Can we stop prattling on about midterms and "swingstates" - the entire idea of this authoritarian Musk/Trump regime is that there will not be meaningful elections any longer. What do you think this birthright citizenship thing is about? It's about disenfranchisement. - ThreadSky

dankaszeta.bsky.social • 23 hours ago

Can we stop prattling on about midterms and "swingstates" - the entire idea of this authoritarian Musk/Trump regime is that there will not be meaningful elections any longer.

What do you think this birthright citizenship thing is about? It's about disenfranchisement.

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causticcorner.bsky.social•22 hours ago

He told "my beautiful Christians" that "in four years, you don't have to vote again. We'll have it fixed so good, you're not gonna have to vote."

You can interpret that any way anyone wants, but he has a habit of saying the quiet bit out loud.

mavill.bsky.social•22 hours ago

You might be right but - planning as if there's no elections does what, exactly? How is a random middle class American supposed to respond to this?

dankaszeta.bsky.social•20 hours ago

Elections didn’t get the vote or desegregation for Black people. They were disenfranchised. Take lessons from the decades of the civil rights struggle

dankaszeta.bsky.social•19 hours ago

There’s a wide toolkit beyond feebly waiting for an election that may not come

dankaszeta.bsky.social•19 hours ago

Elections may still have some leverage at state and local level. Empowering municipal and state officials to obstruct the worst excesses of Trump/MAGA or at least buy time

dankaszeta.bsky.social•19 hours ago

Fund and empower resistance voices and groups. If you’re not willing to join a protest or more direct forms of action, use your money and/time to help those who are willing.

dankaszeta.bsky.social•19 hours ago

Draw a cock and balls on every cybertruck

verityplayer.bsky.social•19 hours ago

That and the thing about women with married names.

marisavines.bsky.social•6 hours ago

https://www.americanprogress.org/article/the-save-act-would-disenfranchise-millions-of-citizens/

highpoh.bsky.social•22 hours ago

And the stuff about surnames matching birth certs that I saw when people were applying for passports I think.

ratratigan.bsky.social•19 hours ago

This!!

timmi-allen.bsky.social•18 hours ago

undacuvabrutha.bsky.social•13 hours ago

📌

davidjorgonson.bsky.social•19 hours ago

Hungary and Turkey still have elections and they're still ways of challenging the regime. Milosevic fell partly through losing an election.
Campaign strategy is less relevant right now than protest and starting opposition media, but it will be.

chaneysystems.bsky.social•17 hours ago

Technically, so does Russia.

babyyodafella.bsky.social•18 hours ago

Yep. I might be able to prove I am an American. I was born in the US and my ancestors were born in the US. But in the early 20th century record keeping was sparse if at all.

amsterdel6.bsky.social•19 hours ago

Thank you... talking about 'midterms' when the house is going up in flames? Daft.

renee0064.bsky.social•22 hours ago

You are deluding yourself if you there will be anymore free and fair elections….

dankaszeta.bsky.social•22 hours ago

Something of my point, that

citygirl212.bsky.social•17 hours ago

I have said many times, the 2020 election was the last real election we’ll ever have. There is nothing that will convince me Elon didn’t mess with the results of 2024’s.

marisavines.bsky.social•6 hours ago

https://bsky.app/profile/electiontruth.bsky.social

dankaszeta.bsky.social•22 hours ago

The fight we have now is to make sure the Republic lasts in a viable democratic form long enough to make it to 2026 elections.

janehogarth.bsky.social•17 hours ago

Dan, do you know this self professed "expert" on "bioweapons" & WMD?
https://x.com/BlackTomThePyr8?t=kjqy85Eekw5ykh7oz3tNNQ&s=09

seeadler.bsky.social•17 hours ago

LOL. Him? I can't speak for Dan (obviously), but I took him to school a while back and he blocked me.

dankaszeta.bsky.social•17 hours ago

Never heard of the guy. Looks like a crank.

janehogarth.bsky.social•17 hours ago

👍

seeadler.bsky.social•17 hours ago

And then some.

dankaszeta.bsky.social•17 hours ago

Certainly not actually known in my field

dankaszeta.bsky.social•17 hours ago

who he?

janehogarth.bsky.social•17 hours ago

Over on X, saying Covid & covid vaccines are bio weapons.
Seems to be "an expert" amongst the grifters. I thought you might know him?
I suspect it's all in his head.
I was blocked many moons ago.

dankaszeta.bsky.social•17 hours ago

Never heard of him.

janehogarth.bsky.social•17 hours ago

As expected. A legend in his own lunchtime.

mabehr.bsky.social•22 hours ago

The special elections may let us flip the House. It’s an uphill battle, esp for Gay Valimont, but I certainly donated

rogueyankee.bsky.social•19 hours ago

This. News commentators were talking about the midterms the day after the election, like we can just sit here and do nothing until then (if there even are mid terms) while the country burns to the ground.

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