5mo ago

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5mo ago

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- WTF who invited Cruella de Vil to Congress?
  
  The rational people of Georgia, of course!
This post has about as much context as a map drawn by a blindfolded pirate. What is this all about?
- Well, 10 Democrats voted to censure another Democrat as noted in the image. The underlying context is that Greene was heckling Der Furher when he was having a spell of verbal diarrhea when speaking in the fascist Empire council chamber.
- The 10 Democrats that voted with the Republicans to censure congressman Green.
  https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5180324-10-house-democrats-censure-al-green/
  
  Cheers! I work in tech and don’t know many US politicians so I read that as “A.I. Green” 🤖🟩
- For Americans it has all the context, it's pretty crystal clear
- It's unclear what the fuck it's about: a shitpost.
  Don't know why Lemmy Shitpost is all politics now. It kinda ruins what I came here for.
I called my representative and I was polite. "Hello, I just want to say that as a WA state resident, I am very disappointed by my representative licking Donald Trump's boots by voting to censure Al Green. Thank you and goodbye."
- Did you have to talk to someone or did you just leave a message?
  
  Somebody answered, I said my piece, then I hung up. I was not interested in having a conversation about it.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but censures mean fuckall, right? It's basically saying "you were naughty and I'm doing nothing about it"?
- It’s mostly symbolic. But the last thing we need is democrats scoring own goals, and stopping actual action against tyranny
  
  I agree. Just making sure it was just some weird optics things and not an actual way to quiet him.
This is a shit post now ?
Can you fuck off with your shitty third world politics from literally every community?
Nah I’m gonna tell them they best start looking for another job.
Benedict Arnold
Who?
- He was an American who betrayed the US to the British during the American Revolution.
- America’s original Judas. Look him up.
- Fun bit of additional trivia about him, he was injured, shot in the leg while serving on the American side. After his defection, there is a likely apocryphal tale where he captured some Americans and asked what would happen if the situation were reversed. He was told his leg would get full burial honors and the rest of him would be hanged for treason. Funny enough there is a memorial of a leg at Saratoga for the injury he sustained and his importance at the battles in Saratoga but has nothing mentioning his name or the rest of his body. Which honestly is a level of pettiness to aspire to.
Call all the Republicans, too.
- I mean you can, but they’re going to outright ignore you.
There is a case to be made for not joining the race to the bottom. But likely these people constituents would be in favor of them voting this way. And in the end, that is who they are supposed to represent.
- We're pretty damn near the bottom, bud. We need active resistance not polite words.
  
  I think an awful lot of people around the world would argue we are nowhere near the bottom.

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