Louisiana congressional primaries are suspended as a result of the Supreme Court's ruling
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Louisiana’s congressional primaries are not going forward as scheduled in May as a result of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling. Republican Gov.

Early voting had been scheduled to begin Saturday for Louisiana’s May 16 primaries. But Republican Gov. Jeff Landry issued an executive order postponing the U.S. House primary in response to a ruling Wednesday by the court that struck down a majority Black congressional district.

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The Republican-controlled secretary of state’s office, which declared an electoral emergency allowing for Landry’s order, said it would post notices at early voting sites alerting the public about the suspended congressional primary. All other races on the ballot will proceed as scheduled.

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  • grue@lemmy.world
    89·
    3 days ago

    This is tyranny. Jeff Landry should be removed.

    Also…

    which declared an electoral emergency

    …that’s not a fucking thing!

    • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
      32·
      3 days ago

      And the SCOTUS justices that defied the VRA was some how unconstitutional.

      Actually, you know what. Every fucking republican. If you’re still republican, you’re a Nazis and need to go

      • gAlienLifeform@lemmy.worldOP
        4·
        2 days ago

        If you’re still republican, you’re a Nazis and need to go

        I’d say that’s been the case since their party ran Barry Goldwater for president in 1964 on his opposition to civil rights laws.

        We had almost made a real step forward in Reconstruction as the Democratic party actually showed the political courage to kick segregationists out of their party (which was like 25% of their voting base at the time), but then tax cut hungry oligarch assholes behind Goldwater were like “We heard you were looking for a new party! Let me dump toxic waste in your rivers and I’ll look the other way when you lynch someone, whadya say chum?” and that’s been American politics ever since.

    • baronvonj@piefed.socialEnglish
      19·
      3 days ago

      seriously, how many times have maps stricken down for discrimination still been used because the election was too close?

        • ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.worldEnglish
          14·
          2 days ago

          Username checks out. Oh, and look, it’s a five day old account advocating for us to resort to violence and swearing up and down and sideways nothing else can possibly matter, lol. “Inevitability,” you say. Pfft.

          Boring, lame little luxuries like cable TV, fast food and algorithmic social media have numbed you all into WALL-E fat fucks.

          And this is how we all know you’re not actually in Canada and never have been.

          • prenatal_confusion@feddit.org
            51·
            2 days ago

            They are right about one point and that is that hope is not a viable strategy. Action is. What that entails is up for debate.

            • ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.worldEnglish
              72·
              2 days ago

              Actions don’t happen without thoughts, and actions toward change do not start without the hope that success can be had. Hope is integral to change. @normalentrance@lemmy.zip is right to have it, because that’s where ALL change starts.

              Hence the propaganda strategy illustrated above: because most civilians will not fire without being fired upon, and because armed protests are either revolutions or failures, by way of false dichotomy it presents the idea there’s nothing left between those two poles.

              I should note the finer details like specifically at whom we should shoot have been omitted from the rant; this too is by design. The whole thing is wreathed in colloquial “y’alls” (“look! I’m one of you!”) and then lathered in insults and pejoratives so that the prospective American reader gets emotionally fired up, but then stifled because no one in their right mind is going to just start shooting at nothing for no reason.

              This kind of post is ALL about emotional manipulation, nothing more, and from someone not even on this side of the globe.

              There’s plenty for us to do before we start shooting. You can keep your despair.

              • prenatal_confusion@feddit.org
                1·
                2 days ago

                I agree that it doesn’t have to be one or the other. I never said it was. I am saying that only hoping is not enough and must lead to more than thoughts. Action is not necessarily guns but political action.

                “Let’s hope” to me is equivalent to “thoughts and prayers”.

                • ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  3·
                  2 days ago

                  No problem, I get it. But hope is where it starts.

                  If you’re genuinely on the side of Americans getting Americans out of this mess, then don’t stifle hope when you see it.

                  This is the first time a lot of folks have ever had to be involved in politics, and with lies and propaganda flying in every direction – including here on Lemmy to the point it’s predictable – then save your scorn for the people whose minds you can’t change.

                  People with hope want to do the right thing, and it’s hard to start.

  • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works
    14·
    3 days ago

    I hope the DNC is planning on going after every single seat. If they actually fund every state like it matters they might pick up huge gains in the midterms.