politics

We've tried nothing and we're out of ideas!

We need a five party system.

The real lesson in all this is how paralyzed (by design) we the people are in this moment. There's no pressure because the two parties break bread together when the cameras are off.

Term limits for congress Outlaw lobbyism Aggressively prosecute insider trading by congress (and their family members)

All of this takes ethics and morals though. We're fucked.

In both situations the problem is that congress is not acting when it should. When Dems controlled congress we wanted it push through bills. Now that GOP controls congress we want them to stop Elon. In both cases congress does nothing (and this has been the steady state for decades).

Wow I never knew about this utility! I downloaded one for my smartphone and it’s extremely straightforward. You can even set up reminders so that it’ll notify you when you should spend 5 minutes calling your reps.

I’ll have to verify the scripts that I see, but it looks like it’s as simple as giving you the name of the rep, a script to read, a phone number to click so you can call them, and a logging utility so that you can just click the Next button and move on to the next rep. Makes it stupid easy to let your reps hear your voice and stance. Definitely going to try this out as I’ve been feeling so powerless and overwhelmed by the onslaught of these racists in power.

Thanks for sharing this. I had no idea it was this easy to track everything and make it simpler for me to try to fight back.

Edit: on mobile so fixed some typos

Calling is the best way to be heard by your members of Congress. I've heard staffers say they assume that, for every one phone call they get, there are at least 1,000 voters who share that viewpoint. It's certainly not a magic solution, but you should absolutely be calling your Senators and Congressman every day and telling them you want them to do everything they can to resist this attempt at state capture.

You are kidding, but it does seem that fElon spiraled after getting booed.

https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/11/08/elon-musk-almost-needed-sfpd-wellness-check-after-breakdown-getting-booed-at-dave-chappelle-show/

But also a major reason we're in this mess now

Tesla are now known as swasticars

Just the ones on the private investor line

This is like the one instance where slammed actually makes sense to use.

Whining like this makes me fervently wish that all headlines include the word "slammed" until the end of time.

This is probably the type of person that won't bother calling, but, yeah...it hurts to know how many people chose to sit the fuck out, or throw their vote away on a pointless third party. Or worse, even voting outright for donvict.

Knowing full well that donvict was a monster. Knowing about Project 2025, knowing all of it.

Even worse, they encouraged OTHERS to do the same thing.