Because I'm still seeing "Both parties are the same!" trolls in the comments

Remember: anything Democrats do is bad. That is literally ALL that these fucking shills care about. Spin spin spin. They look at any topic and think, "how can we spin this to attack Democrats?"

They get the point. They're deflecting.

Still need infrastructure for mass transit.

Busses still need roads and rails need maintenance.

ONE MORE LANE

Infrastructure doesn't necessarily mean roads. Although I haven't heard of anyone using this money to make public transportation better I have heard stories of cities using this money to improve pedestrian and bike infrastructure.

You're right but that's not really the point of this post

The voters are supposed to hold them accountable. It's just rotten from the bottom up.

Yeah the amount of gas lighting and mental gymnastics is astounding. I stopped wasting energy listening to these clowns. Just call them for what they are and disengage and place a mirror in front of them so they can gaslight themselves.

I have a cousin, whos kinda weird, but he comments like that hoping to be picked up as a up incoming republican by the true government. Fuck years who his mom and i were drinking in the middle of trumps term, and she says.... that he will make a great general when the next civil war comes....

These crazy posters probably have a similar mind set. Its honestly revolting.

I mostly just hear screeching about genocide (but only when criticizing democrats, never about republicans). I've noticed that I've started racking up bans on various communities for calling out such bad-faith arguments.

Look at TANF.

Give any control to states of federal funding and it's the most vulnerable who suffer.

And that creates a whole load of angry people suffering who tend to fall for rhetoric blaming others for their problems.

Republicans gain votes by making people angry, poor, and powerless.

If the Democrats want to flip a swing state the best way to do it is making people better off.

The fact Republicans then try to get credit is irrelevant. If Republicans need to say how much "they" improved things it's them saying how positive things are and evidence the damaging messages the party usually spews are failing. This representative is panicking because of the infrastructure bills effect.

I like the concept of what you are trying to do, but the suggested implementation is terrible.

Republicans put a poison pill to make men wearing dresses a felony in a funding bill when they have the majority in the House?

Vote against it and no funds for you!

The best way to fix this is to have a sign as you enter the highway system on how your representative voted.

I begged for COVID checks to have the same.

Something simple like:

This highway goes through congressional districts 6, 9, and 12. Representatives Asshole, Dingus, and Cunt (respectively) voted against it.

Hot take right here

You must be new here.

Mostly straw men, but there's a few tankies who believe it.

Multiple people I have talked to on Lemmy over the past year.

Anybody who opposes genocide, cars, etc.

The ones complaining about them being the same are generally the type to abstain or vote 3rd party from what I've seen. It's anecdotal so take that for what it's worth but hang out near those groups and you'll likely see it more.

Piss off.

Both parties have a lot of similarities, both are right wing, both support Palestinian genocide

THIS IS saying both parties are the same.

"Oooh I didn't mean they're literally 100%-" no. Fuck you, you know what the fuck you're saying. Don't try to get off on a technicality. Stop playing games.

Based on your description the difference between the parties is just red vs blue.

This. