Comment on silly costume dance

• FiniteBanjo@feddit.online ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  If the DNC had their way, money from AIPAC would have been outlawed 29 years ago. They literally wrote and introduced policy to do that, and passed it later in 2002 only for it to get struck down by the conservative SCOTUS.

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  • tidderuuf@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Apologies for my being vague. I wasn’t talking about the DNC 29 years ago but literally the DNC that just voted yes to AIPAC money a few days ago. That DNC.

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    • FiniteBanjo@feddit.online ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yes, you’re not going to vote to have less money for an election cycle while your opponents have full access to all the dark money they desire, that’s why they need to reverse Citizens United and in order to do that we need to give them enough senators for constitutional amendments.

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      • halcyoncmdr@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        in order to do that we need to give them enough senators for constitutional amendments.

        It’s a bit more complicated than that. Senators only affect 1/4th of the process.

        To propose amendments, two-thirds of both houses of Congress can vote to propose an amendment, or two-thirds of the state legislatures can ask Congress to call a national convention to propose amendments.

        To ratify those amendments, three-fourths of the state legislatures must approve them, or ratifying conventions in three-fourths of the states must approve them.

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