• Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world
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      7 天前

      I am American, and i am getting very tired of hearing “they CAN’T do things because they have to play by the rules!”

      The rules they could change with a simple majority. And any rules they can plausibly make up as well. We can’t ignore the Parliamentarian!

      • kreskin@lemmy.world
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        they could also jettison “My job is to keep the dems supporting Israel and nothing else” Schumer as the minority leader any time they wanted to with an internal democratic leadership vote. They only need a small number of dem senators to call for the internal vote, but it never gets called for. So evidently it’s not just schumer-- it’s the whole party’s job.

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      8 天前

      What exactly do you expect them to do? Don’t just say “something”, be specific.

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        Harris would be president right now if she would have just said she’d end the genocide, and no other changes. Progressives dont need purity, they need the most basic , basic floor of human dignity and thats not on offer from the DNC and people like yourself, chaogomu. And you know it.

      • Ryanmiller70@lemmy.zip
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        8 天前

        Encourage people to take power into their own hands by any means necessary. Stop downplaying and condemning the use of violence to get shit done. If a city needs to burn down and cops need to die, then so be it.

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          8 天前

          So your big plan is either a cross between and unwinnable civil war and a terrorist movement guaranteed to drive people away from the cause.

          Sure.

          I’m not going to join in on your suicide by cop plan, but you go ahead. Pull a Luigi, make it count. Otherwise, wait until after November so that if wide scale uncivil disobedience becomes necessary, it will be seen as justified and not some psycho lashing out.

    • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world
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      8 天前

      Under the US system, they have no more power than you. The military and the FBI are legally loyal to the President. Congressional representatives have no army.

      Why don’t you do something more than talk?

      • Courtney (she/her/they) @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        I’m doing far more to help people than the democrats as a whole.

        Literally any one of the things I volunteer for put me ahead of the majority of them.

        Why don’t you stop making excuses for people who don’t care about you?