Redditors questioning basic political theory
Because the government is a terrorist state that sponsors genocide and the branches of that terrorist state sponsor terrorism globally.
"UWU the dems are just so powerless UWU!"
The Democrats had a generational supermajority after Obama was elected and they didn't do anything. Saying they always have an excuse is objectively correct.
Didn't the dems control the house and the senate for like 2 years after Biden was first elected? Which they used to do approximately jack and shit?
"Yeah but but Biden couldn't do anything because some democratic senators were going against the party!"
It's not like there's a party whip whose entire purpose is making sure congress falls in line with the rest of the party, especially if the party currently holds the executive. Biden definitely couldn't have threatened republican-voting senators with pulling their campaign funding or endorsements or brought their kids up on corruption charges.
Sorry, we just had to save all that political capital for getting Jill Stein off the ballot in Rhode Island.
"Get over yourself and elect a moderate Dem!"
5 minutes later
"We regret to inform you that moderate Dems are obstructing progressive reform"
Ah, but you need 60 seats in the senate to bypass the filibuster. And even though there are procedural workarounds, you need the blessing of the parlimentarian, a sacred and infallible office where it would be braking the sacred norms to use our powers to ignore them or replace them. /s
why yes the GOP uses that method each time but if the dems do it gop will still use it when in power.
Amazing how it never used for good only bad in order to totally prevent it being used by GOP/bad
Yes but you must understand Manchin/Lieberman/whoever throew a little tantrum and there wasn't anything we could do!
Republicans meanwhile are never powerless, they always get what they want. Weird system huh.
If Trump wins, he will dismantle all of America's institutions, declare himself God Emperor for life and genocide all minorities.
If Kamala wins, she won't be able to do anything unless the republicans let her.
Except genocide homeless people, undocumented people, and Palestinians, which she'll use her political acumen to achieve bipartisan consensus on.
no sweaty, this is not hard to understand!!
So, to get anything done, you'd need the Dems to always win every single election so they have complete control of the state? Sounds authoritarian
They also need to have a super-dooper majority and reach a bipartisan consensus with their good friends in the Republican Party, which America needs to be strong to have a healthy democracy.
And that’s how you get situations like California and New York. Dem supermajority for long periods of time and always finding some convenient excuse not to do anything good
As if this mf had ever heard of 'the Senate Parlamentarian' before that became a necessary excuse for the Biden administration
In the comments they admit that the Biden admin could have overruled the Parliamentarian but claims that it would somehow burn up too much "political capital". And of course they blamed Bernie for the whole debacle.
Nothing like a liberal refusing to use power to do good things.
"tankies complain a lot!" "The system works but the problem is we don't have the power :smuglord: "
California. Democrats have had a super majority for as long as I can remember and nothing has changed but the date.
They are pushing the homeless into concentration camps though, so that's something.
no no sweaty, you don't understand. Public transport has expanded by...couple miles. A gay marriage was signed and immigrants with a pell grant and small business that has existed for 4 years get a tax break for a year as long as they work at a FAANG company and have eligible overtime!
What's that, rent too high? Our hands are tied! Homeless problem? Our hands are tied! Rising car-prices and gentrification pushing more people out of mobility and affordable neighborhoods with jobs? Our hands are tied!
Don't vote Jill Stein or La Cruz. But you better vote, don't you know your neighbors are watching?
Homeless problem? Our hands are tied!
They're hands are tied to do anything positive for the homeless. They're very willing and able to hurt them though
Btw California only ever voted to make gay marriage illegal, in 2008. The state legislature never did anything about it.
They're working hard at unshackling tech companies so they can find new and innovative ways to exploit people!
When Trump is in power, the president is Dictator King and a threat to democracy.
When Biden is in power, the president is a mostly ceremonial role
This isn't even on the level of the political anymore lol, this is liberals grappling with The Problem of Evil
If the Democrats are loving but incompetent, why rely on them?
If they are competent and uncaring, why support them?
If they're loving and competent, then from whence comes evil?
Evil comes from Vote-Satan Drumpfutler
Even when they had majority they don't do shit. How many people live in blue states where they don't even push basic shit. Biden did bypass congress on emergency sales to israel though several times
Remember when Obama held every branch of government and did fucking nothing. Communists Remember, we are cursed, on and on, with the horrors of memory.
Cursed with both memory and prophecy, but the inability to change the present meaningfully.
