EmptySlime

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[–] EmptySlime@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He's being forced by the fact that it's the only way he sees to stay out of jail basically lol. All those "Democrat Witch Hunts" are really getting to him.

A couple things. First, you might need to freshen up on your Schoolhouse Rock, because this is not true:

The 60 vote thing is true. It's referring to the filibuster and cloture procedures in the Senate.

When a bill comes up for consideration in the Senate, first it gets brought up for debate. A filibuster is when someone usually opposed to the bill makes this debate go on as long as possible to delay a vote on the bill. This process has been shorthanded a lot in recent years so senators merely need to indicate intent to filibuster so that the Senate can still attend to other business such as committee hearings and the whole chamber isn't locked in by the filibuster.

Since the entire GOP is bent on obstructing the Democratic party agenda this means in practice that you need to use Cloture to end the filibuster and bring the bill up for a vote. This is why we see so many things crammed into the Budget Reconciliation bill. It's one of the only bills that can't be filibustered like that. For pretty much all other things if you don't have 60 senators willing to vote for Cloture the bill is dead on arrival.

I mean asexual doesn't necessarily imply aromantic and vice versa. I don't really think you need your own desire to have sex with someone to be able to tell they're hitting on you right? A ton of lesbians regularly have to deal with men trying to get in their pants. I just take it one step further and don't really want to have sex with anybody on my own.

[–] EmptySlime@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Oh no that's broken as well. But that same kind of disenfranchisement happens in the Senate. Wyoming per your example has ~600k people and California has ~39 million according to Wikipedia but both get 2 Senators. That's what, 65x the population but the same voting power? Then there's also the fact that unless you've got 60 votes in the Senate it doesn't matter what anyone in the House wants it won't even come up for a vote. Which means there's a lot of comparatively empty land that can basically just hold the rest of the country hostage. Point is there's a lot that's broken in the legislative branch.

[–] EmptySlime@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I mean it was very smart for the time when the average citizen couldn't possibly know enough to make an informed decision and news that could change who someone would vote for could take weeks to arrive somewhere.

But let's not kid ourselves. Both the Electoral College and the Senate were specifically created to thwart the will of The People if it was too inconvenient for the elites. What was that quote about the Senate being the "cooling saucer of democracy" or something like that?

I think I agree with that. The media, especially the more right leaning media will always find something to attack Democrats over.

It seems like a bit of a stretch to me as well. But that seems to me to be the thought process of the people who are advocating for an open convention rather than Biden just endorsing Harris and letting her pick a new VP.

Maybe I worded something poorly there and caused some miscommunication. I was responding to someone equating unverified with made up. What I was trying to say is that it's unverified right now because the only statements on it were from what seems to be the same primary source(s) that wish to remain anonymous. That doesn't necessarily mean the reporting is false, only that there hasn't been a separate source saying the same thing. I wasn't trying to say "it's true actually, they just have to say it's unverified because no one wants to put their name on saying it"

I then separately wanted to explain what seems to be the thought process behind people saying that Biden wouldn't endorse Kamala going into the convention if he dropped out.

[–] EmptySlime@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No officer. I am straight white male, why do you ask? I have wife and kids even. I have had the sex at least one, perhaps two times.

That shirt is great

[–] EmptySlime@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 1 year ago

Damn, neopronouns been going crazy lately huh?

[–] EmptySlime@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 1 year ago

I believe that is Revy from Black Lagoon.

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