Public opinion has “near-zero” impact on U.S. law

Your source is absolutely biased and wrong… we all know that public opinion has ZERO impact, this is madness!

Trump must have bribed these ivory-tower hipsters. I loathe them, with their soul patches and asses sticking out of their jeans and jaunty sideways baseball caps. Revolting

I’m not an economist, but I bet if we cut the military budget to match that of ANY OTHER developed nation we could manage the healthcare costs.

We don’t require 8x the military budget of anywhere else on Earth

Want a compromise? Sure, let’s restrict our budget to the combined top competing THREE NATIONS.

(on checking a couple sources, the math even checks out, and we’d STILL have the most powerful military in the world)

It’s not that complex. One old-fashioned fireside chat will do it, it’s pretty obvious. We have DECADES of universal healthcare data and results, it’s not some new, radical, alien thing.

Just provide Americans with real data. Presidents don’t HAVE to be babbling idiots, there’s another way!

70% of US voters want universal healthcare; 90% of Democrats and 50% of Independents.

Only Republican voters disagree, with something like 30% supporting. (all of these numbers are approximations there are many Gallup polls over the years).

I’m not a mathematician, but it appears to my untrained eye that 2/3 of Americans want Universal Healthcare. That’s a very solid majority.

Why can’t Ds and Rs manage to provide what the US voters want? Allow Republicans or anyone else to “opt out” of the system.

That’s a rhetorical question. bOtH pArTiEs aren’t interested in what their voters want.

Somehow, Israel can be financed for DECADES without the same level of voter approval.

50% of voters support Israel= billions of dollars every year

70% of voters support universal healthcare= no universal healthcare.

Kinda weird, ain’t it?

Don’t be sad, every joke is improved with a “straight man” reaction, don’t you think?

Agreed.

I’m wondering, when will your country stop using the dummy dollar for international trade? When will your country stop buying dummy weapons? Why do the dummies have a UN veto?

When will your country stop enabling the dummies? That doesn’t seem all that smart to me.

Since when is the President in charge of government agencies and their funding in any way?

I guess they know what they are doing.

Just kidding

Lemmy unironically is worse about moderation in literally every way compared to reddit.

No! Bad. Bad!!!

Reddit is bottom-of-the-barrel moderation, away with you

p.s. what’s wrong with propaganda? I can’t even

Drug use IS normal, throughout all history

Cannabis, opium, alcohol and more were found in our earliest graves.

Much of this could be bought over the counter for decades… the US drug war is founded in RACISM, as the Europeans preferred alcohol.

Opium dens are preferable to the alternative, prison. My opinion

Look at all of these problems for decades, all because we decided that GOVERNMENT should have any say in who we do or do not marry.

Government shouldn’t have any say or opinion, marriage (or any other relationship) is not their business.

I wonder how many billions of dollars have been spent on this absurdity? How many tens of thousands of hours were thrown away protesting, legalizing, enforcement? All stupid and rather silly if you think about it.

She’s an awful libertarian, well most of them are, but very hypocritical on her part.

But you do! The ending is the very best part, it renders everything before it into an absurdity.

It’s the punchline

Your claim of their statement being verifiably false is in itself verifiably false.

Their claim was the works do not inspire a belief in God (for them), and they know it was a man-made project. Since they know themselves so much better than you, they are the only ones who can give their opinion.

Yes, people memorized the Koran, Bible, Tanakh, throughout the history of each faith. However, there are many examples (legions!) of those same works (in whole or in part) being protected by a variety of sects… not one of those faiths was consistent throughout their history.

Remember, God hates liars! Don’t call others liars just because one of their points isn’t all-encompassing. Recall, they said “I think”… this means it’s an opinion. Don’t lie, Allah would be ashamed of you if He was real.

Jesus says they are wicked, meanwhile, He promises to kill everybody on Earth who won’t bow to Him.

That’s kinda creepy, don’t you think? His promise is to be the greatest murderer of all time (again)

Christ teaches that He will return, and murder EVERY non-Christian across the globe, billions will die. The lake of blood will be miles wide, according to Him, and as deep as a horse’s bridle!

Not only that, the murdered can’t even have peace in death. Christ will banish them all to Hell, for an eternity of torture, with infinite wailing and gnashing of teeth.

Why do you want to teach this? Just wondering

They will of course act outraged and surprised that the US, under Republicans, cannot actually stop its rabid ally… but they obviously already know that to be the case.

Coincidentally, the USA under Democrats built Israel, and continues to finance it to this very day

THOSE DAMN REPUBLICANS STOP COPYING DEMOCRATS

They’ll lose anyway. They always do.

In USA, we have a tag-team political system also known as “good cop/bad cop”; both using the other to blame their many failures on. It’s very important that they lose every four to eight years (at maximum) to maintain plausible deniability.

There is some good-natured competition here and there, they are not the same, but they are both anti-union and pro-corporation.

Wait and see

I went to Christian school. It’s worse.

Good, the best way to get more atheists is to force students to read the Bible.

it’s ridiculous tripe

Honestly, after a certain point I feel like all the posts about people saying they would rather not vote at all despite the two distinct choices are some sort of psyops campaign

You know many people who don’t vote, it’s a third of the population. Why on God’s Green Earth would you choose “I feel like it’s a psy-op!” as a possibility?

A third of people don’t want to be involved in politics at all, and more join them every year. That’s not due to psy-ops, that’s due to generations of bOtH pArTiEs ignoring what voters want.

Something like 70% of people want universal healthcare. Still can’t get it. SEVENTY PERCENT.

About 90% of Democrats want universal healthcare. It doesn’t matter.

I vote, but just for cheap laughs.

They’re not a modern day liberal, are you?

They can’t be held accountable for the “modern day liberal”, since they aren’t one. Your switcheroo is poopy-doo

We’re just getting started.

Good luck