Sure, in a one-party system like China, the one ruling party is always responsible for everything that happens. The fatal flaw in the system though is - how do you actually hold that one party accountable? If the Chinese Communist Party fails, the only way to actually hold them accountable is to start building bombs and killing people. There’s no way to vote them out of office. The only way to hold them accountable is a total revolution.
Who gives a fuck? Stop trying to sew division and relitigate an election that ended three months ago. Fuck the politics of division. The left needs unity now. Fuck the dividers.
My favorite is how they downvote posts that point this out to Hell. Then they look around and say, “wow, all the pro-Palestine posts are gone. Guess they were all just Russian bots!”
And I propose jail time for Senator Hawley. Specifically, life without parole for his attempts to overturn the 2020 election results.
The DNC needs to be burned to ashes. The Democratic Party needs to go the way of the whigs.
We’re caught in a coordinated action problem here. The DNC is terrible and is impossible to change. Yet, every 4 years, they trot out another shit candidate, and anyone left of the Nazis has to support them simply because they are the “only option.”
What we need to do is have a movement or petition that makes it abundantly clear that the Democratic Party is dead. We need Democratic voters, by the millions, to sign a pledge promising NOT to vote for whatever candidate the Dems nominate.
Imagine if we had 20 million people who voted for Kamala pledged to never support a Democratic presidential candidate ever again. They pledge this and pledge to support the Working Families Party or similar. That would be enough that it would doom any potential Democratic candidate in the future.
The only thing the DNC has going for it is the sense of inevitability. Every four years, they’re the only rational choice, so we have to support them. What we need to do now is to forever take away that ability from them. It needs to be made clear that the Democratic Party will never win an election again. America’s system means that two parties are inevitable, but that doesn’t mean we can’t swap out one party for another.
If enough people make clear that they will simply never support the Democratic Party ever again, then its spell is broken. If 20 million people pledged this, suddenly the “inevitability” would switch to the Working Families Party. Any presidential candidates on the left wanting any hope of winning the presidency would have to run in the Working Families primary.
Why is deporting protesters a worse crime than being complicit in the murder of tens of thousands of civilians?
And remember, we’re talking about sins Trump might commit. But more often then not he’s just rambling and bluster. People judged Biden based on the crimes he actually committed. He was complicit in the deaths of tens of thousands of people. That’s not rhetoric or bluster, those are people he actually had a hand in murdering.
If anything, so far at least, Biden’s crimes vastly, vastly outweigh Trump’s in regards to Gaza. Trump is threatening, but still hasn’t yet, deported protesters. Biden is complicit in the deaths of tens of thousands of innocent people. Trump, admittedly through crooked means, actually managed to get a cease fire passed.
It’s possible that in the future Trump’s crimes will outstrip Biden’s. But Trump promises a lot of things that never actually end up happening. He says he would like to ethnically cleanse Gaza, but until he actually follows through on that, Biden’s crime in regards to Gaza are objectively far, far worse than Trump’s. Trump has the potential to eventually end up the greater villain. But right now, on January 30 2025, in terms of Gaza, Biden objectively has a far worse record than Trump.
You’re judging the two men based on Trump’s rhetoric, bluster, and what he might do. The people you’re reacting to are judging Biden based on the things he actually did, not the things he promised to do.
You’re a short-term voter. The people you’re railing against are long-term voters. Short-term thinking is what has got us into this mess.
It’s actually an open legal question. Actual legal scholars have argued both ways on it. Yes, there is was a deadline in the act Congress passed to send the amendment out for ratification. But the key is that they didn’t include that deadline language in the text of the amendment itself. Some other amendments have language in the text of the amendment that places a deadline on ratification. That is the crucial difference here.
A good argument can be made that Congress can only propose an amendment or not. They can’t attach a bunch of extra provisos to the amendment process. Congress can’t confirm a justice to the court and apply a bunch of conditions to that confirmation. If they want to have a time limit on the ratification of the amendment, the time limit should be in the actual text of the amendment itself.
On the up side, I have always wanted to build a secret cabin in a national park…