The US Supreme Court

[Svartalf]

"representative democracy" makes a farce of real democracy, you know, a system where citizens have a real say in government, not just pretend to be represented by "representatives" who actually represent only themselves and the party that helped them get elected.

[macdoc]

So move to Switzerland.

[L'Emmerdeur]

tl;dr? Being anti-racist is racism against racists.

Cue the greasy shitbird Bannon:

... what's so outrageous and I find so offensive is the South has been oppressed by this since the 1960s or '70s.

[source]

[Tero]

Supreme Court will hold it up
https://www.npr.org/2026/05/01/nx-s1-58 ... fepristone

[pErvinalia]

Hold what up?

[Tero]

No mailing of abortion pills.

[Tero]

"In dissent, Justice Elena Kagan warned that the majority's approach risks unraveling decades of civil rights protections.

"That is racial vote dilution in its most classic form," Kagan wrote. "A minority community that is cohesive in its geography and politics alike, and that faces continued adversity from racial division, is split—'cracked' is the usual term—so that it loses all its electoral influence. Members of the racial minority can still go to the polls and cast a ballot. But given the State’s racially polarized voting, they cannot hope—in the way the State’s White citizens can—to elect a person whom they think will well represent their interests."
"The Voting Rights Act was not merely a statute. It was a national commitment to meaningful political participation and vigilance against racial exclusion.

ABC

[Brian Peacock]

...Johnson introduced the Voting Rights Act that same month, “with the outrage of Selma still fresh” (Johnson, “Remarks in the Capitol Rotunda”). In just over four months, Congress passed the bill. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 abolished literacy tests and poll taxes designed to disenfranchise African American voters and gave the federal government the authority to take over voter registration in counties with a pattern of persistent discrimination. “This law covers many pages,” Johnson said before signing the bill, “but the heart of the act is plain. Wherever, by clear and objective standards, States and counties are using regulations, or laws, or tests to deny the right to vote, then they will be struck down” (Johnson, “Remarks in the Capitol Rotunda”)...

https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/voti ... s-act-1965

[Tero]

https://karireport.blogspot.com/2026/05 ... homas.html
Heritage Foundation Makes Thomas an Honorary Caucasian

[Brian Peacock]

It's his ideology rather than his race that's the issue here.

[Svartalf]

well, does 'honorary white' mean, corrupt farright asshole?