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‘What a lie’: Danish astronaut responds to Musk claim that Biden abandoned ISS pair on purpose
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So.... They can do nothing of consequence.
Don't forget they were already accused of being the boy that cried wolf before the election.
Lets be honest, thats not nothing of consequence. Thats rounding the wagons up and energizing the base.
There are three special elections coming up that could take away the GOP majority. They need to do things with high optics that show strength; things that energize the base. Saying "we cant do anything" regsrdless of the truth in it LOOKS WEAK. Thats not a way to show leadership.
Soooo....... Nothing of consequence. Quite literally nothing of consequence. Like what did all those BLM protests do? Did it rally the voters? NOPE.
And as much as a hate this phrase, they have to pick their battles. No one cares about USAID (oh wait this is lemmy who misreads. It is important, but at a voting level population that wins elections, far far far too few people care). At this point, pretty much the only people that care about the layoffs are the people laid off (again, talking about voting level population). They won't care until their social security stops coming, or their special needs kid gets defunded. That's how people operate. Dems have to pick a few items and really highlight them. If they pick everything, then nothing comes across.
I get that you're disheartened but pick yourself up.
Do you know that the vast majority of people lived in absolute poverty, working every working hour for not enough money to eat?
That's really wage slaving, when you're too poor to have a home or even to rent a bed and you sleep stood up against a rope to stop you falling on the floor.
Or you can't make it and you go into a workhouse, separated from your kids and made to work for no money and given gruel to eat.
The way people got out of that hell was to organise, to fight, to keep fighting. That's how workers won ALL the rights which are normal in the west - minimum wage, no child labour, maternity pay... Every single decent law was fought for.
So don't tell me we or you have it hard right now, just because things are harder than you're used to and we're all scared.
We've had it easier all our lives and most of us didn't want to go out of our comfort zone to fight to make life better. Our chickens are coming home to roost now.
Let's try to lift each other up instead of demoralising each other.
What the hell are you about. I think this is a case of projection, you are disheartened so you project it on to others.
I'm just saying/observing/analyzing that it's nothing of consequence. People expect the Dems to magically solve the Trump problem (all this "why don't they do something??") and I'm saying they can't do anything of consequence.
You're telling people to do nothing and there's no point in doing anything until some imaginary worthwhile battle...
And yeah I am disheartened, of course I am, this is a terrible situation to be in. I'm arguing that we still have to fight. Everyone who understands what is going on and cares has to fight with the blitz spirit - when your enemy is much more powerful and on paper is going to kick your ass 100% certain and is bombing the crap out of you every day but the stakes are so high you fight anyway and fight harder.
Again, what the hell are you on about. No conversation can be had when you ram what you want to read into people's mouths, instead of reading what they actually say. Read what I have already written. Ciao.
Lol take your own advice ciao