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        Mafia Don Mangolini is much more dangerous than just a symptom.

        More like the willingly staged celebrity figurehead.

        It’s what he lives for.

        The chump is happy to be ensconced in the political spotlight and take all the credit for what’s happening while the even worse destruction is carried on behind the scenes off camera and “behind our backs” by those that are much more savvy and capable.

        🤡 🖕 🖕

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    It shouldn’t be possible to deport citizens from their own country. Why is there even a discussion?

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        Yup, they have their part to play in the Bread and Circus. Incidentally, Super Mario Brothers is a great game. Many like to play Mario, but the role of Luigi is often overlooked.

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          Luigi could jump the highest of all the playable characters in Super Mario Bros 2. He was always my go-to character for this reason. Those egg flinging dinosaur fucks be damned!

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        Yeah, it’s so unsurprising. It’s why I believe the US Demoractic party of today is, at least to some degree, controlled opposition. I don’t like this theory, but I cannot see a more rational explanation for their behavior. They’ve been letting the Republicans walk all over them for years. Why?

        • They are controlled opposition. At this point in my life I don’t care how it comes across to make such a claim. They are just as corpo as the republicans. They spend more energy killing anything remotely good for working class people, more effort on killing anything even remotely resembling a left of center within than fighting against a party that has been circling the fascist drain for decades. Corey Booker is a microcosm of the party; all performative grandstanding in the moment with not only inaction but counter action of what the performance was meant to invoke and/or inspire. Don’t worry though. They still have your email and will ask for a paltry hundred dollar donation to FIGHT THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION come mid terms. Democrats are the Generals and the Republicans are the Globe Trotters. Trump spins a ball on his finger and everyone just gawks instead of playing defense.

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      They weren’t. They needed to get them on record supporting a horribly unpopular position so they could use it in the midterms. You’ll see a ton of votes that go nowhere like this that are just fodder for election bids.

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    The expectation is that they are going to go for US POCs next is that right? I don’t hear people talk about it so I don’t know if I’m the only one who sees it this way.

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    Does anyone have a link to the amendment? Or to the votes that were tallied?

    The website seems to just link to the budget bill. If this were devs discussing a change to a repo, you’d have links to discussions, the code in question, related technical specifications… not just a link to what a dev said on Twitter and a link to the repo.

    I don’t know enough to parse the bills / their process, but I know enough to not care about what they say happened on Twitter.

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    They’re more afraid of MAGA than they’re afraid of ordinary citizens. Nothing will change until it’s the other way around.

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    Now they’re going to start kidnapping whoever they want to send to the EL Salvador concentration camps. Trump told bukele to build more prisons because he was sending home growns next.

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      That seems quite wasteful, impractical and unnecessary. Deporting them to a volcano would be better. Or we could appoint them as ambassadors to aquatic life.