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Since rape is the only way most of them can get laid, and they’re all about to go to prison within the next few years….
This tracks.
we need a revolution. seriously!
… after you!
Welcome to fascism.
I hope that Jill Stein vote sticks in your larynx.
According to the electoral college, every state either voted 100% for trump or harris. So no one voted for Jil Stein. And if you’re in a red state, NO ONE VOTED FOR HARRIS EITHER, and vice versa. Stop purposely being stupid of this fact.
I don't agree with that strategy either, but she didn't carry enough votes to have made the difference anyway...
Blame the non-voters for supporting this not the voters that didn’t vote for this.
I’ll blame both. Tossing away a vote on a guaranteed loser candidate is the exact same as stepping aside and allowing fascism free rein.
People vote 3rd party to be able to smugly claim they voted while pretending to not be part of what caused the issue.
I’ll say it clearly so it’s easier understood:
WHERE YOU ASSUMED YOU WERE BEING ASKED TO VOTE DEMOCRAT- YOU WERE BEING ASKED TO VOTE AGAINST FASCISM.
I seriously don’t know how this was so difficult that over 4 million people couldn’t figure it out
Voting for a candidate that can't win is worse than not voting. Third-parties actively harmed the process and used resources that could have been spent preventing this bullshit.
We live in a 2-party system. If you aren't happy with the Dems, make that displeasure known in the primaries, then vote against the fascists in the general election no matter what. It's not that fucking complicated.
Yeah, to al the assholes who decided not to vote for a progressive
We could've had West abolish prisons
Fucking hilarious! Hey, real quick, what’s West been up to since November?
Remember when we tried to tell you that he and all the rest of the party dividers would disappear post-election?
Yeah. Maybe you’ll listen next time. That dude didn’t give a shit. He’s paid to split the vote and that’s what he does.
And the Project2025 agenda takes yet another step towards their dream goal of a theocratic dictatorship.
I keep hoping that the people will come to their senses at some point. But I suspect that this is just what America is. I’ve never in my lifetime been more ashamed to be an American.
Goddammit they so fucking evil and we have no one to stop them.
Maybe we could stop them, instead of waiting for someone else to do it.
Okay I'm game. What's the plan? Or where are we meeting? Because its going take rebellion to fight against these fascist. No voting it away. Oh and we must plan it without using our phones or social media since they track everything.
Opps guess already failed that by asking the above questions. And no way can we organize a rebellion or protest that doesn't have to be first announced on social media. Like those No Kings Protest. Bet everyone who attended now on a list somewhere and when ready ICE will round us all up. Remember they are using the nazi playbook. And one of them is to round up undesirables and people who are against them.
With the Supreme Court about rule against birthright citizenship it is just another stepping stone until they can round up citizens and put us in camps. If we allow it get to that point it will be to late to fight back and win.
If you put the same energy you put into that defeatist attitude and writing that comment into problem-solving and bravery, maybe we’d have a solution.
I’ve tried to organize multiple things myself, the only issue I’ve had is no one ever actually does anything. Because Americans only like to complain and not actually do anything.
You aren’t scared enough.
I’m LGBT, severely disabled, the child of an immigrant if we’re really bringing that birthright stuff up, pretty radically left and have been TOO vocal about it, and probably on a list, and I don’t even know if I’ll be alive 1, 5, or 10 years from now. I don’t have much left to lose. Apparently most people do, or else they’d feel compelled to act.
can we organize?
If you’re serious, I’m willing. DM me. That applies to you and anyone else who sees this comment and actually wants to do something.
Just keep in mind that I’m chronically ill, so I may not respond immediately.
i would, but i CAN'T go outside without permission - i'd help with the organizing, but i will NOT attend the protest, sorry. seriously!
That’s fine. Like I said, I’m chronically ill. I’m mostly housebound. There are many ways to make a difference.
They’re not going to stop. People like this don’t stop. They don’t stop until forced. Power is the only language they understand.
can we use force?
and we have no one to stop them
It's not going to take "one" to stop them.
It'll take concerted group action.
Which seems impossible in a country of "rugged individualists" who don't seem to grasp the concept of working together toward a common goal.
