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its hilarious that people still think "going through the proper channels" is going to work. you're playing a game with someone who has cheats activated. playing by the rules aint gonna work if the guy you're playing against rewrites the rules whenever he feels like.
Articles of impeachment were just in front of the house
DEMOCRATS voted them down.
What the fuck is the point of voting?
The rationale behind the most recent articles of impeachment were unprecedented and kind of nonsense.
Gonna have to vote out the shit Democrats and vote in progressives
Vote blue no matter who is out-- primary goddamned everybody is in
Well, all the people you voted for are bad, and they're in power because you voted for them.
Now I wonder, what's the point of voting actually is. A mystery, really.
It depends on if you really want to know.
TL;DR: because voting is a right and a duty
I agree it's ducking maddening
If voting was actually a threat to totalitarians in power they wouldn't let us do it anyway.
They have been MASSIVELY trying to stop people from voting, what the fuck are you talking about you absolute nincompoop? They keep purging voters and trying to implement new ID requirements and closing polling places and encouraging people to "poll watch" (voter intimidation).
If voting was actually a threat to totalitarians in power they would spend a lot of money and power to convince you that it's pointless and you shouldn't do it.
Have you heard of a little thing called The American Experiment?
Funny story. They actually were in on the ground floor of a new nation and they said, "We left this England place because it was totally bogus. So if we don't get some cool rules - pronto - . . . well then we'll just be bogus too."
After what I've seen the last 10 years I have absolutely zero faith that Americans can make this happen. I'd actually put money on them continuing to empower the traitorous Republican party and continue our descent into authoritarianism.
But I'll still show up and vote against them, like I always do.
Why wait? The amount of people and goodwill to do this would have the same effect if the same people started striking today.
Strike. Today.
Many people would be homeless off of one missed paycheck.
Many people will be homeless with rising income inequality, the draining of social security, and fascist isolationist policy. We will all be dead when global warming goes unaddressed.
Rip the bandaid off. Act now, the longer you wait the worse the fallout will be.
Without organisation, without plans, political will, without communities, without people to implement all that, without grassroots structures, you can't achieve shit even if you somehow convince the whole country to strike. And when you start building those, you discover that you already have pretty good mechanisms in place to achieve your political goals, you don't even need strike.
You don't have the bandaid that needs to be ripped, you're having a hearth attack and you need serious medical attention.
If you cant orginize a strike you cant end 30+ years of political gridlock.
Id even argue you'd have much more success with a strike because of the stratification of the political system. Raw number weild more power with a strike compared to the fractured political power of the US government.
You forgot Execute. I forgive you.
Remember these cowards names when it’s time for them to beg for our votes.