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Of course, Fetterman still votes for this dogshit even though four other Republican Senator realize how much of a disaster it has been and joined the Dems
Dude would not stop from going on national TV to criticize Dems on this war but now hasn't appeared on TV when the MEU was divulged 1.5 weeks ago
He/She/They are flat out trolling, like come on. They weren't actually serious. It's a tongue in cheek making fun of other posters here who used to clamor about how they'd sit out elections if Bernie was the Democratic candidate or vote for Romney over him.
Yeah the sub only turned against Bezos when the WaPo refused to endorse Kamala. People here would've been deriding the "succs" who had a problem with him pre 2024.
It's not shocking that you don't hate someone for being evil until they start doing evil shit.
Nor should we shame people for moving with the evidence. There was a time when there was at least reasonable evidence that Bezos wasn't evil - he'd bailed out the WaPo, which still produced quality journalism, and they'd make their liberalism their flagship, with his backing.
Stanning him would be a bit much but there was at least a reasonable case to not hate him. Succs hate billionaires on principle, liberals don't, so long as there's reasonable basis to believe that they've earned their position through value-added market innovation and are sufficiently hemmed in by social and legal regulation.
That time has passed.
Killing the Kamala endorsement and sucking up to Trump - well, that's flipping the switch from backing liberal values to declaring yourself an enemy. If liberal values are part of your core belief system, that's enough to flip the switch, if you want to remain evidence based.
So yeah, fuck Bezos and fuck anyone who abets this fascist descent.
Most succs really don't hate billionaires on principles, they hate billionaires for utilizing their wealth to rent seek in non-competitive ways and to corrupt government which (at least the American ones) many of them tend to do. At least the succs here.
I think you're thinking of tankies and leftists, who are whole different breed of political activists even from succs.
Yup I got so much shit for calling Musk a moron in the past. He didnt change at all during this past decade. He still says the same gibberish where he missuses scientific jargon and promises impossible things. Idk why it took him demanding twitter staff print out their best lines of code for review or the release of the CyberTruck for people to understand that he isnt intelligent at all. The dude is so fucked up half of time in public he slurs his speech. He famously does not read and he never lets anyone try to explain stuff to him without interrupting. He's like a real life Billy Madison.
Yup I got so much shit for calling Musk a moron in the past
Depends on how long you've been around but this website, back when it was more monolithic, loved Musk (as well as Julian Assange, ate a lot of downvotes on that one back in the day).
The tide started to turn with the whole submarine fiasco, and then really turned when he dipped hard right.
I kinda felt like Billy Madison is actually a pretty good guy. He have real friends, donate to charities, and actually able to maintain a relationship with his girlfriend
Interesting thread, seeing how showing even mild concern for Palestinian civilians getting bombed would get you ratioed in this sub when Biden was in office
Like, even measured posts like "You know, I understand Hamas is a terrorist organization, but I don't think starving the entire population of Gaza is humane or a good idea" but you still got ratioed. It was absolutely batshit insane lmao.
I almost left the sub several times because the dehumanization of Palestinians was so bad. I'm still weirded out by people who have well thought positions on individual rights when it comes to marriage, gender, sexuality, criminal justice proceedings, etc, then immediately throw it all out the window when Palestinians are in question.
It was the last vestiges of the Neocons who would parade around terrible talking points like how school vouchers would help the less fortunate (hint: they don't).
Sub opinion didn’t really budge until like April 24 according to my cursory review of my upvote ratio. This article is from December 23 so tbf it was only 2 months removed.
Those people had to be removed from this sub because they basically went mask-off on how they feel about Palestinians. They now reside on another sub (where some comments were arguing for Beirut to be nuked when Trump dropped his peace plan).
He was better than Oz. For the most part he still is progressive, it's just he's trash at foreign policy and was voted in prior to Oct 7 and the shifting of Democrat voters' support for Israel.
You admit that the current fetterman iteration is not the one anyone voted for, but at the same time want to dunk on progressives for somehow supporting that iteration?
Actually with that type of information processing, you might get along quite well with John boy
He's the only alternative to Susan Collins and his leaked Reddit posts show he's almost certainly not a nazi. Anyone who wants Republicans to lose the Senate supports him.
