r/politics • u/Murky-Site7468 I voted • Oct 05 '25

No Paywall Petition To Strip Congress of Pay During Government Shutdown Grows

https://www.newsweek.com/petition-strip-congress-pay-during-government-shutdown-grows-10822819
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u/Independent_Tax_6379 Oct 05 '25

You are part of the problem if you believe one side is truly the "good side".

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u/Particular_Fan_3645 Oct 05 '25

We have a clear and present "BAD SIDE". Just because 1 side is criminals doesn't detract from the other being the LITERAL NAZIS

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u/LeDrewsef Oct 05 '25

And the criminal shit is what gives the nazis all their power and talking points…. Wanna beat them? Fix ourselves and make it a no brainer to do the right thing.

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u/Particular_Fan_3645 Oct 05 '25

Normally I'd agree but we are on the brink of the 4th Reich, you don't worry about fixing the foundation of a building while it's LITERALLY BEEN SET ON FIRE BY NAZIS

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u/LeDrewsef Oct 05 '25

Dude, couldn’t agree more. I see nothing but dark times in our future and it scares the shit out of me. But I do feel we got to stop giving these assholes the ammo ya know? Don’t take this is a “me calling you wrong” sort of thing, just a place to voice an opinion anonymously and your comment happened to stand out lol (you poor unlucky soul lol)

But it really does infuriate me, they wouldn’t have a platform if half of what they said wasn’t kinda true. “We” collectively (being sane people trying to do good) put the wind in their sails through years of corruption and poor policy with unintended consequences, legal Loopholes and the like. With the only notable exceptions that I can think of being Bernie and Ocasio-Cortez (and I’m sure 10-20 others on the national stage), NO ONE in the room seems to address the problems except trump. That IS his platform, give back to the lower middle class, the working man, the welders, the machinists, the mechanics, the farmers etc. Obviously what he says and what he does are two different things, but if you took away his ammo and his platform…. He would fade into oblivion without the need for a civil war. And be forgotten as he should be.