Congress passed a symbolic resolution on Tuesday to condemn socialism — a move that saw eight Democrats cross the aisle to back the GOP on the measure.

The vote, which has no actual effect on public policy, was swiftly mocked by observers on social media.

"Voting to condemn an economic system that doesn’t exist in our country, to protect the one which we live under that exploits the working class to benefit the obscenely wealthy," wrote Melanie D'Arrigo, executive director of Campaign for New York Health. "This was Congress’ priority as 60% of Americans struggle to afford food, housing and healthcare. Embarrassing."

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[–] 71 points 2 months ago

I HATE Socialism!

-Republicans on Welfare!

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  • [–] 108 points 2 months ago (20 children)

    Here are the 8 Democrats who voted in favor of the resolution:
    Kathy Castor (FL)
    Henry Cuellar (TX)
    Don Davis (NC)
    Jared Golden (ME)
    Vicente Gonzalez Jr. (TX)
    Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (WA)
    Darren Soto (FL)
    Gabe Vasquez (NM)

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  • [–] 41 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Fucking Marie Glusenkamp Perez smh. She’s in a difficult district, but there’s no excuse for some of her votes while in office here.

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  • [–] 21 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    I swear she's in every "Democrat crossed the aisle" post. I can't even write to her because I'm not in her district, even though I had her on my ballot the year she got in.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 months ago

    She’s better than a Republican in that spot in that she votes with her party sometimes instead of never. It’s hard though because I think some of her votes have really betrayed those that voted for her as well.

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  • [–] 38 points 2 months ago* (9 children)

    Cuellar almost lost his primary to an actual progressive — in Texas! This is why it’s important to vote in your local primaries.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    In fact, he was far behind Jessica Cisneros until Pelosi, Clyburn, and other DNC leadership bigwigs flew in to campaign for him.

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

    I honestly wish out of state influences weren't allowed to assist in state level races, same for local. If they do interfere they should be tazed on their crotch and then dragged to a shooting range for a live fire exercise, from president to county officials they should all be subject.

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

    "Almost" only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades.

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  • [–] 19 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Almost as in "was losing soundly until Pelosi, Clyburn, and other DNC leadership bigwigs flew in from other states to campaign for him".

    If not for their blatant abuse of influence interference specifically to retain the last anti choice racist Dem left in Congress, we'd have had the excellent Jessica Cisneros in stead, no doubt about it.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 months ago*

    My point is that essentially ALL elections these days have blatant abuse. So saying "well if it wasn't for the blatant abuse..." is pointless because it's pretty much guaranteed to be present. It doesn't really matter how close or popular someone gets because the powers that be have their thumb on the scale.

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

    WA surprises me. From out in the sticks maybe?

    FL, TX, no surprise there.

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

    Socialism like public schools and your local fire departments, roads paid for by tax money instead of tolls. Etc etc.

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

    Don't worry, the most extremist of conservatives think those are evil, too. Well, at least public schools (and the post office).

    The dipshit libertarian wing of conservatism don't want public roads or fire departments, as well.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    Don't forget the most valuable data center in town, the public library.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago* (3 children)

    Oh, right. I still remember coming into work and some guy was all in a froth over the notion that people are using the Internet, at the library, and their usage was not being tracked. This, at the time when you could still wardrive and find an open Wifi with ease, and he was well aware of this fact, but pointing that out did not quell his quivering rage over this non-issue.

    I tried asking more questions, but they seemed to be upset at the notion that "terrorists" could use the library to research a terrorist plot and it wouldn't be tracked (by W's admin that is). Mixed in was the concern that teens and the homeless could be using it to watch porn.

    It seems he was listening to something on hate radio on the way in and I suspect this kind of rage bait is meant to put the idea into their heads that libraries are cesspools and need to be defunded. I think the more recent rage bait about "drag queen story hour" is another bit of rage bait planted for the same exact reason.

    I remember one thing he seemed to be fixated on, as well - people getting "free movies". Why don't they just rent movies?

