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[–] CazzoneArrapante@lemm.ee 7 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Her record is not spotless tbh.

Anyway, easy solution to the problem: ban Trump and the GOP. Bam, fascism is no more.

[–] deaf_fish@lemm.ee 6 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Well, fascism will still exist if you ban Trump and GOP.

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[–] NateNate60@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

The US has no mechanisms to ban political parties

[–] desktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

and the constitution was basically i intended to prevent banning a party just because the current administration dislikes them.

[–] Randelung@lemmy.world 15 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Four more days. And then another year? Maybe ten?

It's exhausting.

[–] CluelessLemmyng@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 9 hours ago

Virginian here. It's every year for us. State positions are in the odd years.

[–] multifariace@lemmy.world 12 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

Apparently putting a huge number of people in jail for minor possession of a drug that is only illegal because of racist 70s politics is spotless, and doing so to support capitalizing the prison system, is spotless. I call it dehumanizing and unconstitutional, but I just care about empirical data that apparently is completely unimportant in tribalist capitalist worshiping countries like the USA.

[–] chaogomu@lemmy.world 3 points 7 hours ago

Countless was a little under 2000 people (at least as far as Harris is concerned) That's about half of what her predecessor in the same office did over roughly the same time period.

Now, that conviction is for "possession, sale, or cultivation". Most paid a fine rather than serve jail time. We also don't know the exact breakdown of possession vs sale vs cultivation.

We also know that Harris pushed for decriminalization and legalization in California, and has pushed some of the same as vice president. I think Joe is the roadblock there, even if he was convinced to pardon a bunch of people for simple possession.

[–] lemonmelon@lemmy.world 16 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

I don't count "spotless prosecutorial record" as a win, but given the two viable choices I'll take it over "shockingly successful fascist demagogue" every time, and twice on Sundays.

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[–] Zetta@mander.xyz 10 points 13 hours ago

Agree on your points, I honestly fucking hate cops and by extension prosecutors that enable and collude with them. However the only other option is worse than a pig.

[–] undergroundoverground@lemmy.world 24 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

A perfectly good meme but I would say it might still presume a little too much good faith.

They're not undecided. They want to vote for Trump and are desperately hoping for a socially acceptable reason to do so.

[–] HowManyNimons@lemmy.world 5 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

It's only them and God in the voting booth. What's stopping them?

[–] Edgarallenpwn@midwest.social 3 points 12 hours ago

I think you answered yourself with the question. Someone better with words could make an OK joke out of it.

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