Perhaps a drunken, woman battering Nazi isn't the best choice to unseat Collins even on purely pragmatic grounds, let alone making a drunken, domestic abusing Nazi one of the most powerful politicians in the US on moral grounds.
He's the only alternative to Susan Collins and his leaked Reddit posts show he's almost certainly not a nazi. Anyone who wants Republicans to lose the Senate supports him.
Lying about knowing what your Nazi tattoo is makes you a full on Nazi. He's also a drunkard who batters women, which you apparently also take zero issue with. No wonder this sub is 90% men.
Anyone who wants Republicans to lose the Senate supports him.
The problem with these kind of intellectually dishonest statements is that they can be made any direction. Anyone who opposes domestic violence must oppose Platner. Anyone who thinks Nazis are bad guys must oppose Platner.
There is, apparently, no limit whatsoever to what progs will overlook when it's their guy.
The woman who said this was a Heritage Foundation operative, which is one of the most dishonest and vile organizations in the country.
No wonder this sub is 90% men.
Susan Collins is responsible for getting Roe overturned due to her support of far-right freakshow judges. The fact that women are bleeding out in parking lots from Republican abortion bans is largely due to her.
The problem with these kind of intellectually dishonest statements is that they can be made any direction.
If Democrats lose Maine, they almost certainly will not win the Senate. Republicans continuing to control the Senate and being able to pack the courts with more fascist judges would be a complete catastrophe.
So yes, it doesn't matter that Platner is a dipshit; he is still far better than Collins, who supports a neo-nazi regime.
There is, apparently, no limit whatsoever to what progs will overlook when it's their guy.
He won over 70% of the vote. What happened to Vote Blue No Matter Who?
The woman who said this was a Heritage Foundation operative, which is one of the most dishonest and vile organizations in the country.
Domestic violence doesn't count if the victim is conservative, got it.
Susan Collins is responsible for getting Roe overturned due to her support of far-right freakshow judges. The fact that women are bleeding out in parking lots from Republican abortion bans is largely due to her.
What does this have to do with ignoring domestic violence?
He won over 70% of the vote. What happened to Vote Blue No Matter Who?
I've never been a votebluenomatterwho cultist, fortunately. I have voted a straight blue ticket, to be clear, but there is, in fact, a line I'm not willing to cross. Candidate quality, to me, does not exist solely as a relative comparison, but also as the quality of the candidate on their own merit. Drunken, women battering Nazis are a step too far for me (and I've never even been to Maine, so this won't impact my straight blue ticket this November, and I'll be voting in competitive House and Senate races).
Not unlike what happened to Sinema, there's no actual chance in hell that he gets any support whatsoever. He'd have trouble even funding a primary campaign, as even right wing enthusiasts will realize handing him money is a waste
At least Fetterman only usually breaks when it's symbolic in nature, where I can at least see some form of strategy that looks like it might be working according to his favorability numbers. Republicans seem to not hate him and Dems aren't going to not vote for him against a Republican.
Sinema and Manchin practically only broke when it meant making something not pass.
The White House official added that the resolution “directs the President to remove U.S. Armed Forces from hostilities against Iran. Yet there are no hostilities from which to remove U.S. forces, as hostilities terminated with the ceasefire on April 7th.”
Holy shit, Congress actually grew a spine and is doing something to prevent Trump from usurping the power to declare war and - wait, it's a nonbinding resolution?
America, can't you go five minutes without embarrassing yourself?
Yet they were the deciding vote on the repeal of Obamacare.
This also ignores the fact that the majority leader doesn't usually put a bill to vote unless he thinks he has enough votes (except when it's to embarrass the other party)
They were given the hall pass to vote that way by McConnell, but McCain at the very last second decide to fuck over the whole thing because he was fence sitting at the very last moment, and only voted the way he did because with death approaching rapidly due to his cancer, he decided to be a decent human being rather than a scumbag.
Republicans at large haven't figured out how pro or anti Trump the strategy will be yet. We won't see anyone break rank for real until they've done the math.
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u/Imicrowavebananas Hannah Arendt Jun 24 '26
Submission statements are mandatory on r/neoliberal
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