Joe Exotic posts on instagram that his husband was deported by ICE after years of shilling for Donald Trump.

  • Renohren@lemmy.today
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    14 days ago

    Wait. I’m French so this made my brain fry.

    In the US prisoners have their constitutional rights removed?

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      5 days ago

      You have to remember that the US is an advanced, enlightened liberal democracy…. By the standards of the late 18th Century. They spent too much time fetishising their founders and never really grew up with the rest of the Western world.

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      14 days ago

      Yup! In America convicted felons are not allowed to vote in federal elections and depending on the law of the state they are not allowed to vote in state or municipal elections either. As a result of these policies a disproportionate amount of black and Latino communities have had their right to vote stripped away.

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        14 days ago

        I checked it out and about 4.4 million US citizens cannot vote (excluding the real 51st state: Puerto-Rico) including 1/19 blacks. That’s crazy, it’s as if the country is setup for a one party system from the get go. You don’t need huge prisoner cohorts to make the 3% difference needed for you to remain in power while maintaining an illusion of democracy.

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          14 days ago

          This was by design and started shortly after the civil war. During reconstruction when the South was effectively occupied there was a decade or so where it looked like black people might actually enjoy some enfranchisement. But then the dirty compromise happened and Jim Crow took over. Suddenly black people were going to jail for the most minor infractions, and if they couldn’t get them to break the law, they just lied and said they did anyway.

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      14 days ago

      Citizens in the US don’t have a constitutional right to vote. States are granted electors based (roughly) on their population that can vote and are given broad authority in how to determine how these electors are selected. Technically a state could decide how to vote based on drawing names out of a hat.

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      14 days ago

      they are also legally slaves! the 13th amendment didn’t remove slavery completely:

      Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

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