.
AnAverageAverageGuy
The 1st mistake you made was to create a "ruling class".
OhIfIMust
They're usually pretty good at making themselves.
raybo101
What’s f’ed up is trumpers all think they’ll be on the finish line high giving each other. Your going down too assholes.
VC999999
Some believe that being the towel boy on the winning team gets them a SuperBowl ring like the players do.
Turbolibros
malachitedragon
It started dying the moment that orange fuck was elected. It's already too late, probably.
AchDuLieber
It started picking up momentum with St. Ronnie Raygun.
malachitedragon
Fair.
noncommital
Same thing is happening in NZ with the Govt breaking its own laws and then retro fitting them, then putting spin on it. See Andrea Vance.
cryborg
We are not taking it seriously enough.
tinyfootprints
If we just become Republicans, then wouldn't we be the ones in power? I haven't really thought this through...
haxanjunkie13
caboose? Big Lie is our Reichstag fire.
Jusmar
Beer hall putsch IMO.
zFUBARz
Trailer Park Putsch
Peachos
Damn, I mean we all saw this shit coming but the 'not in my lifetime' mentality really let this shit run wild for way too long. Now a civil
Peachos
war is on the horizon & it's coming in way faster than most of us expected. I'm glad to be in Western Wa for it though, our gun laws are
DisgruntledFerret
Peachos? PEACHOS!? ...Dang. RIP.
FrolickingFrolicking
https://twitter.com/sarahkendzior/status/1401948503954362374
KarakLohr
Causeitsmadeofmeat
Always upvote Tommy Douglas
FrolickingFrolicking
https://twitter.com/gaslitnation/status/1400129057530994692
FrolickingFrolicking
https://twitter.com/BandyXLee1/status/1402212608581804032
WeShareTheSameSpace
Already too late, the GQP has stacked local, federal, and the Supreme courts. The Democrats sat on their hands and let the republic die.
afatrollofmyown
The democrats kept their powder dry for years, never picked it up when we needed to. They're either cowards or complicit.
Hooamie
Ding ding ding! It's likely already too late.
dickwitfo
Tommy Douglas is the architect of universal healthcare in Canada. ( he’s also Kiefer Sutherlands grandfather)
EllisBurksrocks
He was also a big fan of eugenics.
zFUBARz
Did it ever impact his politics in any way? Or was it something he looked into in his youth and then moved past?
EllisBurksrocks
He wrote papers about it. I would say that is pretty impactful.
zFUBARz
Like 10 years before taking office, and when policies came up that followed along those lines he actually voted them down.
EllisBurksrocks
But he still believed in eugenics. And he also knew what would get him reelected.
whitebbwolf
the fire in the hearts of the GOP
misplacedmaritimer
Are you suggesting the government should take care of its people? Clearly you are a Commie socialist Marxist anti American
Lovemorhatem
/a/rMoWWzZ
ummjakefromstatefarm
I read that as feminism every time.
majorminers
Literally the greatest Canadian. And we also have Banting and Gretzky. Grey Owl and Margaret Atwood. Billy Bishop and Beiber...sorry...Lol.
VC999999
Was never a fan of Atwoods writings. Terry Fox has to be on any top ten list, for sure ahead of Beiber.
majorminers
That was the joke. Lol. Obviously Terry is a king and Beiber is a butt!
AchDuLieber
What about Shatner?
Ihavemytowel
https://eugenicsarchive.ca/discover/timeline/5172ee91eed5c60000000022 He did good things but he was too flawed tor the title "greatest"
majorminers
Not my decision. Just repeating the CBC.
Ihavemytowel
Fair enough. :)
Causeitsmadeofmeat
you misspelled Gordie Howe
majorminers
My humble apologies. You are correct. Even drove by my buddies trailer and he had a new Gordie Howe Dr. Sign.
4thwalled
PictureArchiver
Republicans are straight up fascists and they are on the same level as Mussolini and Hitler. The use the system to destroy the system.