    Funniest bit of this conversation, to me, was me asking - "well, do you even use the library? Have you been to any of the local branches? I highly recommend you check it out." - their answer involved massive indignation at the very notion of them using a library, followed by: "we all have Amazon, why do we even need public libraries?" Well, case closed, I guess.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    It’s interesting, with those people, where even the faintest possibility that something positive could maybe be misused is enough to gut the whole thing, but you show imperically how capitalism is used for evil fare more often than for good and they’re chill with that.

    3M and DuPont could poison a whole town, cover it up, and then get no real punishment, but if they even THINK about their porn-hungry, homeless strawman that’s enough to burn down their local library. Conservatives are deeply unserious people who cause deeply serious damage.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago* (1 child)

    Oh, yeah, I remember talking to this guy about the corporate death penalty and the idea of a city or state exercising that right on a wayward corporation horrified him. It didn't seem to matter what they did; they should still be permitted to conduct business in any jurisdiction, no matter what the law is or the public sentiment, because "merica" (that was almost literally the reasoning, FFS).

    But this guy was a total simp for corporations at nearly every turn. The idea of the Founders' original plans for intellectual property he thought was just ridiculous ( at the time, the concern was Mickey Mouse falling into public domain, as it should. This was in the mid-00s. ) and he thought was some Communist plot. 🤣 I'd love to know what he thinks about Steamboat Willie now in the public domain along with many other things now.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    Bet he was a huge fan of corporate subsidies, especially when the business was experiencing the consequences of management failure and the reasoning was essentially that they were holding their employees’ well being hostage.

    My friends dad is like that. We had a whole conversation/argument one time over a corporations right to basically do whatever it wanted because they had the position of power/ownership. The energy there has been chill since then, but my friend also just moved out into a house, so it’ll be less of an issue.

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  • [–] 35 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    It was a declaration of loyalty to the robber barons. Remember every one of the names of those who voted for this. They are not on our side.

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  • [–] 19 points 2 months ago* (1 child)

    Kathy Castor (D-FL) - (202) 225-3376
    Henry Cuellar (D-TX) - (202) 225-1640
    Donald G. Davis (D-NC) - (202) 225-3101
    Jared F. Golden (D-ME) - (202) 225-6306
    Vicente Gonzalez (D-TX) - (202) 225-2531
    Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D-WA) - (202) 225-3536
    Darren Soto (D-FL) - (202) 225-9889
    Gabe Vasquez (D-NM) - (202) 225-6316

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  • [–] 35 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    We treat this like a stupid joke, but they will be putting us in camps for socialism soon.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 months ago

    Congress torched

    Weird, I don't see a video of it burning?

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  • [–] 15 points 2 months ago

    Oh my god, torched? If getting slammed didn't show then, I'm sure this'll work.

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

    Those Dems should take a long walk off a short pier

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  • [–] 0 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    Unfortunately the primaries are over so we want those Dems to win in November.

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

    maybe you do, I sure dont. Why the fuck would you want them to win?

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

    Republicans are always worse, without exception.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    This is all too true. Every damn time, the Republican candidate is worse. This is NOT the year to abstain from voting and it's NOT the year for protest voting against a Dem candidate. Get the GOP shit stains out of the carpet before we try to renovate the Democratic Party. There will be time for that once the country is restabilized.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Republicans being out to lunch and wasting everyone's time with culture war nonsense I understand, but Dems supporting this is beyond their normal level of ridiculously poor work. This is an embarrasment to the whole party and those 8 dems need to lose every bit of standing, support, and any seats they have within the party structure. I'm sure they will get right on that.

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  • [–] 24 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    HO-LEE SHIT. Fuckin' torched?!?!? That's a whole new level. I'll bet that they'll see the error of their ways now!

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

    If the dems win house and senate this November we all need to pressure congress to not pick Jeffries as speaker and Schumer as majority leader.

