• ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world
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    25 days ago

    Fetterman still votes with Democrats about 75-80% of the time. He is not ideal, but he is far better than any Republican.

    Elected representatives are intended to vote the way their constituents want them to. Foreign military intervention and border control are very popular in Pennsylvania and those are the two major categories where Fetterman diverges from the Democrats.

    On top of all that, the parties don’t ever kick people out for how they vote. They only kick people out for misconduct.

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      25 days ago

      He keeps allowing the Republican party to wage their illegal war, and consistently votes against key democratic legislation. Additionally, how does that statistic fare when looking only at the last 2 years?

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        25 days ago

        He still supports raising taxes on the ultra wealthy, closing tax loopholes, protecting Social Security and Medicare, abortion access, LGBT equality, marijuana legalization, eliminating the death penalty, restrictions on gun purchases, raising the minimum wage, fighting climate change, and organized labor.

        That makes him better than any Republican.

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      25 days ago

      Fetterman still votes with Democrats about 75-80% of the time. He is not ideal, but he is far better than any Republican.

      Stupidest thing I’ve read all decade.

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          25 days ago

          Church guy they keep banning from TV. Talarico?

          Edit: whoops he’s a Democrat. Can’t blame me for the reflex to assume republican what with all the Jesus talk…

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              25 days ago

              No because you seem intent on wasting time, rather than understanding anything outside your own bubble. The US is fucked, and blissful, willful ignorance is. why.

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                25 days ago

                The US has always been fucked. I still have to live here, so I would like to make it as unfucked as possible. I don’t particularly like people who shitpost from other countries getting in the way of that.

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                  25 days ago

                  Grow up. What the US does affects every country on the planet, so they have a right to speak.