• tyler@programming.dev
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    5 days ago

    Vindman said he voted for H.R. 2616 because he is a dad.

    “I care deeply about my kids, and that’s what I voted on,” he said

    Exactly the problem with politics. You shouldn’t be voting on your situation. If a billionaire gets into office and votes to make their neighborhood have no police, no taxes, and the most parks, they’d be a terrible leader. You do what your constituents want. That’s the point of being a representative. To fucking represent your district.

    • kesslerpartyatmyplace@anarchist.nexus
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      24 hours ago

      The point of being a representative is to get the pacifying benefits of democracy without the aristocracy having to give up too much power or stray too far from a comfy oligarchic form.

      It is inherently anti democratic. That was always the point.

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    P a r e n t a l R i g h t s

    Yeah, ok there buddy.

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      24 hours ago

      Letting breeders have a hand in raising children is an atrocity against the rights and well being of children. They just breed because they want something to groom for their sick regressive shit.

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          Sorry. I just think breeding pairs are usually toxic and breed to groom a kid into something, often with the intent of throwing it out if it doesn’t fit their goals. They should not have a right to a person’s life just because they share some genes.