Texas GOP amendment would stop Democrats winning any state election (www.newsweek.com)

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[+] solsangraal@lemmy.zip 34 points 2 years ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

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[-] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 13 points 2 years ago

Why isn't it your job to do something? The conservatives certainly consider it the rank and file's job to get involved in changing the system to the way they want it to be; that's part of why they're having such an outsized impact.

[+] solsangraal@lemmy.zip 17 points 2 years ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

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[-] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 17 points 2 years ago

Absolutely true. The propaganda that says "Everyone in government is crusty old white men and all equally the problem, it's not worth even trying to improve things, just be unproductively bitter and angry instead, while we're taking all your stuff"

Is very much of a piece with the propaganda says "All the poors and immigrants are the problem, it's not old white men in government, just be unproductively bitter and angry instead, while we're taking all your stuff." The target audience is just different.

And you know what? They both work real real fuckin' well. See, look all the problems.

[-] millie@beehaw.org 8 points 2 years ago

What do you mean? We have better voter engagement among young people than any previous generation.

[-] BioDriver@beehaw.org 19 points 2 years ago

Hahahahahahaaaaaaa get me off this ride if anyone in a blue state is hiring please let me know

[-] fubarx@lemmy.ml 15 points 2 years ago

How to give land more votes than people. Not long before election results are measured in number of acres.

[-] pbjamm@beehaw.org 8 points 2 years ago

ah yes, the traditional democratic ideal of "1 acre, 1 vote"

[-] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 11 points 2 years ago

Goes well right alongside “bribing politicians is free speech” and “peace rallies are terrorism”

[-] chahk@beehaw.org 13 points 2 years ago

Other motions proposed included a call to "abolish abortion by immediately securing the right to life and equal protection of the laws to all preborn children from the moment of fertilization."

Do my preborn children count towards car passengers in the HOV lanes? Can I claim every fertilized egg as a dependent on my state tax forms?

"Texas retains the right to secede from the United States, and the Texas Legislature should be called upon to pass a referendum consistent thereto. ... supporters of the Texas Nationalist Movement, which wants the Lone Star State to become an independent country, were photographed holding signs which read TEXIT NOW!"

So the Brexit disaster is their role model now?

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