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Originally Posted by Adder
What's it?
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The perception of a politicized DOJ.
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Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Right. But it did. Wouldn't it be fucking grand if you thought about vote suppression as a general thing (and not just something that needs attention when it affects people who look like you) and you were pissed about it occurring anywhere? I suppose that's just too much to ask.
TM
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Calm down.
I would think that you would be literate enough to indicate that my use of the subjunctive case is an indication that I was making a hypothetical proposition. It is also necessarily an acknowledgment that the Ike Brown case *was* prosecuted. I fail to see how you can conclude based on a statement that if a prosecution of circumstances similar to specific named event of voter suppression, were not to be prosecuted, that I don't give a crap about any kind of voter suppression. And someone needs a Leap to Conclusions Mat to then assume that it means I do not acknowledge that there is systemic racism in a million small ways, just because of the sole example of what was *one* particularly egregious case of reverse racism, that was in fact prosecuted.
Heck, every single case of fraud that I know about from the presidential election was a dumbass Trump voter who tried to vote multiple times because he said to. And now we are in a situation where Gary Freaking Johnson is the only candidate not bitching about the election results. I absolutely believe that voter suppression is a bigger issue than voter fraud. And I agree that we need to re-evaluate felon voting rights or think about the consequences before making changes like reducing early voting days. And the DOJ should go after changes to laws that do have the intent or effect of suppressing the vote, and not encouraging the adoption of such rules (that will ultimately hurt the GOP anyway. I tend to agree that the GOP base is dying off, and they need to diversify, and Trump/Sessions is a move in the exact opposite direction if they want the party to survive. The future supply of angry white people is limited.)
And Ty, I hear you about what statements in the DOJ get publicity. Point taken.
