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Has anyone factchecked the notion that Democrats are trying to change policies, but le sole ebil Republicans are trying to steer its course? (hexbear.net)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net to c/askchapo@hexbear.net
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Because I'm tired of hearing that damn liberal viewpoint every single time

For starters, on the overturning of Roe v. Wade, could you give any evidence that it was preventable but the Democrats did nothing, if not welcomed it?

Such as the majority-democrat political demographic of the Senate that oversaw that decision?

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[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 28 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The democrats motto is: We reasonably tried. Okay, maybe we just pretended to. In any case - we then entirely gave up because that's what we do. Vote.

If you're ever arguing with a lib it's good to ask them to pretend the GOP doesn't exist. That way you can block the ever-present misdirections ("But Trump!..." and "But the republicans...") and force them to talk only about the dems.

My favorite example is the expanded child tax credit. It was insanely successful. The change in US poverty rate...

What an insane - in a good way - chart. But the dems designed it to end after a very short time. ~9 months? Check out the date of the following tweet.

[21 Mar 2022]

The expanded Child Tax Credit has been dead for almost 3 months now due to Manchin/GOP opposition and as far as I can tell there's no reason to believe that changes. ~4 million kids thrust back into poverty; child poverty rate up ~41% -- totally disappeared from DC discourse

Nitter

Of course as the 2024 election gets closer - the chutzpah of the dems will blossom as it always does that time of year. Some libs will bring it up as an example why we must vote because the GOP is the problem because they block dem plans that the dems would never do anyway if the GOP didn't exist.

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Another example is that the California dems never do anything with their supermajority so m4a can't even pass in super blue California.

[–] Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Unrelated but I'm confused what the positive and negative percentages of the graph mean...

Otherwise, good example...

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's a measure of the poverty rate. When the graphic appeared on screen - I though it must be a mistake. The rate went down more than 40% in less than a year? Impossible! I don't know when the bill was passed. March, 2021?

[–] Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

That's what I thought as well...