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Here are some highlights from the video:

On Gerrymandering: 

Ott (Estonia): “Well, now when you tell me what gerrymandering is then this sounds like cheating.”

Linda (UK): “That’s illegal. I’m sorry, firstly, gerrymandering needs to be illegal.”

Dan (Australia): ”In Australia, redistricting is done by an independent commission, not done by the politicians who won those districts, so it is a lot fairer.”

On Voter Registration

Ott (Estonia): “What is voter registration? I mean, I know what it is, but I understand, why do you have this kind of thing? 

Olga (Germany): ”In Germany, you don’t need to register yourself for the vote.”

Ott (Estonia): “In Estonia, voter registration is automatic.”

Hridaya (India): “I actually had somebody who is an election officer come over to my house and help me out with my process of voter registration, and mind you, this is in a country of 1.3 billion people.”

On Voter Purging

Linda (UK): ”Come on. No one thinks of a word ‘purge’ and thinks of anything positive. We have seen the ‘Purge’ films.” 

Clara (Italy): “Georgia likely removed nearly 200,000 from voter rolls wrongfully? How?”

Olga (Germany): ”I can’t imagine for this to happen in Germany.”

Nikita (New Zealand): “Nope, you don’t get to vote. Nope, you don’t get to vote either. Nope.”

On Making Voting Inconvenient

Ott (Estonia): “To me, it sounds like 19th century to be honest.”

Olga (Germany): “What I really appreciate about Germany is it’s so easy for you to go and vote. It’s on a Sunday. It’s on a free day.”

Hridaya (India): “In India, it’s actually illegal to keep your employees from voting.”

Dan (Australia): “So in Australia, we have this thing called a ‘democracy sausage.’ You take a selfie with your democracy sausage. You haven’t voted in Australia unless you’ve gotten your democracy sausage.”

Ott (Estonia): “In the last Estonian parliamentary elections, I think I cast my vote during breakfast. I have this identity card. I insert it into a computer reader, pick my candidate, and cast my vote.”

Jezza (New Zealand): “It took me two minutes.”

Ott (Estonia): “Approximately a minute.”

Linda (UK): “Five minutes.”

Hridaya (India): “Five to seven minutes.” 

Olga (Germany): “Five to 10.”

Dan (Australia) “Ten minutes.”

Linda (UK): “Wait, wait, wait, it took him the amount of time it will take for me to fly from the U.K., from London to New York.”

Hridaya (India): “This feels like the opposite of easy to vote.”

Ott (Estonia): “This is not acceptable. It’s just not acceptable in a democratic country, I think.”

Linda (UK): “I’ll say 80 percent, just because they’ve haven’t been doing too well recently with everything else.”

 Linda (UK): “64 percent.”

 Nikita (New Zealand): “Yeah, that’s not good.”

 Sibs (South Africa): “That’s almost half of the Americans have no voice.”

 Hridaya (India): “It’s like you want to stop people from voting.” 

Sibs (South Africa): “Why is that so?”

American democracy is broken.

Republicans in particular seem to want to make it hard for many Americans to vote.

Unfortunately, the conservative justices appointed by Republicans frequently uphold these kinds of voter suppression tactics.

We have to fix our democracy.

Voting Blue right now is the best chance we have to do so.

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How so? For starters.

American finance grew on the back of slaves

Economic Consequences of Segregation

GI Bill: White male affirmative action program

Predatory Lending in Black Communities and Black Wealth

African-Americans With College Degrees Are Twice As Likely to Be Unemployed as Other Graduates

America’s giant wealth disparity is driven by a history of racist redlining

Black Graduates From Top Colleges Face Discrimination In Job Search, Salaries

A Black College Student Has The Same Chances Of Getting A Job As A White High School Dropout

40 Acres and a Mule Would Be at Least $6.4 Trillion Today—What the U.S. Really Owes Black America

Racial Bias and Interstate Highway Planning

Race, Opportunity and Uneven Development in Urban America

so please…

African-Americans With College Degrees Are Twice As Likely to Be Unemployed as Other Graduates https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/05/african-americans-with-college-degrees-are-twice-as-likely-to-be-unemployed-as-other-graduates/430971/

A Black College Student Has The Same Chances Of Getting A Job As A White High School Dropout https://archive.thinkprogress.org/a-black-college-student-has-the-same-chances-of-getting-a-job-as-a-white-high-school-dropout-b7639607fdf1/

How so? For starters.

