ABSOLUTELY positively RIGHT ON....In another word, NOSHIT...

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[Solly Mack]

1. K&R

As an aside, I always looked for the "NoShit" thread posted by you.

"No shit" means something obvious is being stated/commented on and that was all the "heads up" I needed that inside I would find pertinent and timely commentary, whether verbal (text) or visual, on current events.

Thank you. I appreciate the "Noshit".

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2. thanks for your active participation in the greatest experiment on earth....

and as far as I know in the universe...

[Solly Mack]

3. Indeed. I look to change the world one atom at a time.

[Wounded Bear]

4. At one time or another thoughout our history, the fillibuster has been used...

to defend the most odius, despicable practices our nation has been involved in.

Slavery, gun rights, voting suppression and gerrymandering; the list goes on.

Our Constitution and Senate rules were set up in a way that protects the minority from being overwhelmed by majority rule. Mostly, though, it has resulted in minority political opinions stonewalling and precluding needed progress.

[FakeNoose]

5. The filibuster is anti-democratic and it has been used by Repukes to bully us for way too long

[wendyb-NC]

6. Well said

Absolutely right.

[iluvtennis]

7. KnR. n/t

[Hekate]

8. KnR

[lamp_shade]

9. kick for visibility

[calimary]

10. And ANOTHER kick for visibility!

[Tommymac]

11. The Filibuster is pro minority in the sense that it is totally Authoritarian & is Non-Democratic.

It and The Electoral College are the 2 mechanisms the Authoritarian 1% use to control Our Country.

We are NOT a real Democracy now, if so why do CapitalOne and other financial institutions focus their ad campaigns on the 1%?

Why do you see ads for high end cars and financial brokerages used by investors only the 1% can afford on blue collar football games?

What happened to the blue collar beer commercials and ads for Al's Used Car lot we used to see by the dozens?

Advertisers have said it is because today's demographics in the USA are more oligarchical then democratic. There are WAYYYYYYYY more blue collar folks watching - but the few 1% demographic watching is where the real profits are made.

Think about it.

[dchill]

12. Indubitable.

[ShazzieB]

13. Fuck the filibuster.

And fuck Joe Manchin for deliberately trying to torpedo voting rights.

This is worse than even stopping BBB. Voting rights are sacred. They are ESSENTIAL in a democracy. Deliberately making it harder for certain kinds of people to vote than others is unethical and immoral, and giving state legislature (or ANY governmental entity) the power to override the will of the people is an outrage.