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Republicans move to criminalize disruptive protests in multiple states
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long may she live in our memories. I wish I was approved during that but I could only observe from afar. It was magical.
Secret Fawful
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Not as dangerous as it is to be black in America on a daily basis.
Disrupting the ability to gather in protest. Destroy the trust that the people have in information sources and information itself. Continue the indoctrination measures already in play. Strip the people of the education needed to express themselves while they strip the resources that the gov't had vowed to protect. Control the methods of communication by removing policy and fair play. Remove the rights of those that are the most outspoken along with the systems that protect them. Get the resources back into place, and let the Rep. male have the control over all aspect of life that have been threatened by free will and right to choose.
I dunno guys. I didn't see any of this happening at all.
I dunno guys. I didn't see any of this happening at all.
Alcoremortis
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I didn't think they'd be so blatant about it. I thought they'd at least try to sneak it by as a rider on some motor safety bill.
Massive Duck. C.M.
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I got no snark left for this. It's just sad
No need for subterfuge anymore. Hell, even self-proclaimed liberals express their distaste for protesting on a regular basis
No need for subterfuge anymore. Hell, even self-proclaimed liberals express their distaste for protesting on a regular basis
SlickShoesRUCrazy
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Constituion is absolutely meaningless to republicans,
We had a good run.
Burn it all down and rebuild.
We had a good run.
Burn it all down and rebuild.
Why wouldn't they be? Being blatant about it won them control of the entire government.
Alcoremortis
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I dunno, I guess I just assumed they'd be willing to let Trump take all the risk on that and continue with their usual playbook of making good-sounding bills with terrible riders and blaming the Democrats when they don't pass or slipping them by unnoticed when they do.
WaterAstro
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Wow, not allowed to protest? Wtf country is USA turning into?
Unknown One
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Sounds like Republicans alright, they are pure evil.
Secret Fawful
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They don't need to do that anymore. They control every level of government now.
They didn't work so hard to get him in there just for him to piss it away and them lose ground on what they want to accomplish.
They put Pence in to continue the road if they can't control that fool. It would take a colossal blunder for them to even need to point fingers across the aisle for anything.
NullPointer
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If they want to up the costs and risks and stakes in civil disobedience to unjust levels people will be forced to go beyond peaceful assembly. Laws like these lead to escalation.
Its these kinds of overzealous clampdowns on the rights of the people that lead to officials being tarred and feathered in the public square, and beyond that to guillotines.
These representatives should take a moment to read up on their history, and pay special attention to our founding documents and the actions the earliest Americans took to protect their natural rights. I think they may be forgetting who and what they're actually working in service of.
Society needs channels for discontent.
Its these kinds of overzealous clampdowns on the rights of the people that lead to officials being tarred and feathered in the public square, and beyond that to guillotines.
These representatives should take a moment to read up on their history, and pay special attention to our founding documents and the actions the earliest Americans took to protect their natural rights. I think they may be forgetting who and what they're actually working in service of.
Society needs channels for discontent.
I live in North Dakota. There was a poll on my local newspaper's website about this bill. Over 65% of the people who replied thought this bill was necessary.
For a little bit of context, the ND House of Representatives has 94 members. 81 of those members are Republicans. 38 members of the 47 seat State Senate are Republicans. Our Republican governor, a billionaire, is off at the Trump inauguration. My state is so fucked.
TheOctodad
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And...
LostMyNarbles
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Isn't Washington a blue state, if so how is that going to get passed? Never the less this shit is disgusting. The Republican party will probably spend the next 4 years doing everything in their power to stay in power, even if that means stripping the rights of citizens.
Worse yet some people will be cheering and hooting as their rights are slowly stripped away.
How About No
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This is so disgusting
It's not going to pass in WA. The other ones might, though.
Happy MLK week
HP_Wuvcraft
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This is the first time that I actually have 0% clue what the fuck they even mean by this.
umop_3pisdn
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Isn't economic terrorism what the US does to its working class?
why yes it is.
Aaronology
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On the flip side, maybe robbing the left of its ability to protest will redirect our collective focus to the actual, most effective form of showing disdain for Government: voting.
OriginofHysteria
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Jesus... buckle up for 4 years of the most transparent totalitarianism we will probably ever live through in America. If we survive it.
Maybe 2 if we get out there and vote.
Also, if these unlikely to pass bills were to indeed pass, it undoubtedly would get sent to the Supreme Court and would probably fail, even with a Trump pick in there.
ryutaro's mama
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Where was this criminalization when the TEA party was crying, er protesting in 2008?
Oh right...
Oh right...
Gordon Shumway
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FOR RUTH!!!
this is just disgusting...
though I wonder in 4 years time how many states will turn protesting into a felony and how many will make the laws loose enough that would allow them to basically consider any non official rally a protest so that they can go around breaking up democrat rallies and getting them charged with felonies so they outright can't vote anymore :/
though I wonder in 4 years time how many states will turn protesting into a felony and how many will make the laws loose enough that would allow them to basically consider any non official rally a protest so that they can go around breaking up democrat rallies and getting them charged with felonies so they outright can't vote anymore :/
TheGreyHulk
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I still cant believe people vote for these scum. Do they not see how evil this party is? They have the poor white people fooled into thinking they give a shit about them. They will run over anyone in their way to fatten their pockets.
too late
Kill Your Masters
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So where are the deplorables to tell us to just take the L on this and deal with it?
A fascist state. I mean, our new president is a fascist, the GOP has had fascist tendencies for decades only to finally reach meltdown levels once a black man took office, and now they have major control of every branch of government in the U.S.
It's a recipe for disaster. Republicans fully believe we are at war, while Democrats are still trying to negotiate and hand the olive branch to them. It's time we accept that we're divided and will forever be divided, Republicans are the enemy of what this entire country stands for and we need to start treating them as such.
Okay a question here in regards to streets/highway protests. Are we talking about protesting at the sides of freeways or on the sidewalks, or are we talking like completely occupying a freeway or busy avenue and shutting it down completely, stranding thousands of people trying to get to work or home at rush hour?
I'm for right to protest, but I think that kind of protest that completely shuts down major avenues, traps thousands of people in traffic, and potentially causes them to lose their jobs over being late to work, etc is going too far. At the least, I don't think that's going to endear those people to the protesters' causes.
I'm for right to protest, but I think that kind of protest that completely shuts down major avenues, traps thousands of people in traffic, and potentially causes them to lose their jobs over being late to work, etc is going too far. At the least, I don't think that's going to endear those people to the protesters' causes.
That's not the point of protests. Protesters care to have allies, yes, but for the most part it is design to hurt the government in someway until they listen. Republican listen to the protests and want to make these disgusting laws. Democrats listen to the protests and they want to actually take the time to discuss what needs to be done.
There's a reason why these types of protests succeed while other more non intrusive ones fails, they get the most attention.
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