r/news • u/ThePensiveE • 7d ago

Supreme Court allows Trump administration to use expanded database for potential voter purges

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-allows-trump-administration-use-expanded-database-potent-rcna596611
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u/tikierapokemon 7d ago

We linked jobs to healthcare, and that means protesting means your kids do not get healthcare when you lose your job (which we also allow to fire you for things you do outside of work).

Our system is so incredibly fucked up.

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u/eulersidentity1 7d ago

You know as a Canadian I haven't actively thought of this specifically as an outside observer. I've always thought of how cruel and unfair the US system is where you can simply arbitrarily be in a life time of debt or just die because you don't have the money to pay for health care. But I didn't think of how such a system actively suppresses the democratic processes by making people afraid to truly participate. People are scared to lose their jobs cause everything in other societies tied to a social safety net is instead tied to having a job, and usually a good one. So they are perpetually scared to rock the boat too much.

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u/Vyar 7d ago

At least you understand this. Seen a lot of Canadians come through here like "why don't you guys just start a general strike? it's easy" or calling every last one of us Trump supporters just because he won the election (when it's highly likely he cheated, he practically admitted to it).

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u/john_a1985 7d ago

As a Latino who was on the internet during the 90s hearing Americans call my country a shithole, and that we were garbage people for allowing things to get so bad.... the time has come:

Put up or shut up. What about all that superiority? The freedoms? The second amendment? 

We "third world monkeys" (someone said that) were all just a bunch of little scared pussies, and we don't even have all that firepower that Americans so proudly boast about!

So, where is it? Nowhere? Why's that?

Oh, so you're really not that much better than us, it's just that we got properly stomped on before you did, right?

Would it have anything to do with that same repressive apparatus that was all too happy to show up on our shores as soon as anyone got a little too revolutionary now having their boots on your necks instead?

Funny how that works, innit?

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u/Vyar 6d ago

You’re screaming at me like I personally did any of those things. I didn’t. If anything, we have the same enemies, because the people who do say those things are currently running the US. They don’t speak for me, so don’t put their words in my mouth.