Here’s a puzzle: How do you write a law that’s so badly designed that (1) the people it’s meant to help oppose it, (2) the people who hate regulation support it, and (3) everyone …
  • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works
    3·
    2 hours ago

    This comes after leadership dismissed substantive criticisms during markup, including explicit warnings from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez about the bill’s potential for abuse.

    Then why the fuck did you vote for it?

  • 4am@lemm.ee
    351·
    23 hours ago

    Just when I think that the Dems might stop being fucking stupid, they capitulate to the fascists

  • ThrowawayOnLemmy@lemmy.world
    50·
    24 hours ago

    Update: Welp, late today this passed the House overwhelmingly, 409-2. The only two nay vote were from Republicans Thomas Massie and Eric Burlison.

      • wagesj45@fedia.io
        381·
        23 hours ago

        And this is why I’m not surprised at all the US is in the situation it is in right now. We have two viable political parties: one is a pack of gremlins doing their best to destroy anything good, and a party of “the adults in the room” that don’t have the juice, the wherewithal, or the drive to do anything about it. Even if you’re one to believe that the Democrats are the “good guys”, they’re the proverbial good men who do nothing that let evil thrive. Rational or not (not), people have been pushed into making more and more extreme choices in a collective attempt to make the powers that be listen to them. Now we all have to pay for it.

        • skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de
          21·
          5 hours ago

          and a party of “the adults in the room” that don’t have the juice, the wherewithal, or the drive to do anything about it

          Worse, that party is taking advantage of the distractions of the time to push all the authoritarian wet dream rhetoric they’ve ever dreamed of. It seems while the Rs were slip-n-sliding towards Fascism, the Ds were rollerblading towards Authoritarianism in parallel.

          The Ds see Authoritarian control as a way to “regulate” and “clean things up” “for the children!”

          It’s as if the political spectrum is but a donut, and as each party circles around the donut, they both exit centrism, neutrality, logic, freedom, and go directly to a Hellscape from either side.

          Neither party knows what America was meant to be, nor understands freedom, nor the Constitution. They just want control, for opposing but similar reasons.