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How did Biden & Obama free ICE Slavery & Guantanamo again?
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  How did Biden & Obama free ICE Slavery & Guantanamo again?
  
  Exhibit A. Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good in a first past the post voting system, or you lose hard
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    Where is the good?
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    Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good
    
    Centrists think genocide is “the good”.
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      Yes, obviously to anyone paying attention. How does letting republicans get elected help get rid of first past the post though?
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        Then what populist do I motion to get rid off the electoral college?
        
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        https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5043206-senate-democrats-abolish-electoral-college/
        
        Looks like there’s 3 Democrat senators who tried to abolish the Electoral College in 2024. You should go see what those three guys are doing now, and if you can volunteer to help them. Maybe if they get enough popular support, they can try again. You should go and see if they have a plan for next steps, if maybe there’s a candidate in your local primaries that they support.
        
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        if you can volunteer to help them. Maybe if they get enough popular support, they can try again.
        
        Senator, Senator, Senator
        
        What did they vote on regarding ICE thrice?
        
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        So you’re your perfect candidate then, go run for office.
        
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        I did. Your government massacred us.
        
        Why don’t you free deathcamps?
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      If you want to lay down and die that’s your perogative.
      
      The rest is self righteousness.
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        Why would I lay, when there’s victims to intersect, and people to empower?
        
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        I wish you the best.
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  Obama literally tried to close it and Republicans fought tooth and nail to stop that.
  
  https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2016/02/23/top-republicans-slam-obamas-plan-to-close-guantanamo/
  
  https://www.politico.com/story/2015/01/republican-senators-guantanamo-114223
  
  https://democrats-judiciary.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/conyers-10-years-later-and-congressional-republicans-still-refuse-to-close-guantanamo-detention-center
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    Damn Democratic Senators and their Nazi ways!
    
    Why didn’t Obama do another executive order to bypass the Senate‽

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