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At what point is the stuff happening with the USPS criminal? I've only been watching from a distance but the post office drama has struck me particularly sharpl

by Taek 6y ago

At what point is the stuff happening with the USPS criminal? I've only been watching from a distance but the post office drama has struck me particularly sharply as a big red flag of corruption, a large threat to our democracy, and something we should be very upset about. Criminally upset about. Am I off base?

m463 6y ago
I've had one package disappear. Another came a month late, with the dvds gone and the low-value remaining in someone else's box and my label taped on. I couldn't help but think... are some employees sitting out covid and is chaos in charge?
darksaints 6y ago
One of the most transparently political acts of voter suppression that has ever occurred in the US. This is the sort of thing we should expect to happen in Venezuela, Haiti, Russia, or Afghanistan...and now it is our political reality. My great grandparents left Portugal for the US, then a beacon of freedom, when things like this started happening in the 1920s. I'm reliving all of their stories now, and now I'm thinking I might have to emigrate back to Portugal, which is now a relative beacon of freedom.
- sam36 6y ago
  >One of the most transparently political acts of voter suppression that has ever occurred in the US. I totally agree! For months media has encouraged large group gatherings in the form of protests and riots and now they tell us to not "gather" to vote but instead mail it in. It's crazy!
  - foogazi 6y ago
    Since when does voting by mail equal voter suppression?
    - thesuperbigfrog 6y ago
      It's not voting by mail in and of itself that is the problem. It is the willful dismantling of postal processing machinery to slow and reduce the throughput of the postal system, thereby threatening vote-by-mail ballots to be not delivered on time and possibly lost. The timing and overall effect stink of corruption and voter suppression.
  - obiye9998 6y ago
    Do us all a favor and drink bleach

by Taek 6y ago

m463 6y ago

I've had one package disappear. Another came a month late, with the dvds gone and the low-value remaining in someone else's box and my label taped on. I couldn't help but think... are some employees sitting out covid and is chaos in charge?

darksaints 6y ago

One of the most transparently political acts of voter suppression that has ever occurred in the US. This is the sort of thing we should expect to happen in Venezuela, Haiti, Russia, or Afghanistan...and now it is our political reality. My great grandparents left Portugal for the US, then a beacon of freedom, when things like this started happening in the 1920s. I'm reliving all of their stories now, and now I'm thinking I might have to emigrate back to Portugal, which is now a relative beacon of freedom.

sam36 6y ago
>One of the most transparently political acts of voter suppression that has ever occurred in the US. I totally agree! For months media has encouraged large group gatherings in the form of protests and riots and now they tell us to not "gather" to vote but instead mail it in. It's crazy!
- foogazi 6y ago
  Since when does voting by mail equal voter suppression?
  - thesuperbigfrog 6y ago
    It's not voting by mail in and of itself that is the problem. It is the willful dismantling of postal processing machinery to slow and reduce the throughput of the postal system, thereby threatening vote-by-mail ballots to be not delivered on time and possibly lost. The timing and overall effect stink of corruption and voter suppression.
- obiye9998 6y ago
  Do us all a favor and drink bleach