• @[email protected]
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      181 month ago

      This isn’t a new thing. If anything, our expectations that these sorts of voices won’t be silenced is what’s new

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          The J Edgard Hoover writing to MLK that he should off himself kind of mystery?

    • @[email protected]
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      “Upon the corpses of your enemies,” is what an edge lord cyber truck owner would say.

      I push a Rav4 hybrid, just FYI.

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    From an outsiders view this seems like a really strange affairs. So immigrants living there for 25 years aren’t allowed to vote in regional (?) elections so that the natives can easier secede which they didn’t partly because they didn’t participate in the vote? Or would this create the same backlash when tourned around and immigrants in France couldn’t vote?

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    But he added: “The unrest of the last 24 hours reveals the determination of our young people to no longer let France take control of them.”

    I don’t doubt he’s right but I find it fascinating that those young people are essentially rioting to not be allowed to vote.

    • azuth
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      That’s completely inaccurate. They are rioting so that immigrants from mainland France will not be allowed to vote.

      • The Octonaut
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        Did you read the article? The change being made is that the voter eligibility list hasn’t been updated in 25 years. Yes that means recent “immigrants” from France (New Caledonia is France, at least for now) can’t vote.

        It also means people under 40 can’t vote…

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    If you work for the state and participate in silencing people you are traitor to your felllow man, your neighbors, your community.