(Don't just downvote me - prove my cynicism wrong)
If you order and carry out this kind of thing, there is something wrong with your brain.
Even W had the fucking decency to start initiatives to do something about prison rape, FFS.
Seems like a feature of American prisons. Never see articles about European prisons having problems with rape.
Fuck this whole administration. Fucking disgusting.
I'm not American, but that violates the "cruel and unusual punishment" part of the constitution, no?
Haha silly foreigner, you think we still follow that old piece of paper.
There has long been a dark undertow of anti-intellectuals and sick fuckers in this country that I've encountered with all my life that practically celebrate prison rape (of men by other men) because they think it's deserved. For pretty much any crime, they think that is part of the punishment.
They are sick and broken people, and unfortunately, it is part and parcel of the culture.
When W came along and proposed doing something about this, I remember having conversations much like I had on the playground, except with supposed functioning adults - they'd give blank stares as if they thought it was anathema to do something about it. They seriously think that rape (and other violence) is something you deserve in prison. Like it didn't even compute for them to have no tolerance for rape of men.
I'm sure these people think that trans/intersex "deserve" it even more so...
People like that think rape is ok, period. They don't believe women about it, either, because they think any "excuse" you give the rapist is valid whether it's wearing a skirt, having a drink, being LGBT+, committing any crime, being in the wrong place at the wrong time, etc.
They think rape is the right of men. (They likely also believe female perpetrated rape isn't real at all)
Just a WILD thought….. how about everyone has rape protections?
Ironically, W is the one that signed the Prison Rape Elimination Act. I remember talking to conservatives that thought W was speaking some kind of foreign language.
Cruelty is the point
Americans genuinely seem to believe that sexual assault in prison is an engineered intention of the prison system. We also get an earful about how rape is the consequence of inmates assaulting one another with scant acknowledgement of the chronic abuse by prison staff against inmates.
No real consideration of why the US is uniquely positioned as having some of the most dangerous and deplorable prisons in the world. No real introspection surrounding the real purpose of inmate torture and abuse, or how it facilitates the profiteering off of inmate labor.
Do we have another bloodthirsty republican who's itching to shoot someone in office again?
Genuinely horrific <3
In a memo obtained by the non-profit news outlet Prism, DoJ official Tammie M. Gregg told prison auditors across the nation to "immediately pause" all "compliance determinations" for key safety rules concerning LGBTQI+ inmates, and advise prisons to "disregard" them.
Holy shit, Tammie M Gregg was former director of the National Prison Project for the ACLU. Goddamn.
Tammie M. Gregg was the Deputy Director for the ACLU’s National Prison Project. Tammie also led the ACLU's Stop Solitary campaign. Tammie came to NPP from a long and distinguished career with the U.S. Department of Justice and other federal agencies. After beginning her career with law firms in Minneapolis and Washington, in 2000 she joined DOJ as a trial attorney in the Civil Rights Division. From 2003 to 2011 she was a senior attorney in the Special Litigation Section, where she worked on cases involving prisons, jails, and policing. She rose to the level of Principal Deputy Chief of the Section, where she provided day-to-day supervision to a staff of over 70 people.
What the actual goddamned fuck
15th National Indian Nations Conference - Opening Remarks - Tammie Gregg
These people want everyone raped in prison.
They’re fundamentally the most evil people to exist and need to be killed before they kill us first
No surprise coming from a serial rapist dictator
Going to Hell is getting off too easy for these people. Jfc. I want to fucking scream at the top of my lungs.
There is no hell - if we want them to ever face some kind of punishment for their actions, we're gonna have to do it ourselves...
There is no hell
Sure there is. Just look around you!
A crurl racist pedophile rapist removes protections against rape for a vulnerable minority
Well I for one am shocked and did not see this coming! Get fucked by an umbrella, you assholes
How about just making sure that rape doesn't happen anymore AT ALL in US prisons? It's seriously wild that "don't drop your soap now!" os a joke because its funny because rape in US jails is so normalized that we went from outrage to just lolling about it.
“Americans allow Trump DoJ to immediately stop enforcing prison rape protections for trans and intersex people”
Fixed