    Those we need people that will drive real accountability, not controlled opposition.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (1 child)

    How exactly do you pressure congress?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    Everyone writes emails to their reps and senators.

    When reps get enough signal they use it to inform their decisions.

    Reps actually typically don’t get a ton of email sent from their actual constituents so just a few emails actually provides a lot of signal for them to act on.

    It really is this simple and it does work.

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  • [–] -2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    I agree but the reason centrists become speakers is because its hard to pass anything without bipartisanship.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Do you think bipartisanship is still a thing?

    Why do the democrats have to find bipartisan solutions but the republicans can just do whatever the f they want via submission to the executive?

    The republicans in their current form need to be buried aggressively before we can get back to talking about bipartisanship and a moderate centrist Democrat is exactly the wrong person for this particular moment.

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  • [–] -1 points 2 months ago*

    Partly because there have been 48 or less DNC senators for over 13 years, currently 45.

    I agree we need to bury the GOP and that most if not all instances of crossing the aisle have been detrimental lately.

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  • [–] 19 points 2 months ago* (4 children)

    torched is a new one… put on the pile…

    torched

    slammed

    hit-back

    shamed

    blasted

    blew up

    crushed

    the lot meaning fuck-and-all. An article with this in the title is not worth the LED’s illuminating it

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago

    It's just the first step to start a new round of McCarthyism.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Whelp, at least we know who the assholes are.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 months ago

    It's okay guys, they were swiftly mocked on social media for it!

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago

    Every single person who voted "yes" must be barred from office.

    They're either an idiot, misled on what socialism is and where it's been enacted, or willfully wasting their constituents' time on meaningless drivel.

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    Everything about this compliant Congress is embarrassing.

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

    are we finally done with “slammed” and have moved on to “torched”?

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    I maintain that the US military is the very embodiment of socialism.

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  • [–] 20 points 2 months ago (9 children)

    But if you dare say that Democrats don't fight for our interests, you'll be called a Russian bot that's suppressing the vote.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Do Democrats fight for our interests? No. But they don't fight against our interests as fervently as Republicans, so until we have ranked choice voting or something they're still the best choice on the ballot.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    The electoral process has already been captured by fascists. We aren't getting our of this with an election. I'm still going to be voting, but it's not going to be the "blue wave" everyone is desperate for. I'm putting my effort into building people power instead and a united front of the working class.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    In the most ideal conditions, Dems would take a slight majority in the house and a near even split in the Senate. It’ll likely be be a bunch of performative screaming and stalling tactics, without being able to really defy Trump’s agenda. In fact, the corpocrats may cave to the GOP and break rank, thus furthering Trumps agenda.

    This could just further alienate the Dem voting base and in 2028 split the vote (or just causing people to sit out), handing another victory to fascism.

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    [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    My congresswoman voted present, so I guess I'll just have to skip that section when I see her on the ballot.

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  • Set the aisle on fire

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    Could you possibly write a more vague headline?

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago

    TORCHED! TORCHED I SAY!

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    Can't wait for the BBB cuts after midterms. It will suck seeing good people struggling but all the dumbass maga will be giving the face-eating leopards a feast.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago*

    Election time: Smaller government!

    In office: Let's waste our time with inane bullshit that accomplishes nothing!

    Think of the salaries, healthcare, and so on for all of the reps, their aides, capital police, janitors... it's millions of dollars out the window wasted for them to bloviate yet another day. Good job.

    What makes it so very absurd? Every single one of them benefits from what they would call socialism. Minimum salaries, guaranteed vacation time, the best healthcare on Earth, and on and on and on, all things that they have voted against.

    The problem is bOtH of our parties are much too socialist for Amazon and too little socialist for the vast majority of the workforce.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    Unless they are literally on a spit above a fire then torched is on the same level as someone being slammed, which is to say not at all.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago*

    Don't say torched unless the building burned down.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    Wait I'm having deja vous. Didn't they do this exact same thing like three years ago?

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