People need to stop thinking about Republicans vs. Democrats and starting think in terms of people vs. the government. We might be able to make positive change if we united.
*People vs the rich. There, fify.
Ya, the state is a tool of the rich.
Same thing…
Easy way to prove thats not the case.
Take out the government and the rich still have everything
Take out the rich and the government will seek other masters.
Exactly. The government cracks the whip but the rich own it.
Get rid of the rich & the govt will just transfer ownership of the whip to another entity.
In our currently reality this really isn’t a distinction
No, the government is huge, and most parts of it really don’t care about your data. They’re busy buildings roads, sewers and doing fundamental research. It’s really people vs the national security state.
Its not the government that’s the problem. It is unchecked power and tyranny.
Don’t worry, every school shooting the 2A types bleat about how their guns keep us safe from tyranny (when they’re not busy voting for tyrants).
Having guns is just like having encryption or any software.
However, we shouldn’t let issues like guns get in the way of basic freedoms like the right not to be searched without a warrant
Having guns is just like having encryption or any software.
People aren’t mutilating school children beyond recognition or executing their ex-girlfriends with RSA encryption.
However, we shouldn’t let issues like guns get in the way of basic freedoms like the right not to be searched without a warrant
They can shoot it better then, like they promised.
I think this is a chicken and egg situation, the more government the more it will morph into something bad for a portion of the people.
As it turns out you need a strong government with today’s world. You can’t get away with a small isolated country town like you could back when the US was starting out.
How do you know? How many good and bad wars has the US been involved in the last 100 years?
It’s actually people vs. corporations vs. the government, and the corporations keep bribing the refs
Unfortunately the fascists were the ones that tried to overthrow the government
They allowed the dumbest of us all to have their dumb insurrection for the dumbest reasons in a very public way. I wonder why.
That’s a dictatorship of the bourgeoisie for you.
https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2024119
Party Ayes Noes Present Not Voting Republican 126 88 0 4 Democratic 147 59 0 7 TOTAL 273 147 0 11 That’s why I say that 2 parties is almost the same as 1 party
FPTP voting is keeping us from having a functioning and free country.
Yes, but there are countries with ranked choice voting that still ultimately come down to “red neoliberals vs blue neoliberals”. They’ve built a machine that is extremely difficult to stop.
deleted by creator
You need more candidates and a simpler applying process first. 2 tour election won’t help in the current situation
Simply having something sane like score voting would make third party candidates viable and would increase the people attempting to run even with a difficult application process. We can then work on making it easier to apply.
It’s literally just replace FPTP with score (or even ranked choice) and things would improve from there even without other changes to the election system.
70% of Republicans (some small government, eh?) and 40% of Democrats voted yes.All my math is wrong. See below for correct numbers.
What math are you doing? I got 69% aye from the Democrats and 58% aye from the Republicans.
Republican: (126 ÷ (126 + 88 + 4)) * 100 = 57.80% Democratic: (147 ÷ (147 + 59 + 7)) * 100 = 69.01%
88 is 69.84% of 126… Oh, I see my mistake. Haha. Thanks for the correction. I calculated what percentage of yes the noes are, instead of what percentage of total voters voted yes. I’m hella dumb! In my defense, I was still drinking my morning coffee, and nobody should ever listen to anything I have to say that requires rational thought before I have two cups of coffee.
Republican: 126 / (126 + 88 + 0 + 4) = 58% Democrat: 147 / (147 + 59 + 0 + 7) = 69%Sixty nine, dude!
Removed by mod
Removed by mod
And yet people say conservatives won’t vote to stop surveillance. I think we need to stop thinking about political lines. The drama with Trump definitely opened some eyes.
But they didn’t vote to stop surveillance? It was not stopped. They are the majority and they did not stop it.
True but its better than the complete bipartisan support it used to have
These are like Lauren Bobo, Gaetz, and Green. This is unfortunately not a principled stance but instead because their cult leader told them to “KILL FISA!” IDK if better is the word. It is certainly a broken clock that was correct about that particular time of day.
You aren’t supposed to recognize when some politicians do something right. Just scream about the orange man constantly.
I think you mean orange devil
The so called “patriot act” isn’t enough. They need more ways to break the law. And by law I mean the Constitution. And by “break the law” I mean FISA.
What terrifies me is AG and DG from the Daily Beans seemed to celebrate it.
The neolibs are not on the side of the public.
I am confused were the amendments to stop warrantless surveillance passed or not?
The amendment… would ban warrantless surveillance of US persons…
…Additional amendments… all passed.
The USAian system needs a major overhaul. What worked 200 years ago for the right is working even better for them now.
Kompromat
