• MehBlah@lemmy.world
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    These are some of the most horrible people in our society. They should be unable to enter into any contract or have custody over any living being.

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        Its a condition. Kids are being born everyday who lack empathy. They are a clear minority though. They should be identified and prevented from letting their emotional blindness harming others.

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    It must be frustrating to be caught between two parties, of which one is straight up evil, and the other is just spineless and craven, while both are corrupt. Honestly, y’all should just break it all down and start all over again. Your democracy is broken.

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    Who will people blame when they cannot afford medical care?

    Cause Luigi is a folk hero, and all the people responsible for this should live in fear of the bullseye’s they have painted themselves with.

    Storm brewing.

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    Hey republicans, when your grandparents die because they can no longer afford the healthcare they thought they had for life, just remember to thank yourself and your lard in savor…. These deaths that will follow from people losing their insurance will be on your hands whether you think so or not. Merry Grimas!!!

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      They don’t care, they are voting for racism. Ig grandma might die in order to keep a black man out of the whitehouse, then that’s a risk they are willing to take.

      These people suck, and have no shame.

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          Yep. I’ve been seeing a lot of shit-stirring between generations probably mostly spurred on by the oligarchs and their apparatchiks.

          I doubt that is an accident: keep everyone distracted. Have the boomers bitching about Gen Y. Have Gen Z whining about Silent Generation (“Biden so old”). Another wedge issue to fight over and distract with while the oligarchs funnel more money upwards. Just like they use race and trans, they’ll have young vs. old. Micro-generational differences (Gen Y1 vs. Gen Y2!) being agonized over. People seriously believing a teenager working in a dead-end service job giving you an exasperated stare is unique to Gen Z (lol) and other such inanities. Anything to have everyone take their eye off the ball…

          Meanwhile, it seems the very people that are supposedly going to “save us” are getting rapidly red-pilled into crazy right wing extremism on the platforms.

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        LOL, if only. Also, remember, this is the boomers. The generation that the old fart cons that came before would point at and whine about when it came to all their rhetoric about “the 60s”.

        There is lesson there. If only people might ponder on it…

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    Hey everyone, just buy TWO pencils for your kids. Having 37 pencils was obviously keeping you from being able to afford health care. THANKS, OBAMA!

    Also, if you are not a billionaire or at least a centimillioniare, it is your fault! Too much avocado toast, having a daily latte, a large screen TV, a smart phone, and Netflix, I think.

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        Word on the hill was he was trying to get people to vote for it, but didn’t want to put his name on it after all the backlash last time. No way to confirm this tho

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          Look at the people who voted to end the shutdown: no one who’s up for re-election this next cycle.

          Either Schumer is one hell of a terrible leader, or there was a very obvious attempt at co-ordinating the vote to take advantage of voters’ (lack of) long term memory.

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            6 of the 8 are due in 2028, just a bit more than two years away. Senators serve a 6 year term. Voters would have to support a primary challenge, possible but difficult. It would have to be based entirely on their decision to fund the stopgap, which would be tough as they can give their reasoning as to how they thought they were helping constituents. Given the power of incumbency, I have serious doubt many of them were worried about being voted out a year later. You’re right about the memory of the voters, it is short and 12 months is a long time.

            Schumer being a “leader” doesn’t mean he controls other Senators. That’s just not how it works. Senators are accountable to their constituency, not the informal leader of their party. These Senators did not consult with Schumer because they DIDN’T HAVE TO. They are federally elected Senators and can think and act according to their own logic.

            In fact, demanding this kind of conformity or slavish adherence to a single leader is something you’d likely criticize if you saw it happening on the other side of the aisle.

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    Just understand who is accelerating the collapse of social order.

    What options do they have to deal with such a collapse? Its either they support everyone or fight everyone.

    I know which one they are preparing for.

    What are you preparing for?

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        He literally gave the republicans what they wanted in exchange for a vote that would make zero material difference in the lives of his constituents.

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          He is the leader, but couldn’t or wouldn’t whip his party to hold the line, and defended the perfidious weasels who caved.

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            defended the perfidious weasels who caved.

            Another fucking lie from the “virtuous far left”. He criticized their votes.

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          What the fuck are you talking about? NO HE DID NOT. He was NOT one of the Democrats who voted to end the shut down.

          You know being progressive isn’t an excuse to be downright dishonest, right?

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            OK, if he didn’t approve of their votes, what has he done to punish the democrats who did? Nothing at all? Weird.

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              Ok do you’ve abandoned your original premise, proving you’re a lying sack of shit.

              On the your next point, Schumer isn’t a fucking school principal dumbass, how is he going to “punish” them? What the fuck do you think a minority/majority leader does exactly?

              Fake fucking progressives gloating about sinking Democrats and letting Trump run wild.

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                My premise is that he was responsible for the party he leads caving, hence why the ones who actually voted weren’t punished.

                He can punish them be taking them off committee assignments. The most basic function of a political party is to be able to negotiate as a bloc.

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        please, there are two options here, neither is good for Schumer. Either, he’s ineffectual party leader (whether by not knowing or not having control)… OR he orchestrated it to maintain “plausible” deniability.

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          I strongly suspect we have a significant number of Dino sleepers in Congress. Either outright sleepers or close enough to simply be purchasable or blackmailable.

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            I strongly suggest you’re an idiot that chooses to believe things without proof because it “feels right”. The EXACT same logic as Trumpers.

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          So you want a “party leader” to literally control all other politicians in their party? That’s representative democracy to you? What “control” is he supposed to have?

          What a stupid fucking argument. He doesn’t have a goddamn mind control device and Senators are individuals that make their own decisions.

          Just admit the truth. You criticize Schumer BY DEFAULT no matter what he does. That’s what this boils down to. He did exactly what you said you wanted him to do and now you’re moving the goalposts. You are literally incapable of admitting that he did something you agree with.

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            Yeah what a coincidence that all the representatives that broke the shutdown weren’t up for re-election next time. Very convenient! I’m sure there was zero coordination to decide who would break rank.

            But even if there wasn’t any of that, Chuck still bears responsibility for the failure of the shutdown even if you don’t want to admit it.

            Chuck led the shutdown. For better or for worse, it failed to accomplish its goal. Ultimately more responsibility falls on him as minority leader than anyone else. It’s not insane to want someone who coordinates a major gambit like a government shutdown to be capable of keeping the other representatives from breaking rank to accomplish the goal of the shutdown. Coordinating votes is literally a huge part of the job as majority or minority leader. It’s disingenuous to say expecting a party leader in the house to line up votes is contrary to representative democracy.

            Just admit the truth, you’ll suck Chuck off no matter what he does. You’re literally incapable of not sucking his dick