Comment on Senate passes TikTok ban bill, sending it to Biden, who has already committed to signing it

FlashMobOfOne@beehaw.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Robin_net@beehaw.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Conservatives have been purposely tanking uncontroversial legislation so that “Biden doesn’t get any wins”. Do you genuinely think it is possible for the current legislature to pass bills that would fix something as complex as the housing crisis?

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  • FlashMobOfOne@beehaw.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I would accept that as an excuse if the Democrats did anything meaningful when they have a majority, but they don’t.

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    • Robin_net@beehaw.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The last time they had a meaningful majority they spent their time (72 working days) on ACA (a major healthcare reform), pulling us out of a recession, appointing two supreme court justices, and so much more. They are known as the most productive Congress since Lyndon B Johnson was president. The last official majority they had they spent their very thin majority cleaning up after Donald Trump and dealing with COVID.

      Democrats don’t get strong majorities for long periods of time like Republicans do, and they are expected to fix every issue plus clean up after the newest national disaster that Republicans created. Maybe if we gave them time and a strong enough majority they would get more done.

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      • FlashMobOfOne@beehaw.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        First, you should put this in air quotes: “a major healthcare reform”. It’s only a reform if you the consumer can absorb the price gouging required to access our health care system in the first place.

        Secondly, Obama had a supermajority for a time. He could have done anything if he’d have been willing to do the work.

        Americans can’t eat excuses, and for me at least, it’s no longer acceptable to simply be slightly less conservative than the other conservatives.

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  • Mastengwe@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You just stood directly in the way of a perfect whataboutism….

    Now you apologize right now!

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• krolden@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  In 2013, foreign buyers made up about 7% ($92.2 billion) of transactions in the $1.2 trillion U.S. real estate market. Canada was the main buyer with 19% of sales (decrease from 23% the year before), China was on the second place with 16% of sales, while on the first place considering total foreign sales by dollar value (24% or $22 billion). Mexico ranked third with 9% of sales and India and the UK both accounted for 5%.[2] Florida is the most popular destination with 31% of sales, followed by California (12%), Texas (9%) and Arizona (6%).

  But yeah tiktok bad mmmmk

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• bigfoot@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If you think Taiwan and Ukraine are “other countries’ wars” I have bad news for you. It’s better to pay as much money as we can now before the payment is made with american lives.

  Israel is something else obviously, but the bulk of the money is absolutely worth spending if you value your freedom. It has nothing to do with the housing crisis whatsoever.

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  • FlashMobOfOne@beehaw.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Respectfully, the “fight them there so we don’t fight them here” and “help them stand up so we can stand down” nonsense is straight out of the chickenhawks’ war branding guide.

    Meanwhile I can look over the border and see Mexico spending a mere 8 billion a year on war and Canada a mere 26 billion. Meanwhile we’re up to a trillion and a half this year, but sure, it has nothing to do with the housing crisis or the standard of living in this country. We’re definitely not neglecting our own people to feed an insatiable war machine.

    Frankly, I’m sick of watching our government impoverish our people to pay for more super yachts for warmongers.

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