The majority of House Democrats voted to table an impeachment resolution from one of their own members.

  • Archangel1313@lemmy.ca
    701·
    1 day ago

    To be fair…it was never going to pass. But, still. What a way to symbolically roll over and expose your belly for scritches.

  • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world
    561·
    1 day ago

    Yup.

    As always. They’re perfectly willing participants in fascism.

    But also, it’s not like this had legs anyway.

    • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world
      1·
      12 hours ago

      Came to post the Nays but you put the link for everyone, thanks:
      Can’t believe so many terrible people are in Congress, only 79 people…

      Just in case someone is lazy: Adams Ansari Balint Barragán Bonamici Boyle (PA) Brown Carter (LA) Casar Castro (TX) Chu Cisneros Clarke (NY) Cohen Crockett Davis (IL) DeGette DeSaulnier Dexter Doggett Escobar Espaillat Evans (PA) Foushee Friedman Frost Garamendi García (IL) Garcia (TX) Gomez Green, Al (TX) Hayes Huffman Ivey Jacobs Jayapal Johnson (GA) Kamlager-Dove Kelly (IL) Krishnamoorthi Lee (PA) Leger Fernandez Matsui McGovern McIver Menendez Min Moore (WI) Mullin Nadler Norcross Ocasio-Cortez Omar Pingree Pocan Pressley Ramirez Randall Rivas Ruiz Sánchez Schakowsky Scott, David Sherman Simon Stansbury Swalwell Takano Thanedar Thompson (CA) Thompson (MS) Titus Tlaib Tokuda Torres (CA) Velázquez Waters Watson Coleman Williams (GA)

    • Botzo@lemmy.world
      16·
      24 hours ago

      Goddammit.

      Well, time to type another strongly worded email I guess.

      If his elderly dad weren’t so fucking connected to the war machine, we’d have a chance of replacing him.

      I wonder how many other reps are resting on laurels like that…

  • ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.netEnglish
    24·
    23 hours ago

    The political system is completely fucked. Going grassroots with direct action is currently the best way to both resist, and build horizontal decentralized power that isn’t prone to corruption.

    1. find local communities and get involved to make connections
    2. We can effect things drastically with a general strike. This targets the establishment’s income streams, and can bring a fascist government to its knees if done on a large enough scale.
    3. Contact a union and attempt to unionize your workplace so that the general strike is even more effective (plus, ya know, better pay and working conditions as a bonus!)

    This method would not only work in the US, but anywhere in the world.

    Union Suggestions:

    1. Continuing to participate in publicly visible resistance demonstrations like 50501 (the next one is July 17th) to encourage others to stand up with you and prove to that there are millions of others who will join them in the fight. A large part of Nazi Germany’s success in taking over the country was a lack of massive public demonstrations against the new regime, making people feel helpless and afraid to take a stand.

    If we put in the work, we can resist this and we can win. Look at how effective these methods were when used in Chile in 2019.. If we completely reject the political system and rebel on a mass scale, there is NOTHING they can do to stop us.

    • GuyFawkes@midwest.socialEnglish
      2·
      24 hours ago

      At this point if Nazis come to my door I’ll shoot them. Otherwise I’m not going to join up with morons it took even longer than where we’re at right now to figure it out. They can fight the battle with their fellow stupids that let it get as far as it does.

    • MotoAsh@lemmy.world
      10·
      23 hours ago

      Nah, capitulating to fascists is the neoliberal job. That and fucking over as many poor people as possible in order to funnel money to the already rich. Just look at all those PPP “loans” that saw zero clawback from the huge corpos that received most of the money.

      … that, and impeachment is a waste of time. Provably, demonstrably, a complete waste of time.