July, July
[politics, mini-rant] People I know who claim to be on the left are retweeting anti-voting propaganda because the "Dems aren't doing anything" and I'm just Done.
July, July
You aren't just shooting yourself in the face you are making it clear you are okay with fucking over everyone else
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It's almost like the Dems can't do anything because the Senate is in a deadlock
July, July
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: The only solution is to punish them and not vote them in at all, right?
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And they had NO IDEA Sinema would heel turn the way she did
July, July
a GOP majority will totally do everything we want!
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yeah it's so puzzling, Biden isn't doing anything because he doesn't want to wield authority like a dictator ???? like come on we have a system
July, July
Sinema and Manchin both.
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Yeah but they knew Manchin would be bad LOL
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Sinema outright lied
July, July
And Biden is doing plenty of shit!
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HE IS he just wants to do through the proper procedure so it can't be immediately overturned
July, July
He's boosting and advocating for unions and made programs to help encourage them
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do I hate that we have a proper procedure when we have a Dem in office? yes
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it's making me want to scream
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but imagine ... what Trump would have done without the checks/balances
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there seems to be a fundamental misunderstanding of how all this actually works. Like absolutely it is FRUSTRATING AS ALL HELL that this happened
July, July
He's aggressively turning back the shitshow Trump did with trans rights not just for the military but adding more things at the federal level for trans people in federal employment
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and fucking Manchin if I could I would throw something right at his fucking head
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anytime someone is like "Dems can't even pass infrastructure"
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they fucking tried???
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but this whole "but we have a majority in all three" is not actually accurate lol the Senate is gridlocked and we have two dems going against the party. if one branch isn't working nothing can be done, that's how it is
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THE ONLY WAY we'll be able to accomplish it is if senate seats are flipped and the house is maintained
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yeah and Sinema FUCKED us
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I really do not understand this whole we have a majority, no we DON'T lol
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and is so fucking incompetent that they have to deal with Manchin instead
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the house and biden can do stuff and the senate can fail it
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yep, because of the filibuster
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We are in an incredibly corrupt system with shitty people and it is a nightmare, I do not blame ANYONE for being frustrated
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but some people also won't see the reality here
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They can't get rid of Machin or Sinema because it's not up to them, it's up to the voters.
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I think it sucks because we got the "majority" with the belief that Manchin and Sinema would help, so Dems promoted our senators from Georgia for that
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and asked for funding, etc.
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they're like well the dems should apply pressure and make them, and I'm like ... they won't because they have bigger pressure elsewhere and they likely will win their re-election BECAUSE they stop it from happening
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and then it's like [ lol actually we might as well be republicans, including Sinema, who lied on her platform ]
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I will yell at our reps to do something but the reality is as long as the senate is equal here we are fucked because of the filibuster
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yep
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and Manchin and Sinema refuse to get rid of it.
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did people miss that the House DID try to codify Roe??? LOL. THEY DID! They voted on it and it passed! Biden said he was ready to sign it the second it passed the senate.
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It failed
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because of those fuckers
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The ONLY WAY we can solve this is by flipping more senators so Manchin and Sinema can't literally control everything
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People have been projecting for months that the house is going to be retaken and the senate is probably, by the repubs, and then we're fucked, we are straight up forever fucked, it will be a decade or more before this will change. and these people are like 'might as well'
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do you know how much more damage will be done if you don't vote and everything goes red
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yeah, once again I hate Manchin but I hate Sinema more because she lied about her actual belief system to use liberal ideals to get elected. Manchin is a "known entity," and the only kind of Dem we can get from WV.
July, July
it's alt-left bullshit from Bernie's camp.
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You think it's bad NOW try having an all red situation, ffs
July, July
None of those fuckers actually care about women's rights or healthcare access or shit like that
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My ONLY hope with the Roe overturning is that it will fire up our base to fucking vote.
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the ONLY SOLUTION is to flip more senate seats, by voting. Like you think gerrymandering is bad NOW? lol. if we go all red everyone is fucked for the next fifty years
July, July
just "muh student loans!!!"
