The party fights progressives and not republicans.

Why would democrats ever defund any of those? They don’t even seriously dislike any of them.

The main reason republicans are able to get better results from a filibuster than the democrats is republicans don’t give a shit about the consequences.

The democrats get the results they want from the filibuster. It blocks progressive legislation and that’s all it’s for.

What do you think they should have used it to cut?

The funding for trump’s wall.

Then people who like the collaborationists will blame you when they lose and take it as a sign that they should collaborate even harder.

Of course, they take everything as a sign that they should collaborate even harder.

Sounds like something democrats could have used during the biden administration. Did they?

Frankly, it’s starting to look like democrats always have an excuse. Have a majority? Oh shucky dern, we can’t pass what we ran on but never intended to pass because of the filibuster! WOOHOO! I mean, it really is unfortunate that we can’t do anything.

Don’t have a majority? There is always some reason you can’t filibuster! WOOHOO! I mean, it really is unfortunate that we can’t do anything. Donate to put us back into power that we will refuse to use!

Go on, centrists. Why was there no filibuster this time?

If they just voted to kill it, there was no filibuster.

For-profit healthcare is inherently unethical.

His biden impression was way worse.

they just want us to have a “safety net” to fall back on when our over exploitation breaks us.

Do they?

And then spent all of 2024 lying that biden was doing anything to pressure netanyahu “behind the scenes.”

“Behind the scenes” was always a lie.

Anyone who was like “taking away the ability to strike is nbd, those rail workers got what they wanted,” I don’t want to see you acting like this isn’t exactly what you want.

And the rail workers got a fraction of what they wanted.

I know you scream “republican” at anyone who says the party should listen to the left for the first fucking time.

Oh, fuck off. I’ve been brutal towards the establishment.

Yes, you brutally defend them every chance you get no matter what they do.

You think they can be shamed into playing nice?

Yeah, they’ll only change by unconditional enthusiastic support every time they betray anyone to your left.

God damn, you’re hyperfixating on one part of my initial comment because you don’t like people remembering how awful your wing of the party constantly is to anyone but netanyahu and two cheneys.

To be clear, I am no apologist for the Democratic establishment.

To be clear, that’s the only thing you have ever been or ever will be.

Giving the false impression that their vote won’t count is counterproductive.

Pointing out that the party does everything it can to ratfuck progressives means that they might respond to pressure to stop, and you don’t want that.

Conservative and centrist are functionally synonyms at this point.

Guess lemmy isn’t a dog-slow pain in the ass for you. How nice.

I was not advocating against voting

Neither was I during 2024. That never stopped centrists from making that assumption about me no matter how many times I corrected them. Now centrists want better treatment from the left than they were ever willing to show the left.

No, you are advocating against voting because you want sliwa to win. Mods, this sort of thing never got removed when centrists were calling everyone to the left of netanyahu a trumper, and I’m probably foolish to expect consistency.