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[–] 27 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I wonder if we’ll get another month long shutdown with a pinky promise to vote on it that’ll be ignored again.

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

    Democrats are such fucking pussies. That's the one thing I admire about Republicans, they stick to their guns no matter what. They will do whatever it takes to fuck over a minority or steal from a charity or something, but at least they know how to fight.

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  • [–] 13 points 10 months ago* (1 child)

    It's much easier to fight when you don't care about what kind of damage it'll do.

    I'm not saying this to defend the Democrats, just to point out that Republicans have a massive natural advantage on this stage. I don't think their success comes as much from competence as it does from being naturally aligned with doing harm.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    Yeah, I see they play by an entirely different rule book. It almost seems like fundamentally by caring about something other than yourself, you are limited by a moral constraint.

    By the way many Democrats have the same end goal as Republicans, to make and preserve as much wealth and power for their in-group. They are just nicer about it. But there is a small chunk of Democrats that are actually trying to get real radical change, but they're being fought against by the other 95% of Congress.

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  • [–] 20 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 child)

    Interesting how they suddenly can’t find money to fund anything that helps humanity but they can invest billions of dollars in fucking defense-related AI R&D. Anyone with a brain can see that cutting agency funding will do nothing for the deficit if you’re just yeeting money at Alex Karp to make AI-enabled bombs or whatever.

    I’m tired of the government pretending that the deficit actually means anything.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago

    Surprising no one. Except some senators and congressmen. Smfh.

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