• LukeZaz@beehaw.org
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    23 hours ago

    Update: Welp, late today this passed the House overwhelmingly, 409-2. The only two nay vote were from Republicans Thomas Massie and Eric Burlison.

    Hey yeah can anyone fucking explain to me why AOC and Rashida Tlaib voted yes on this dogshit?

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        22 hours ago

        The thing is, AOC herself spoke out against this bill according to this article. And I really, really want her to explain this one, as much as I do not expect that she will.

        I don’t know how in the world I’m expected to have any faith whatsoever in our governance at any level when even our ostensibly most progressive voices aren’t willing to block blatant garbage like this.

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          i lost my faith in our governance while deployed in iraq. nothing i’ve seen since has done anything to restore it. dunno how, but something has to change

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            5 hours ago

            I agree. My problem now is that people like Tlaib were who I looked to for how things could change, and yet here they are enabling worse instead of fighting for better. I can’t square that circle, and it means I’m losing one of the last bastions of hope I had for a better world.