gregdoucette.bsky.social
In-House Counsel @ BigTech. Ex-"Computers Guy," then decade litigating 1A in NC+TX. Servant to two cats (and a dog and a wife). Armchair Philanthropist.
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I mean this with 100% sincerity: if you think every election everywhere is rigged against you, you should log off Bluesky immediately and go stockpile guns and ammo
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If "historical voting" foreordained future voting, there'd be no need for elections
And given how many soldiers are sleeping on the floor of the federal building in LA, not sure why you think it's a bizarre claim that it's challenging to coordinate dozens of people
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Aside from the distilled MAGAness of that worldview, if that's what someone actually believes they need to immediately log off Bluesky and go stockpile guns and ammo
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Exactly. It's all just infantile self-soothing. "Every time I win, it's because I was righteous. Every time I lose, it's because you cheated by intimidating / suppressing / etc my voters. I never have to adapt or be introspective because I'm infallible and never wrong."
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Not cleaning up CBP/ICE after four years of repeat bullshit was a depraved act of willful blindness by the Biden administration. None of this behavior is surprising or new.
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They were blocking lawmakers from entering their airport areas during the Trump 1 Muslim ban. Arresting the Newark mayor etc is an escalation of what they were gleefully doing before and were never punished for doing.
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At its crudest, most sociopathic formulation, rule of law exists so society doesn't blow its top off at bullies who are never punished.
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In the past decade, in what jurisdictions has "voter intimidation" been effective?
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Imagine putting your literal life on the line for your country, and then have your country tell you that you're scum and that it hates you.
Man. I dunno.
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It's a dramatically fucked up place. I can't imagine what it does to a person to spend substantial time there, especially if you're using it to follow political stuff.
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See also:
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And how challenging it is to coordinate dozens of people, let alone hundreds / thousands
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Sure – assuming you know how each one is going to vote before the election happens
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The ones you'd need to target are the ones with disproportionately larger numbers of voters
But precincts with lots of voters inevitably have lots of people willing to show up to defend against intimidation tactics
That's why Rs focus on the courts instead
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i simply do not understand those of you who look at the white house and say to yourselves, “these are hyper competent people who are executing a sophisticated plan with high odds for success”
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what i see is a white house whose ambitions outstrip its resources, who did not count on facing mass resistance, and which is scrambling to escalate the situation in hopes that a display of force will make people shut up