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Redditors questioning basic political theory (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 7 months ago by 666@lemmygrad.ml to c/the_dunk_tank@hexbear.net

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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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[–] Barabas@hexbear.net 36 points 7 months ago

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.

[–] invo_rt@hexbear.net 33 points 7 months ago

I open the link and the first comment:

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

kind-vladimir-ilyich

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 29 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months 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.

[–] PoY@lemmygrad.ml 29 points 7 months ago

life is so simple for so many idiots

[–] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 29 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

Harry Reid could have dissolved the filibuster but he thought that would be impolite and he didn't care enough.

[–] Frank@hexbear.net 22 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Harry Reid could have been dissolved in acid but sadly that didn't happen either.

[–] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 20 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

lenin-heisenberg speech-side-l-1 Да. speech-side-l-2

[–] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 17 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Джесси, нам нужно готовить.

[–] Frank@hexbear.net 15 points 7 months ago

Harry Reid could have been dissolved in acid but sadly that didn't happen either.

[–] Homer_Simpson@hexbear.net 29 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] goferking0 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Alternates angry posts there and horny posts in nsfw subs

[–] gay_king_prince_charles@hexbear.net 5 points 7 months ago

Blood go to dick, blood go to head, blood pressure go up

[–] regul@hexbear.net 25 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I remember reading about the Parliamentarian in the Constitution and civics class. What's wrong with you tankies?

[+] Hexboare@hexbear.net 25 points 7 months ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

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[–] regul@hexbear.net 12 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] Frank@hexbear.net 28 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

Is this a bit? I cannot stress this enough, per the SCOTUS Biden could legally take a bust of John Kennedy and beat the Parliamentarian to death on the floor of Congress. The Parliamentarian can also be easily replaced if they won't play ball, which as been done before. Or congress could just ignore them.

But the ruling likely makes it easier for Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer to get his members in line behind the bill since the rise in the minimum wage had been a key sticking point for moderates like Sens. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona and Joe Manchin of West Virginia.

Lol

White House officials, cognizant of the potential math problem with Senate Democrats if the minimum wage increase were in the final package, had been counting on the provision being stripped, the administration official told CNN.

Also, lol

“I strongly disagree with tonight’s decision by the Senate Parliamentarian,” Sanders said in a statement Thursday evening. “The (Congressional Budget Office) made it absolutely clear that raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour had a substantial budgetary impact and should be allowed under reconciliation. It is hard for me to understand how drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge was considered to be consistent with the Byrd Rule, while increasing the minimum wage is not,” Sanders added, referring to the rule – named after the late Sen. Robert C. Byrd – that prohibits including “extraneous” measures as part of the budget process that Democrats are employing to send the Covid-19 relief package to Biden’s desk by early March.

It would have been nice if Sanders had died at some narratively significant moment when we still believed in him.

[–] Frank@hexbear.net 26 points 7 months ago

“Let’s be clear: raising the minimum wage is COVID-19 relief,” Washington Rep. Pramila Jayapal, the chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, said in a statement responding to the ruling. “We simply cannot go back to the Black, Brown, AAPI, Indigenous, poor and working class voters who delivered us the White House and the Senate majority and tell them that an unelected parliamentarian advised us – based on arcane rules – that we could not raise the minimum wage as we promised,” she added, calling on the Senate to reform the filibuster “to allow populist and necessary policies like the $15 minimum wage to pass with a majority of the Senate.”

It's such a beautifully fine-tuned machine. Almost makes me weep.

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[–] drhead@hexbear.net 23 points 7 months 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.

[–] WeedReference420@hexbear.net 21 points 7 months ago

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

[–] REgon@hexbear.net 19 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months 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?

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