Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield (Post 504253)

True. But let's be brutally honest about why this is happening. Democrats want more bodies in the booths. Ninety percent of the party apparatus couldn't give a fuck about these peoples' rights. One can't help wonder how many "tough on crime" Ds suddenly supported felons' voting rights when they became a large enough statistical bloc to make a difference.

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield (Post 504253)

That's exactly what I was saying. Except it applies to both parties.

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield (Post 504253)

But in the end, neither group offers the lumpen proletariat anything more than a temporary hand job to ease the pain of their utterly fucked futures. And neither tells the poor sons of bitches the ability of govt to protect and provide for them all in the manner to which they've become accustomed is coming to an ugly conclusion sooner than expected.

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop (Post 504257)

Oh dear. You got the brutal part, but not the honest part. You're just making shit up about what (unidentified) motivates Democrats. If you want to make shit up, go for it, but don't pretend you're being honest.

Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall (Post 504252)

What?

I do not know how I could possibly make this any fucking clearer. There are no instances of voter suppression occurring w/r/t white people (except, as Ty pointed out, the one that was handled*). The whole point of the VRA is to police states that suppress minority voters. If the only instances of voter suppression occur in one direction, then how the fuck does what you just wrote make any sense at all?

TM

*Let me guess your response: But we don't know about all the voter suppression of white people because the non-colorblind DOJ didn't investigate all the instances of white voter suppression!

FOH.

eta: I find it fascinating that you don't understand that I was agreeing with him based on what he wrote.

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield (Post 504254)

Technically, the application is supposed to be effected in a colorblind manner. That's all I read him or SEC to be saying. And that's all I said.

Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower (Post 504262)

Calm down.

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop (Post 504256)

Are you talking about something I said?

Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower (Post 504261)

Calm down.

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield (Post 504263)

Fuck off.

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield (Post 504265)

Fuck off again.

Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower (Post 504264)

Calm down. And listen to some post-Thanksgiving funk. The Nite-Liters with "Stuff-n-it." Get it? Stuff-n . . . stuffing? Get it? Calm down. The Daily Dose:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjH-qjxk9-c

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield (Post 504268)

Since you're here anyway... "Nevermind the Bollocks, Here's Joe Corre: Idiot of the Decade"?

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield (Post 504253)

Ninety percent of the party apparatus couldn't give a fuck about these peoples' rights.

Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower (Post 504269)

I don't know, it's kind of punk rock, right? Nihilism and all that? Right? "Get pissed. Destroy." Although the whole Thames bonfire thing is more glam thank punk. I guess I have not spent a lot of time evaluating the moral implications of his actions. I've just been so terribly worried about Kanye.

Originally Posted by SEC_Chick (Post 504255)

By *perceived* politicization, I guess I am more referring to the partisan echo chamber that infects both sides now. Not that the DOJ is itself problematic, but that no matter who is in control, the other side cannot acknowledge a single success of the other side or fault of their own. Regarding the current DOJ, a good portion of the country thinks of Fast & Furious, intentionally gunwalking to support an anti-second amendment agenda ("We need to brainwash people about guns"--Holder), contempt of Congress, BS executive privilege claims, and not handing over documents when they think of the DOJ, because that's what conservative media tells them about.

Originally Posted by SEC_Chick (Post 504255)

And on another topic, I have seen reports that Hillary may be keeping her options open for 2020. I cannot help but think it is a colossally bad idea for Dems, but would appreciate the thoughts of someone who actually likes her.