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[–] 20 points 1 day ago* (2 children)

I definitely agree that it feels like there's something funny going on with the missing Dems.

That said, I think something like half of all Democrats (and more Republicans) in congress get support from AIPAC, so singling out these 11, many of whom had relatively small contributions from AIPAC is pretty obviously intentionally misleading.

I'm not saying this article is right or wrong, but it feels more like propaganda than reporting.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 day ago

    They called the vote after all the dems left on break, because they called a break to get the dems to leave. It's just republican fuckery. It's always republican fuckery. Yet here we are blaming the wrong people again.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 day ago

    I think it's rather common for them to coordinate so many of them get to vote in favor of a popular bill, but enough of them miss it or break ranks with the party that ooooh darn, we just weren't able to meet the threshold. Like here. If every AIPAC-funded Democrat "coincidentally" misses it, they risk turning the eye of the whole nation towards AIPAC, but if they coordinate just enough to missing to fail, we... Have this conversation instead.

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