• metaStatic@kbin.earth
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    9 months ago

    making it difficult to vote is a feature not a bug.

    The question isn’t why are they not doing anything but why didn’t they do anything when they had the chance.

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      9 months ago

      Obama had the house and senate his first term and all we got was shitty healthcare and drone bombing wedding receptions. We need a new opposition party.

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        3 months ago

        He had a filibuster-proof majority for a handful of weeks, and we got better healthcare than what was already on the table. While it’s not great healthcare, it’s still better than before.

        That included some staunchly conservative Democrats, by the by. Many of whom were ultra “pro-life”, which means abortion rights weren’t gonna happen.

        Additionally, people who mention drone strikes fail to a) recognize the tech was relatively new, but not so new that it was actually affordable to the DOD, and b) each president after has had more drone strikes.

        But let’s not let facts get in the way of our outrage or anything.