• surewhynotlem@lemmy.world
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    22 hours ago

    They’re not. Of course.

    They might be if we got in there, helped out, and then stirred the pot. But right now we’re outside shouting into the wind.

    • nednobbins@lemm.ee
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      2 hours ago

      What would “in” consist of?

      Democrats had both houses and the Oval Office in 2021. The Democrats were as “in” as they can reasonably expect to get unless we want to go back to 2011 when the Democrats had all that and a supermajority.

      What was stopping him from doing something now? Who forced him to send more arms to Israel?

      And how is the Democrats ability to do the right thing inhibited in any way by people complaining about a CEO supporting genocide?

      These arguments sound a lot like when my 10 year old tells me that they’ll stop watching video games and do their homework as soon as I stop nagging them. That’s nonsense. They do their homework when I take the laptop away and tell them they can’t have it back until the homework is done.