assuming US Senate: bills need 51 votes to pass, but by senate rules, the actual vote doesn’t happen until the debate period ends. because of this, historically, one person could simply stall the vote forever by talking, because the vote can’t happen until they finish. 60 senators can vote to end debate, and if the bill has 60 supporters, it’s going to get 51 votes in the actual vote for obvious math reasons. for reasons nobody really understands, the actual requirement for someone to talk got removed; now any senator can say “i declare neverending debate” and stop the vote from happening unless the other team has 60.
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aaa999to Explain Like I'm Five•How does a Fillibuster actually work? Is it a person really talking until a certain time limit or something? Who sets the time? Is it like we see in the movies? How does a person endure that?English9·1 day ago
aaa999toLongformIndepth•Audio tapes reveal mass rule-breaking in Milgram's obedience experimentsEnglish2·1 day agoweird that the writer assumes some convoluted bullshit about how the web of influences surrounds us and no one is truly free of the matrix and it is on us the reader and person not electrocuting people to look inside ourselves and read lots of words, and not the much more obvious explanation: sadists are dumb and bad
hands in the air get on the ground hands behind your back, bang, etc
this dude found out that the moon landing was an american public relations operation and concluded that the moon must not be real
Bernie also catches a ton of shit from the “Ziohran Obamadani >:C” people for blaming Netanyahu and not Israel. Since they have no goal other than making Trump win they would definitely refuse to vote for Bernard the Warlard or whatever stupid ass catch phrase they got told to say
showbiz assholes have no goals other than succeed in showbiz, they pretended to have morals for a while, then they moved on to the next scam when they felt the urge
russell brand career arc
is this the one internet racists were blasting as their 2016 presidential victory theme
aaa999to politics •Cory Booker says Democrats have ‘failed this moment’ and calls for new leaders291·11 days ago“‘I’ve called for a generational renewal, because this left-right divide is killing our country and our adversaries know it.’ He also said that ‘purity tests’ within the party have led to more division in the US.”
yeah this is kind of the opposite issue of what anyone competent would want to address with chuck schumer
the entire debate is set up to promote answers other than this, the correct answer
aaa999to politics •‘Visibly upset and struggling’: Acting ICE head hospitalized twice over stress, officials say2·13 days agoi tried that first and it didn’t work but now that you are looking it did work. ok (thx)
aaa999to politics •‘Visibly upset and struggling’: Acting ICE head hospitalized twice over stress, officials say1·13 days agoi have that but i don’t want to upload from my hd i want to link like the one above me did :(
aaa999to politics •‘Visibly upset and struggling’: Acting ICE head hospitalized twice over stress, officials say14·13 days agohow to embed
aaa999to MeanwhileOnGrad@sh.itjust.works•Oh how ironic that a tankie thinks that way.English71·13 days ago1: you know this because he wrote an essay about realizing that being a colonial cop was making him racist and because of this he quit. you are being deliberately dumb here 2: marx 3: ok
what the hell changed in 2023
what could possibly be left to enshittify in 2022
feel like i need a bigger graph here
I really don’t know what to do about polmemes showing up here
do you even want healthcare, neoliberal community poster FoxtrotDeltaTango
aaa999to Progressive Politics•[Video] Neo-nazi Nick Fuentes says he misses Obama “I miss the adults in the room, get this orange clown out of here.”11·15 days agorichard spencer career arc
ann coulter career arc
seriously every time one of these types fall off its the same shit, they make a career of saying stuff to get reactions, then they hit a peak where either they run out of room to one up their previous statement (whether this is because their medium forbids them from going farther or they just hit the actual ceiling of being a bad person) the only maneuver available to get attention is to say that a person they were mad at is better than the person they supported
and it always works (evidence: us, here)
edit: ah fuck I fell for a scam myself and accidentally posted in progressivepolitics
lack of object permanence
listen. support the behavior you want. get them in the door
thats the trick sword yoga makes you hotter and more athletic
additionally, yes people have just stalled by talking, prior to the period we dropped the requirement for them to do that. most famously
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strom_Thurmond_filibuster_of_the_Civil_Rights_Act_of_1957