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[–] 172 points 5 months ago (36 children)

The Republicans have demonstrated that no, these things do not take time.

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  • [–] 114 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    I asked for a gender inclusive restroom, was gaslighted those things take time. I then emailed CEO cc’ed chair of board of directors. It was converted in 2 days.

    It was never about time, it’s about agency

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  • [–] [B] 30 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    Add long as you brazenly break rules and laws, and your controlling party willingly does nothing about it

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  • [–] 37 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    Let's break some laws to make everyone better off.

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  • [–] 16 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    I wish that the Democrats had anybody who was willing to fight for Medicare For All the same way Republicans fought to overturn Roe v. Wade.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    I would like to think that Bernie Sanders is one of those people.

    Republicans have a propaganda network back then to fight against Obamacare (which isn't even Medicare for all). It was really surprising how much the Republicans fought back given the zeitgeist was going the other way with Michael Moore and all that. The whole "death panel" stuff took the air out of the room and Republicans were going on non-stop about how it was the greatest injustice to all of America. It was wild.

    Also, if you look at those that benefit from Obamacare and the fact that they're losing it. They still hate that it's associated at all with the Dems. It's weird.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Bernie isn't a Democrat, though.

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  • [–] 15 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    If America was a school we'd have one party full of bullies smoking in the bathroom who don't give a shit if one of their ranks breaks the rules so long as it's not messing with them personally, and we've got another party full of brown nosers who will run and tell the teacher any time someone even thinks about using the wrong kind of pencil. Neither is good for the student body as a whole, but in very different ways.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (6 children)

    Burning things down is easy, building them up takes time

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    If they truly get a majority to override the president, or in the future can then make the tri fecta again, it's easy to fix shit. Just make it what it was before, blast it through committees like the Republicans do with hardly a word from someone else. The question then is are Democrats incompetent or complicit.

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  • [–] 11 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Excuses excuses.

    Yes, Democrats like to whine that they only got 60 votes in the Senate for a short period during Obama's term. You want to know the last time Republicans had 60 votes in the Senate? 1911.

    It's been over a century since Republicans had that kind of majority, and I think back then the filibuster had a larger threshold to overrule, so they probably didn't even have a filibuster-proof majority even then. You probably have to go back to Reconstruction to find Republicans with that kind of majority.

    Do you know how Republicans dismantle programs without a filibuster-proof majority? They do it by cutting funding. They cut funding to programs and zero out their budgets. The program still exists in legislation; it just isn't funded.

    To fix that damage does not require breaking a filibuster. It just requires properly funding those programs again. And funding can be passed with just a simple majority.

    And of course, much of what Republicans do is done by executive order, and that can easily be reversed by the next Democratic president.

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    Particularly when you're not interested in fixing them.

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  • [–] 12 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    That doesn’t excuse not starting when given a chance. The focus should be on establishment Dems’ failures to start fixing things

    And until they start fixing things, "fixing things takes time" holds within it the implicit lie that they're trying.

    not on setting some unrealistic expectation that all it would take is a snap of the fingers and bippity boppity boo.

    You're right. That's only for netanyahu's every whim.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    In the words of James Baldwin, how much time do you want for your progress?

    Democrats tell you that fixing things takes time so that you eventually give up waiting. Incrementalism is a tool of fascism to prevent progress.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    California has a bulletproof Democrat supermajority and does not have livable wages, universal healthcare, affordable housing, affordable COL. So the argument that Democrats need more time Is verifiably false

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    So you believe that electing more progressive candidates within the party that operating exactly as designed is gonna change things? Any new politician that is deemed a threat to the status quo will never be placed into positions of power or influence that can threaten the existence of the status quo.

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    When Democrats do absolutely nothing to counter anything that Republicans do, they are complicit and are to blame for everything Republicans do.

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    Oh, please explain how it all works for us

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    LMAO, you're out here making a fool of yourself. The only person getting clowned on is you because of your ignorant ass takes, and debate style that very much reminds people of MAGA. And it's so funny about you mentioning the "No U" as if that wasn't your reply to someone asking you to actually explain your perspective. You certainly wield willful ignorance like a conservative.

    But yeah honestly I think you're a shill trying to make more non-voters and drive people away from the Democratic Party with your over the top style of BS. Which ultimately helps Republicans. Then deflects these accusations by making your own, just like a Republican.

    You're embarrassing to be associated with, which I think is your goal.

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