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      • @Alsephina@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
        11•8 months ago

        A shutdown of the government currently committing a genocide in Palestine? Hell yeah

        This is no excuse to fund genocide.

        • @Kecessa@sh.itjust.works
          -7•8 months ago

          Just saying that there’s a reason why Democrats voted for it.

          Also a government shutdown has major impacts on their own country’s population and they are the people they need to worry about first and foremost.

          • @PowerCrazy@lemmy.mlEnglish
            6•8 months ago

            You know it doesn’t have to be that way right? The government could be funded at a base level automatically just by a simple majority in the senate and the house. But the Democrats love the excuses so that idiots like you will support them anyway.

            • @Kecessa@sh.itjust.works
              -1•8 months ago

              But it’s not how it works right now and they need to deal with the system as it is now until it doesn’t work this way anymore. Voting against it wouldn’t change the system in place.

              • @PowerCrazy@lemmy.mlEnglish
                2•8 months ago

                Simple majority can change it, and historically there have been plenty of options for democrats to do such a thing, but they never seem to want to put provisions in place to help people for some reasons.

              • @Alsephina@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
                4•8 months ago

                Should’ve voted no then. Would likely stop the genocide in a few weeks/months if the US government stops functioning and can’t maintain its colony in Palestine anymore. It would also give the working class an opportunity for revolution to establish a system that doesn’t require genocide to function.

                But of course, liberal “democracies” and the two-party system just represent the interests of the capitalist class. Just wish liberals and conservatives would acknowledge that and stop defending the two parties, and spend that time and effort organizing against it.