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Republicans turn the ratchet to the right, Democrats block movement back the other way
"These are opposing forces"
this post was submitted on 30 Apr 2026
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welp, got temp banned for 'multiple rule violations' for saying the democrats aren't a real opposition party 
also apparently it's bigotry to say that someone has a religious conviction in voting 
reason: civility
What??? You didnt call them any names
Love that the ban was for multiple rule breaks in that comment....
i accused them of having a religious faith in voting; 'intolerance of lack of religion'. i feel bad for their kids for many reasons
How is that a civility breaking comment???
civility breaking: 'intolerence of lack of religion', calling out votescolds 
not civility breaking: "you are literally delusional, LEARN MATH AND GAME THEORY AND VOTE" 
https://lemmy.world/modlog/1384?page=1&actionType=All&modId=573645
Jonsjava always great at being a terrible mod. Both shocked and unsurprised they didn't go away completely after the JL situation where admins said it was up to the mods
You would expect an opposition party to do more opposing
Hell even whe they were in power they did nothing to fight the republicans
Roe got overturned on Biden's watch and he just slept through it (or pretended to because he's always been an anti choice piece of shit and only lied to win the primary)
Hell even whe they were in power they did nothing to fight the republicans
That's what they call being bipartisan. Compromise right and screw any improvements or progress. Dems get bonus points compromising before negotiations begin
Somehow both is unable to oppose because they're scared of dictatorship but is also a democratic system able to be overturned with a majority
truly
Sure double down on the loosing strategy.
Wow if only some guy who was president a decade ago had actually done his fucking job and appointed a justice to the court instead of doing nothing because he thought his party couldn't lose the upcoming election
If only there was some old lady on the court who had the decency to recognize she didn't have long to live and chose to step down so that her party could have a majority of the court but then she couldn't have the symbolic victory of having her replacement chosen by the first woman president and we all know how much empty symbolic gestures matter
Amazing. A massive Biden defender fighting to say Malcom X was describing conservatives...
https://lemmy.world/comment/23498979
What he described is a conservative, not a liberal.
Something tells me I’m going to be bombarded with messages that, well, are pretty much exactly what the meme is about.
*Also, a conservative masquerading as a moderate/independent/politically homeless/fiscally responsible? I’m shocked. Shocked!
Malcolm X specifically gave a speech on white liberals vs. white conservatives, comparing them to foxes and wolves. White conservatives are like wolves: they see black Americans and greet them with a growl, showing their teeth. Liberals are like foxes, who show their teeth and growl but pretend it's a smile.
"I have more respect for the man who tells me he's wrong than the man who pretends he's an angel when he's nothing but a devil!"
Those that think Biden was good like the account I linked too, cannot comprehend being an issue or person described by Malcolm X.
They believe the only issues are those to the right of Biden ignoring that does contain liberals and conservatives. Both active and dead.
That's an MLK quote, from the letter from Birmingham jail
~~The one someguy3 is replying to yes. someguy3 trying say he actually meant conservatives not liberals though?~~
Nvm, was thinking of this from Malcolm X
The white liberal differs from the white conservative only in one way: the liberal is more deceitful than the conservative. The liberal is more hypocritical than the conservative. Both want power, but the white liberal is the one who has perfected the art of posing as the Negro's friend and benefactor; and by winning the friendship, allegiance, and support of the Negro, the white liberal is able to use the Negro as a pawn or tool in this political "football game" that is constantly raging between the white liberals and white conservatives.
I have been waiting two decades for Democrats to take up the cause of abolishing the gerrymander, but this along with several other vital measures to save democracy (e.g. eliminating corporate finance and anonymously funded PACs) never seems to be a priority for some reason. 
Gerrymandering is a tactic as old as the republic itself, but the abundance of computers since the 90s turned it into an existential problem. Every 10 years we do a census and redraw the districts. Every 10 years they get worse, and we're still not even talking about solutions.
they can't even muster the courage to ban that shit starting in ten years when over half of them will be dead of old age
Because, of course, the person putting down the talleys knows for an undisputed fact that only one side can get a mark for one thing at a time.
There's nothing else going on in this case; just two oppositional, context-less forces with 0 overlap that have mutually exclusive scoring with no ties, partial scores and so on.
And each talley /must/ be equally as bad. There are no extra talleys for a worse thing.
I always roll my eyes at this kind of slop. If you feel you have to ambiguate and argument to make your point then you're really not interested in solving a problem you're only interested in being right in the most technical sense possible (and you're not even doing it well).
Like this picture is obviously a baby-brained take for a million other reasons but acting like a smartass because you "solved" or "quantified" a problem totally wrong is something a conservative grill dad does with one of those "it's just common sense" rant routines.
Both sides support capital. It's literally that simple
Bernie Sanders has his faults, for sure, but I don’t think he’s a nazi, a slaver, or an unrepentant pedophile.
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Nazi bar. If you spend all day talking, working with, finding compromise with Nazis.
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"I have to support a multiple murderer, because the other guy is so much worse!" will never be a convincing argument, you utter cretins. Please keep harping on about it forever, it makes you easy to ignore and also ineffective.
Okay unrelated to the slop how gutted is the voting rights act? Like is it gone? Racial discrimination is legal now? Are we already at that point?
They just made racialized gerrymandering easier to get away with. That was already going on, and now it will be much worse.
We're not at literal 
cards at the polls or even poll-tests that de facto enable that 
Well its a small comfort at least but another layer of the proverbial onion has been peeled away
It's not really gutted. It's democrats being over-dramatic to try and make their party look better. All it really does is cut back really specific limits on gerrymandering that were already not real limits in the first place.
Yeah people don't t really understand that all it is doing is saying that two different courts that handled this issue differently need to handle it one particular way. Now, this is extremely powerful, but it is powerful in it's ability to slowly strip rights away one at a time, not any one particular decision. Like yeah, this weakens the Voting Rights Act, but the reason that it went to court is because it was already happening. Of another state wants to handle the problem their way, they can legislate it, but it is saying that what these other people are doing doesn't violate the Voting Rights Act. All it does is officially expand the legal definition of what was already in the process of happening.
Yes, liberals are making a big fuss about it now because they know they aren't going to do anything in the future while rights keep getting stripped away. They can get their brownie points in now, try to make it look like they care about this at all, and then if they are challenged on this from the left, they will just do nothing and say "should have voted for us harder!"
Lmao it wasn't even Trump it was the fucking supreme court. Fuck these fucking libs
Well yes but if you voted dem then they wouldn't be able to have Republicans on the supreme court! /s
Isn’t black caucus like corporate dream team anyway?
