Except local refusal to enforce doesn’t really work with gay marriage. If feds refuse to accept gay marriage, they won’t be able to file jointly on federal taxes, and the protections to Rights for spouses like medical visitation / decisions would have to be repeated locally, which could (would) get challenged and ultimately overruled by SCOTUS

And yet, the Overton window isn’t wide enough to fight a tiny slice of window, which is “far right fascists”

And in the same breath, they’ll say it’s the Dems fault for supporting genocide.

“Or votes wouldn’t have made a difference in the outcome, but Dems lost because they didn’t do the thing that would have supposedly gotten our vote”

Yep.

No, the difference is the extent of which they will enable genocide. And I’m not just taking about Gaza.

It’s a massive fucking difference.

Trump wanted to deport Haitans to Mexico. You’re not getting a free ride to Ireland. Hope you like tequila.

For me, it was the days and weeks after Jan 6th, when it became clear that outright insurrection, a violent coup, was not going to spark a course correct.

The republican party should have shattered. The non-fascists should have woken up, and fought with MAGA, and years later, a viable political party rise from the ashes.

But that didn’t happen. A few conscientious dissenters fell on their swords, most at retirement age anyway. Fascism took over completely. And the American people ate it up.

Weeks after Jan 6th, it was clear that consequences were not coming. They took their mask off, and no one cared, or couldn’t stop them.

And here we are. Convicted felon with absolute power on his way to the Whitehouse, who owns the SCOTUS, Senate, and likely the House.

Trump will have unchecked power to do whatever he damn well pleases.

Way to fucking go, America. I fucking hate my countrymen.

Possibly benefit from some brain drain too

Don’t forget misogyny

Not a problem. They lose one voter (if the conviction sticks) and strengthen the fanaticism of their victimization narrative. To them, that says that the deep state just covers up for the antifa, and suppresses their voice.

I hear Tar and Feathering traitors was all the rage back in the founding father days.

Altho I could make an exception. Barack would tear him a new one in a celebrity former potus death match

All right, Texan Republicans. You have your moderately attractive blond white girl sacrifice to rally behind. You can do something about this now.

Because you’d been falsely presenting as a disillusioned Democrat that could be won over if Harris changed position on supporting Isreal. And framing it as others such as yourself could be won over as well, and that the Dems deserve whatever they get for failing to do so.

Yet you now admit that the Dems will never get your vote (in the short term), and that changing position on Isreal support would not get them your vote.

That’s literally what this community has vocalized repeatedly in response to people like yourself who grandstand on genocide despite the only other option being worse genocide.

Tl;Dr- you admit that pandering to people like you will achieve nothing.

So you’re literally admitting that your entire narrative is in bad faith.

At least you (finally) admit it.

Probably because running a presidential candidate is a waste of money unless your intent is to split the vote.

Start local, gain influence, work your way up.

Edit - to those downvoting, the Green Party literally has zero representation, even at the State level. And you want to jump straight to POTUS. Riiight.

Get one state senate seat. Get one House of Representatives seat. Get some kind of representation. Then you have a bargaining chip.

Ahh, I guess I misread. I thought they got convicted for attempted voter fraud but acquitted of voter fraud.

Like I said, intent is a large part of the law. A lot of crimes don’t get charged because intent is a high threshold to prove. Just because it seems the intent is obvious, proving it beyond reasonable doubt in a court of law is a very different matter.

But driving under the influence is literally the charge. There’s also reckless endangerment and other tack on charges. You couldn’t necessarily tack on attempted homicide, because intent is required.

In this case, attempted voter fraud is literally the charge. Sentencing guidelines are a state level decision.

That’s just how the law works. If you want more punishment for failed voter fraud, pressure the state to increase the sentencing guidelines.

Bernie endorsed Hillary too. Fat lot that did. My progressive friend still wrote his name in on the ballot.

Luckily my friend is done fucking around. But seems like a lot of the “leftist” vocal minority here on Lemmy want the rest of us to pay the “find out” tab for them again.

I do not respect the self identified “leftists” that do nothing but make demands and then move the goalposts.

You expect libs to be respectful, yet give no respect yourself.

Check you privilege. Your single issue voting is throwing minorities and women under the bus.

I do not respect that.

Yeah, I guess that’s what I don’t get. How can stealing/destroying ballots not be considered “political”, but figuratively throwing out all of the ballots and unilaterally picking the winner be protected as “political”.

It seems both are major crimes to democracy, whatever political party happened to commit said crimes.

Unless there’s some grey area not explicitly addressed in law wrt electors.