Jun. 26th, 2013

Because it's not like nonwhite people or those otherwise known to vote "wrong" ever get turned away from the polls due to spurious horseshit these days.

Oh wait no that is in fact the case.

Seriously, literally all that section 5 said was that particularly hate-crime-prone states have to show changes to their voting procedures or redistricting plans to the Justice Department before implementing them. This is done on the basis that common sense suggests that they are more likely than other places to require "Arabian-looking" people to sing the Star-Spangled Banner in order to access the polls, or chop a primarily-black community into nineteen separate voting districts, or whatever.

So it's not exactly an unreasonable requirement. The only problem with it is that it's too limited; it does not, for example, cover my ridiculous state, home of the nation's largest concentration of KKK members. Because we're super responsible about electoral shit.

Here's an overly-mild description of the decision's implications by a someone at the Washington Post. There are four things he fails to address adequately:

Read more... )

Jun. 26th, 2013 10:42 pm
I bet when we cut back to Kanaya and Karkat, Kanaya is sitting on Jade's quest bed with a grumpy expression, impatiently insisting that Karkat either kill her (impossible) or go away.

KANAYA: Karkat I Cannot Kill Myself While You Are Watching

KANAYA: It Is A Private Thing Okay

KARKAT: FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK

Then Jade teleports in in a nostalgically Jack-ish way and solves the problem for them.

KARKAT: JADE NO WHAT THE FUCK!

JADE: omg karkat she was sitting on the magic space bed! i am pretty sure that this was a consensual murder.

JADE: you're just mad because i am more badass than you are, as always! >:B

KARKAT: NO, DAMNIT, THAT'S NOT TRUE! I MEAN OKAY, PART OF THAT'S PROBABLY TRUE, BUT NOT THE WHOLE THING! OH GOD I AM JUST GOING TO PRETEND THAT THAT IS GRUBSAUCE AGAIN, OH GOD OH MOTHERFUCK -

JADE: i think you are probably doing your aspect wrong somehow right now. :/

KANAYA: Yes It Got Kind Of Old On The Meteor To Be Honest

JADE: have you drunk a lot of his blood? how does it taste??? >:B

KARKAT: FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK

KANAYA: We Will Discuss This At Some Point When You Are Not Evil

December 2018

S M T W T F S
      1
2345 678
9101112131415
16171819202122
23242526272829
3031     

Style Credit

Page generated Oct. 5th, 2025 08:02 am
Powered by Dreamwidth Studios

Expand Cut Tags

No cut tags

Most Popular Tags

Creative Commons



The contents of this blog and all comments I make are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike License. I hope that name is long enough. I could add some stuff. It could also be a Bring Me A Sandwich License.

If you desire to thank me for the pretend internet magnanimity I show by sharing my important and serious thoughts with you, I accept pretend internet dollars (Bitcoins): 19BqFnAHNpSq8N2A1pafEGSqLv4B6ScstB