Republicans have always voted against anything thats good for the country or citizenry, then when it gets passed regardless, they take all the credit for it.
And thanks to conservative voters being nicely quaranetined into the conservative news cycle, They hear nothing but that their dear Republican Representatives scored another big win for them against the big bad evil mean demorats.
I have been told multiple times on Lemmy, including this morning, that Harris and Trump would be exactly the same when it came to queer rights and women's rights but at least Republicans are honest about it.
It's mind-boggling.
I have a cousin, whos kinda weird, but he comments like that hoping to be picked up as a up incoming republican by the true government. Fuck years who his mom and i were drinking in the middle of trumps term, and she says.... that he will make a great general when the next civil war comes....
These crazy posters probably have a similar mind set. Its honestly revolting.
Yeah the amount of gas lighting and mental gymnastics is astounding. I stopped wasting energy listening to these clowns. Just call them for what they are and disengage and place a mirror in front of them so they can gaslight themselves.
I mostly just hear screeching about genocide (but only when criticizing democrats, never about republicans). I've noticed that I've started racking up bans on various communities for calling out such bad-faith arguments.
You got banned from a vegan community and a left-wing meme community. Did you really get banned from a vegan community because "screeching about genocide?"
I've got a couple alts floating around that were used for single comments/conversations that I really didn't need my main attached to. The vegan ban was just funny, not politics related.
(and before anyone accuses me of admitting to ban evasion, this account doesn't go to those communities my alts were banned from anyway)
Well, in that case, I'm happy that many of these accounts of, "I'm going to get mine, so certain populations are out of luck" are just alts.
Meanwhile, I'm talking to someone right now elsewhere who is coming very close to saying that the way to stop the genocide of Palestinians is a genocide of Israelis. I'm curious to see if they are actually going to go that far.
People have some severely fucked up morals regarding the genocide in Gaza.
I came across a video on youtube from a major pro-business media outlet calling road diets a 'socialist ideal' and saying that the 'liberals are trying to take away our cars'. The comments were equally unhinged.
Politicians really need to start being held accountable for blatant lies... they don't even try anymore, which means it will only get worse. Lying like this should be punishable.
The voters are supposed to hold them accountable. It's just rotten from the bottom up.
No, laws should be in place that make this illegal. I want every speech a candidate gives to be under oath and punishable by being banned from holding office.
We have a first amendment. It protects speech. "Laws" against what can and cannot be said in public is not a slippery slope I want to go down, regardless if the person is a lying sack of shit.
As already stated, the voters are supposed to hold these lying sacks of shit accountable by voting out said lying sacks of shit. I think this problem gets dealt with in abolishing first past the pole voting systems.
I am not a lawyer and do not know legal law, but I do know that a verbal contracts are legally binding and do not impede upon free speech. This would be a case similar to that. They want to say they will do everything to get something done, I want to see them immediately removed from office for doing shit that counters it.
My point does not in any way interact with FPTP and is not an instead of. All I'm saying is we should legally define what promises you can make on the campaign and hold people accountable for lying to constitutents.
I see this in a lot in my red town. There are a lot of infrastructure projects and they all say "project x funded by the republicans for initiative or whatever" and then you go to the website and in the fine print it says that initiative was itself funded with IRA money.
I really wasn't sure about the IRA at the time; I had big sticker shock at $5 trillion dollars. But seeing my middle-of-nowhere-in-particular town get big big projects funded with it has convinced me that this is landmark legislation that history will recognize as significant.
Now extend the northeast corridor to the rest of the country please! I want more passenger rail! I demand better train service!
OP: posts example of Republicans taking credit for things they opposed
ITT: "Roads are bad!"
Kinda missing the point, here.
Remember: anything Democrats do is bad. That is literally ALL that these fucking shills care about. Spin spin spin. They look at any topic and think, "how can we spin this to attack Democrats?"
They get the point. They're deflecting.
Nothing helps traffic like more roads. It's not like mass transit could fix it.
You're right but that's not really the point of this post
Infrastructure doesn't necessarily mean roads. Although I haven't heard of anyone using this money to make public transportation better I have heard stories of cities using this money to improve pedestrian and bike infrastructure.
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