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hey did you know our student loans haven't been forgiven because senate won't pass it
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because
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get this
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we actually have a minority because of Manchin and Sinema
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stupid fucks
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we can't codify roe because of the senate, we can't pass any progressive laws because of the senate. THIS IS BASIC GOVERNMENT KNOWLEDGE
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and yes it is infuriating and frustrating and it makes me feel HELPLESS
July, July
It's Biden's fault though, don't you know?
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but you're blaming the wrong people and you're doing the wrong thing lol
July, July
He's a fake progressive!!! Why isn't he just signing all the executive orders to fix this!!!
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sure uh fine don't vote because 'what's the point' you'll see what the fucking point is when we have an all-red situation for the next few decades
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WHAT'S THE POINT they said when they refused to vote for Hillary in 2016
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WHAT'S THE POINT
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LOL
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I love this 'don't blame people from 2016 for not voting for her' actually you know what I will and you know why because we never fucking learn from history and this isn't even history, this is six years ago. ELECTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES. Bush era proves that. And don't think I am only blaming the non-voters lol
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it pisses me off because pointing out this is like "oh but you're getting steeped in policy, no one cares"
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THERE IS BLAME TO GO AROUND
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IT'S BASIC FUCKING CIVICS????
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but you know what, fuck off, live with the reality that our loss in 2016 was every bit as devastating as some of us "alarmists" were accused of back then
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and republicans have capitalized on social media and outrage culture because dems have to be the every man party
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i remember my mom didn't like warren because she argued with trump on twitter
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Listen there is a lot of blame to go to Dems like do not get me wrong I would like to wring their necks
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But I'm still going to VOTE FOR THEM
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I think they need a better marketing platform LOL
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they're SO bad at marketing
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They're horrible at it
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they lose all the time because they won't fight back
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Like listen I love MIchelle Obama and maybe it sounded nice "they go low we go high" but you know what, that is not reality. They are WINNING because they have no shame and no problem going as low as possible
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I'm not saying we should go in the gutter but we sure as hell are getting no where playing nice
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I think they want to lean into hope and I understand that.
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But where's the AOC tweet about how Matt Gaetz thinks all women are overeducated if they're out of high school
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(Then again, revolving the political climate around Twitter is also an issue in our country.)
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a lot of republican voters don't pay attention to Twitter so it's why they can win, because they can use ads to go low, etc.
jaina ig
I understand the frustration that Roe wasn't codified anytime in the last 50 years and I understand frustration with the Dems re: other matters but at the same time, "YOU HAVE POWER, USE IT" just makes me wanna bang my head against the wall
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We also have a dumbass country that doesn't like an electoral majority once a Dem or Republican is in office
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It's so fucking dumb
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And it's this that allows the Republicans to stay relevant, because we KNOW our country is more left-leaning than it's allowed to be
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but yada yada cities are bad
July, July
They're going to use this to get rid of everything that isn't a constitutional amendment.
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Yeah.
July, July
They make note of gay marriage in the draft ruling.
July, July
Goodbye abortion, birth control, gay marriage, any trans rights, desegregation, equal rights...
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I'm 35 years old and I've lived through "i can't tell people i'm gay it's weird" to "well i'm gay but it's not like that's ok in our country" to "holy shit i can get married????" to "wow, now I'm afraid I'm going to be criminalized outside of my very liberal state."
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I'm not even 40.
July, July
Because yes they are aiming for segregation again.
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yep they are
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they're sooo fucking mad they lost georgia
July, July
fucking anti-vote shit "it doesn't matter"
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i kind of unloaded in your plurk july, i've been quietly fuming
July, July
Oh nah, go for it.
July, July
I'm extremely pissed at this shit.
July, July
I'm in Texas!
July, July
And even when I was in Virginia for the navy I was not in the NoVA bubble!
July, July
I have actively watched myself no longer get counted as white across multiple levels since 2015
July, July
Trump's anti-Mexican shit including mixes- which that one fucker shot and people in my hometown for because he was afraid of people like me existing and ruining real white people-
July, July
And again since 2020 when Biden won the presidency! Fucking unironic anti-Irish-American shit!
