• AA5B@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    While I hate being cold to peoples suffering, didn’t most of them vote for the face eating leopard party. They asked for their corporate overlords personal profit to be protected from their lungs, their environment, any consideration. They asked for billionaires to be above the law.

    They are clearly being wronged here, there should be heavy fines, shutdowns and even jail time but my empathy is in short supply

    • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      6 days ago

      Blacks typically vote mostly for Democrats while whites typically vote for Republicans. So black neighborhoods are commonly not getting representation.

      Mississippi is about as Jim Crow as it can possibly be, so it doesn’t surprise me if white supremacist elected officials are pushed into office via gerrymandering, voter suppression and election tampering.

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      6 days ago

      About 40% of Mississippi voters voted for Kamala Harris. Additionally, about 38% of the state’s residents are black.

    • funksoulkitchen@lemmy.zip
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      6 days ago

      Just because they voted for a leopard to eat their face, doesn’t mean they deserve to have their face eaten

      • i_am_not_a_robot@discuss.tchncs.de
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        6 days ago

        People are downvoting because they can’t reconcile one side being better than the other with both sides being bad. Is sacrificing citizens for AI companies a partisan issue? Does the mainstream democratic party oppose the unsustainable construction of data centers and what happens to people near those data centers?

              • i_am_not_a_robot@discuss.tchncs.de
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                5 days ago

                I mean the voting system needs to be reformed. There is no reform party, and cannot be because the voting system allows for only two parties. If Tucker Carlson or whoever manages to create a different far right party that steals more than 5% but less than 95% of the vote from the current far right party, that’s bad for far right voters because the less right party will always come out ahead in major elections.