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  • volkvulture [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    So all we can do is just talk idly about policies that we may or may not support in our own respective camps, but when it comes to actually voting them into law... it's just performative to even attempt to sway party leadership into doing so?

    sounds like hypocrisy or nefarious hand-waving either way

    • PhaseFour [he/him]
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      They claim they can never do anything because it's all performative, but then say shit like "we can't 100 years for M4A, we need it now." Their current tactics are no different than any other Democratic Progressive Caucus.

      I haven't paid attention to the Democratic Party in awhile, this shit is insane lol

      • volkvulture [none/use name]
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        4 years ago

        it's self-deluded & schizophrenic to both desire revolution & reform at the same time lol

    • hogposting [he/him,comrade/them]
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      but when it comes to actually voting them into law

      That's not what we're talking about, though. We're talking about a vote (the House speaker election) to force a vote (the House vote on M4A) that is still unlikely -- at best -- to pass anything into law.

      If you force a vote you know will fail, yes, odds are that's performative. It might have some value, but that's debatable.

      • volkvulture [none/use name]
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        so you're saying participation in liberal democratic electoral politics amounts to performative & dilatory complacency?

        hey, that's what I've been trying to tell you!

        • hogposting [he/him,comrade/them]
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          Voting something into law isn't performative. A vote that will fail but has some real consequences -- e.g., the people who vote "no" are likely to get bounced -- probably isn't performative either.

          But if you know a vote will fail, and you know there will likely be no consequences for its opponents? Yeah, probably performative.