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Fascist strategies plain and simple. This is corruption folks. This is how seemingly functioning democracies slip into tyranny. Greed, lust for power, hatred.
The only thing stopping them is a complete wreck known as Russian Post.
Buy stamps, as if they were toilet paper or war bonds. If the American public buys stamps they can have a collective action of helping to save one of its finest institutions.
Asking people to perform charity in order to save socialised letter delivery is going to be a hard sell.
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Asking people to perform charity in order to save socialised letter delivery is going to be a hard sell.
You phrased that like it's a contradiction, by it seems like the opposite. I'd expect that to naturally follow, ideologically.
Incredibly frustrating to get mail by USPS over the past couple months and even more frustrating to know this is an intentional kneecapping of the USPS by the administration in order "prove" government services are inefficient to privatize the USPS
Its not a point about government effectiveness or efficiency. They kneecapped the USPS when they forced prefunding of pension liabilities ( https://www.cnbc.com/2011/10/24/the-truth-about-the-post-off... ). They had more legislative leverage prior to 2018, so they could have done all this much earlier. It is not possible to honestly discuss this in a meaningful way without acknowledging it's 3 months out from a presi…
The correct link appears to be:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/investigations/...
The underlying motivation here is to accomplish two things: 1. Destroy the viability of the post office as a business (a long running campaign) 2. Disenfranchise voters (a relatively recent campaign) Tens of thousands of people were disenfranchised during the primaries because their ballots were received too late, even if they were postmarked on time. [1] Tax returns are considered to be submitted on the date of thei…
Recent as in it started the instant the 15th amendment was passed.
I don't quite get why this is #1 on hn?
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Republicans. It is Republicans who think more people voting means they will lose. Now is a time to be absolutely frank and direct with our words and our actions. Our democracy is not invincible. It is not inevitable. It is teetering on the brink and if it falls, there is absolutely no guarantee that it will recover. There is exactly one party who is trying to undermine the most basic principle of our democracy, and t…
Hate to break it to you, but it’s more complicated than that. You may want to do some reading from the other side, you sound like you’re parroting Democratic talking points. NYTimes disagrees with you that higher turnout always helps the Democrats. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/15/upshot/2020-election-turn... Typically increased turnout helps the Democrats, but that’s not necessarily true now.
You’re right that the Republicans may very well be hurting themselves by disrupting Americans’ right to vote. They might be hurting themselves. They are definitely hurting our democracy.