All of this was good except for "Stacey Abrams’ equally nutty contention that Georgia elections are rigged to the farthest jibboom by white people who stepped out of a time machine from 1865." Voter suppression, including insane literacy tests that were impossible to pass, was part and parcel of state election processes well into the 20th century. When states continue to pass laws that disproportionately affect black neighborhoods, it's really not a stretch...
Where is Stacey Abrams today? How have her claims checked out? More Black voters have voted in successive and subsequent elections in Georgia than in all of the state’s history. It was a fringe campaign talking point that had no data behind it.
I'm curious. How do you define closing polling stations in predominantly black neighborhoods, lengthening lines, then banning people from giving water to those in queue?
Her campaign raised awareness, so black citizens voted in historic numbers *in spite* of these legislative roadblocks. That doesn't mean they aren't real. There's nothing called the Ban Blacks in Booths Bill, but I don't know how you define this stuff as anything other than voter suppression.
We are well past the era of explicit discrimination. Surely you would agree that in general we're beyond the era of explicit propaganda, no? No more apes in Japanese uniforms clawing at white women in distress! Today's mass media strategically conditions us to trust people and institutions we shouldn't, to accept an artificial party binary with a small window of acceptable thought, to obey authority, etc. It is no different in law. It's subtle, but people know what they're doing.
Is it also true that Abrams is an opportunist? Of course. No politician -- no one -- is acting in anyone's interests but their own. But two things can be true. Her claims of voter suppression were clearly exaggerated, but that's different than *fabricated*.
Uh, OK. GOP has controlled all three branches of Georgia's state government since 2005 [1]. In 2018, local news reported that the state had voted to close 212 polling stations in predominantly black neighborhoods since 2012 [2]. This has continued at an even more aggressive pace in the years since [3].
This was, of course, the same power composition that pushed through restrictions on handing out water to people waiting in line to vote in 2021, in a state that's literally home to a place known as "Hotlanta" [4].
I hate even the appearance of supporting criminal Dems, but I don't know where you're coming from trying to deflect from GOP on this one. So, how about that definition of voter suppression?
God you're a freaking idiot. You are gaslighting while complaining about gaslighting. And this is strike three in less than a month. I don't read people who lie so this will be it, you've already lost a reader.
Come on, 2020 wasn't that bad. ;-)
All of this was good except for "Stacey Abrams’ equally nutty contention that Georgia elections are rigged to the farthest jibboom by white people who stepped out of a time machine from 1865." Voter suppression, including insane literacy tests that were impossible to pass, was part and parcel of state election processes well into the 20th century. When states continue to pass laws that disproportionately affect black neighborhoods, it's really not a stretch...
Where is Stacey Abrams today? How have her claims checked out? More Black voters have voted in successive and subsequent elections in Georgia than in all of the state’s history. It was a fringe campaign talking point that had no data behind it.
I'm curious. How do you define closing polling stations in predominantly black neighborhoods, lengthening lines, then banning people from giving water to those in queue?
Her campaign raised awareness, so black citizens voted in historic numbers *in spite* of these legislative roadblocks. That doesn't mean they aren't real. There's nothing called the Ban Blacks in Booths Bill, but I don't know how you define this stuff as anything other than voter suppression.
We are well past the era of explicit discrimination. Surely you would agree that in general we're beyond the era of explicit propaganda, no? No more apes in Japanese uniforms clawing at white women in distress! Today's mass media strategically conditions us to trust people and institutions we shouldn't, to accept an artificial party binary with a small window of acceptable thought, to obey authority, etc. It is no different in law. It's subtle, but people know what they're doing.
Is it also true that Abrams is an opportunist? Of course. No politician -- no one -- is acting in anyone's interests but their own. But two things can be true. Her claims of voter suppression were clearly exaggerated, but that's different than *fabricated*.
Ask who made those decisions and changes and what party those people are members of.
Uh, OK. GOP has controlled all three branches of Georgia's state government since 2005 [1]. In 2018, local news reported that the state had voted to close 212 polling stations in predominantly black neighborhoods since 2012 [2]. This has continued at an even more aggressive pace in the years since [3].
This was, of course, the same power composition that pushed through restrictions on handing out water to people waiting in line to vote in 2021, in a state that's literally home to a place known as "Hotlanta" [4].
I hate even the appearance of supporting criminal Dems, but I don't know where you're coming from trying to deflect from GOP on this one. So, how about that definition of voter suppression?
[1] https://ballotpedia.org/Party_control_of_Georgia_state_government
[2] https://www.ajc.com/news/state--regional-govt--politics/voting-precincts-closed-across-georgia-since-election-oversight-lifted/bBkHxptlim0Gp9pKu7dfrN/
[3] https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/19/politics/poll-closures-rural-lincoln-county-georgia/index.html
[4] https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2022-election/judge-declines-block-georgias-ban-giving-food-water-voters-rcna43974
God you're a freaking idiot. You are gaslighting while complaining about gaslighting. And this is strike three in less than a month. I don't read people who lie so this will be it, you've already lost a reader.