Danielle ForéApr 16, 2023

Florida is getting real scary real fast. They will now allow death penalty sentences with an 8-4 jury vote instead of unanimous, they’ve passed a bill to make sex crimes against children punishable by death, and they’re working to make being trans near children a sex crime. For all the “it could never happen here” folks, we’re inching closer to state sanctioned mass murder all the time.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/florida-to-allow-death-penalty-with-8-4-jury-vote-instead-of-unanimously/ar-AA19S7Fh

https://www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/florida-house-backs-death-penalty-in-child-rapes/

https://translegislation.com/bills/2023/FL

Florida to allow death penalty with 8-4 jury vote instead of unanimously

(Reuters) -Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is expected to sign a bill on Friday allowing juries to recommend the death penalty in capital cases on an 8-4 vote, a move spurred by the less-than-unanimous vote that led to the Parkland school shooter being sentenced to life in prison. The state's Republican-led House of Representatives approved the measure with an 80-30 vote on Thursday, following the

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Show threadLee 🌏Apr 16, 2023
@danirabbit
This is modern-day Fascism on display.
https://eand.co/americans-are-now-experiencing-the-everyday-reality-of-authoritarian-collapse-f6c811d41429
Americans Are Now Experiencing the Everyday Reality of Authoritarian Collapse

I just arrived back, after a bumpy flight, From America to Europe. And here, almost immediately, my European friends all asked me, more than a little baffled: “But are the things you’ve been writing…

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Show threadSara Joy 

@MrLee @danirabbit

I've just read this and he's right, but also seems to assume that Americans are sleepwalking into it.

I am in a group with many US mothers and expectant mothers. They are very aware, and terrified. They die a little inside every day, scared of just taking their children to school in case that day is the day a shooter comes. Their young children go through active shooter drills.

They worry something might happen to their pregnancy, and they won't be able to access care.

Apr 17, 2023 at 8:55amWeb
Show threadLee 🌏Apr 17, 2023
@sarajw @danirabbit
I think it was saying the media and leaders were sleepwalking into this.
But yes, for average Americans, this is already very real.
Show threadSara Joy Apr 17, 2023

@MrLee @danirabbit I got the feeling he was talking about people in general, but yes those groups too.

Really, the people do need to rise up - but because of how little free time they have, how easily they can get fired, and how their healthcare largely depends on their jobs - most of them just can't risk it.

And, there are guns everywhere. Can you imagine considering going on a leftist protest in the US - the likelihood of a deranged republican with an automatic weapon turning up is so high!

Show threadLee 🌏Apr 18, 2023
@sarajw @danirabbit
Yep, and it's just that kind of fear they want to spread.
I had the chance to move to the USA and I'm glad I didn't, for these reasons.