Save those delicious Conservative tears, I need some exotic bitters for my nightly Old Fashioned.

Then I owe you an apology. If you’re stuck in a gerrymandered district I hope the Democrats can one day push the Redistricting Reform Act forward that they’ve been attempting since 2019.

I’m sure the Republicans NEVER contact their Democratic representatives to complain or make their voices heard, so yeah, you shouldn’t contact your Republican representatives. Never make your voice heard, what’s the point right it’s useless we are all so powerless oh god I give up you are all right downvote me we have no power THEY WIN!!

No bit junkie you are helpless! Keep sitting in your room pounding away on your keyboard how helpless you are, how there’s nothing you can doooooo!

Oh right, because you did, all the other lemmings did as well, right? Please, spare me your righteous indignation. You actually think ALL the people constantly complaining how the system is rigged there’s nothing that can be done, and all the BOTH SIDES SAME arguments seen in the majority of comments here, you think that these indicate lemmy is full of people who actively engage with their representatives? lol

See all the other replies to my comment to see examples of the thought processes i am referring to, of people who dont contact their reps.

Are you kidding? Are you telling me you had no idea they were holding votes constantly to reopen the government?? They held at least 14 votes my man. Each and every vote was the potential for “a deal”. Clearly you never reached out to your representatives at least once during those 14 votes.

Thanks for highlighting my point.

Hey, crazy question for any lemmings here whose Senator was one of the 8 who voted to end the shutdown:

Did ANY of you email your senator and tell them you fully support the shutdown and urge them to never give in until the health care provision was fixed?

Everyone in here bitching about Senators taking money, or both parties being the same, all the typical brain dead bullshit the keyboard politicos blather, did ANY of you contact your Senators and make your voice heard?

Don’t bother replying. We all know the answer.

EDIT: Keep the downvotes coming, believers of our weakness! You’ve convinced me, we are all powerless!! Let’s just complain all day in lemmy comments how the system is rigged and we have no power, downvote me if you agree! LONG LIVE APATHY! WE ARE THE WEAK AND POWERLESS!

Bruh, “neo-liberals” and conservatives are not the only people being hurt by tariffs. That’s something a right-wing troll says to make the Left look bad.

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Viva your basement revolution, Che Guevara. Talk about useful idiots, I’d bet good money you’ve barely cracked a history book in your life.

Also, do you think Bernie is a communist because he honeymooned in the Soviet Union? Brother, are you ever gonna be disappointed…

Thanks for answering the real question as to why the Left is so politically ineffective. You are either too lazy or too defeatist to bother making your voice heard. Oh, except in these message boards where you cry about how nobody enacts the policies you want, when you dont even bother showing your representatives you support them.

Good luck in life.

In one message, you say all the problems we have today are all because Bernie didn’t get elected, now you tell me one man can’t make a difference… do you even see the breakdown of your logic here?

Just out of curiosity, how many times have you written your representatives in Congress? How many times have you sent emails to Chuck Schumer, or tried to motivate friends and family to do the same? How many times have you emailed the DNC? Do you do anything else besides post defeatist messages online?

Because the Republicans don’t seem to have a problem getting their voters out to vote.

Right, Bernie would have come in and what, magically persuaded congressional Republicans to support all his programs and initiatives?

You probably don’t even realize that 90% of Obama and Biden’s perceived failures in office were due to massive opposition by elected Republicans.

Like, ObamaCare was originally supposed to have a single-payer public option, but they couldn’t get enough enough votes to pass it.

But you are talking like Bernie would have come in and what, Jedi Mind Tricked the Republicans into voting for single payer?? Incredible.

It’s a cruel twist of fate that the only ICE agent who doesn’t hide their face is Kristi Noem.

Yeah, but are Apple users going to punish Apple for glazing Trump’s tiny manhood by not buying Apple products?

Tim Apple certainly doesn’t think so.

Reddit is a wasteland where every informative post is now marked as DELETED by those of us who torched our donated content as we left. It’s full of garbage posts now, and mods who don’t care.

Do they still manage to attract ad revenue, sure, so does X after Musk turned it into a fascist turd bath. Is it as valuable as it used to be? Not by a longshot.

Kirk is their modern day Horst Wessel. Just wait until they release a country song praising his life and play it at sports events.

Thank you for being a real-world example for why people need to stay in school and get their High School diploma.

Do you carry a cell phone?