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  • hogposting [he/him,comrade/them]
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    4 years ago

    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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      4 years ago

      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.