i couldn't even believe that was on the goddamned ballot.. why are we voting on this, why not just fucking do it?
it was hilarious that the ballot said there were no opposition groups
and yet it loses
We, the (slave owning) people.
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Close enough welcome back the confederacy
never left
real
They’re heal turning towards the right so they can join with Texas to give us the civil war that Alex Garland dared to dream of.
I think I underestimated how reactionary Americans are. I dont understand how you can see "prohibit slavery" and then be like, no actually I like that thank you.
Only trans people should be allowed to vote. If you arent doing the pokey, you shouldnt be doing the votey
Its possible it was phrased poorly (intentionally), but considering usians I do think people like slavery unfortunately
I dont understand how you can see “prohibit slavery” and then be like, no actually I like that thank you.
Because the phrasing there is not an accurate description of the proposition. Specifically, it bans sentencing someone to do labor as punishment for a crime and bans prisons disciplining prisoners who refuse to work.
Wow, if only we had a word for involuntary uncompensated labour enforced by violence.
Hate to break it to you but those two things are super clear cut examples of how one could prohibit slavery in the prison system.
Oh woah! I didn't know working for nine cents-dollar an hour (variable depending on state) as a punishment for a drug charge or some other felony (ontop of getting your rights stripped) isn't slavery! I didn't know that fighting deadly fires for that same amount of money isn't slavery either. Of course, I suppose in some states the alternative is to completely forgo commission at all. You know, conditions in American prisons are just that great you can do that, right? /s
What's even stranger is that there is certain ethnic groups targeted by the private prison complex and then sentenced to that type of "labor as punishment for crime" in the same settler state that has a history of enslaving people. Just coincidences, right?
You're a fucking pathetic worm, wriggling your shit all over the god damn definitions and stinking up the god damn place with your empty rhetoric. Fuck you.
you should be shot in the face
Carceral slavery is still slavery, you piece of shit. You deserve to be executed by a former felon.
Kay why ess
Prop 36 already passed overwhelmingly
San Francisco has also taken a hard shift to the far right. lmao this country is so fucking cooked. US is the headquarter of reactionaries.
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43% of the votes have been counted. That 53% ‘no’ vote represents about 23% of the total expected votes. Broadly speaking, the first votes counted are from small and rural areas, and the last votes counted are from mail-in and urban areas. The first group tends to lean conservative, and the last tends to lean liberal or progressive or whatever. California is frequently pretty dogshit politically, but we aren’t going to know any results until like tomorrow afternoon at the earliest. People are happy to call it for Harris because it’s California, but for actually competitive issues it takes hours if not days. Something like 30% of votes were mail-in this year, and they couldn’t legally open those until the physical polls were closed.
California loves policing as a whole though. The measure to increase punishment for drugs and theft is already called for as a yes, that's a signal to me.
This screenshot still represents 3 million people voting "no don't, keep the slavery please"
The gap is widening
Greatest evidence that Dems are no different to Conservatives.
They would vote to turn every inmate into Soylent Green if they could. The average American loves cruelty.
Hostility towards the homeless, poor and downtrodden here has been rising sharply sadly, especially since covid forced more people to the streets.
Heritage not hate huh
California honestly makes me fucking vomit. Just awful state.
Palo Alto by Malcolm Harris (in the section discussing 1975-2000, California über Alles)
Sherman should have marched to the other sea as well
Bourgeois neoliberal-ass state. Look at the ones that lost. I'm blissfully
about who's going to be the prime minister or whatever but the bottom four losing is pretty bleak.
