The Democrats who decided to vote for the deal are the worst kind of craven cowards, fairly explicitly going for it to protect the fillibuster.

but I think this capitulation is a much smaller than its made out to be. Paying government employees and SNAP payments over the hollidays is good, and in my opinion more important than holding out for a deal that would never happen anyway. The most important thing to me here is that it’s a continuing resolution that doesnt go past January. There WILL be another shutdown, and that one might go even longer and will be AFTER the ACA funding has a separate vote. So we might actually have the shutdown messaging about the more important reasons why there shouldnt be funding, what with the fascism, and the corruption, and the Epstein, and the contempt for both the constitution and the very idea of independently verifiable reality.

The difference with Fetterman is that his background was as a rich nepo-baby who got his start in politics getting elected mayor and having major government functions flow through his family’s charity.

My understanding of why fetterman got such a good rap, was because of his social media strategy being run by an especially talented progressive campaign staffer who (I wish I had the citation sorry) I believe has since denounced him as an elected official

For Platner there really is nothing that smells insincere about him to me. Definitely questionable judgment, but scheduling a tattoo coverup basically the instant it became a campaign issue is a plus in my book. But I’m not from Maine so I’m not going to push too hard for any candidate

1: prison with human rights abuses is not the same as an extermination camp 2: very little of what he says here connects to the screenshot and doesnt link to the article 3: badempanada is a soulless clout-chasing shithead who will say anything for clicks

yoooo if we get MAGA to turn against cattle ranchers that might actally be huge for american politics in the long term

If the purpose were to make sure the law was followed they would be hiring immigration judges not building the gestapo

there are also a number of other protests happening this same day in Dubuque, Ames, Waterloo, and Sioux City

first time I’ve ever heard of a law enforcement officer say they wont do something because of the 4th amendment. IMO all law enforcement is duty bound to prevent unconstitutional actions by other law enforcement, but that’s not practical for a wide variety of reasons

not even that, it’s just the sheriff’s office saying it wont help break the law

that really, truly sucks

honestly, if you sincerely believe that your physical safety is at risk if the people in your area knew your politics you need to GTFO, posthaste. If that’s not an option for whatever reason, learn who’s least likely to be hostile to your politics, the groups are probably going to be anemic but I know for a fact there’s at least statewide Democratic Party organization. Not even necessarily repping for Democrats in particular there are probably other groups. In any case my point is that you may be alone, but you’re less alone than you think you are

and that posting can concern things more locally relevant than yet another “geNrAL StRIke”. I’m on this particular forum in large part because of the hope it can be locally relevant

I guarantee you there are local politicians in your area who absolutely suck shit, who have established enemies, who aren’t as secure in their positions as they think they are

go learn who they are and make their lives hell.

how about you stop posting about it with a PNG on a forum that gets like 20k visitors a month (high end) and go talk to your neighbors and coworkers about doing something more directly local?

editorially? yea there’s still investigative pieces that are worth reading on there sometimes

I use https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-firefox-clean and I almost never reach a paywall, not sure if there’s a chrome version

important context. For that the real question becomes how to shift the broader narrative so low-info voters stop trying consistently swinging for reactionary candidates

my preferred solution is to distance from national democrats (not a euphemism for moving right). local politicians start naming enemies and using any level of populism instead of just the always-mumbled “yea I want things to be good” or the over-refined “messaging™” that everyone can smell is fake.

There’s also an important conversation to be had as to if talking about the specific effects is the best strategy, I’ll be doing it anyway. but we still shouldn’t loose track of how this is all flagrantly unconstitutional and a naked attempt to turn the federal government into a monarchy.

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I dont understand where you found that in what I said

I dont care about the difference between “propagandized” and “idiot”. You attacked me instead of my argument.

Its not the hypothetical removal of the evil and waste of a system, it’d about the process of removing the undesired elements. The problem wasnt just with Brian Johnson was an interchangable empty suit, the problem is with the entire culture and system of incentives. Killing one bad person doesn’t do enough to fix things, targeting enough people to make the change that’s really needed will need a bureaucratic structure to actually get done, target selection, weapons supply, training, validation, paperwork. Very rare for breaucratically enabled violence to ever be good.

For healthcare in particular is pretty much is just as simple as nationalizating health insurance and have everything done by medicare (or state/local govt health plan) But targeted assassination doesn’t automatically translate into an act of congress.