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That "lesser evil" works well, you must admit.
So it's all functioning as designed. BoTh PaRtIeS blame the other for their failures and lack of progress, neither could exist without their evil twin.
They have no actual platform other than wealth acquisition, those issues that they deem important for an election cycle are "bait".
For example, Biden's bait was "15 an hour". The American voters took the bait and elected him; no minimum wage increase.
Trump's bait was "no war". The American voters took the bait and elected him, so... war.
Biden and Ds could have passed minimum wage bill easily. The "super majority requirement" is a parliamentary rule that can be changed whenever they would like with majority vote (they circumvent super majority all the time, see "exceptions to nuclear option", like budgets)
Most American voters have no idea that this is so, and it works very well to deceive the majority of them right out in the open. Blatantly and repeatedly.
I vote every election, and you should too! It's funny
??? The fuck are you talking about? He did raise the minimum wage of federal employees. Or is that not good enough and you want to move the fucking goalposts?
This one was like one of his sigbature EOs, it's such a fucking stupid thing to lie about.
https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/government-contracts/eo14026
Lmao fell for it again
So, you admit that there was a minimum wage increase.
Like, if you wanna blame Biden for Congressional Democrats sucking, just admit that. Call him on his shit. But comparing Trump declaring war, an action he took on his own without anyone else, to Biden not raising the minimum wage, an action he did in part without the help of his party, is just... It's stupid baby shit.
There's legit reasons to hate Biden and if that is your best fucking one, then you did literally no research.
Oh no! The evil parlamentarian! Oh no! Egads! Whatever shall we do! Ah! Ah! The light!
All democrats will give you are some absolutely meaningless symbolic crumbs for pell grant recipients operating a business in low-income neighbourhoods for 2 years or more and that symbolic act is enough to appease clowns like you. A 15 dollar minimum wage for federal employess is the same as nothing, but it makes you feel like it matters. It solves nothing, it adresses no issues and it comes entirely too late for it to matter in any way. And every time anything like that happens you people fall for the same routine of [villain of the week] democrat being the reason why we can't have something nice. Somehow we can twist arms and break legs when it comes time to push through anything that will help Israel commit a genocide though.
I don't think the war is bad because it happens outside of the minutiae of the state, I think it's bad because it's bad. I would also think it is bad under Harris - who we have every reason to assume would also start a war with Iran.
It's very funny of you to write this and then fuck up like that. You should just write "literacy" in this situation.
Media literacy is relevant when discussing analysis of media - ie. understanding the meaning beyond the text itself. It is typically something we use for documentaries, fiction, music, fiction-literature, songs and the like, not really communication. It would be very weird to talk of "media literacy" when discussing someone misunderstanding a text message.
You're trying to imply I don't understand the text itself, which is just regular old literacy. Consider practicing it at some point.
You're right, it's the things they do that make them bad. Like not raising the minimum wage, which they didn't, as you yourself wrote.
You're also somewhat correct that "declaring war is bad" - it really depends why and against what entity, but that's okay. Since you identified that I think war is bad, then you might be able to take the next step: I also think war is bad under democrats. Since both parties are warmongers, I consider both parties bad.
Right, that's literacy you're talking about you monumental oaf. Media literacy would involve a deeper analysis beyond the surface meaning of the words. Understanding words is just plain old literacy lmao. Here's the first article that came up when googled
Now regarding understanding the words: I did. You just did not agree with what I wrote, but sadly wether or not you enjoy something does not affect wether or not it functions as a correct response.
This reddit-faux-politeness you types do to try to regain ground is such a tired hack thing to do. Just be honest instead, at least that's somewhat novel. I hope you shit yourself to death.
Sure girlie. As I explained in the situation you used it wrong. And you also misunderstood the goodbye message, so talk about literacy there. The Pearl clutching about civility doesnt sell very well when you've been a condescending asshole up to now by the way.
Lmao Marvelmorality
Minimum wage is for everyone you fucking moron
student loan forgiveness didn't happen for anyone i know, and i know a lot of people with crippling college debt. the obvious benefits are always behind a wall i didn't check
Only my old college roommate got their forgiven. Not sure what the specific were. My wife and brother had their payments and interest paused for almost 2 years which helped a lot.
If only someone could have done something about that darn supreme court!
Who's nominated the bulk of supreme court justices again?
Who did nothing to push their nominations through? Who let RGB sit, despite her already being decrepit at 2016? Who did nothing at any point?
How are you going to push candidates that you don't have the votes to confirm? And how are you going to push RBG out?
Obama had a supermajority and did fuck all with it. He let himself be hamstrung by the republicans and jerked off about "bipartisanship" - just like every other dem has been doing. RGB was convinced to stay in her seat so she could give it up under Hillary Clinton. She then decided to officiate a wedding under Trump where she got COVID and died like the dumbass she was.
Obama didn't have a supermajority when a SC seat opened up under his administration.
No I live in the one where they had one and did fuck all with it.
You will never see the democratic party change. Voting for genociders only helps entrench genociders. Vote third party.
So the ACA, ARRA, Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2009, Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, Credit CARD Act of 2009, Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009, Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act, SCHIP, and the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act were fuck all. Roger that, shipmate.
That's not even to mention the repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell, which was passed without a supermajority.
Correct. These things were functionally fuck all.
I wish I lived in the reality where they have supermajorities all the time.