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biophile

(1,569 posts)
1. Then it gets ugly
Thu May 21, 2026, 08:28 AM
11 hrs ago

If voting can’t get us anywhere due to intimidation, threats, energy grid disruption, voter role purges, ballot rejections, long wait lines in blue districts, misinformation, disinformation, polling places removed or changed without notice, gerrymandering, and many other ways to prevent actual votes being counted- then it has to get much more aggressive than just standing on corners chanting.
From Voting to Violence.
Title of a good book, too, by the way.

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Then it gets ugly biophile 11 hrs ago #1
It depends. Happy Hoosier 11 hrs ago #2
Learn Russian? Irish_Dem 11 hrs ago #3
Nyet!!! Swede 11 hrs ago #6
I already did that. DFW 11 hrs ago #8
Yes we must speak the languages of our new lord and masters. Irish_Dem 11 hrs ago #11
I can even play the balalaika DFW 11 hrs ago #12
You will fit right in. Irish_Dem 11 hrs ago #13
My brother's wife is from Japan. I had a very competent instructor. DFW 10 hrs ago #15
The Japanese were using knives and forks in public 60 years ago. Irish_Dem 10 hrs ago #20
Then it's all over. DavidDvorkin 11 hrs ago #4
What are your plans? Kaleva 11 hrs ago #5
Thank you for this post! mwmisses4289 11 hrs ago #7
This is exactly what we, as Democrats FalloutShelter 11 hrs ago #9
Then we have lost our democracy. Irish_Dem 11 hrs ago #10
Good question. We all need to face this blubunyip 11 hrs ago #14
After '26 we only have 2 more cycles ('28 & '30) until the post 2030 census reapportionment smashes us in '32, both in Celerity 10 hrs ago #16
Except... Fiendish Thingy 10 hrs ago #19
What if the earth plunges into the sun, so then what? Fiendish Thingy 10 hrs ago #17
Then we lost our Democratic republic. Emile 10 hrs ago #18
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