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  • ClimateChangeAnxiety [he/him, they/them]
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    2 years ago

    She’s right, this did happen in the Republican stronghold of Highland Park, Illinois, while the Republicans control the federal government.

    Oh wait Democrats control literally every level of government that could’ve affected this? Huh.

    • GrouchyGrouse [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      I love how if you point this out libs will screech about Manchin and Sinema or other proceduralist bullshit like the senate parliamentarian and never take the next, wholly logical step, and admit that the whole system is so broken that it wouldn't matter even if democrats had a supermajority. The last bastion they retreat to is "it's not a democracy its a bla bla republic" no motherfucker it is FAILING. the word you are incapable of using is FAILING.

      • ClimateChangeAnxiety [he/him, they/them]
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        2 years ago

        And they’re so caught up in procedures and norms that they literally have no functional idea of how political parties even work. It’s a ludicrous idea that two senators in your party just get to act however they want and destroy your whole plan. That’s not how political parties work!!!

        Whip up your fucking votes! If you wanna be nice about it, bribe them! Better plan: Threaten them! Take their committee assignments! Take their campaign funding! Investigate them for their crimes! Just sent the FBI around their houses to piss them off! Walk up to Joe Manchin and show him a live feed from a predator drone with a target locked on his wife! Send them to fucking gitmo and let them go when they agree to follow the fucking party line!

        Remember how the Republican Party acted when that dipshit leaked about their drug fueled orgies? Do that shit to them.

        • GrouchyGrouse [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          Hell yeah. Though I fear that the democrats are too committed to the theater and the veil. May he rest in piss but you can still learn from LBJ bullying the hell out of people so this cursed country could drag itself out of the worst excesses of racism short of actual slavery. That "when they go low we go high" bullshit is brain poison.

          Let me rephrase it to be accurate: "when they go low we voluntarily narrow our avenues of reply" not so fucking smug and smart sounding now, right?

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          • ClimateChangeAnxiety [he/him, they/them]
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            2 years ago

            The US Dems are basically the only political party I can think of that absolutely refuses to whip votes in any way. Even UK Labour fucking keeps their members in line.

      • TheGamingLuddite [none/use name]
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        2 years ago

        You'd think there'd be at least some liberals openly advocating for abolishing the constitution considering they'll be branded that way by the right regardless of what they do but they have a pathological belief that the system is good because they're good and the system benefits them and problems can only be caused by bad people corrupting the system from outside. It's the same pathology as the right but with more pathetic branding.

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