• CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world
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    16 hours ago

    Don’t just blame Republicans.

    I’m sorry, is there another party that controls virtually all of the government right now?

    Saying it’s “the government” is just reinforcing the age-old Murc’s Law media trick that lets the Republicans skate away scot-free.

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      16 hours ago

      You clearly missed the point of the quoted speech. This isn’t just Republicans. This is the government in action. Democrats chose to vote on the BBB instead of indefinite filibuster. Democrats helped keep the iran war going. Democrats are enabling Trump and the Republicans. It’s not just Republicans. The government has failed us.

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      13 hours ago

      Yes? That party is named “The Hilariously Rich”, wtf? Welcome to Earth I guess, must be strange waking up here.


      Alright let’s be charitable, if you’d like to rebut, find us some real firebrands and leaders among the mythic “merely not in power right now” half of Congress. Some folks who a lot of us say “yeah that person sees how severe this is and is doing stuff I never even THOUGHT OF to work against this. Holy shit let’s have more of that”.

      It’s been so many years of the US spiraling towards this, even getting a little test run a la Trump v1, the insurrection that was the loss of v2.

      Been a whole lot of time for all those powerful Democrats, wielding around 50% of legislative power throughout all of it, to respond and prepare, work for their people and values, I probably just missed all the awesome shit they got done or even sincerely attempted.

      Really looking forward to hearing some heartening news from you, sounds like you know about a lotta cool Democrat stuff I’ve been missing.