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I hate how hard this made me laugh

Earnest answer: they have made the argument that they lost the presidency and both houses of Congress, therefore, whatever happens is not on them. They are taking the stance that since they don’t have the legal power, they’re doing their part by raising awareness, going to committee meetings to verbally oppose trump’s regime, and voting against bills when they can. In the Senate, Dems have been almost united in voting against trump’s nominees (looking at you, Fetterman). But they (Dem leadership) have been very straightforward that they don’t have the power. Their strategy is that republicans will fail so hard that the rest of the country will be running back to democrats by the midterms. I’ll let you decide how effective they’ve been.

To their credit, it’s true that they have almost no legal power. The House votes by simple majority, so there’s next to nothing House Dems can do. In the Senate, Dem Senators can filibuster some bills. It’s super important to remember that a lot of bills, like budget bills or judicial nominations, cannot be filibustered. Add on top of that, republicans are disorganized as hell and have barely submitted any legislation for a vote that could be filibustered even if the Dems wanted to. So there’s really very little Dem Senators can do on the Senate floor.

So, the answer is, barely nothing because legally, they truly don’t have the power. That all said, they are basically sitting on their hands. There’s SO MUCH they could be doing. For instance, imagine the POWER and HISTORY that Dems could’ve made had they one-by-one stood up and walked out of trump’s state of the union address. Dems could stand on the Capitol step EVERY DAY to protest, demand media attention, and use their platform. They aren’t. They’re letting us burn because most of them are playing politics.

Good luck to them, you, me, and everybody else…

What a godawful shitty take

Reuters, AP, NPR and all the other formerly credible news outlets went right starting last year and have continued to sanewash and mischaracterize trump’s actions. These news outlets aren’t grasping the harm they’re doing. I thought doing shit like cancelling my NPR membership might prove a point to them that now is not the time to buckle—we need truthful news. They’re too busy worried about engagement and their own careers to do the right thing. Journalism is dead, died this year officially. Fuck fascism—fuck orange hitler trump—fuck every single person who has ever voted for him.

Anyone that follows this or cares about this is a fucking loser.

You need to do some googling because it absolutely does support 4K. Like what?

Nah, assholes at least serve a function. That man is a subhuman pig who deserves to be drawn and quartered.

BIG disagree. Things have changed since the George Floyd protests…for the worse. Now trump and his fascists can do whatever they want legally since being given a literal green light to commit crimes by the supreme court.

Hahaha god fuck every single republican/republican-sympathizer. Terrorists who deserve the chair. Fuck them. Inhuman bastards don’t deserve to live. I fucking hate conservatives, I’m so done.

Disagree that it’s “5% of the population max” — I’ve seen estimates that around 10% of the population are lgbtq… but even assuming it’s 5%, in a country of 340 mil, that comes out to 17 million people. And a bunch of people at pride are straight, so it’s no wonder why they draw in such huge numbers each year.

Regardless… what does gay pride have to do with workers rights? Why does that make you mad — they’re not preventing anyone else from organizing? And from my experience, lgbtq folks are very vocal about workers rights specifically (given the discrimination they face in the workplace for being gay/trans/etc)

And unlike some other movements, there is a very rooted history of public demonstration by the gay/trans community given laws specifically preventing them from gathering in public. In many ways, pride parades represent gay/trans people reaffirming their rights to literally just be in public together without being arrested.

So yeah… I get that there should be more public demonstrations — I’m all for that. But leave gay/trans rights alone please lol

Oh my fucking GODDDDDD IT’S BEEN ONE DAY!!!!! CAN PEOPLE JUST PLAY NINTENDO IN FUCKING PEACE FOR ONE GODDAMN WEEK!!!!!! I swear to GOD shut the fuck up!!!!!!!!!!! Like it’s been a DAY, don’t fucking tell me there’s drifting problems BULLSHIT

Lawyer here! Would just like to say that this is aggressively accurate—Tartarus reference and all.

Misleading title. The issue was that, in discrimination cases, lower courts started making majority groups (white people, straight people) provide extra evidence of discrimination than is usually required in order to win an employment discrimination case. All this decision did is clarified that, for discrimination cases, majority groups don’t need to provide extra evidence of discrimination—there isn’t a higher bar for majority groups. The ‘burden’ of evidence of discrimination is the same regardless of which group is claiming discrimination. The Supreme Court, in making this decision, didn’t decide any facts, they just instructed the lower court to look at the case again with this clarification in mind. The lower courts might still find she wasn’t subject to discrimination.

Interesting! Very interesting. I feel like all these ‘anti-rules’ of relationship anarchy are just as difficult to manage as those of monogamy. But idk, never done relationship anarchy, so just an outsider’s perspective.

Not arguing against the substance of the article, but I can’t help but wonder if this is the best way to address this issue. Measles was eradicated from the US but is now back and has claimed lives purely due to vaccine skepticism. I just worry that yet another article criticizing the FDA for pushing drugs that aren’t safe/effective will do more harm than good at this point. Idk, I just sincerely question if now is the time to give americans more reasons not to trust medical professionals. (Again, not arguing with the substance of the article—very disappointing and disturbing that FDA is doing this—but just concerned about the time, manner, and place of this criticism.)

Fucking what? Is this AI or just an incredibly stupid post?

Guess I’ll die then?

Orange hitler made those pardons weeks ago, so wtf took so long?

These aren’t funny and are getting increasingly annoying—especially with the AI

Who fucking cares