House Moves Toward Bundling TikTok Bill With Aid to Ukraine and Israel
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A new measure attempts to force the Senate’s hand on passing legislation to ban TikTok or mandate the app’s sale.
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American politics really is one of the dumbest, most corrupt things out there. Good god.
This feels like trying to trick your dog into taking his medicine, by hiding it in its food. So apparently your average US Senator is as dumb as a Golden Retriever if they need this tactic to actually get shit done.
It’s insane that Americans still tolerate this. Clearly they don’t have your best interests as their main focus.
So many of us agree with you.
None of the fuckers want to change the voting system either. They just blame the other guys.
Wish someone would take STV and everyone woukd follow
A consistent viewpoint I see on America, is the assumption that if we don't like a politician we can simply say so and they're out of office. One of the biggest problems here is actually that most people feel lacking in their personal control on the government, even local. Everything is such a large scale, that 'speaking up' not only feels like it does nothing—it really does nothing, unless you're famous or something. No one here is happy about how our government works, we just don't have control over it. It's an illusion of control, while the people at the top make the actual choices.