regul [any]@hexbear.net to politics@hexbear.netEnglish · 2 months agoThe Dems' strategy for standing up to Trump? Why, filibustering without there being any active legislation up for a vote!www.npr.orgexternal-linkmessage-square112fedilinkarrow-up1100file-textcross-posted to: news@lemmy.worldusa@midwest.social
arrow-up1100external-linkThe Dems' strategy for standing up to Trump? Why, filibustering without there being any active legislation up for a vote!www.npr.orgregul [any]@hexbear.net to politics@hexbear.netEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square112fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: news@lemmy.worldusa@midwest.social
minus-squareScrewCapital@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoI don’t disagree with anything you’re saying but I fail to see how what he’s doing is viewed as not doing anything. He already threw one days session away. That’s small but it’s not nothing it is mostly nothing though won’t disagree there lol. That said it’s gotta start somewhere, idk what the point in shitting on someone for doing something (even if it’s small) is going to accomplish. That said I appreciate your comment it’s fair points.
minus-squareAnarchoAnarchist [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19·2 months agoHe’s demonstrating that doing nothing, a purely performative gesture, is enough to get people like you to clap and donate. He’s moving the Overton window on Trump resistance from barely effectual to absolutely toothless.
minus-squareGalaxyBrain [they/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·2 months agoExplain your weird metaphor
minus-squareScrewCapital@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoIt’s not a metaphor, right now the most resistance the Dems have done was Trump’s state of the union where they held up legit ping pong paddles…
minus-squareGalaxyBrain [they/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·2 months agoI’m not American but if any government does anything like this it should be immediately disbanded by UN forces and replaced with adults. Any resistance should be met with unilateral nuclear destruction.
minus-squareScrewCapital@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoHey man, if you can get that accomplished go ahead. I’ll fight for you lol
minus-squareGalaxyBrain [they/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·edit-22 months agoYou will? Fucking sick. Join the PSL and get a gun. Further instruction will come later. Welcome to the revolution
I don’t disagree with anything you’re saying but I fail to see how what he’s doing is viewed as not doing anything.
He already threw one days session away. That’s small but it’s not nothing it is mostly nothing though won’t disagree there lol.
That said it’s gotta start somewhere, idk what the point in shitting on someone for doing something (even if it’s small) is going to accomplish.
That said I appreciate your comment it’s fair points.
He’s demonstrating that doing nothing, a purely performative gesture, is enough to get people like you to clap and donate.
He’s moving the Overton window on Trump resistance from barely effectual to absolutely toothless.
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Explain your weird metaphor
It’s not a metaphor, right now the most resistance the Dems have done was Trump’s state of the union where they held up legit ping pong paddles…
I’m not American but if any government does anything like this it should be immediately disbanded by UN forces and replaced with adults. Any resistance should be met with unilateral nuclear destruction.
Hey man, if you can get that accomplished go ahead. I’ll fight for you lol
You will? Fucking sick. Join the PSL and get a gun. Further instruction will come later. Welcome to the revolution