It feels like the DNC is trying to lose in 2024 right now.

And this is new, how? It feels like they're trying to throw every election. They never even bother to call out Republicans on their shenanigans and they spend a lot of time being like "We know the fascists passed these very fascist laws, but everything falls apart if we don't take the obviously fascist laws they passed with the seriousness they deserve by enforcing those fascist laws. We have to play by these rules they've set that benefit them and harm us, because if we did that, it would be unfair and undemocratic." (Conveniently ignores Republicans being unfair and undemocratic.)

Lose to who? The republicans?

Sweetie, we've already established the gridlock of 'lesser evil.' All democrats have to do to win is be slightly less worse than the republicans, which is incredibly easy.

If true, we peons pay the price for that, not them.

Just send out a form letter response, geeze! How hard is it really to ignore your constituents effectively? I've been receiving form letter responses for decades now, it's not hard guys! You don't even have to functionally address any points made by your constituents, just shit out a form letter with a loose connection to the ideas presented and you're good.

The number of times an elected official has made it clear that my opinions mean fuck-all to them is extremely high.

Didn't Biden already call for a cease-fire not long ago? The best he could do is pulling funding at this stage, putting boots on the ground would be an attack on the spiritual holy land of a variety of religious fanatics and against Zionist beliefs that gentiles should know their place, unless of course Ben himself called on Biden for some imaginary reason 🤔

It’s so crazy because I’m seeing the exact opposite. A bunch of Jewish folks in my extended family being vehemently pro Israel. It’s wild.

I don't understand why it's not considered harassment of an elected official when they are doing that.

Calling a few times, sure no big deal, but a thousand times for each person? That's fully in the territory of harassment and abuse.

You shouldn't be rewarded for that behavior by fucking giving in to it.

Especially when rewarding them is saying "Okay, because you harassed us so much we've decided your opinion matters and we'll actually do something about this issue."

US Representatives care.

US Senators have achieved escape velocity and can just concentrate on their stock trading and junkets.

Oh they answer those calls, though.

So that's after they stole nukes, attacked our warship, and interfered in our elections.

What, in your mind, justifies helping genocide?

No joke, you clearly think its a possible concept. What thing could you theorize justifies this?

I've never found this sort of argument compelling. Yes, it's possible there's things going on we don't know about; and sometimes tactical and strategic necessities may require hidden actions.

Those actions still need brought to light as soon as it's feasible to do so; and I struggle to imagine what sort of strategic necessity would require this sort of stance for more than a few months, let alone the years these stances have been in effect. Not to mention the difficulty of keeping something on this scale quiet for this long. At best, things are more or less as they appear - the alternative is there's things they don't want their electors to find out.

https://youtu.be/62I61kBahNY?si=EPFMpGYNM1gCK2iT

Michael Brooks on the complexity of Gaza.

Leadership of Hamas is in Qatar, money from Qatar was released through Israel by Bibi. So additional to this video showing how not complex it is, the Israeli leader wants Hamas in charge to make sure nothing peaceful happens in a joined Westbank and Gaza.

Just as in any schoolyard fight when you remove the power imbalance and or the bully the problem goes away.

The solution here is to move one of the "kids in the fight" somewhere else. One of them is saying I was here first. The other kid has a rich dad.

We all know what the correct moral decision is here when you take away the political labels.

The big fuckup here was by daddy England back in 1947 and he's got massive egg and on his face right now.

"Man, it's too complicated.. I don't know.. man.. None of my business.."

That's all that I'm getting from this. This is not the first time in history when people have turned a blind eye to a massacre because "it's too complicated".

That's like putting a bandaid on a severed limb

A fig leaf

difference they're not on lemmy; they're people to volunteered to work in a position where they have to deal with this behavior.

Why should they be expected to have the manpower to answer every single one?

Because they are expected to consider the opinions of their constituents, and as an elected representative and they are supposed to represent our interests, not theirs.

To be able to functionally listen to your constituents, yes, you need the staff to be able to do it.

You think that listening to and transcribing voicemails somehow takes less time than taking a call? Pro-tip, they take about the same amount of time.

I mean, with that attitude, why have any staff at all? Just let it all go to voicemail and never read any of those thousands of emails from constituents! Fuck 'em! Fuck representative democracy, amirite?