Evilpercy
The people are not voting right so we have to help them fix this for the good of the nation -GOP
ThePretentiousGentleman
We all know where they learned how to do that:
jrbaconchee
economic democracy? listen here boy that sOuNds LikE sociAlisM to ME
NotABadLookingNarcissist
It is, isn’t it? I mean, I’m okay with that. I like that version of socialism. I give you my hours, give me the full value of my labor.
TorrentialUpPour
I want strong unions and to remove corporate money from politics. But that doesn't mean I want the government owning/running every industry.
szepasszony
There's always anarcho-communism. Against all unjust hierarchies, including the state.
NotABadLookingNarcissist
Socialism is when the workers own the means of production, not the government.
TorrentialUpPour
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communism is where workers own the means of production. Socialism is the stage inbetween that dictators seize.
NotABadLookingNarcissist
Not exactly. Socialism is an economic system, not a system of government. The reason we associate socialism with authoritarianism, may be 1/
NotABadLookingNarcissist
2/ a result of survivor bias. Meaning, there have been many instances of socialism that came about via democratic means, but they failed
kasdaye
You should take a moment to read the summary of the page you linked and the Socialism page as well.
TorrentialUpPour
Funny, I've never seen a socialist state where the workers own the means of production. Could you point it out to me?
Musklim
Actually, socialism is about the workers owning/running every industry. Every time it was about a gov owning everything, it's not socialism.
TorrentialUpPour
That's never worked out despite dozens of successful 'socialist' revolutions. Besides, that's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communism
Musklim
2) And do you want another shocking news?... communism is the same but owning/running the government. So, workers are the only social class.
thisguyonline1988
This might be the first political post I've seen on here that truly hits the nail on the head, without bringing up either red or blue.
thisguyonline1988
Could all the people here without a political science degree fuck off? Honestly, I just agree with the quote and don't give a single...
thisguyonline1988
Flying fuck what any of you "google research experts" have to say.
Squanchycat
GOP (Grand ole party) = Republicans. Just an FYI :)
DozerTheLab
He means the quote, not the caption.
Squanchycat
Yeah you could be right!
Syxcfaq
Neither red nor blue but of course this applies mostly to Republicans and conservatism. They're the ones suppressing the votes.
supercerealsteph
Definitely mentions parties.
Monkey1Overlord
Immediately points to the red side after the picture...
DavidBrooker
But rather orange!
DavidBrooker
(For non-Canadians, Tommy Douglas was the first leader of Canada's New Democratic Party, whose color is orange)
WithFurtherAdo
I'm so happy we can talk about the color orange in a political context without certain instant connotations. Nature is healing.
DavidBrooker
Orange man good
InkyBlinkyPinkyAndClyde
Should've known you were NDP. Me too. :)
ImTheRickestRickThereIs
In Canada the colors are reversed. Blue for conservative red for liberal
Pukako
Same for NZ - Blue National (Centre right), Red Labour (Centre left).
thisguyonline1988
Yep, I'm in Southern Ontario, but given my relationship with a lot of family and friends in the states, I feel their politics directly...
thisguyonline1988
...affect me. So I try and keep up on things.
HootSloot
US has it reversed from the most of the world iirc.
BlacknCrimsonRose
The Red = Conservative Blue=Liberal is actually kind of recent. From the early 1900s.
WhichNameDoIChoose
Actually the 2000 election in the US is where those come from. Before that, it varied by the cable network!
BlacknCrimsonRose
That's fair.
Armyguy8382
And most people don't realize it is happening in their country until it is too late to avoid blood shed.
Alfadorfox
It's about five months and two days too late already.
slinkhi
most people don't care* until it is too late
quade
Blood has already been shed in the last failed coup attempt.
Armyguy8382
And that coup attempt is still on going. See efforts to recount ballots until Trump wins with >80%. Jan 6 was just 1 attack
Armyguy8382
And most of the people there did not realize what they were actually doing until they were arrested and Trump clearly abandoned them.
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Armyguy8382
In their minds they were defending the country. They knew they were breaking laws but they felt it was necessary to save the country. 1/2
Armyguy8382
Now most of them know they fell for a lot of lies from Trump and the GOP
InkyBlinkyPinkyAndClyde
They knew what they were doing. The only surprise to them is that they were hung out to dry. That should've been obvious too.
TOTohaa
Do Americans know who Tommy Douglas is?
Lovemorhatem
We get it. America sucks. We've known this for a long time now.
FatherAlexanderAnderson
For the most part, no.
Northernwest
He's in the picture above, duh
RandomlyAppointedNSAAgent
I unfortunately don't, but if this quote is accurate I like the cut of his jib.
DooksandPooks
Those are a brand of jeans right?
Lovemorhatem
Well, we're not a hive mind so I'd say there's a chance a few do/don't.
dorkian3
No
bugcooper
i bet hes the guy in the picture
Bmxtucker
Only the people who voted for Biden and even then, questionable.
astrumptsasstrumpet
This one didn't.
Burke616
I sure never heard of him in public school.
VC999999
Only really taught in CDN schools.
afatrollofmyown
American here, I've known who Tommy Douglas is for at least 8 years. We need an AMerican Tommy Douglas here who can get us medicare
SyrusDrake
Do Americans know what fascism is?
rockstarjesus
If he wasn't named right there would you have known, whereever-the-hell-you're-from?
OntDave
Absolutely. Tommy is the man.
majorminers
I dont know about younguns but most over 40 know his face. Canadian anyway. We do "Hooray for Canada" stuff often. He comes up...always.
TOTohaa
I'm from Canada and he gets brought up in school here because of our history. But that isn't surprising really since he's Canadian.
kJerAFK
americans know tommy boy, tommy bahama, and tommy chong
Justtucknrollitup
Dont forget grandpa tommy gun, and "actor" Tommy Gunn
yaddiex3
Tommy Hilfiger
UnitConversionBotButTerrible
867-5309... damn you Tommy Two-tone !
NespreSilver
JENNY I GOT YOUR NUMBER
MrNardtastic
Tommy gun! Duh! Also Tommy Gunn.
littlecoatfatguy
He's the guy who essentially built the Canadian health-care system as we know it today. Also related to Donald + Kiefer Sutherland.
captbananapants
That is an interesting fact. Cousins?
Blurking
Tommy was Keifer's grandfather, mothers side.
thegarts
So Donald’s father-in-law?
zFUBARz
yup
Lovethesmelloftoastedsourdoughbread
zeolite
Donald was his son in law.
littlecoatfatguy
Doo dah, doo dah...
cronkey
He was also a proponent of eugenics, which was, unfortunately, popular at the time.
Theycallmemoist9
And we arrived at the conclusion. Nobody can be good. Everyone has something about them that makes them hurt others, even if unintentionally
cronkey
No one is perfect.
Theycallmemoist9
But imagine if we worked for a humanity that is. What kind of asshole told us that no one can be perfect? That thinking is why we failed.
tommytraddles
He wrote a paper on it in university. He was not a proponent of such policies in politics, specifically rejecting them as Premier of Sask.
cronkey
A fair correction, thank you!
mormacil
Doesn't sound like a person a lot of Americans would (want to) know :P
B4DF15H2
Yes, insult an entire society, and pretend you aren't a part of the problem.
hawkesnightmare
How can you assume that they are part of the problem?
B4DF15H2
Because they're ignorant fuck with a negative view of an entire people.
Spacepizza125
Probably not, but they know his son and grandson.
ThePunishersVengefulBrother
It's a trick question. He had no sons. :) to you, Spacepizza.
Blacksmith80
Kirk and Michael, I assume?
Ihavemytowel
It's Kiefer Sutherland's Maternal Grandfather. No relation to relation to Donald. Shirley Douglas was an actor in her own right.
Spacepizza125
Good guess, but it's Douglas and Kiefer Sutherland.
Blacksmith80
Cool. Did not know that
Spacepizza125
Donald Sutherland, not Douglas. Dammit.
HandoB4Javert
You needed one Doug-less
ThePunishersVengefulBrother
He had 2 daughters though?
Spacepizza125
You're right, my bad. Kiefer is Tommy Douglas' grandson, but not Donald. Oops