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But even still I have this almost reptillian-level twinge in my brain that screams things like, "You live in Pennsylvania!" and "If you don't vote then the Republican will win the state by literally one vote and it will be your own personal fault that they became president and you will feel like shit!"
And I hate it because I know the Democrats are counting on that kind of fear and I am absolutely rewarding their bullshit every time I vote for president. I just justify it to myself by making sure that voting only makes up a tiny part of my political action.
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Get ready for inappropriate weird laughter and word salad that sounds like she just got kicked in the head by a horse.
And always twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom!
The problem goes deeper than just political parties - we live in a society where the expectation is that fascist positions are treated as legitimate, and that their speakers should not face consequences for holding them. In fact, the argument is that we have to defend the fascists and bigots otherwise we will have our own free speech eroded - a position that has resulted in the chilling of the lives of those targeted.
This is why I am a big believer in tolerance as a peace treaty - it counters the argument that we are obliged to tolerate bigots and fascists by noting that those who foreswear the obligations of tolerance also foreswear its protections.
It strikes me as someone desperately trying to pad out a freshman essay, maybe earnestly, and not realizing they said the same idea three different ways in the same paragraph without even realizing that repetition is not elaboration
What kills me is that she was genuinely good at grilling people in the Senate.
For more direct reference, the fuckshit’s original quote:
Never, ever give fascists an inch, by any means, for any reason. As Hedge noted, there is no tolerance with them, they will show no mercy and they will only spread misery and cruelty in their quest for power.
Smash. Nazis.
Duck first past the post voting. I hate being hamstrung. We almost got tiered(?) voting here in oregon last election, failed to pass just by a handful of percent. Hoping it’s on the ballot again next time.
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We are ruled by a collection of petty, useless narcissists who cannot perceive of anything outside of their own most exclusive Potomac country club.
It's the only conclusion I can come to after three decades of this trash.
Abolish the Senate
Aristocratic brain rot
That’s his target mark lol
I have a relative, my mom's cousin out in Georgia, who had gone to the dark side, like, blocked my sister on facebook for countering talking points and memes.
I'm gonna put that difference down to my sister being an engineer and going full, "Listen to the facts!" inundation on her more consistently, whereas I was aiming for the soft touch foremost, to remain a point of contrast in her life. My sister is typically very kind and diplomatic, but she is both an educator & inflamed by bullies, so she's inclined to counter harmful bullshit with a thoroughness that can offput those unprepared for her intensity. I'm willing to be more sneaky. Yes, I am an advocate for the devil; except the devil is actually humanistic policies rather than the strawman of Evil.
I'm not on social media outside the forums very often; I try to check facebook once or twice a month, and scroll through my feed after some occasional search lands me there.
So I just didn't engage with her posts very often, but for a time there, it was a tossup on something egregious, or a fuzzy teddy bear mom kind of meme pablum.
I am befuddled, after initially parsing this as supportive of drag queens. Is the 'they' drag performers, or legislators trying to slowroll outlaw quiltbag folks on the premise of awareness of sexuality being inherently harmful?
I'm guessing the latter, and really, my best lead-in for this argument is going to be my confusion, since nothing about quiltbag folks as an identity is damaging to innocence...
Loved to be ruled by selfish, power hungry retirement home residents.
Ranked choice voting is one of those things I want to see happen because not only does it have a shot at passing, but it probably would solve some of the dysfunction in our political system. I don't just see that as a means to help people feel that they are being listened to because let's be honest, even if one's candidates doesn't make it to the final two. If they get enough votes, it makes it harder to write off their positions; especially, if it's shown that other candidates that do well also hold some the more popular ones. It probably would do a number on some of the bullshit polarization and radicalization because some of the fuckers pushing that nonsense wouldn't be able to claim that a majority tots supports their positions, if say you get a dynamic where it's easy to show that a super majority of voters were backing candidates completely opposed to a shitty position and that could kill some of the false mandate shit the right gets up to.
The other things I want to see are:
-Getting money the fuck out of politics.
-Forcing politicians to have to cut a bunch of their conflicts of interest. I don't want my elected officials to own stocks or companies because that creates a huge conflict of interest and most people that are able to get into elected politics, have shown they often have personality traits that ensure they'll easily dip into the corruption problem. With some eagerly doing it. Same deal for judges well, who also seem to have similar issues.
-Expanding the court and getting rid of the horseshit where their is an incentive to put the youngest person you can on the bench. I feel like their is an argument to be made that lifetime doesn't necessarily mean till one dies and we really should have a set duration for judgeships and for SCOTUS is should be a limit of one term in most causes. Maybe an exception made if they are filling out a vacated seat and the remainder of the term for it is really short.
-Expand the size of congress.
-Kill the electoral college.
-If it's every possible, I'd love to do away with the Senate. It's not just undemocratic, it's actively a problem.
Reminder that, according to Madison, part of the reason we have the senate is to be a bulwark against economic equity between the gentry and the general populace
Fuckin’ White Supremacist Slaver Colony State.
Definitely the first step.
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I'd love it if it actually worked, but I don't think people want to understand it, so they refuse to learn.
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I dunno, I've been noticing some of the people I follow talking about being on it, so I expect they'll keep talking about how bad or good it ends up being. Also since it's invite-based I doubt I'll have to make that decision for a while.
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