Communists are the cursed children of Cassandra and Mnemosyne.
no he only had it for like a month, and did nothing about it because of liberman and those damn republicans holding up things. They tried so hard to get us Romneycare Obamacare
I don't need a supermajority of representatives to say "genocide is bad". Weird that the Democrats seem to still be unable
Sorry, best they can do is standing ovation for Bibi, in the middle of genocide.
Curated tumblr is undoubtedly one of the most insufferable subreddits on that accursed site. Practically every post on there is just "actually sweaty it's really privileged to be a radical leftist and not a feckless liberal. Against the status quo? Wow your privilege is showing"
"actually sweaty it's really privileged to be a radical leftist and not a feckless liberal. Against the status quo? Wow your privilege is showing"
This is what happens when "radical" politics is vibes based, and centered around influencers. Any critique of the captialist system is regarded as being childish and privileged, because, who else but sedentary millionaires have the time to complain about capitalism?
Oh the planet itself and the environment is complaining about it a lot....
That same sub I saw em excuse biden going above and beyond for the genocide passing congress because they didn't want a multi front war against Hezbollah. Hows that working out?
"why don't tankies just realise that the entire structure of the US government is set up to make it an institutionally fascist country and we can never improve it and that's ok"
You've reminded me why I stopped going on that subreddit.
Every other post on that sub is some shit like this, or weirdly common, a post about how men are such poor babies. There are so many posts that are like "I'm a woman and I hate feminists, men are actually angels and we should love them" and every comment is a man going "true!". It's really embarrassing
Real poli-sci/political history heads know that the Federal Government was designed to not work so that white people could murder, steal, and enslave nonwhite people freely without interference and if you wanted to do something else with it you needed 90% of the population to support it.
gotta keep the mob away from the important centers of power, and make sure to give slaveowners extra votes as well.
At what point do redditors have to start considering that the reason dems won't enact good policies is that they don't want to?
I'd have to check how many new members we get on a monthly basis but it's not enough.
They don’t want power, nor do they want to criticise power. They just want someone of their preferred party to be able to profit by insider trading.
I open the link and the first comment:
"Constitutional amendments are basically like legendary Pokémon..."
life is so simple for so many idiots
OP of that thread STILL posts in EnoughBernieSpam. Someones mad.
Alternates angry posts there and horny posts in nsfw subs
Blood go to dick, blood go to head, blood pressure go up
I was thinking the other day how fucked we would have been if Covid kicked off under a Hillary Clinton presidency and a right wing Congress. Wonder how many more people would have died because "her hands would have been tied."
Not feeling good about h5n1 under either 2nd Trump or Harris.
I remember reading about the Parliamentarian in the Constitution and civics class. What's wrong with you tankies?
Actually, the Parliamentarian has a veto in Congress, you just fell asleep in civics class:
https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/25/politics/minimum-wage-covid-relief-senate-parliamentarian/index.html
The executive branch could absolutely unilaterally cut off support to Israel. We already have laws that prohibit arms transfers to countries interfering with USAID operations, and we're signatories to treaties that prohibit arms transfers to countries if we reasonably believe they will be used in the commission of war crimes. The easiest one for the president to prove would be the former, since we literally have reports from USAID saying this is happening. It's also worth noting that we have treaties obligating us to provide certain amounts of aid to Israel, but enforcing these laws is the sole responsibility of the executive branch. Biden could choose to cut off arms transfers at any time, and if someone wants to argue that our obligations to provide aid for Israel supersede international treaties they can let the courts sort it out.
If this is true then surely the system needs huge changes so that necessary progress can be made
Bell curve meme
It's all just made up, who cares? | The checks and balances are important and we have to respect our sacred institutions | It's all just made up, who cares?
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Material conditions visibly worsening, your government supporting genocide, LBGT and abortion rights getting rolled back, this is all happening under liberalism.
”Umm, well, gommulism bad! Heh, got em.”If evil communist Cuba is so bad they'll collapse themselves why is it necessary for the US to continue a 60 year embargo?
China exists. Take that, liberal.
Hey buddy I think you’re lost the dumbfuck convention is at reddit.com
Yes. We do.
You are not a clown. You are the entire circus.
Meanwhile China is accelerating past the United States. Cope and seethe, liberal fuck.
Wdym never collapsing governments? We are big fans of collapsing governments. That is like, half the definition of being a communist.
"One of the delightful things about Americans is that they have absolutely no historical memory." - Zhau En-lai
I'm going to fuck your dad and make sure you can hear it through the walls
Found the genocide lover. How's your liberal democracy working out for you? How many Palestinian children has it murdered today, and why are you celebrating it?
ignorant and smug, what a fun combination