House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) has declined to oppose a Texas gerrymandering effort that could maintain Republicans' control of Congress. Still, he has insisted that a similar move by Democrats in California was an "illegal power grab.""Gavin Newsom's latest attempt to disenfranchise millions of ...
  • Furbag@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    Of course, hypocrisy is the modus operandi of the Republican party. They are just upset that we are finally starting to fight fire with fire, not because of what we are actually doing.

    If we do the same bad behavior that we’ve let the Republicans get away with for decades, their only recourse is to do what we have been unable to do and actually legislate some rules into place that bind everybody equally. I’m honestly fine with either path at this point, either everybody gerrymanders the fuck out their their districts, or nobody does.

    If this is what it takes to finally get some change in motion, I’m all for breaking every political norm in the book, and then setting the book on fire.

  • melsaskca@lemmy.ca
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    7 days ago

    Do principles even exist anymore? Money and power and blind obedience to your human gods seem to be the only way forward in this ever smaller world. Fuck that hypocrite!

  • TommySoda@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    The reason he says this kinda shit is for the base because they don’t read news from “left” sources. So to the people that only watch Fox news and the like they will only see what California is doing but not Texas (or think that Texas is doing it in response to California). They basically take the left’s talking points as pointers and twist it into their own because they know republican voters will never fact check them and take everything at face value with no further thought.

    • floofloof@lemmy.ca
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      7 days ago

      Fascists don’t believe, like the left, that there are principles that should be applied equally to everyone. Their starting point is “everything our way” and the rest falls out of that. So they don’t see it as hypocritical to approve of something when they do it but disapprove of the exact same thing when someone else does it. It’s simply that it’s only good when it’s done by and for them. It looks like hypocrisy to anyone trying sincerely to live a moral life for the good of all, but that just isn’t the game the fascists are playing. People are not equal for them. They’re the only ones that count.

      So I always feel that accusing the right of hypocrisy misses the depth of their amorality and the ruthlessness of their selfishness. Their whole world view is just them in the middle, taking everything, with no need to consider others except as a temporary impediment to be used and/or disposed of.

      • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        7 days ago

        So I always feel that accusing the right of hypocrisy misses the depth of their amorality and the ruthlessness of their selfishness.

        Amen. And this is why Liberals, and the manufactured opposition of the Democrat party, have enabled the collapse of America. Even now, in the final hour, as the fascist coup is succeeding and almost complete, they continue to pretend as though another “gotcha” or “slam” will win. The mentally ill cult doesn’t care, and never has. Once the coup is complete, they will murder you and all who oppose them. They will overthrow other governments, murder millions or even billions of innocent people. They do not care, and never will. If they were capable of caring, they already would.

    • turdburglar@sh.itjust.works
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      7 days ago

      not sure how straight anything about this guy is… every accusation is an admission.

      again, not that there’s anything wrong with that

    • mean_bean279@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      7 days ago

      Me, a Californian:

      We’re an incredibly powerful state and we won’t be bullied. We’ll just leave if it comes to it.

      California has left the chat

      I really don’t think they understand how much those of us in California aren’t happy about this political shit-show.

      • zd9@lemmy.world
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        7 days ago

        California alone has the fourth largest GDP of any country in the world. Don’t fuck with California.

  • cannon_annon88@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    7 days ago

    And Republicans will see nothing wrong with this, because the woke mind virus must be defeated by any means necessary. And when it’s defeated, and only then, we can hAve our freedoms back. It’s just a little sacrifice, for the greater good is all.

  • floo@retrolemmy.comEnglish
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    7 days ago

    How could he possibly have the time when he is hyper addicted to his teenage son’s porn playlist?