Citation needed, a dozen times over. But also, the Republicans have been absolutely breaking the law these past 2 years nonstop.

Thats not what was said or what happens. If you want sweeping changes, you need a majoeity big enough to overcome the filibuster that will vote for that change. If you only have a simple majority, you need to go through reconciliation which may only be used for budgetary issues, must pass the judgement of the parliamentarian, and the secure at least 51 votes in the senate for the budget to pass, and may only be done twice per congressional period. Those are the rules the government factually operate by. And some of these can be changed, but again require enough elected members who want to change those rules in order to pass a specific law that would not otherwise have the votes. Which still means that we need to vote in as many democrats as possible to achieve reform. Something we have not had anything resembling since Obama’s first term, nearly 20 years ago, under an entirely different political paradigm

If you want a great explainer on how policy actually gets passed, try reading The Carbon Wave by Leah Stokes. It was eye opening and caused me to shift my goals and strategy. Its a reported story about the people who fought tooth and nail for the Inflation Reduction Act to get passed as the biggest climate investment in human history at the time

Passed obama care, and they were only 2 or 3 votes away from universal Healthcare

When was the last time they actually had a filibuster proof majority? Oh yeah, that was in Obama’s first term nearly 20 years ago.

There go my plans of switching to Proton mail

“Ass hole with a heart of gold”

• doesnt want children to literally die
• no other redeeming qualities

This is how I feel about macklemore these days

Ive been working on getting some heat pump legislation passed at the state level. Im feeling really optimistic. I got my state senator to commit to introducing it, ive got a handful of journalists who will be ready to write about it when it gets introduced in January

One is disappointing. The other is openly vicious. Its not close.

Hitler was an atrocious person

Because i didn’t defend fascists one single time lmao. You cant be serious.

Bruh im just saying i get sad when people are mean. Why is that so bad to you?

I mourn the life dedicated to hatred and anger. A life and attitude that never softened or turned around. It truly must have been a miserable existence, and not only was he miserable, but he turned that hatred into the worst tragedy of human history. Every person who chooses hatred could have chosen to make the world a little nicer, he physically had the capacity to make the world nicer, instead he did every atrocity he could. Yeah, I mourn that.

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I didnt say spare the fascists, I just said there’s room to be sad about it. Im not even saying you have to also be sad about it. Why are you being so weird?

I mourn the lives lost to hate. I dont just mean victims of hateful violence, but I also mourn those who lose their own life by dedicating it to hate. We only get one chance at life, and to waste it all filled with anger is a tragedy. It is a different tragedy, and my mourning feels different for the hateful from the mourning I do for the hated. But there is in fact room to mourn the end of every life as a tragedy.

Can someone explain the meme format to me?

Ive been dying to see this. My wife is not so excited

This is a horror movie I do not wish to imagine