jeffw@lemmy.worldM to News@lemmy.world · 2 days agoIdaho state senator tells Native American candidate to “go back where you came from”www.motherjones.comexternal-linkmessage-square92fedilinkarrow-up1686arrow-down18
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minus-squaredrunkpostdisaster@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up48·edit-21 day agoHow does someone like this become senator?
minus-squareKalysta@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·11 hours agoRacists are allowed to vote and do so en masse
minus-squareRagingRobot@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up51arrow-down1·1 day agoPeople in power usually aren’t smart. They just have money from their parents or grandparents. This isn’t a meritocracy. Idiots rule the world
minus-squareStarshotJohn@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·1 day agoAdditionally, the dumb relate to the dumb (and are easily manipulated), hence why they get votes.
minus-squaredubious@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up10·1 day agoand there’s only one way to get rid of them
minus-squareChaotic Entropy@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20·1 day agoTrick them in to thinking that the senate building is haunted.
minus-squarehumorlessrepost@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·11 hours agoGreat idea! I’ll go make some spooky ghost costumes!
minus-squarecrank0271@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 day agoGreat, now they’re diverting all the tax revenue to churches to pay for exorcisms.
minus-squareChaotic Entropy@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 day agoDon’t read in to the fact that the priest receiving all the tax payer money looks like the senator but with a goatee, and you never see them in the same room.
minus-squareochi_chernye@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkarrow-up5·1 day agoI’m sure that’ll work, provided there aren’t any meddlesome kids about!
minus-squareChaotic Entropy@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 day agoReally makes you question the youth vote.
minus-squarevaultdweller013@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 day agoPretty sure the mystery gang would help out with such an operation. Remember they mostly dealt with rich people.
minus-squaredrunkpostdisaster@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 day agoI get that. But you would think that a senator would at one point be in the same room as a history book
minus-squarenaught101@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 day agoSure, but that’s a long way from reading it
How does someone like this become senator?
Racists are allowed to vote and do so en masse
People in power usually aren’t smart. They just have money from their parents or grandparents. This isn’t a meritocracy. Idiots rule the world
Additionally, the dumb relate to the dumb (and are easily manipulated), hence why they get votes.
and there’s only one way to get rid of them
Trick them in to thinking that the senate building is haunted.
Great idea! I’ll go make some spooky ghost costumes!
Great, now they’re diverting all the tax revenue to churches to pay for exorcisms.
Don’t read in to the fact that the priest receiving all the tax payer money looks like the senator but with a goatee, and you never see them in the same room.
I’m sure that’ll work, provided there aren’t any meddlesome kids about!
Really makes you question the youth vote.
Pretty sure the mystery gang would help out with such an operation. Remember they mostly dealt with rich people.
I get that. But you would think that a senator would at one point be in the same room as a history book
Sure, but that’s a long way from reading it
Protest votes.