We need more than words! Help us!
We need more than words! Help us!
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Impeccable work
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"We need you to help us!"
"By raising awareness, raising the profile of protests by joining and expressing solidarity with them, engaging in legal efforts to block the administration, and introducing legislation to restrict the administration's formal power; the things that politicians and especially legislators have especial power to actually do?"
"No, we want you to take up arms and take to the streets in a way that we aren't willing to do ourselves!"
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Our legislators have no legal power to stop what's happening, or at least that's what they keep telling us.
So yeah, i would expect them to try anything else that might work. Including illegal things. That is if they actually give a shit about trying to stop the rise of fascism, which they don't seem to give a shit about.
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What do you propose they do?
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They could start with traveling with armed guards, or more specifically, law enforcement under their own lawful command. Then they can start actually exercising their authority and right to inspect federal facilities such as ICE detention centers. This is the right of every member of Congress. Any ICE or other agents that try to stop them are violating state and federal law. If ICE agents try to stop them, then they should have those ICE agents arrested on the spot.
But really, what they should be doing is stop looking for excuses, like you seem to be doing here. Republicans manage to delay and wring concessions out of Democrats when they're out of power. But the Democrats were unwilling to use the debt ceiling or temporary budget bill earlier this year to demand concessions. They just said, "well, it would be really bad if the government shut down, guess we can't do anything!"
Or they could use other Congressional powers. For example, they should be reading banned books, censored scientific articles, and information deleted from government web pages directly into the Congressional record.
But beyond that, they need rhetoric that isn't cowardly. They should be in speech after speech, calling for the prosecution of ICE agents. They should be up there every day reminding everyone that there are no statutes of limitations for crimes against humanity. And in case of a pardon, they should be promising to ship ICE agents off the the Hague for trial.
And on and on. There are tons of things they could be doing. Many of these involve putting their actual persons at risk. But Democrats are leaders in name only. They have no interest in actually leading. They're just there to collect a paycheck. When they're out of power, they wring their hands and say, "we don't have a majority, what do you propose we do?" When they're in power, they wring their hands and say, "we only have a small majority, what do you propose we do?"
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Or they could use other Congressional powers. For example, they should be reading banned books, censored scientific articles, and information deleted from government web pages directly into the Congressional record.
I really like this one. A "climate change report filibuster" would be an excellent way to obstruct and protest.
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Where exactly is it written that members of congress can have political enemies arrested by private police on a whim, and that they can inspect any building at any time?
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Organize protests. Bring media. Obstruct Republicans in Congress whenever possible
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Literally anything?
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Their job.
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The short Hakeem Jeffries, I can't
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Why is Jeffries there and not a Republican
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Welcome to: the point.
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Because Jeffries is a Republican.
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Take your time sweety
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I find it very funny how Americans spent like 50 years being all "we're God's chosen, we're the only truly free people, we're the good guys of the world, we're the peacekeepers and the liberators, we beat the big bad, our nation is the greatest in the world" non-fucking-stop, year-round, but when fascism took root in their government they were all "oh no please save us, we can't do this, we're helpless widdle babies, somebody fix our problems for us."
It must be hard when the bad guy is Caucasian huh?
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lol you’re thinking of the people who are now fully supporting the fascism. They were the ones literally threatening to kill me for being against the patriot act and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and George fucking bush. Those people will still tell you all of those things—in the same breath that they tell you the country is going down the drain because brown people exist.
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I mean all that is one of those "if you have to say it" deals.
It's like how North Korean is actually the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
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Top two people have been AI generated, right?
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LOL that's literally Eric Adams and Karen Bass the mayors of NYC and LA.
Adams took bribes and is now best friends with Trump and Bass "saved money" by cutting the budget for firefighters and then went to an oligarch cocktail party in Ghana during fire season and fired the fire chief who criticized her.Both sent the police hard after protestors and have been praised by Democrat leadership for being outstanding members of the party.
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You need an internet sabbatical.
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Alright, sorry, I guess.
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AI-induced brainrot so deep you forget people exist
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I never saw these people in my life. I live in Scandinavia... 🤷♂️
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Vote blue no matter who. Lol
Unless they're an economic populist.
Then it's all: "Nope, not like that." from your local Democratic ideologues.
For the immediate future. Sure.
I think there’s a sentiment that we need a third party.
No - we need a second party. The Democratic Party may be corrupt, but the Republican Party committed suicide. The full downfall will be when Donald Trump dies (hopefully not of old age).
Absolutely not. Burn the whole thing to the ground.
it took decades of this sort of strategy to get us here; expecting an immediate change is unrealistic.
Unless we fail to ratfuck a moderate or socialist in the primary. Then absolutely under no conditions should you vote blue.
Vote blue until literally anything better comes along.
Except lefties who infiltrate the party. You're a traitor if you vote for them. Obviously.
something better has literally been around for decades; people just refuse to vote for it.
I'd ammend to say vote blue in red states. Bote progressive in blue states.
Well yeah. Just look at what happens when you don't. Or do you think you needed to vote once?
the democrats lost so many voters in this last election that there’s no longer enough 3rd party voters to make up for the difference and they’ll continue to lose voters as the democrats keep shifting to the right.
You are the problem. You got us here.
So you're actively building the alternative right now, right? You're gonna have another party ready to go next election cycle? Link me to your projects. Surely you at least have some promising candidates lined up? And you're out there getting the word out about them?
Or are you just going to criticize and nitpick because it's easier?
the democrats have proven that they're not going to stop this and your fellow liberals are more politically aligned w you than w me; so what are you doing to prevent it?
Oh and also, get it from 1% to 51% in a single election cycle or else I'll fight against it.
Yes it will all be ready in due time. Don’t concern yourself brother.