American finance grew on the back of slaves

Economic Consequences of Segregation

GI Bill: White male affirmative action program

Predatory Lending in Black Communities and Black Wealth

African-Americans With College Degrees Are Twice As Likely to Be Unemployed as Other Graduates

America’s giant wealth disparity is driven by a history of racist redlining

Black Graduates From Top Colleges Face Discrimination In Job Search, Salaries

A Black College Student Has The Same Chances Of Getting A Job As A White High School Dropout

40 Acres and a Mule Would Be at Least $6.4 Trillion Today—What the U.S. Really Owes Black America

Racial Bias and Interstate Highway Planning

Race, Opportunity and Uneven Development in Urban America

so please…

African-Americans With College Degrees Are Twice As Likely to Be Unemployed as Other Graduates https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/05/african-americans-with-college-degrees-are-twice-as-likely-to-be-unemployed-as-other-graduates/430971/

A Black College Student Has The Same Chances Of Getting A Job As A White High School Dropout https://archive.thinkprogress.org/a-black-college-student-has-the-same-chances-of-getting-a-job-as-a-white-high-school-dropout-b7639607fdf1/

If you see someone using this image to “prove” that the attack on capitol was orchestrated by antifa, don’t believe it. the man with the short hair is Matthew Heimbach. He is a neo-nazi, and planned the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville. Click here for his wiki article.  He was posted on the Philly antifa website to announce him as a nazi.

Here is the second fake photo.

This man was NOT a pro-BLM protestor. Here is the full version of the picture on the right. 

This man is Jake Angeli. He is a QAnon influencer, also called the “Q Shaman.” Q (Qanon) is a far-right conspiracy theory. You can read more about it here.

Here are some links about him:

Jake Angeli interview by BreAnna J. Frank

The research suggests that when intolerant white people fear democracy may benefit marginalized people, they abandon their commitment to democracy.

Whites See Racism as a Zero-Sum Game That They Are Now Losing

Martin Luther King and the ‘polite’ racism of white liberals

White Americans long for the 1950s, when they didn’t face so much “discrimination”

What Exploiting a Whitewashed MLK Says About You lmaoo white people love to act like we don’t have centuries of examples of who they are. always want to act brand new. like this suspicion and mistrust of your character isn’t earned every fucking day by your behavior, your treatment of black people, native people, brown people, by who you vote for, who you support with your money, who you tone police, your “jokes” and more. foh!  like there isn’t a trail of dead black, native and brown bodies in your wake. we watched y’all whitewash the fuck out of mlk’s legacy (AFTER KILLING HIM BTW) and then tried to use that whitewashed version to limit our fight for liberation and justice to just the acts your comfortable with, the acts that result in our heads being based in while you sit around and NOT CHANGE one single thing about yourselves and then have THE FUCKING NERVE to say that calling out your typical behavior we’ve seen for decades now “guilt tripping?” fuck you.

I cannot believe this is happening.

This photo shows members of Congress cowering under seats in the gallery of the House. The plastic bags they’re holding contain gas masks.

The National Association of Manufacturers has issued a statement calling on Pence to “seriously consider” working with the Cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment against the president. He deserves to be impeached and convicted, but with only 2 weeks to go before Biden is sworn in, that is unlikely. Invoking the 25th Amendment would make Pence Acting President. I can live with that.

"We are literally starving"

There is (or should be) NO SHAME in taking the explicitly easy road.

There is (or should be) NO SHAME in avoiding working yourself to death.