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US supreme court rules Virginia can continue removing voters from rolls (www.theguardian.com)
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Virginia does not have to restore the registrations of 1,600 voters, some of whom appear to have been wrongly removed, ahead of next week’s election, the US supreme court said on Wednesday.

The court made the decision on its emergency docket and did not give a rationale for its decision, which is customary for rulings on an expedited basis. All three liberal justices on the court – Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson – said they would not have halted a lower-court ruling earlier in October ordering the state to restore the voter registrations.

The legal dispute centers on a 7 August executive order by the Virginia governor, Glenn Youngkin, a Republican, directing the state to run its voter registration rolls against DMV data on a daily basis to check for non-citizens. The justice department and civil rights groups sued, saying that the state was violating a federal law that prohibits systematic removals of voters within 90 days of a federal election.

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[–] InverseParallax@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

So 2 points:

  1. I am not a liberal, I am a moderate who just has a sense of morality

  2. If the rednecks come, I will not pick up a weapon. I worked on drones for a living.

What they don't understand is that not everyone is as proud of their ignorance as they are. It's 2024, a gun is basically a loud stick compared to the tech we actually can have.

[–] PortoPeople@lemm.ee 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I'll just leave this here. Here are definitions of liberalism from Merriam Webster:

  1. "inclination to be open to ideas and ways of behaving that are not conventional or traditional"
  2. "a political philosophy based on belief in progress and stressing the essential goodness of the human race, freedom for the individual from arbitrary authority, and protection and promotion of political and civil liberties"
  3. "a political philosophy based on the belief that freedom of the individual is paramount and that government's role should be largely limited to protecting that freedom"
  4. "a theory in economics emphasizing individual freedom from restraint and usually based on free competition, the self-regulating market, and the gold standard"

As opposed to fascism (today's Republican party):

  1. "a populist political philosophy, movement, or regime (such as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual, that is associated with a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, and that is characterized by severe economic and social regimentation and by forcible suppression of opposition"

A moderate is a liberal if they still believe in traditional free markets, individual liberty, democracy, and civil rights.