• SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago

    It’s their fucking job to prevent this.

    They were doing a good job before the voters cut off both of their arms by giving MAGA majorities in the house and senate and the presidency.

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          2 hours ago

          Why didn’t they win with a landslide? Was it because they stopped talking about relevant issues, capitulated on issues like transgender rights and immigration, ignored outcry about literally paying for a genocide, and preferred to associate themselves with centrists and “upset Republicans” instead of progressives?

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            1 hour ago

            It’s mostly because of the racist and sexist democratic voters that voted for Biden but couldn’t bring themselves to vote for a black woman.

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      17 hours ago

      How is giving police departments, now working to enable the authoritarian agenda which WE ALL KNEW THEY WOULD DO, even more money “doing a good job?”

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        There was no right choice with the continue resolution. Both outcomes were shit and cause pointless death and suffering.

        So be mad at the people who wrote it.

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          14 hours ago

          Yes there was a right choice, as shown by the polling I literally just linked. You’re supporting the wrong choice.

          EDIT: Sorry I didn’t realize you weren’t SatansMaggotyCumFart, but please see the links below.

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            14 hours ago

            I would have preferred the CR got struck down, but I also realize there are more avenues of resistance with continued government, so I’m very ambivalous to both options. If the general public always decided right and wrong to minimize suffering and casualty, Donald Trump wouldn’t be president, Biden wouldn’t have won the 2020 primaries.

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              13 hours ago

              Right but again, we don’t have to wonder what the public would think because this has happened multiple times in the last decade and they blame Republicans. This isn’t an unknown, pretending like it is doesn’t help anyone.

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          17 hours ago

          Let’s be honest, if ten years ago taught us anything it’s that the public would probably blame the Republicans for the shutdown. They keep shutting the government down, getting blamed, losing elections as a result, then forgetting and once again shutting the government down. Why the hell should the Democrats save Republicans from the consequences of their own actions?? You know Democrats aren’t going to get any credit for keeping the lights on when they swoop in and vote with the GOP on their asenine budget. Why would you rather take the high road in order to help the Republicans than take the low road for once and let the GOP’s obvious lack of ability to govern bite them in the ass? What kind of a Democrat goes out of their way to save the GOP from itself?

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      17 hours ago

      Believe it or not, getting votes is also part of their job. It’s an integral part of the system and usually works if they actually try to represent us.