The GOP’s sweeping new anti-voting bill cleared the U.S. House Wednesday, setting up a high-stakes battle in the Senate.
The House voted 218-213 to pass the SAVE America Act, which experts have said could disenfranchise millions by requiring voters to show documentary proof of citizenship at registration and to provide photo ID when they cast ballots.
Republicans have argued for voter ID broadly, pointing out that there isn’t much to prevent a noncitizen from casting a ballot in a federal election — besides the fact that it’s a felony, easily caught, and would lead to deportation all for the chance to cast one out of hundreds of thousands of votes.
To everyone saying people needed to wait until the mid-terms to take action: Fuck You.
That mentality pisses me off. Partially because they’re definitely going to rig them; but more because thousands of people are dying every week. Thousands are being disappeared. How many folks were sent to CECOT? How many people were grabbed off the street? The ICE abductions were the tipping point and tragically we failed. (It didn’t help to have all the libs yelling “DON’T FIGHT BACK!!”)
You’re going to sit back and hold a zen zone through 2 years of holocaust? Really? The entitlement of those folks is insane.
Yep. I’ve been asking for months and months where the protests are, and what about general strikes and so on. All I get is “it takes time to coordinate, just you wait” “it’s starting slow but will get up some steam soon” “wait til the mids” “it’s a big country, it’s very difficult to do anything but we will sort it blah fucking blah!”
It’s all bullshit.
A fucking failed reality TV star, convicted criminal, idiotic bankruptcy champion, confirmed rapist and deffo child rapist took over the whole of the uNazied States of america in less than a year and 99% of their population did fuck all about it. Fuck and all.
After decades of them watching action movies whilst stroking their guns and threatening to shoot anyone who encroached their freedoms…yet a fucking orange geriatric paedo went full dictator on them without as much as a whimper. Pathetic.
A general strike is desperately needed, but it genuinely isn’t as easy as just calling for one and hoping everyone jumps onboard. Unions need to coordinate together to organize a proper one that won’t fizzle out, which I will admit has been an agonizingly slow process, but it does appear to be happening.
The best thing we can do in the meantime is to unionize our workplaces if it isn’t already, help a friend unionize theirs, speak up at union meetings about the importance of preparing and organizing a general strike (set up strike funds, contact other unions and mutual aid orgs to plan a date and resources, etc), and joining a local mutual aid group that will help us weather the strike.
I’ve been spreading this guide showing how to prepare for resistance as far and wide as I can. If you’d like to chip in and spread that as well, you have my full permission to copy and paste it wherever you think it’d get the most eyeballs (that goes for anyone else reading this too, your help would be much appreciated. Just try to make sure you post it where it won’t be totally off topic and unwelcome).
You can access the markdown version of that guide by clicking the little page icon with the folded edge beneath it (on lemmy through the browser), so you don’t have to manually copy the links or the formatting.
Both the middle school and the high school in my tiny rural town did a walkout today. There’s a protest every day outside the local ICE facility. There have been soft strikes as grassroots support networks form.
If you think nothing is happening, it’s because you’re not doing anything. Get involved.
Who do you think is saying that?
I mean, these guys pay good money for propaganda, I’m sure they have people posting shit like that everywhere to ensure people wait
Fuck the propagandists is a valid position to take.
I don’t think I’ve seen a single person saying that. Plenty saying that you should vote when mid-terms roll around, but none saying that you shouldn’t be doing anything before or after.
For example, this post last month: https://lemmy.world/comment/21539323
I sent a new reply to that comment with a link to this article and they still replied “that’s how elections work and you need to wait until November”.
Wow. Yeah that person’s a dumbass.
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Dude liberals can’t even comprehend that most Christians are on their side.
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