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https://www.reddit.com/r/CuratedTumblr/comments/1gcvh31/why_is_every_tankie_like_i_dont_understand_the/

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!"

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[-] WeedReference420@hexbear.net 12 points 5 hours ago

If this is true then surely the system needs huge changes so that necessary progress can be made

[-] REgon@hexbear.net 14 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

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?

[-] invo_rt@hexbear.net 26 points 7 hours ago

I open the link and the first comment:

"Constitutional amendments are basically like legendary Pokémon..."

kind-vladimir-ilyich

[-] drhead@hexbear.net 15 points 6 hours ago

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.

[-] Homer_Simpson@hexbear.net 19 points 7 hours ago

OP of that thread STILL posts in EnoughBernieSpam. Someones mad.

[-] goferking0 2 points 21 minutes ago

Alternates angry posts there and horny posts in nsfw subs

[-] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 43 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

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 but uncaring, why support them?

If they're both loving and competent, then from whence comes evil?

[-] 666@lemmygrad.ml 21 points 8 hours ago

Evil comes from Vote-Satan Drumpfutler

[-] poppy_apocalypse@hexbear.net 46 points 8 hours ago

California. Democrats have had a super majority for as long as I can remember and nothing has changed but the date.

[-] roux@hexbear.net 37 points 8 hours ago

They are pushing the homeless into concentration camps though, so that's something.

[-] 666@lemmygrad.ml 24 points 8 hours ago

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?

[-] regul@hexbear.net 3 points 2 hours ago

Btw California only ever voted to make gay marriage illegal, in 2008. The state legislature never did anything about it.

[-] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 15 points 7 hours ago

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

[-] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 25 points 8 hours ago

maybe-later-honey: "Well shucks, kiddo. What's the hurry? Maybe we just like taking our time here. Besides, the state is blue. Our work here is already done!"

[-] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 12 points 8 hours ago

They're working hard at unshackling tech companies so they can find new and innovative ways to exploit people!

[-] Mardoniush@hexbear.net 48 points 9 hours ago

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.

[-] invo_rt@hexbear.net 13 points 7 hours ago

Cursed with both memory and prophecy, but the inability to change the present meaningfully.

theory-gary

[-] Dimmer06@hexbear.net 36 points 9 hours ago

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.

[-] TheLastHero@hexbear.net 8 points 7 hours ago

gotta keep the mob away from the important centers of power, and make sure to give slaveowners extra votes as well.

[-] HomoSexualTransStalinist@hexbear.net 37 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

"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"

[-] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 24 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

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.

[-] Moss@hexbear.net 52 points 11 hours ago

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

[-] bumpusoot@hexbear.net 46 points 12 hours ago

I don't need a supermajority of representatives to say "genocide is bad". Weird that the Democrats seem to still be unable thinking-about-it

[-] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Sorry, best they can do is standing ovation for Bibi, in the middle of genocide.

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