politics
Welcome to the discussion of US Politics!
Rules:
- Post only links to articles, Title must fairly describe link contents. If your title differs from the site’s, it should only be to add context or be more descriptive. Do not post entire articles in the body or in the comments.
Links must be to the original source, not an aggregator like Google Amp, MSN, or Yahoo.
Example:
- Articles must be relevant to politics. Links must be to quality and original content. Articles should be worth reading. Clickbait, stub articles, and rehosted or stolen content are not allowed. Check your source for Reliability and Bias here.
- Be civil, No violations of TOS. It’s OK to say the subject of an article is behaving like a (pejorative, pejorative). It’s NOT OK to say another USER is (pejorative). Strong language is fine, just not directed at other members. Engage in good-faith and with respect! This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban.
- No memes, trolling, or low-effort comments. Reposts, misinformation, off-topic, trolling, or offensive. Similarly, if you see posts along these lines, do not engage. Report them, block them, and live a happier life than they do. We see too many slapfights that boil down to "Mom! He's bugging me!" and "I'm not touching you!" Going forward, slapfights will result in removed comments and temp bans to cool off.
- Vote based on comment quality, not agreement. This community aims to foster discussion; please reward people for putting effort into articulating their viewpoint, even if you disagree with it.
- No hate speech, slurs, celebrating death, advocating violence, or abusive language. This will result in a ban. Usernames containing racist, or inappropriate slurs will be banned without warning
We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules, to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting. Users that post off-topic spam, advocate violence, have multiple comments or posts removed, weaponize reports or violate the code of conduct will be banned.
All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.
That's all the rules!
Civic Links
• Congressional Awards Program
• Library of Congress Legislative Resources
• U.S. House of Representatives
Partnered Communities:
• News
view the rest of the comments
"It's amazing what having a republican in the white house will do"
Tell me more about how Dems in 2024 were worse than they were in 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016, and 2020. Please. Go ahead. Say something that isn't a regurgitation of alt-right talking points fed to gullible performative leftists like you who don't give a single solitary fuck about the lives of marginalized groups.
That is, of course, assuming you are genuine in this, and just don't give a fuck that you're helping fascists if it helps you feel good, rather than being a believer in fascist ideology yourself.
I invite everyone reading this to also read the comment that was in reply to.
Here, I'll paste it for you:
I was saying that the press is admitting that it's a genocide now that the president is a republican. Of course you know this, but you're dishonest.
After all, you're calling me a fascist for being to your left on genocide. And cancer, evidently.
I literally called you out as an accelerationist. Or have you forgotten what that word means already? Perhaps your memory is going the route of Trump's.
You supported the election of Trump. You are far to the right of me on the ongoing Israeli genocide, not to mention the ongoing Ukrainian genocide.
Very telling that you can't answer how the Dems were "getting worse", though, typical of the quality of shit you shovel.
And a fascist and anything you thought would stick.
I did not. You assume that about anyone who has any criticism at all of biden before he got cancer and joined your lengthy shit list.
in 2009, they were actually willing to pass a minimum wage increase and at least pretended to pursue a public option. Something they haven't done since.
So now that you acknowledge that you've been called an accelerationist in the past, are you just pretending to not remember what an accelerationist is?
lmao
I suppose that would require some small amount of introspection for you to realize, and that's too horrible for you to contemplate.
... would you like to remind me what the Harris platform was on the minimum wage? Go on. Remind us all.
Both Clinton and Biden supported a public option. But hey, anything to spread misinformation in service to suppressing liberal turnout, right? You have fascists that you want to win.
I'm saying that you will say anything to demonize your left and only your left.
And now you're trying to pivot from the actions of democrats to the campaign promises of one democrat.
And biden promised to pursue it when in office. Then didn't. It was a lie.
lmao
Fascists aren't to my left, and neither are their supporters.
Okay, would you like to remind me what the Dem party platform in 2024 was on the minimum wage? Go on. Remind us all.
Jesus fucking Christ.
You scream "fascist" at anyone to your left.
A lie, same as it was in 2020.
No, I accuse people who materially contribute to the victory of fascists as being fascist supporters, which they are. Sorry that's too complex for you to parse.
Oh, okay, so it doesn't actually matter what left positions the Dems ran on, you'd just assert that it was all lies anyway.
What a surprise. This is my shocked face.
And by an astounding coincidence, you identify anyone to your left as "materially contributing to the victory of fascists."
I mean, I'm not the one who promised to revisit the public option and then didn't.
This has become a slapfight. I'm out.
lmao
Believe it or not, you and the rest of the "Sink the Dems at any cost" brigade are not the entirety of the left. Shocking, I know.
Wow, why didn't the Dems use their 50-50 'majority' to pass a deeply contentious bill that would have been unable to get all 50 Dems onboard regardless of the compromises involved, yet would need a 60-40 majority to pass???
Of course, if they'd tried, you would have condemned them for trying and wasting time on a meaningless gesture (which would be true) instead of doing real work.
The only thing you care about is making sure "the LIBS" lose and the fascists win. Because if the fascists are in power, you feel heroic when you roleplay as a leftist. The blood of minorities makes for great cosplay makeup, it would seem.
Sorry that you find details like "The actual composition of the Senate" to be troubling and mentioning it to be 'a slapfight'. Reality is troublesome to the whole "Dems are worse now than they've been in decades!" narrative, I know.
Doing the lords work, my man.
I'm so sick of watching these fascist fucks do their best to replace the empire they don't like with an empire they do like, all the while cosplaying as a modern leftist. These guys are left wing like Stalin was left wing.
You're trying to bait me into resuming your slapfight. No. Get your attention from someone else.