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[–] frozen@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 71 points 2 years ago (26 children)

Yesterday they made higher education less accessible to non-whites, today they made it harder for the poor...

I wonder if there's a pattern here.

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[–] Karate_Jesus420@lemmy.dbzer0.com 66 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Fuck Trump and his supreme court. We're going to be suffering the effects of Republican stupidity for the next 40 years.

[–] Pacifist@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 years ago (6 children)

If you need any reason not to believe in god, it's that Trump got to appoint THREE FUCKING SUPREME COURT JUSTICES

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[–] KingSnorky@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

It’s Republican moral bankruptcy and cruelty that we will all suffer. If anyone’s stupidity got us here, it’s the Democratic Party’s stupid leadership since AT LEAST 2000, if not earlier. Republicans have telegraphed their intentions for 50 fuckin years and Democrats continued over and over to attempt reaching across the aisle, trying to pass bipartisan wins, “take the high road,” … all the while the Republican party continued putting their racist, xenophobic, mysoginistic, jingoistic, classist platform out year after year, abandoning all sense of decorum and norms, gerrymandering the fuck out of every district possible, blocking every bill that helps anyone aside from billionaires and corporations, and generally lying and cheating their way to what we have today.

[–] dingus@lemmy.ml 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

since AT LEAST 2000

Democrats: It's just a coincidence that two lawyers who worked on the Supreme Court case that handed Bush the election in 2000 happen to be Supreme Court Justices today!

[–] CanadaPlus 6 points 2 years ago

I think, if there's independent historians in the future looking back, they'll be mentioned in the same sentence as Neville Chamberlain often.

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[–] minorsecond@lemmy.ml 51 points 2 years ago (1 children)

But the forgiven PPP loans are A-OK, right? Fuck this shit.

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[–] Kururin@lemmy.ml 33 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Unless the dems take back court we would be all living through a nightmare.

[–] dingus@lemmy.ml 27 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (8 children)

Maybe Hilldawg could have campaigned in Wisconsin or taken seriously that even if she won the popular vote, that the Electoral College actually mattered.

Reminder, she did win the popular vote. The majority did vote for her.

Or maybe Obama could have kept his campaign promise that codifying Roe vs. Wade in law was his first order of business.

But sure, it's our fault, Hilldawg, because we didn't vote hard enough.

[–] BumpingFuglies@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This has been the Democrat strategy for a long time now: make wonderful promises they don't intend to keep, then blame everyone else when they don't come to fruition. People keep voting for them despite this obvious fact, because Republicans make terrible promises that they actually try to keep.

We're damned if we do and damned if we don't. The only winning move is to ~~not play~~ flip the table and play a different game.

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[–] Ado@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

The dem politician's tactic. Pretend like you give a fuck (pretending bc they dont actually do the things to solve the issue), and then hold your constituency hostage during elections. Then continue to pretend like you give a fuck.

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[–] Spacebar@lemmy.world 25 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

Vote! Encourage those around you to vote. Help drive someone to the polls. If you know a young person who's never voted, get them to vote.

Don't care who they vote for, just get them to the ballot box.

The more people vote, the better things turn out for the majority.

[–] 14specks@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

Without a socialist party (as in, completely purged and free of all bourgeois influence), there's isn't a whole lot worth voting for at the federal level. Democrats repeatedly show that they are incapable of resisting the Republicans and take L's constantly (see here).

I encourage everyone to instead organize with local political orgs that can eventually build this power. The DSA being the largest currently available (and just as flawed as the other options one may have, ofc)

[–] Spacebar@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

If you don't feel it's worth keeping as many Rs out of Federal roles, then no amount of examples are going to change your mind.

You can't ignore the federal level because the Dems aren't liberal enough.

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[–] carbonprop@lemmy.ca 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Wow. The SCOTUS is firing through all sorts of shitty changes this week. They’re like the koolaid man on meth.

[–] 14specks@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Gonna be this way for the foreseeable future

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[–] LeZero@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

Dont forget to thank RBG, who refused to retire under Obama for some fucking reason, only to get owned by COVID after officiating a wedding for some dumb liberals (while having an immune system shredded by cancer)

Well it gave us the funniest trump interview imo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knlJWu815C0

[–] Empyreus@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

If there is a minimum age in government, there needs to be a maximum. I'm over these 70 year olds running things.

[–] dingus@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

Downvoted by people who refuse to look at when Democrats make stupid decisions that fuck us.

I thought Lemmy was supposed to be full of tankies, not milquetoast centrist capitalist apologists....

[–] LeZero@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

They can downvote away, I will never not shit on Ginsberg (also libtards infect spaces just like right wingers)

[–] 14specks@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

libtards

I'm onboard with the spirit of the post, but I encourage you to find another insult

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[–] JCreazy@midwest.social 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

How many were paid off by the student loan companies.

[–] _max@vlemmy.net 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I was under the impression the student loan companies did not care. They were getting paid regardless.

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[–] klieg2323@lemmy.piperservers.net 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

My "favorite" part of the majority ruling is how the loan forgiveness was struck down because it would harm the loan servicers. Not the government, not the people, the companies that have been contracted to collect the loans. That's who SCOTUS is most concerned with. Should tell us everything we need to know about who's interests are most important - capitalists

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