• BigMacHole@thelemmy.club
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    12 days ago

    NOT allowing a Large Population to have Representation is NOT Apartheid and if you Even THINK it Is your ANTI SEMETIC!

    -The BBC!

  • Zaktor@sopuli.xyz
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    12 days ago

    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu repeatedly warned on Tuesday of what he claimed was unusually high voter turnout in Arab communities, accusing Arab voters and left-wing parties of trying to “steal the election.”

    In a series of social media posts, Netanyahu shared photos of Arab citizens casting their ballots alongside images of supposedly empty polling stations in cities considered Likud strongholds.

    “Steal” the election by going out to vote while your voters stay home. He explained in text with supporting imagery how this wasn’t fake votes for his opponents or discarded votes from his supporters, but calls it stealing nevertheless.

    Also, I don’t know what Israel’s voting situation is like, but crowded polling places in minority areas and empty (i.e., fast and convenient) polling places in majority areas sounds like the intended results of voter suppression efforts.

    • fonix232@fedia.io
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      The right has become way too comfortable with the idea that they’re the only legitimate side to govern any country. It’s “stealing” because it’s “rightfully theirs”, and any attempt to take that power, however legitimate, is an affront, an offence.

      • Archelon@lemmy.world
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        10 days ago

        Reaches all the way back to modern conservatism’s origins as pro-monarchist reactionaries.

      • zqps@sh.itjust.works
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        10 days ago

        Closely related to their love for hierarchies as the “natural order”. Democracy is fine as long as it solidifies the rule of the politicians they stupidly identify with. As soon as progressives gain power and start actually representing disenfranchised people, this order is violated, and that feels to conservatives like society itself is crumbling and any means are justified to “fix” it. Up to collaborating with fascists that promise to make us go away.

  • phutatorius@lemmy.zip
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    11 days ago

    Just like Trump, the only way he can win is by cheating and depriving people of their votes.

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      12 days ago

      He will lose, he can’t hold it together, not after 10/7 and his failure to be the law and order prime minister.

      The new government will be even worse though from what I hear.

      • SHY_TUCKER@lemmy.ml
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        12 days ago

        The opposite is true and I"ve been saying it since 10/8. I’ve been right so far. His coalition could already have failed if I was wrong. I believe I will continue to be right.

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          9 days ago

          Well shit, you weren’t all wrong, looks like he might be able to hold on, they have a very large bloc, less than half but more than what I had read was expected.