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submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Because the government is a terrorist state that sponsors genocide and the branches of that terrorist state sponsor terrorism globally.

"UWU the dems are just so powerless UWU!"

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[-] [email protected] 89 points 8 months ago

The Democrats had a generational supermajority after Obama was elected and they didn't do anything. Saying they always have an excuse is objectively correct.

[-] [email protected] 76 points 8 months ago

Oh they did something. Obama dismantled his grass roots organization and starved state level democrats resulting in the loss of 1,000 seats across the country then gift wrapped two scouts seats and gave them to Satan.

[-] [email protected] 47 points 8 months ago

I should’ve specified “anything good”.

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[-] [email protected] 78 points 8 months ago

Didn't the dems control the house and the senate for like 2 years after Biden was first elected? Which they used to do approximately jack and shit?

[-] [email protected] 72 points 8 months ago

"Yeah but but Biden couldn't do anything because some democratic senators were going against the party!"

It's not like there's a party whip whose entire purpose is making sure congress falls in line with the rest of the party, especially if the party currently holds the executive. Biden definitely couldn't have threatened republican-voting senators with pulling their campaign funding or endorsements or brought their kids up on corruption charges.

Sorry, we just had to save all that political capital for getting Jill Stein off the ballot in Rhode Island.

[-] [email protected] 44 points 8 months ago

But but but! You're forgetting the Senate pastafarian!

[-] [email protected] 40 points 8 months ago

Oh I never forget the Senate pescatarian garcia-cock-shotty

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[-] [email protected] 44 points 8 months ago

But using the power of the executive to do good things would be wrong!

[-] [email protected] 60 points 8 months ago

"Get over yourself and elect a moderate Dem!"

5 minutes later

"We regret to inform you that moderate Dems are obstructing progressive reform"

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[-] [email protected] 49 points 8 months ago

Ah, but you need 60 seats in the senate to bypass the filibuster. And even though there are procedural workarounds, you need the blessing of the parlimentarian, a sacred and infallible office where it would be braking the sacred norms to use our powers to ignore them or replace them. /s

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[-] [email protected] 72 points 8 months ago

Republicans meanwhile are never powerless, they always get what they want. Weird system huh.

[-] [email protected] 57 points 8 months ago

If Trump wins, he will dismantle all of America's institutions, declare himself God Emperor for life and genocide all minorities.

If Kamala wins, she won't be able to do anything unless the republicans let her.

[-] [email protected] 42 points 8 months ago

Except genocide homeless people, undocumented people, and Palestinians, which she'll use her political acumen to achieve bipartisan consensus on.

[-] [email protected] 44 points 8 months ago

no sweaty, this is not hard to understand!!

[-] [email protected] 65 points 8 months ago

So, to get anything done, you'd need the Dems to always win every single election so they have complete control of the state? Sounds authoritarian

[-] [email protected] 49 points 8 months ago

They also need to have a super-dooper majority and reach a bipartisan consensus with their good friends in the Republican Party, which America needs to be strong to have a healthy democracy.

[-] [email protected] 44 points 8 months ago

And that’s how you get situations like California and New York. Dem supermajority for long periods of time and always finding some convenient excuse not to do anything good

[-] [email protected] 61 points 8 months ago

As if this mf had ever heard of 'the Senate Parlamentarian' before that became a necessary excuse for the Biden administration

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[-] [email protected] 60 points 8 months ago

When Trump is in power, the president is Dictator King and a threat to democracy.

When Biden is in power, the president is a mostly ceremonial role

[-] [email protected] 59 points 8 months ago

"tankies complain a lot!" "The system works but the problem is we don't have the power :smuglord: "

[-] [email protected] 58 points 8 months ago

California. Democrats have had a super majority for as long as I can remember and nothing has changed but the date.

[-] [email protected] 50 points 8 months ago

They are pushing the homeless into concentration camps though, so that's something.

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[-] [email protected] 57 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

This isn't even on the level of the political anymore lol, this is liberals grappling with The Problem of Evil

If the Democrats are loving but incompetent, why rely on them?

If they are competent but uncaring, why support them?

If they're both loving and competent, then from whence comes evil?

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[-] [email protected] 55 points 8 months ago

Remember when Obama held every branch of government and did fucking nothing. Communists Remember, we are cursed, on and on, with the horrors of memory.

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[-] [email protected] 54 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Even when they had majority they don't do shit. How many people live in blue states where they don't even push basic shit. Biden did bypass congress on emergency sales to israel though several times

[-] [email protected] 42 points 8 months ago

Didn't he flagrantly and openly violate the separation of powers to do it a few times, too?

[-] [email protected] 41 points 8 months ago

Absolutely. Congress didn't seem to raise a fuss about it as much likely because they cosign it

[-] [email protected] 39 points 8 months ago

It's a winner all around. President Crime Bill isn't going to be re-elected so he can do whatever the fuck he wants and they don't have to put their signatures on yet another extermination warrant.

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[-] [email protected] 52 points 8 months ago

I don't need a supermajority of representatives to say "genocide is bad". Weird that the Democrats seem to still be unable thinking-about-it

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[-] [email protected] 49 points 8 months ago

Curated tumblr is undoubtedly one of the most insufferable subreddits on that accursed site. Practically every post on there is just "actually sweaty it's really privileged to be a radical leftist and not a feckless liberal. Against the status quo? Wow your privilege is showing" smuglord

[-] [email protected] 37 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

"actually sweaty it's really privileged to be a radical leftist and not a feckless liberal. Against the status quo? Wow your privilege is showing" smuglord

This is what happens when "radical" politics is vibes based, and centered around influencers. Any critique of the captialist system is regarded as being childish and privileged, because, who else but sedentary millionaires have the time to complain about capitalism?

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[-] [email protected] 45 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

That same sub I saw em excuse biden going above and beyond for the genocide passing congress because they didn't want a multi front war against Hezbollah. Hows that working out? orly

[-] [email protected] 44 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

"why don't tankies just realise that the entire structure of the US government is set up to make it an institutionally fascist country and we can never improve it and that's ok"

[-] [email protected] 43 points 8 months ago

Real poli-sci/political history heads know that the Federal Government was designed to not work so that white people could murder, steal, and enslave nonwhite people freely without interference and if you wanted to do something else with it you needed 90% of the population to support it.

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[-] [email protected] 41 points 8 months ago

You've reminded me why I stopped going on that subreddit.

[-] [email protected] 41 points 8 months ago

Every other post on that sub is some shit like this, or weirdly common, a post about how men are such poor babies. There are so many posts that are like "I'm a woman and I hate feminists, men are actually angels and we should love them" and every comment is a man going "true!". It's really embarrassing

[-] [email protected] 37 points 8 months ago

At what point do redditors have to start considering that the reason dems won't enact good policies is that they don't want to?

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