this is such a fucking waste of time and is nothing more than pandering bullshit. we don’t want you to try to pass something that WON’T PASS and WON’T STOP FASCISM. please do something more. please do something that fucking matters.
nothing more than shore up some of thier dem elections in the futures, nothing more. its basically like republicans doing the opposite but it never passes in the senate too.
Get violent, break decorum. Yell. SCREAM! Tell the world that these fascist motherfuckers are throwing lives away. Do goddamn anything that will mean you have to fucking LOSE something for once in your fucking life. Our politicians live a life of luxury and convenience and you think them writing a bill that they know will fail is a fucking good deed. like honestly, fuck you, you fucking liberal piece of shit. you are half the reason we are in this mess in the first place.
can you imagine the response from the general public if they saw our members of Congress literally fighting against fascism? it would be otherworldly and could help inspire millions of Americans to take up a genuine, true rebellion and fight. if these so-called antifascists in government are truly that then they need to physically prevent the fascists from being able to do their job. we elected them for that because we can’t FUCKING do it, now can we? can you just go in there and stop it?
no no, you misunderstand me: i want AOC to literally beat the shit out of her coworkers in order to prevent Trump from sending another fucking child with cancer out of this country or a legal resident to El Salvador never to return
oh it wouldn’t! see, that’s the cool part. i wasn’t saying that act alone would solve anything but that it would be a physical act carrying significant personal risk, which is something people haven’t seen from our politicians: personal risk. they have never stood to lose a goddamn thing.
i genuinely believe if our Congress was more violent and chaotic then more and more Americans would rally together and do something regarding the ICEs of our government
You are wanting people whose literal job is to legislate, which they were elected to do in order to represent the voice of their constituents on legislative matters, to stop trying to legislate in an effort to build legal walls to defend against fascism?
This is a case where we need the dog-and-pony show. We need everyone doing everything they can, especially the foundational things, so that later on no one can say “why didn’t they just try the normal way and things wouldn’t have been so difficult?”
Edit: we need our representatives to be doing more, I agree there, but I’m saying we need them do AT LEAST do their job, and we should probably be saying “Yes, and…” to them instead of just “you’re doing it wrong.”
Man I have to agree with OP. Do these things like a Dem version of Project 2025. Have an equality agenda when in power and actually make those changes. Fight facism now, because equality doesn’t mean shit if everyone in power is facist. They are deporting US Citizens for God’s sake.
nothing more than virtue signalling at this point, they know if they used it earlier, they probably wont have leverage over the voters to vote for them anymore. thier just stringing people long enough where they can still grift and quickly retire to another country or a wealthy community, where they are untouchable by the plebs.
this is such a fucking waste of time and is nothing more than pandering bullshit. we don’t want you to try to pass something that WON’T PASS and WON’T STOP FASCISM. please do something more. please do something that fucking matters.
I read deeper into the article than I care to admit because I wanted to find the date of original introduction.
The Equality Act was introduced in 1974, only 10 years after the civil rights act, which it sought to amend.
In the 8 legislative sessions where democrats have held a trifecta since the act’s introduction, they have not attempted to pass it (instead, favoring stripped down versions that often have many LGBT+ protections removed if a bill has been introduced at all). Every time it has lost the vote or died in committee. And now here we are, less than a week after Trump has moved to nuke the way that the CRA is enforced. So… if both succeed we are actually further from the goal.
Great. Good politics. Not ineffective virtue signaling while being passenger princesses on this ride to fascism at all.
nothing more than shore up some of thier dem elections in the futures, nothing more. its basically like republicans doing the opposite but it never passes in the senate too.
Okay.
As members of Congress, what, exactly, should they be doing?
Obstruct. Filibuster. Gum up the works.
Get violent, break decorum. Yell. SCREAM! Tell the world that these fascist motherfuckers are throwing lives away. Do goddamn anything that will mean you have to fucking LOSE something for once in your fucking life. Our politicians live a life of luxury and convenience and you think them writing a bill that they know will fail is a fucking good deed. like honestly, fuck you, you fucking liberal piece of shit. you are half the reason we are in this mess in the first place.
Okay. So will breaking decorum, yelling, and screaming will ‘pass’ or stop fascism?
can you imagine the response from the general public if they saw our members of Congress literally fighting against fascism? it would be otherworldly and could help inspire millions of Americans to take up a genuine, true rebellion and fight. if these so-called antifascists in government are truly that then they need to physically prevent the fascists from being able to do their job. we elected them for that because we can’t FUCKING do it, now can we? can you just go in there and stop it?
So, “They’re pandering to the wrong people; I want them to pander by doing different useless symbolic actions.”
About what I figured.
no no, you misunderstand me: i want AOC to literally beat the shit out of her coworkers in order to prevent Trump from sending another fucking child with cancer out of this country or a legal resident to El Salvador never to return
is that clear?
Okay, how will AOC ‘beating the shit’ out of GOP Congressmen stop ICE from deporting children?
oh it wouldn’t! see, that’s the cool part. i wasn’t saying that act alone would solve anything but that it would be a physical act carrying significant personal risk, which is something people haven’t seen from our politicians: personal risk. they have never stood to lose a goddamn thing.
i genuinely believe if our Congress was more violent and chaotic then more and more Americans would rally together and do something regarding the ICEs of our government
You are right. This current government is a “We the People” problem, not a “You the Politician” problem.
You are wanting people whose literal job is to legislate, which they were elected to do in order to represent the voice of their constituents on legislative matters, to stop trying to legislate in an effort to build legal walls to defend against fascism?
This is a case where we need the dog-and-pony show. We need everyone doing everything they can, especially the foundational things, so that later on no one can say “why didn’t they just try the normal way and things wouldn’t have been so difficult?”
Edit: we need our representatives to be doing more, I agree there, but I’m saying we need them do AT LEAST do their job, and we should probably be saying “Yes, and…” to them instead of just “you’re doing it wrong.”
Man I have to agree with OP. Do these things like a Dem version of Project 2025. Have an equality agenda when in power and actually make those changes. Fight facism now, because equality doesn’t mean shit if everyone in power is facist. They are deporting US Citizens for God’s sake.
nothing more than virtue signalling at this point, they know if they used it earlier, they probably wont have leverage over the voters to vote for them anymore. thier just stringing people long enough where they can still grift and quickly retire to another country or a wealthy community, where they are untouchable by the plebs.
if you can’t see through this charade i don’t know what to tell you.