User Banned (1 Month) Advocating violence
Posting this for vibes and genuinely no other reason.
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Because Republicans weren't all batshit crazy then and most of them were shitty but reasonable and negotiable. The Senate in 2022 looks absolutely nothing like the Senate in 2010, they may as well be completely different institutions despite how many people have held their seats since then. Obama spent all his political capitol on 1 half-baked bill, there is no universe in which he could have gotten 50 votes to eliminate the filibuster.
I'm referring to the current makeup of the supreme court and how much Donald Trump has wrecked this country over the last six plus years.
Red states already have shockingly bad mortality rates and are financially propped up by blue ones, I can only see this trend getting exacerbated as skilled workers flee states that ban uh, healthcare, and metropolitan citizens will have to continue to prop up these insular backwaters.
I like to believe they do, but I won't be shocked if more come out and say stuff like "we can't kill the filibuster because the Republicans will abuse it when they get into power".
Wonder how many people were totally surprised today when they learned that their friends, family or acquaintances (presumably from the center and right but across politics) who have been saying, "Look, I don't support banning abortion outright" are dead silent today because they were - in fact - lying and absolutely did support it and are now overjoyed. I'm glad I don't have any people like that in my life. If I did, I would immediately cut all ties with them (though I understand that's not possible for many people for various reasons.)
People have been fighting for decades to see so much of it rolled back/about to be rolled back in a handful of years. You can't expect everyone to just be down for starting over at the beginning. The court is obviously an outmoded institution - government should begin ignoring it's word rather than us worrying about slowly beginning to recapture control of it in 60 years.
They will do ANYTHING to change the definition of insurrection so what they did loses all meaning. We can't let them and I'm glad AOC snapped on her ass.
They were trying to stick with swing states alone which by in large is kind of dumb.
Maine needs a viable Dem candidate. That's been Maine's problem vs Collins. They keep dicking around with independents and weak candidates. Sarah Gideon even out-raised Collins and she still couldn't beat her cuz she just ran on anti-Collins and zero agenda. You need powerful dem candidates to take down powerful GOP incumbents. That's essentially been the general Dem problem for awhile now - weak-ass opponents trying to take down Goliaths.
FYI progressive grassroots in 2008 were HUGE on killing the filibuster even at that time when it wasn't used nearly as much and losing that fight was crushing. I was totally on the radar even back then.
that fucking prick in 4 years set the country up to regress back for decades
It's so easy for this nation to regress but so difficult for it to progress.
But they were batshit crazy. The ACA was a Republican solution. How many of them voted for it?
Right, but due to propaganda they'll be alone in their suffering. They'll become The Other. The outcast.
Just like those parents.
Most humans just. Don't. Give-a-fuck. About other humans. We're social on a village level at best, and it ends there. You can trick people into thinking about larger things on a village scale sometimes, but it's really hard. It's easier to get them scared of nebulous threats.
It's our problem with getting so fucking global: we struggle with city-wide empathy, moreso nationwide, and struggle incomprehensibly planet-scale.
So the bigger we get, the less we comprehend, and the more we lose sight of ourselves.
We have entire national systems attempting suicide every two or three generations because we can't spend time with our own species, and try again once we forget the attempt. I honestly don't know how we fix this.
At this point we are speed running which state will be Gilead.
i love politics in america. i could vote for democrats and they could win every election and republicans still get everything they want while dems go "wow, i can't believe that happened?!?!" and post a video about Lin Manual Miranda badly rapping about some shit
I mean.....they're right. They would 100% do that and it's not even a question.
By never putting it in federal law, both sides can use it as a bargaining chip to sway voters into temporary action, forever.
They were nothing like they are now. My point is just that there is no universe in which anyone could get 50 votes to nuke the filibuster in 2010 nor is there a universe in which they could have gotten 50 votes to codify Roe. Shit sucks but that's the way it was, to argue otherwise is to be ignorant of history.
Aliens announce themselves (and hopefully don't wipe us out)
Voting doesn't change anything they say as abortion is immediately banned in only red/purple states.
I can literally literally draw you a fucking goddamn map to show you what voting changes.
I can literally literally draw you a fucking goddamn map to show you what voting changes.
The first half of Obama's first term was the last time Democrats had 60 votes. The filibuster wasn't a problem yet.
And anyone who can afford to leave, will. Those that stay either support it or are too poor to move and in turn usually too poor to be activists.
Hell, the Republicans are abusing the filibuster right now and are blocking most legislation that permits it.
From Kentucky originally. I can't stand this ass hat who idolizes McConnell.
I just keep refreshing this hoping to read something to make me feel better....There is a protest Monday nearby I'll attend, but I dunno. Still feeling numb. This Supreme Court is doing exactly as expected, and still I'm fucking beyond words.
I'll post this again:
Why vote? Look at the states that have protections for abortion already in place. Voting at the state and local levels matter just as much, if not more, as every 4 years.
I really gotta get the fuck outta the midwest and move to the Northeast :/
Sure, but they'll do it anyway if it suits them. We need to stop playing defense. We should have stopped playing defense two decades ago.
I think with two more and holding the house it will get killed. No way it doesn't. This will affect so many more people that if we get two no WAY will it stand. I also expect at that point the court being expanded and DC becoming a state. Anything less is not acceptable. And I do think this reality of it happening will be a match to ignite everything. It's why smart Republicans are saying nothing and always wanted this to be their "white whale " because it was a constant fire to their voting block and the other side never took voting as serious as they should have, ignored the pleas and warnings of the oppressed and depressed, telling us we were alarmist or wanting too much too fast. Well now it's happened, and it's just the beginning. People like Alito and Thomas are cocky smug bastards and think shit won't go down. I think they are wrong.
Even though it doesn't affect me directly, and despite how this was a long time coming, I still feel abhorred by what took place today. I understand that progress isn't a straight line, that it moves back and forth, but this overturning of Wade has turned back the clock since before I was born, and in a time of domestic terrorism threats they roll back laws that helped prevent violence.
I don't believe this is the will of the American people but I think the "game" was setup for American people's wishes to become irrelevant and that is utterly wrong and despicable. What is possibly the worst President America already had has packed the court so that, if nothing changes, the rights and liberties that are so often bragged about will be taken further back, leaving people in further misery, debt and fear and I feel helplessly frustrated watching all this happen from a small island in the middle of nowhere.
To my American brethren I wish all of you the best of luck. I hope you will contest this decision in the loudest of ways you can and from my part I will pledge whatever money I can to help bring back those rights.
I don't believe this is the will of the American people but I think the "game" was setup for American people's wishes to become irrelevant and that is utterly wrong and despicable. What is possibly the worst President America already had has packed the court so that, if nothing changes, the rights and liberties that are so often bragged about will be taken further back, leaving people in further misery, debt and fear and I feel helplessly frustrated watching all this happen from a small island in the middle of nowhere.
To my American brethren I wish all of you the best of luck. I hope you will contest this decision in the loudest of ways you can and from my part I will pledge whatever money I can to help bring back those rights.
Yeah but something something not immediate something something lazy Dems something something Joe Manchin.
It's all blending together now.
Dems have never even come close to "winning every election," and the only states that banned abortion today are the ones controlled by Republicans.
Is that not a noticeable difference to you?
Be safe. I'm at one right now, it definitely has a different vibe than others I've been at.
The false equivalence in this thread is something else God damn
If Dems won every elections how would this still happen?
This happened specially because Trump won and put three motherfucking SC judges on the bench
