[–] 4 points 14 hours ago (1 child)

There is no scenario where China is better off with Trump. The destabilizing of the Middle East is hurting everyone. Not to mention his ridiculous tarrifs. Russia wants him because the Iran war has forced some people to remove their sanctions on Russian oil and is helping to fund their war.

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  • [–] 4 points 14 hours ago (1 child)

    The party system is not a design, it is the inevitable outcome of our system. Things pass with support. How do you get support? You do favors for others in exchange for their support. Eventually the same guys keep supporting each other so they just band together for every vote and voila the party system was born. 3 parties can’t exist because it fractures the support too much to win.

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  • [–] 4 points 14 hours ago*

    There was always a plan to stop it. I don’t know who it was but they delayed calling in the national guard. Whether it was the governor or Trump idk but the response was delayed because they didn’t want the people to get hurt which is absolutely disgusting

    Edit: ok so they dropped the ball on multiple fronts but from my understanding it was ultimately Trump who withheld the guard. DC Guard responds to the president, not the governor. Also the requests by Congress for immediate aid were not communicated to the national guard, meaning Trump had his lackeys delay the response.

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  • [–] 2 points 14 hours ago (1 child)

    I don’t disagree but from my understanding the affected areas were O Hare, Newark and a couple other airports. Those are extremely large airports and have flights coming from all over the country. I think they were trying to mitigate any new flights flying over their airpspace without having comms so they grounded everyone.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    What’s crazy is you saw the last 2 years and are arguing about the process. You learned nothing under this dictatorship. The rules don’t mean anything. They do whatever they want. Only when democrats want to do something it’s theater or about following processes. Our politicians, both left and right, have WAY more power than they let on. The red tape is is self imposed. When enough people get angry we can make massive change and if you ask me the American people need to see things being done. All beauocracy is theatre and maybe if the left actually put some theater for us more people would get mad and actually do something.

    It is sad that you see giving up as a valid option. When the cards you want aren’t on the table you flip the fucking table. It sounds ridiculous but people’s lives are at stake. Do you even care about all the people that will die because they will be priced out of their life saving medications? I guess fighting for healthcare is performative too.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 days ago (10 children)

    So you think people’s lives are just numbers on a screen? Is politics a game for you? Oh well we losing this time so might as well not try. PEOPLE ARE DYING. Israel is killing people every single day. Ice is killing people everyday. There are thousands of immigrants sitting in concentration camps. They are getting raped and tortured EVERY SINGLE DAY. This isn’t a fucking game. It’s not about winning and losing. We have an obligation to uphold justice and protect as many people as we possibly can.

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  • [–] 10 points 5 days ago (1 child)

    Based on everything coming out it seems Hakeem has massive support in the caucus. So much so that no one even wants to give the idea that they don’t support him.

    Schumer on the other hand sounds like his support isn’t as wide spread.

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