[-] Bendavisunlv6@lemmynsfw.com 11 points 1 year ago

True but learning is hard work.

And fuck, I hated homework.

[-] Bendavisunlv6@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 1 year ago

This happens with everyone. Remember the “blue dog democrats?”

Once power is to be had, everyone wants their piece of it for their provincial agenda. And when a party is on the defensive, they all band together to survive.

This is frankly one of the healthy checks and balances that keeps any one group from achieving hegemony.

If the whole country went overwhelmingly red or blue for any period of time, we’d see a third party emerge to destabilize it. Exactly as happened with Perot after the Reagan Dynasty.

[-] Bendavisunlv6@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 1 year ago

Look everybody, it’s a dick punching an asshole! Anal sex in the chambers of congress should be illegal!

[-] Bendavisunlv6@lemmynsfw.com 20 points 1 year ago

They have nothing to advocate for because they got everything they wanted a long time ago with the dismantling of the public trust and all the tax cuts. Killing Roe was a lark they only did for PR value but hey they got that too.

I wish people would realize that US politics isn’t a marketplace of ideas. It’s not about competing philosophies. There are some dug in motherfuckers who live only to consolidate their own power and wealth further and further.

It’s impossible to win a debate with an opponent who doesn’t even put forth an argument. Something something you just get dirty wrestling a pig and the pig enjoys the romp.

In a word: we can take our country and future from these assholes, or let them keep it. They don’t share.

[-] Bendavisunlv6@lemmynsfw.com 7 points 1 year ago

It’s an outrage 100 different ways, but one of those is: this is an amazing job that a person could do SO much with. Policy is intensely interesting and massively important. There’s a huge variety of issues and so much to learn and fix.

For someone to seriously propose themselves for the job without having the decency to know what they even want to do with it… it’s just insulting.

[-] Bendavisunlv6@lemmynsfw.com 64 points 1 year ago

Ironically, doing research is the best way to be right. What people want is to feel right without having to think very hard. Feelings don’t really require energy in the same way that thinking does.

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