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The dem party immediately collapsing due to TikTok would be funny
like the collapse of the Whigs but over TikTok instead of slavery
Inshallah
I'm pretty sure we're basically in the eye of the cool zone so yeah why not
I mean it's absurd how stupid and shortsighted it is as a political move. Democrats could not pick things to piss off more of their base if they tried.
It's a bipartisan bill...
How does that matter literally at all? It’s still something that pisses off their base. The whole point is democrats don’t give a fuck about their base and just expect us to vote for them.
The way you phrased it sounded like the usual "blame everything bad on the Dems" bs that's on every place.
If they’re not willing to fight for my vote then yeah they’re as bad as republicans who also don’t fight for my vote. They expect to get my vote just because they are slightly less bad, but that’s not enough in my opinion.
But then you're willing to die on this one hill at the expense of everything else?
While each party isn't perfect, you should still look at the whole and judge based on that whole. No party can be 100% of everything you want as no one will want 100% of everything you want too. If they tried to be everything you want, then they would lose against so many others. And from what I'm seeing, this seems to be mostly complained about from the under 18 year old crowd that couldn't vote anyways, meaning it's most likely been considered of the for and against and the vote age (and their block) are for it.
At the expense of everything else? What, like doing nothing to preserve Roe v. Wade, continuing evil border practices, and supporting a genocide?
Them working to ban TikTok is at the literal bottom of the list.
How is it that libs wander in here and pretend every issue is in a vacuum and that everything the Dems do is fine otherwise? Not 100% perfect? They're not even 10% perfect. The only thing they have going for them is that they're not the Republicans, and that hasn't been enough for a long, long time.
it's incredibly condescending to assume that you are seeing the whole picture and that anyone complaining is not
and then to double down by claiming that the people who are against this aren't even worth it anyway cos they're too young to vote right this second
and libs wonder why they keep shooting themselves in the foot
oh, we are.
I don’t need them to be 100% aligned with my views, but it’s okay for me and anyone else to recognize that they’re not even trying to get my vote. Most of what I want is very popular among the masses of the country but democrats couldn’t care less. Fuck em. If they don’t want to represent even 1% of my views, why should they get 100% of my vote?
The Democrats are actively aiding and abetting a genocide in Palestine. My judgement based on the whole is that the entire party should be tried and hanged for war crimes.
This one hill has a hill on it called "no one can afford a house anymore" and that has a hill called "you're bankrupted for life if you go to the ER" and that has a hill called "we keep giving more money to cops" and that has a hill called "doing the republicans border policy" and that has a hill called "being obviously senile" and that has a hill called "getting worse day by day" and that has a hill called "threw abortion rights under the bus to use it as an incentive to get votes" and that has a hill called "Ukraine" and that has a hill called "being a rapist" and that has a bill called "hey didn't he do the Crime Bill?" and that has a bill called "why did he do all that fracking if he said he was gonna solve the climate crisis?" and that has a hill called "student debt" and that has a hill called "being a corrupt piece of shit" and that has a hill called "holding a eulogy for Strom Thurmond" and that has a hill called "mishandling COVID worse than trump" and that has a hill called "owing me money" and that has a hill called "needlessly escalating tensions with China" and that has a hill called "funding a genocide" and that has a hill called "commiting a genocide".
But yeah the GOP is also bad, so I guess I gotta vote for him. It is the most important election of our lifetime, just like the last one and the one before that and the one before that and that and that and that and that and that. We just gotta swallow our pride and accept that the nominee is less than perfect and then next election we can focus on getting some good done, but right now we need to avoid the dang Cheeto! And we can push Biden left anyway, of course we shouldn't actually try to push him left because that might mean the Cheeto gets elected, but we could in theory try to push Biden left.
The way being a politician works is that you appeal to your base in order to win votes. You're not owed those votes, they're not a right. If you can't appeal to your voters, you don't get elected. Going "I'm not as bad as the other guy" isn't really a good strategy, it only works if you're the only other choice and the other guy is absolutely horrendous. If you're just as or almost just as shitty as the other guy, then it most certainly don't work.
shut the fuck up you stupid debate pervert
Death to America
Please fuck off back to reddit.
Hey real quick who's the president right now and is his party supporting this bill?
And if I hate the republicans, why would like the democrats for working with the republicans?
Why do you all always say that like it's a good thing?
You all call conservatives 'Nazis' (deservedly so), but then talk about things being 'bipartisan' as though it's suddenly a good thing to be in agreement with Nazis.
The only true bipartisan things I recall are things like the Iraq/Afghanistan war, the Patriot act, and so many other horrid things.
If you've spent your entire life practicing hiding under desks for when some incel tries to murder you and all your friends while the government refuses to do anything and then that same government takes away something you and all your friends like and tells you it's to protect your safety, when it's really obvious it's just so American companies can ruin it and fuck you over, jihad seems like a pretty modest proposal.
College kids are just as mad lol they're gonna lose so many votes, Trump is pretty much guaranteed atp