“If the purges [of potential voters], challenges and ballot rejections were random, it wouldn’t matter. It’s anything but random. For example, an audit by the State of Washington found that a Black voter was 400% more likely than a white voter to have their mail-in ballot rejected. Rejection of Black in-person votes, according to a US Civil Rights Commission study in Florida, ran 14.3% or one in seven ballots cast.”

"[…] Democracy can win* despite the 2.3% suppression headwind.

And that’s our job as Americans: to end the purges, the vigilante challenges, the ballot rejections and the attitude that this is all somehow OK."

  • bishbosh@lemm.ee
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    everything I say is either stupid, wrong or both anyway

    you’ll eventually end up realizing I’m not worth your or anyone else’s time eventually.

    I’m completely fucking up

    like everything else, I am failing spectacularly at it.

    when I inevitably fail

    This is not the language of a healthy mind, and the fact that it is showing up in an internet conversation political action, suggests to me this is just the surface of it. If you feel this way, look for mutual aid groups in your area, find community and seek people to connect with that might help. Your daughter deserves to have someone in good mental health fighting for her.

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      I already told you I don’t have time for that.

      And my daughter deserves all sorts of things I can’t provide her. Which is why she will end up in a camp and I will no longer be in this universe when it happens.

      I’m not giving up because I have fuck all else to do, but the failure is inevitable.