Originally Posted By u/Kung-Fu-Magik At 2025-08-18 08:12:22 PM | Source


  • IninewCrow@lemmy.ca
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    5 months ago

    A Banana Republic

    The US isn’t a democracy, it’s just a fun house with meth, guns, nuclear weapons and a military industrial complex

  • jballs@lemmy.world
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    From an article about it:

    The majority of the Democrats complied with the law enforcement escort, showing reporters what they called “permission slips” they received to leave the House floor and pointing to the officers escorting them around the Capitol.

    WTF. How have Democrats still not learned that complying gets you nothing.

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    In Oregon, the Republican representatives fled the state to stop votes from happening a few years back. The senators were fined for disrupting legislative process and voters passed a referendum that missing a certain number of votes means you are not fulfilling your obligation as a representative of the state and may not longer run in future elections.

    In Texas, threaten them with guns.

    I guess there’s more immediate results that way?

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      5 months ago

      What is the law? That Democrats have to sign “permission slips” which means they agree to police escort? I didn’t know about this law.

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          “compel the attendance”

          She is already there is she not? So she is in attendance, and isn’t absent.

          Thank you for pointing out the law they claim to be using, but I have a hard time believing what they are doing actually qualifies under it.

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    How is this not false imprisonment?! She hasn’t committed any crime. She can not be detained for any reason! This isn’t just kidnapping, this is a constitutional crisis. If they can detain her for not signing away her right they can literally imprison anyone one for any reason.

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      So? What are Americans or their government going to do about it? Pretty sure there’s been multiple of those crisis things by now

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        5 months ago

        Truth but I believe this is the most high profile person to be treated this way. If needs the most attention.