• finitebanjo@lemmy.world
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    1. This ridiculous trend of people linking one or multiple opinion articles is as fucking annoying as Tankies leaving a giant wall of text pulling from various manifestos, you’ve basically done the same thing with an added middleman. A bunch of what-ifs and hypotheticals doesn’t change the facts. Getting 58 DNC senators wasn’t enough but it was still a huge accomplishment, and this “all or nothing” approach to reform is just childish. Just because Obama didn’t give Dean a bunch of positions doesn’t indicate any acts of malice, and his actual choice for HHS, Kathleen Sebelius was also a supporter for Public Option.

    2. Overturning SCOTUS decisions isn’t as simple as electing a simple senate majority, you’re either wildly misinformed or you’re arguing in bad faith.

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      Overturning SCOTUS decisions isn’t as simple as electing a simple senate majority, you’re either wildly misinformed or you’re arguing in bad faith.

      Are you referring to Dobbs? …In response to the Obama White House backing off codifying Roe v Wade in his first term?

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        Under Obama they had a supermajority of 58 plus 2 Independents for 72 days and it was still the most productive congress over a decade before and after it, and the SCOTUS had until much later on upheld the Roe v Wade decision so it was probably low on the priority list.

        I mean, it’s not like anybody expected Obama’s last scotus nomination to be denied by congress and the next presidency to replace enough judges to completely flip the majority around.

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      “Childish” is framing opinion different than your own as lesser rather than engaging, and accusing others of bad faith.

      Do i need to make myself more clear, young man? Or would that be uncivil? Sheesh, you’re as exhausting as a teenager

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          I’m sorry i have never found the proper combination of words to make empty fools discover shame, so i guess we’re both sad now.