July, July
They want to roll everything back
July, July
To just WASP only (preferably only men)
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I haven't read The Handmaid's Tale in almost a decade but that's where my catastrophic thinking has been going.
July, July
The anti-Catholic shit since 2020, too (also because of Biden)
July, July
I remember learning about American history regarding the Irish and stuff and one of my high school teachers used Irish immigration as a huge lesson for us on the whole thing with it not "just" being African-Americans
July, July
For how this country has treated people in the past and how whiteness is a construct.
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Yep.
July, July
Never fucking expected that to get fucking rolled back in my lifetime here.
July, July
But they're trying to take that back too!
July, July
And just to be clear this isn't me like. wailing about poor Irishman rights or whatever but more like
July, July
This is how regressive they are!
July, July
This is how far back they want to shove things!
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yeah
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I listened to a podcast about the great hunger (otherwise known as the potato famine) that actually covered the modern implications of this
July, July
And with the US History teacher- who was Jewish and on the older side already- her example with the Irish racism in the US was white Americans in the south preferring to hire and use Irish people for dangerous jobs (and not provide adequate safety measures) because it was cheaper if they died since they didn't have to buy new slaves or pay the dead person.
July, July
They want to go back to that sort of shit!
July, July
It was very much a "You are not as 'white' or 'safe' as you think you are"
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I mean, with their reluctance to forgive student loans, they don't want too many educated americans because they want to be able to draft poor people to work in shitty conditions
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It's classism all the way down
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And then classism that's built upon systemic racism
July, July
Classism and racism.
July, July
and the push is there for all of it.
July, July
I got unironic anti-Irish racism leveled at me in a discord server a few weeks back from a teenager who I'm aware lives in a conservative area and it was just very "I knew this was coming but also at the same time I did not see this coming"
July, July
They are working to change people's perspectives on this shit and hey! guess what! it's working!
July, July
They're reclaiming "white" for their preferred people. They know exactly what they're doing.
July, July
And that is for people who are and have been considered white for a few decades now so just...
July, July
The people who have far more on the line just assing up and being anti-voting!
July, July
THEY WANT YOU TO GIVE UP YOUR RIGHTS.
July, July
YOU STUPID MOTHERFUCKERS, WHY ARE YOU MAKING IT EASY FOR THEM.
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ESPECIALLY SINCE THERE IS ALREADY SO MUCH OBSTRUCTION TO VOTING
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yeah it's like you do realize if you do nothing and don't vote you are willingly making the choice to let all this shit worse
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how can that even be a thing people WANT
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I have seen several tweets about how can people expect us to vote after this and I'm like I fundamentally don't understand how your response to this would be NOT to vote lol.
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That sounds like madness to me
July, July
To "punish" the dems for not prioritizing student debt.
July, July
Because this is all very sane and logical.
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Again, something they did attempt to do but it couldn't get past the senate
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the only solution is to flip Senate seats this isn't rocket science
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'they've gerrymandered' I KNOW THEY HAVE. We all know they have. you think it'll get BETTER under full republican power? lol.
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Literally the least you can do at this point is vote. THE LEAST.
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I live in Maine do you know how much I want to scream at the top of my lungs at how much Susan Collins is responsible for shit. We tried like hell to vote her out and it didn't work. The answer isn't to stop voting.
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Also do you know how many countries have people who would love the privilege of having a fucking vote that everyone in this stupid country takes for granted. sorry I'm mad today lol
July, July
I think we all are in this plurk.
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Like this is the reason dems never get anywhere, because there is no unification in the party, because there's a civil war within our own party that means they always win. Republicans are FANTASTIC at marketing and at unifying their base, it's honestly impressive, and instead of learning anything, people just yell at each other lol
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In a way it's good, because like...I don't think it's a GOOD thing that Republicans are expected to toe the party line 100% or be persona non grata
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But maybe dems can have little a lockstep, as a treat