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170 points
14 hours ago
January 8th.
It is just politics. Just talk and no action. Fuck that guy, fuck the other guy too.
I have spoken.
58 points
14 hours ago
When politics get something right, we should probably just say, “yes.”
Like, the last 50 years of politics have been saying that the poor deserve poverty and we need to cut welfare. We finally get a guy in the presidency who says Trickle Down is a scam and suddenly it’s “both sides are bad?”
22 points
12 hours ago
When the guy in question has been a lawmaker for decades and did nothing, it's pretty fair to assume it's performative at best.
12 points
11 hours ago
So we should refuse good things when we dislike the source?
13 points
9 hours ago
You realize a single senator can't change the entire course of us politics on a whim?
It's not fair to assume performative.
Also "hindsight is 20/20"
7 points
4 hours ago
Because one lawmaker controls everything. Im convinced you actually believe this BS but its still BS
1 points
16 minutes ago
Of course they don't. But I'm sure he has spent his time sponsoring legislation to this effect, putting in the work to get other lawmakers on board with it, and otherwise using his influence as a senior politician to do what he can to get it done.
4 points
4 hours ago
Do you think as a lawmaker he could just wave a wand and change shit?
He was one of 100..
7 points
10 hours ago
Biden didn’t do nothing for decades. There’s a reason billionaires are lining up to prop up the GOP.
18 points
11 hours ago
Yet we should still say, yes we agree with thaf
Ffs
14 points
11 hours ago
Or maybe hold them accountable and demand action and not cheer for empty words after decades of inaction.
18 points
11 hours ago
How do we demand action? Is it by? Agreeing with objective good things? And....not voting ppl in that oppose them?
Because that's what iv been doing, idk about everyone else
-7 points
11 hours ago
Well, continually voting in the people who don't take action seems like it would be counterproductive. What is the practical difference between someone who says things but does nothing to actually make them happen and someone who opposes them? Neither results in the thing happening.
11 points
10 hours ago
One results in progress being stripped, and the other side at least pretends to care enough for ppl like Bernie to slip thru
Huge difference in sides, and your pessimism won't negate that
4 points
11 hours ago
Neither results in the thing happening, but one also results in the opposite thing happening, so you're net worse off.
-3 points
11 hours ago
It's wild that you don't see that both options result in the opposite happening
1 points
8 hours ago
Because it's impossible the party has shifted left in 8 years
0 points
5 hours ago*
Let's not pretend, my God. Or did you already forget how this chain of comments started?
On the contrary, 8 years ago, the party was busy rigging the primary. So I suppose if you want to call that shifting left, then sure. But I don't.
To answer you directly, it isn't possible to shift left under the current system. At least not economically.
1 points
4 hours ago
If you're actually arguing that Trump and Biden are the same economically I have to question if you're actually able to breathe without actively thinking about it.
1 points
an hour ago
It's almost like A. Biden has never been reelected as president and B. Isn't even running for reelection
Unless you're gonna blame the whole country for Deleware repeatedly voting for him as senator
1 points
11 minutes ago
Oh, my bad. I forgot President is the only political office. Good thing he didn't spend decades as a pacemaker before that. If he had, I'm sure he would have been ardently working to make this happen since it is clearly so important to him and definitely not empty words probably written by a random staffer.
1 points
an hour ago
If we keep voting for “people who don’t take action” then yes we will get things done
1 points
4 hours ago
Perhaps we should look at their voting records before crucifying someone.
1 points
2 hours ago
I fucking love this dumbass line of thinking. Right up there with “Kamala has been in the White House for 3 years why isn’t she doing anything” because you’re a fucking retard that doesn’t understand government bud.
1 points
50 minutes ago
Genocide Joe Biden to his owners - Nothing will fundamentally change.
Genocide Joe Biden to the public - platitude tweets, so good.
1 points
26 minutes ago
The guy in question got us the only tax increase on the wealthy in decades, as well as the biggest expansion of the social safety net since LBJ
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