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[–] blazeknave@lemmy.world 27 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

The props are worded so insanely that without hours of prep, I would vote incorrectly.

[–] kofe@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

My state banned ranked choice voting by an insane margin because it was worded like "only citizens should be allowed to vote, and each citizen only gets one vote each!" Literally two Google searches would clear it up if people had more critical thinking skills

[–] superkret@feddit.org 22 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (3 children)

A "resistance" against the will of the majority is generally called a terrorist organization.

Progressive Americans, face it: Most of the people around you want this.

[–] Allonzee@lemmy.world 37 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (2 children)

George Carlin called it decades ago.

The politicians are a reflection of us.

Our PEOPLE suck.

A fat, greedy, proudly ignorant, proudly racist, spray tanned elitist bully drunk on schaudenfreude is the perfect American mascot.

He's like the United States took human form. A monument to all our sins.

If you still consider the rugged individualism we crow about a feature and not severe mental illness, you are infected with the disease. If you want winners and losers, go live in the forest and see if you live or die.

Societies need to work together, and we have been trained in the spirt of capitalist competition🤮 to compete against eachother, to tear eachother down, to root against one another hoping to get moooaaaar for ourselves. This is the very opposite of a society.

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[–] wieson@feddit.org 13 points 11 hours ago

The first part is not true. The White rose and the french resistance in ww2 are both called "resistance". So the distinction between terrorists and resistance is in the eye of the historian.

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[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 13 points 12 hours ago

It hasn't been called yet but I certainly didn't have California votes to be a slave state on my 2024 bingo card.

[–] slickgoat@lemmy.world 20 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

Call for resistance? You can get enough Americans to get off their arse to vote every four years?

[–] BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee 1 points 2 hours ago

They should combine it with selling a new iPhone on election day. People have time to camp out for weeks in front of the store for that.

[–] LordCrom@lemmy.world 4 points 9 hours ago

You can't get most Americans to stop playing Fortnight or watching Dancing with the stupid Stars to even pay attention to the country

[–] Structure7528@lemm.ee 72 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

In California they have prisoners fight the wildfires. I find it sickening, but it's a popular program. I wonder if that's where this result comes from. The wildfires get worse and worse and they need bodies to sacrifice. Depressing.

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 17 points 12 hours ago (5 children)

That's a volunteer program. This is inside the prison work and comes with physical and mental punishment if you refuse.

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[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 31 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

My thoughts as well.

It's the wildfires. They don't want to pay more in taxes to hire more firefighters, at least that's what makes sense to me.

It's still an abominably shitty thing and, IMHO, a human rights violation too.

[–] shadowfax13@lemmy.ml 1 points 49 minutes ago

They don't want to pay more in taxes to hire more firefighters, at least that's what makes sense to me.

california is like richer than most countries in the world. dnc and its upper class base is more rotten that i had thought. no wonder 15 million people don’t want to vote for these cronies.

[–] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 8 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (2 children)

It's at least a volunteer program, they aren't directly forcing people to fight the fires. A lot of people, the prisoners included, consider it a way of repaying their debt to society. I'm pretty sure I don't agree with a great deal of the situation in which it exists, but I do think that if I was in prison, being able to to something, feel like I still matter, would be some comfort.

[–] Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 hour ago

I assure you that's not what it feels like.

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[–] BertramDitore@lemm.ee 28 points 17 hours ago

This is the first result I checked for when I woke up this morning, and I nearly vomited when I saw the breakdown. Half the vote is still uncounted, but I don’t think the result will change. I’m ashamed of my neighbors.

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