I double checked my info above when you made your comment, I was wrong about it as far as the legal definition too. Your definition would fall under domestic terrorism legally too.

It seems like so far though Pam Bondi is using the malicious destruction of property charge.

I meant the legal definition. But I apparently misread it the other day when I was looking at it.

It has to be organized for one. One random person going out and doing something regardless of what they do, isn’t terrorism domestic or otherwise.

And it doesn’t matter, Pam bondy isn’t really charging anyone under the domestic terrorism act. She’s charging folks for malicious destruction of government property. And the reason she can charge them this way, is because Tesla receives financial assistance from the federal government. So this puts them under a clause in the law that allows the Pam to charge them as though they had set fire to Air Force One or something similar.

All of the domestic terrorism stuff, that’s just political propaganda. It doesn’t actually reflect what she is charging people with.

Civil War and WW3. Potentially at the same time.

Happy cake day!

Best thing I’ve read on the internet all day thank you

Hopefully be responsible the environment, because we certainly haven’t been.

Yeah, this is just another step towards privatization of stuff that is socialized.

What they are doing with air traffic control and usps is the same.

Yeah, I hope the defense attorneys run circles around it. I think Bondi is overreaching and that she’s more concerned about politics than getting a conviction. Hopefully that hurts those cases.

Yeah, and if everybody did that then a blue state would get flipped to red. So I agree with you, I’m just sharing my understanding of the logic other people used.

Oh so by monarchies you mean constitutional monarchies? Because the ones still in existence have only been around since the mid 1600s.

And functionally they’re democracies anyway.

I did though, I live on the train. I may hate the direction it’s been going, that doesn’t mean I want it to go off the rails and blow up the whole goddamn planet.

So yeah, you don’t know me. Don’t pretend like you do.

It depends on the state. It does tend to be a bit broader than that and most states allow early voting.

However, red states tend to put more hurdles in to maintain their power, limiting polling access in working class districts, especially ones that aren’t predominantly white. Forcing folks to stand in long lines or get across town to cast a ballot. Or scrutinizing and tossing out more mail in ballots in those districts over something petty. Folks don’t have the spoons for that between bills, kids, work, and chores.

Also factor in that a lot of folks abstained because they know their state is already blue or red, and at least, in the swing state I live in, the turnout was actually very high.

Anyway, it’s not as simple as 1/3rd of folks abstained. While I imagine some did, just out of apathy toward the federal government and not understanding how dangerous Trump is to our planet, it’s just not the whole story is all I’m saying.

The US has a long history of making voting a privilege based on class. And while on paper it’s not supposed to be the case, there are certainly mechanisms at play that disinfranchise folks who would likely otherwise vote.

Yeah for sure.

And how are the material conditions for the average working-class person in those monarchies?

How much autonomy did they have over their lives compared to the 200 or 300 years they would have lived under a democracy?

How much suffering happened under monarchy compared to democracy?

Because if all of you are measuring is how long the ruling class can subjugate the working class, then sure I’m monarchy is better.

It doesn’t mean I want to live under one, but you go ahead.

Is there any way to tell who abstained and who just chose not to take time off work so they could pay their bills?

Yeah it’s really amazing the number that Western propaganda has done on folks perception of China

They assume democracy requires more than one party. When it should be people you vote for, rather than raw tribalism.

Did you just get radicalized? Yes they are basically fake.

To quote Bill Hicks, sometimes the ship leans a little to the left and sometimes it leans a little to the right, but it’s still going the same direction.

But now it’s going clear off to the right, which actually fucked with a lot of neoliberal agendas that they’ve been enacting for decades regardless of who was in office.

And I hesitate to even call that a real election, even though the train went off the rails. Considering Trump blabbered about how Musk helped him steal it.

Oh fuck …

So she’s not allowed to promote it while it’s tied up in the courts. I guess I should order a few dozen copies before it gets banned!