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    LengAwaits@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 3 months ago

    Democratic Senators Team Up With MAGA To Hand Trump A Censorship Machine

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    Democratic Senators Team Up With MAGA To Hand Trump A Censorship Machine

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    LengAwaits@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 3 months ago
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    At the exact moment when Donald Trump and his MAGA allies are actively dismantling democratic institutions and working to silence critics, a group of Democratic Senators have decided to collaborate…
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      Manufactured opposition, performing one of the most crucial tasks to facilitate the fascist coup.

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      Democracy was fun while it lasted, wasn’t it?

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        We should be living in a golden age of knowledge and science.
        Instead we get this mockery of life.

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          Not to worry, if the world plays out like a sci fi TV show we will be! And it will be eerily accurate and relative to the timeline of events that lead there in said show

          https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Second_Civil_War

          Jokes aside, yes

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        You had democracy? When?

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        I can’t recall when we’ve had democracy or a representative government

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          That’s because you live in a propaganda filled fantasy land.

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            When did we have either?

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              A federal republic is a federation of states with a republican form of government. At its core, the literal meaning of the word republic when used to reference a form of government means a country that is governed by elected representatives and by an elected leader, such as a president, rather than by a monarch or any hereditary aristocracy.

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                We have a Republic in name only, oligarchy politicians like the DNC and RNC only represent the monied class in government. We are left to fend for ourselves.

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      This bill can be stopped. Contact your representatives.

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        While I don’t want to discourage anyone from contacting their representatives, mine refused to show up to a rather large town hall meeting. Went so far as to refuse to respond to all inquiries from multiple parties and news media whether or not he would attend. Over a thousand people showed up by my estimates to address their grievances to an empty chair.

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        What if my representative is Dick Durbin?

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          Tell him to quit being a dick and start being a Richard.

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      Vote Blue No Matter Who -----> Trump

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