In a speech honoring the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the vice president denounced laws rolling back civil rights and emphasized the fights that await future generations.

Video of Vice President Kamala Harris speaking is here

        • takeda@lemmy.world
          4·
          10 months ago

          Sad to say this, but it looks like Lemmy is more vulnerable to bots than Reddit. I guess there are more spread out communities over multiple servers and less moderators. The comments with negative votes are still being displayed without being collapsed or removed.

      • silence7@slrpnk.netOP
        21·
        10 months ago

        I know that I and people around me will be actively working to keep Trump out of office. That means kicking in money and volunteer time if you can. If you have the means, consider a fall trip to help out in a swing state or a swing congressional district.

      • IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.worldEnglish
        14·
        10 months ago

        Do you know how hard Republicans make it to vote in the districts that matter? Your glib comment suggests you don’t.

        • charles@lemmy.worldEnglish
          9·
          10 months ago

          I’m quite well aware. The supreme Court says the way to fix that is to vote them out. Not much else to do.

          • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
            6·
            10 months ago

            Not much else to do.

            Well, except for all the tactics the Supreme Court doesn’t approve of.

        • fluxion@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          10 months ago

          Great motivation to vote. They might have a shitty idea of what competent leadership looks like, but at least Republicans fight for their rights when they think someone is trying to take them away.

          Keep pretending that voting doesn’t matter and it’ll eventually come true, and much sooner than you can imagine. People have literally died by the millions to achieve the democracy we take for granted. But it’s not granted, it’s earned by societies who remain vigilant and actively defend it.

          • IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            10 months ago

            Keep pretending that voting doesn’t matter and it’ll eventually come true, and much sooner than you can imagine.

            Who is doing this? Certainly not me. Thanks for the lecture though.

            • fluxion@lemmy.worldEnglish
              3·
              10 months ago

              Not talking to you, talking to any potential non-voters who might read your comment and think “true, it’s the politicians fault, not mine”

              If I need to look like an asshole lecturer with a stick up my ass for the next 10 months then so be it, I want my kids to live in a democracy like I did.

      • dirtypirate@kbin.social
        5·
        10 months ago

        How’s voting working out for the Puerto Ricans? the Cherokee? Creek?, Sioux? Iraqis? El Salvadorians?

        whether you vote for Drone’Bomba’s war mongering fascist or Putin’s war mongering fascist… doesn’t matter to the people you enslave.

        like chickens coming home to roost, all that evil shit the USA has been doing is coming around and you ALL deserve it.

  • Sanctus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    28·
    10 months ago

    Its because we dont collectively stop what we’re doing and protest until the asphalt comes off the streets. Whether theres too many people, the powers are too adept at herd splitting, or any other reason, we do not scare the people in control enough anymore. Remember, every right you enjoy was written in blood. This is what was meant by refreshing the tree of liberty with the blood of patriots. Dregs and downtrodden of the world unite, and break the dawn that was taken from you.

  • Rooskie91@discuss.online
    18·
    10 months ago

    The fascism party is doing a fascism and the only solution is to vote for the fascism lite party.

    Wow guys, we’re seriously going to act like the government everyone is defending as “not fascist lite” isn’t actively funding and enabling genocide right now?

    • silence7@slrpnk.netOP
      34·
      10 months ago

      Sometimes, stopping fascism means actually working within an alliance between moderates and those further left. I’ve got no problem doing that.

      • agitatedpotato@lemmy.world
        13·
        10 months ago

        Let me know when an actual alliance happens. Did the moderates concede anything in the name of alliance or simply demand the left move rightward and tell them there is no alternative? Wasnt Pelosi endorsing primary challenges against progressives in Trumps term? Doesn’t really sound like they’re making alliances.

        • silence7@slrpnk.netOP
          12·
          10 months ago

          Started happening in 2020.

          The part I pay close attention to is climate. We got the carrot portions of the Green New Deal enacted as the Inflation Reduction Act.

          • agitatedpotato@lemmy.world
            8·
            10 months ago

            The inflation reduction act as passed can’t hold a candle to the worst parts of the green new deal, they couldn’t even touch minimum wage. If thats alliance, I’d hate to be their enemy.

            • silence7@slrpnk.netOP
              14·
              10 months ago

              It’s what we could get through the Senate. That body is designed to favor the most conservative.

              I’ll take what I can actually get over an actively hostile government any day

              • agitatedpotato@lemmy.world
                9·
                10 months ago

                Now you’re moving the goalposts what happened to the supposed alliance? Im not talking about what you’ll take out of a broken legislature, im saying there has been no effort on an actual alliance with anyone to the left of centerist democrats. No longer endorsing people who challenge them is hardly an alliance. Neither is what every other country would simply call a normal infrastructure bill. If things like preventing bridges from falling down and fixing roads long out of spec is a gift to progressives, then the Democrats are truly an incompetent party and there’s little hope anything gets done regardless of who’s in charge.

                • silence7@slrpnk.netOP
                  9·
                  10 months ago

                  Hardly. We got what what was possible as a minority within the Democratic party which held an incredibly narrow margin in the Senate.

      • GodlessCommie@lemmy.worldEnglish
        10·
        10 months ago

        Theyve given you the illusion you have a seat at their table. There is no changing the way the oligarchy works. They will do nothing that impacts their power, there is no reforming within

    • vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      14·
      10 months ago

      Fascists lose all the time, but you guys have to get to grips with the idea that it’s fascist fightin’ time.

      • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        10 months ago

        It’s been fascist fightin’ time since Mussolini coined the term in 1919. Centrist Democrats have spent the past four decades moving to the right to try to win the favor of members of the party they’re now calling fascists.

        Of course Republicans are fascists, but centrist Democrats don’t fight fascism. They capitulate to it.

    • fluxion@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      10 months ago

      Is the choice between getting stabbed 3 times vs getting stabbed 2 times also a conundrum for you? Perhaps you just sit it out and let the stabber decide?

    • metaStatic@kbin.social
      2·
      10 months ago

      the only solution is to buy a black flag from Amazon, revel in the irony, and then set their yachts on fire with them inside

  • FriendBesto@lemmy.ml
    5·
    10 months ago

    Very rich, coming from the DNC who outright cancelled their own Primaries not even allowing members to vote for ANY other candidates than who they already decided.

    Do these people do not own mirrors or do they really think everyone of them plebs they look down onto are stupid?

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
    5·
    10 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    Vice President Kamala Harris warned on Monday that American freedom was “under profound threat” in a speech honoring the Rev.

    Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in South Carolina, amplifying a message that the Biden administration has made a rallying cry of its re-election bid.

    She urged the crowd of more than 100 to continue to fight for the constitutional promises Dr. King spent his life holding America accountable for.

    Ms. Harris visited Myrtle Beach on Jan. 6, the third anniversary of the deadly attack on the Capitol, and delivered a similar message as she and Mr. Biden, who was in Charleston two days later, try to rally Black voters.

    In Columbia, Ms. Harris stopped at a campaign event, where she reiterated to supporters that there was “a full-on, intentional attack against hard-fought and hard-won freedoms and rights.”

    Ms. Harris also told supporters that it was South Carolinans who helped inform some of the administration’s most successful policies, such as expanding access to high-speed internet in rural areas, tackling the removal of lead pipes and lowering insulin prices.

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