• P03 Locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    The votes of about 355 legislators and the signature of Joe Biden could end this today; it’s the stroke of a pen, and they simply don’t do it.

    And 269 of those legislators are Republicans, most of which are uncaring sociopathic individuals who were voted in by a party of spiteful, hateful, racist voters.

    The best way to change that situation is to vote. Don’t removed about it. Vote.

    This case went before the SCOTUS requesting an emergency block, where it was voted against 6–3. The SCOTUS had the power to trivially prevent this and decided not to.

    Wow… 6-3, I wonder where I’ve heard that split before? Oh, right, it’s the same SCOTUS split that has been going on ever since Trump put three immoral and corruptible judges unto the Supreme Court, voted in by Republicans in the Senate, who were in turn, voted in by Republicans.

    The best way to change that situation is to vote. Don’t removed about it. Vote.

    The majority of US states (27) as well as the federal government have state-sanctioned murder on the books as a legal criminal punishment. 12 states and the federal government have carried it out in the last 10 years.

    And most of those states are red states… you know, the states filled to the brim with Republicans.

    Are you starting to see a pattern here?

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      And 269 of those legislators are Republicans

      I 100% agree with you that they’re vermin. My point is that they nonetheless are members of the federal government which could otherwise ban this.

      Don’t removed about it. Vote.

      I’m quite content to do both actually, thank you very much.

      I wonder where I’ve heard that split before?

      Yes, and I’ve mentioned that split elsewhere in this thread; doesn’t mean that these traitorous fucks don’t have control over the entire US through essentially unchecked authority and that that is – say it with me – inherently the fault of the United States.

      Most of those states are red states.

      Nobody’s disputing that. See the first portion of this response.

      I think you think what I’m saying is some kind of weird both-sidesism (it’s not; the world would be a markedly better place if every Republican were replaced by a Democrat counterpart), but the fact is that a ban on capital punishment can’t happen because the US is backward enough to have too many of these Republicans representing it.

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      Why will voting change it? Democrats had majorities before and didn’t do squat