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[–] MareOfNights@discuss.tchncs.de -2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They do??? Wtf do you want them to do? They are a minority in both house and senate. The Supreme Court is stacked Republican, the president is Trump.

[–] SailorMoss@sh.itjust.works 0 points 6 days ago (1 children)

They should say: “The war in Iran is an illegal war of aggression, Trump should be immediately impeached and removed from office and tried in The Hague for war crimes.”

They should do everything in their power to force a floor vote on the war in Iran if it gets less than 60 votes they should filibuster immediately.

Then run on ending the war and impeaching Trump in the midterms.

This is literally basic politics. The war is extremely unpopular and will only get more unpopular as everything becomes more unaffordable.

They don’t do this because they support the war. That’s why they only criticize the process not the war itself. It leaves them room to support the war in the future.

[–] MareOfNights@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)
  1. They do say that except maybe The Hague.
  2. The vote does nothing except cost Democrats political capital. Also funny you think they could force a vote on anything.
  3. They already run on that.
  4. Idk what kind of twitter tankie hugbox you've been in, but the Democrats oppose this war in every way they can. They have been the only ones telling the public what's actually going on.
[–] SailorMoss@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

they do say that except maybe The Hague.

A few of the more radical ones may say it, but the leadership certainly doesn’t.

The vote does nothing except cost Democrats political capital. Also funny you think they could force a vote on anything

The democrats were gaining political capital when they shut down the government over cuts to healthcare. The polls were showing people were (rightly) blaming the republicans for the shutdown. The democrats randomly decided to stop fighting when they were winning.

They could definitely make a bigger stink about the war being illegal. Which would put pressure on republicans to put it to a vote.

Idk what kind of twitter tankie hugbox you've been in, but the Democrats oppose this war in every way they can. They have been the only ones telling the public what's actually going on.

I’ve already given specific examples of how I think they could be better. Why are you so angry when I’m pointing out a way democrats could be more effective?

The strategy the democrats are taking has caused them to lose to an orange fascist in 2 of the last 3 elections. Why should we continue running a strategy that already failed multiple times?

[–] MareOfNights@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 5 days ago

They could shutdown the government because republicans needed their votes to pass a new budget. There is no new budget to pass. They can't shut it down. They are the minority in a congress that doesn't try to pass laws, since trump runs everything via executive order. THEY CAN NOT DO THAT. Why not just impeach Trump, if we're already asking for impossible things?