In a lot of red states these days, the reason is “the election officials and Secretary of State (for the state in question) have made it extremely difficult - and in some cases impossible - for me to vote”.

I’m not saying the points you’re raising are irrelevant, but honestly, just look at Texas. It SHOULD be purple/swing, the legislature there has enacted swaths of anti-democratic (small “d”) measures with the expressly partisan intent of making it effectively impossible for any party other than the GOP to win anything meaningful in the state.

My concern at this point is that a lot of electoral positions in swing states - e.g. Georgia - appear to have been co-opted by overtly partisan Trumpians. And I’m not convinced they’ll abide by the court injunctions of “that’s not your fucking job, just do your job and nothing else”, because Trump would almost certainly pardon all the people pulling electoral fuckery like that if he figures out how to weasel his way into office. That is, in fact, a core element of their plan, and why all the fuckery appears to be kinda proceeding in lockstep. This is also why a lot of them are so die hard for Trump - they are fully cognizant of their guilt, and know that the DoJ is going to take a long, hard look at them if Harris wins, and very likely hang together, as it were.

In MA, when I worked the polls in 2020, they had a cop on duty in the polling location the whole day to deal with any yahoos like that. To be clear, that’s ALL they’re there for - they’re otherwise completely uninvolved with the administering of the election, and the operation of the polling location. Iirc the guy was just reading a book most of the time. I admit I’m somewhat surprised more jurisdictions don’t have some sort of policy like that. At the same time, I’m sure it would be abused by police forces in some parts of the country.

And?

Tell me what you think that means

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I just want to pick one and stick with it. Like, holy fuck, the switching is awful.

YOU’RE AN INANIMATE FUCKING OBJECT!

If you like dark humor, In Bruges is absolutely outstanding.

You can probably get an old delivery van, fix it up, tune it, and modify it to be a GREAT rolling residence for like a fifth of that.

Yes, that’s another distinct possibility.

But as I see it, Trump et al will think it’s a super bigly power move if they can just destroy the Democratic Party outright, so they’ll probably try to do that anyways

I’m still getting the feeling that Harris will win.

But if she doesn’t, I don’t think they’ll exist as a viable political party by 2028, and not because people will lose faith in them. I think Trump will weaponize as many aspects of the government as he possibly can against anyone and any group he sees as a threat or challenge to himself, and one of those groups is the Democratic Party. And I also think he’ll direct the more militant groups of his followers (3%ers, proud boys, etc) much more explicitly in the conduct of violence against his opponents - up to and including having direct contact with their leadership.

I’m not being hyperbolic. This is a playbook we’ve seen before. Harris losing would be roughly equivalent in many ways to the NSDAP (that would be the Nazis) rise to power in the early 1930s.

You don’t have to. Engage with platforms on your own terms. Letting the platform (and I mean that broadly - ANY platform, including Lemmy) dictate your engagement is legitimately not good for anyone’s mental state. It’s healthier to be aware of your usage and try to self-limit when and where possible. Humans weren’t designed to be as chronically-online as we have become. I struggle with this dynamic myself, tbh.

Why would a person not just use both? You don’t have to just pick one.

It’s one of the reasons I’m glad I left Reddit behind about a year and a half ago.

“The org is extremely top-heavy”

That’s… not an accurate characterization.

I would have voted for Sanders in a heartbeat. And a lot of other (Americans) on my instance would too. The disdain is more targeted and nuanced than that. A whole lot of us on sh.it just.works have a reasonably solid understanding of the difference between communism and authoritarian communism, and are also often geopolitical nerds to one degree or another. This often leads to us doing our best to combat what we see as bullshit disinformation and misrepresentation when and where we see it.

The vitriol we have towards tankies is specifically a result of:

• our dislike of the glorification of historical authoritarian leaders (Stalin; Mao)
• the intentional blurring of the line between communism (which, bluntly, many of us don’t actually have a problem with) and authoritarian communism
• the jingoistic support of modern authoritarian states that either call themselves “communist” despite not really being anything of the sort (China), or who have a historical lineage that runs through an (again, authoritarian) communist state (Russia)

When looked at that way, it’s a lot closer to modern Iron Front ideology (anti-monarchy; anti-fascist; anti-authoritarian communist).

The ML sabotage movement is picking up speed and I am absolutely here for it 💯