OP uncritically defends china/russia/other communistic-ish autocracies. Their point isn’t some nuanced argument on china, it is literally “US/West Bad” — like it’s almost funny how OP is actually doing what the meme shows just in reverse.

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Don’t bother. Dude’s an alt-leftist tankie. They don’t know what evidence is, they just spread whatever propoganda’s been stuffed down their throat.

My first thought too

God I wish I believed in hell. Would love to believe these motherfuckers will burn for all eternity—as they deserve.

The alt-left is STILL pulling the “both sides are the same” shit. We will NEVER escape fascism. Like buckle in because the left is not fucking comprehending the massive scale of the difference between corrupt MAGA and corrupt Dems. Yalls are just not fucking getting it. Yalls are still just mad and punishing Dems for their awful, unconscionable Gaza policy (not defending it), but yalls literally put the final nail in American democracy cuz of a single foreign policy issue. Fucked over all LGBTQ people, all disabled folks, women’s rights, immigrant’s right, DEIA programs. As I watch my trans family continue to get targeted and killed, I will NEVER forget the “both sides” leftists who hung us out to dry. Fuck yalls.

Sorry but Cali is rich as fuck, they’d figure out water if need be.

Agreed, that ship has sailed.

Might be cruel but kinda my thought. We can’t save everyone.

Sincerely confused why this is getting downvoted.

No

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…

Praying to god this gets postponed indefinitely. I have exactly -1 confidence that this movie won’t be awful.

Guess I’ll die then?

LOVE to hear it

lol guess fascism is here to stay. And the irony of this coming from Germany, like didn’t yalls learn the first time?

Who fucking cares

Gripes about that removed author aside, what’s with the obsession with telling this same story over and over and over? HP is already a book series, 8 part movie series plus shitty spinoffs, a huge video game, a play, and a theme park. Can we please tell a new story? We’ve had a 20 yr run of HP crap, let’s pick something new already!

Looks fun and kinda campy. Been majorly missing that from superhero movies lately. I’ll give it a shot! Not holding out much hope, but fingers crossed they lean into making a fun story and not try to take itself seriously.