Yeah I think it’s more of an explanation than a justification. If you’re around someone you’re extremely attracted to who is also into you it’s very very difficult to slow down.

For me personally I was a bit on the fence because you don’t want to tax illiquid assets, since if I have a billion dollar business but all that money is in the business, that money is already doing work and in the economy which I don’t have as much an issue with. But turns out most billionaires exploit that and try to make ALL their assets seem as illiquid as possible, as to avoid having visible personal wealth. I can see reasons for voting against it but those reasons don’t cover all the ones cheating the system.

If gas were cheap right now the Republicans would still have won more seats. The average voter has a 1 month attention span and until that changes it’s a coinflip of if America will be evil or not. We just have to hope the cards fall right for gas prices to be cheap when the dems are in I guess 🤷

Can’t wait for the mass wave of Republicans “I knew he was bad the whole time and never supported him” history rewrite 🙂

In that case he’s the one ruining it by stretching out the upper part of the tube :>

Oh, well I guess that makes it OK then 🙄

Not what I said.

Again Biden had… 5% lead in the house… -15% in the senate. He can’t snap his fingers and pass laws, it’s astonishing the bills he DID manage to pass.
https://www.npr.org/2023/01/01/1143149435/despite-infighting-its-been-a-surprisingly-productive-2-years-for-democrats.

The biggest being he is not in support of the absolute slaughter of the Ukraine Russia war, but I guess those 500k+ people don’t matter enough that lesser of 2 evils is worth it (when one side is Hitler 2.0).

Ice was not being unbelievably evil when Biden was president, raiding American citizens homes, giving them contaminated water etc. Disbanding ICE was not even on the table. You may want open borders but that is extremely unpopular among Republicans and democrats. Biden continued the policy we have had for decades with ICE, and the increase was for trials, which we would want people to have fair trials.

Another example of democrats working to reduce ICE funding

I mean first of all Biden is not the one sending the police to these places, often it was the universities calling the police. Many of the cases didn’t have sufficient evidence against the individuals or the police were too broad in who they arrested, but about 40% WERE convicted. That is a very high number for a large protest where it’s hard to gather evidence before arresting people.

I’m sure the Ukrainians will appreciate your steadfast resolution while they freeze this winter 👌

Bypassing congress for military funding was literally approved by congress as a power for the president. Boomers support Israel, I can’t explain that. But on literally every other issue, it’s comparing literal demons to normal policy. Biden had authority to approve weapons, but he doesn’t have the authority to remove what the last president did.

Biden actually requested less money for ICE than had been requested previously, and then later requested more for processing immigration cases. The funding is also irrelevant considering trump upped it by about 400% from 8b to 40b, and is running around terrorizing the population with it. The huge majority of Americans support border control, so Democrats did want to fund ICE, but they don’t want to fund a domestic terrorist group like the RepublicaBiden?

The protesters were arrested for breaking the law, not for protesting. Vote for people who will change the law if you don’t like it.

What are you talking about, they have all 3 branches, that matters way more than the margin. Republicans all fell in line behind their cult leader, of course they can get more done than democrats who actually have to consider problems instead of blaming it on immigrants. What is an action a Democrat in the 2020 congress can even do when the senate will block every bill they try to pass? Their only hope is that Americans stop voting for the fascists, but they don’t.

I think it’s a glove and he’s yelling about a hole in it

“I did 0 research before voting on something that impacts everyone else, and then it turned out to be bad, for ME!”

We need voting to require proof that you spent more than 5 seconds researching the candidates and their policies, the average voter is just unreal. How is it possible the only reason trump is unpopular is just because prices are high, not his heinous policy or his 959204 crimes?

Yep a lot of decomps just get a slop coded version and people stop caring about it because the slop version is “good enough.” Most people doing the decomps it’s also a hobby project that they’re doing for fun as well, the end goal is just a bonus.

Just a reminder that dems had a very thin (~5%) majority in congress and -15% minority in the senate in 2020, so maybe don’t complain about do-nothing dems when Americans are the ones who keep voting the fascists in.

Trump 1.0 wasn’t able to pass hardly any policy because of all the good people we used to have in government. Most of his work in term 1 was removing those people, and term 2 is the payoff for that. Biden also can’t just say “law null and void,” it has to go through congress and the senate. Why do people keep rewriting history? The dems had a very thin majority in congress, and a MINORITY in the senate. What is he supposed to do, snap his fingers and declare it null? Not even Trump with his yesmen can do that, he needed the supreme court to intervene.

Doesn’t make sense why they would spend so much money trying to disincentivize voting, remove mail in voting, and require id for voting. Seems like one side (that recieves far more donations from massive companies) wants to prevent voting, so it seems to me that voting would threaten them.

Saw someone saying ML was not a tankie instance. No guys I know it’s the instance called ((1488)) but you can’t infer anything from that.

The companies being evil doesn’t mean everyone working there is, I imagine the employees make this a big sticking point.