• partial_accumen@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    In Nebraska you’re old enough to vote or die for your country at age 18 or 19, but don’t you dare think you’re worthy of earning the regular adult minimum wage.

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    3 days ago

    If I’m under 20 and in Nebraska, this would really make me rethink voting for the same dickheads and morons my parents voted for.

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        Time to have a rewatch

        My partner showed me this a couple years ago. Now, we’ll be talking or I have a thought and the conclusion is “America” to which the follow-up is “want to put it on?”

        It hits me harder each time I watch it especially how things have further eroded since then

        Edit: I was curious and checked out the comments. They were surprisingly wholesome but I didn’t scroll too far. However one sent me down a bit of a rabbit hole and I found something that made me do a double take:

        From:
        https://allthatsinteresting.com/jim-crow-photos
        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_W._Geary

        "A racist pro-Clymer campaign poster for the 1866 governor's election."

        The text from that image reads

        THE TWO PLATFORMS

        Every RADICAL in Congress VOTED for NEGRO SUFFRAGE. Every RADICAL in the Pennsylvania Senate VOTED for NEGRO SUFFRAGE. STEVENS, FORNEY & CAMERON are for NEGRO SUFFRAGE; they are all Candidates for the UNITED STATES SENATE. NO RADICAL NEWSPAPER OPPOSES NEGRO SUFFRAGE GEARY said in a Speech, at Barrisburg, 11th of Angust, 1866-“THERE CAN BE NO POSSIBLE OBJECTION TO NEGRO SUFFRAGE”

        It’s the writing style. If that is the type of material that one reads in their formative years it makes sense that it’s emerging again in the twilight years

        Ps. I’m sorry I spent so much time on this it just struck me and I had to explore. Made me sick at some points. To be clear, I support everyone’s right to vote but the above quoted message was demonizing that sentiment. Also to be clear, Geary was a white man and won that election

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    4 days ago

    Nebraska lawmakers vote to take away the peoples votes. If a a majority doesn’t matter, then their votes don’t matter. Every Nebraskan would be supporting bowing and no say apparently …

    Honestly they should just “deport” every representative who defied their votes from the state and let the federal government say " you can’t remove people for disagreeing with democracy"

    Edit, did you know that charging 6000% property taxes to Republicans brings down house prices better than deporting people?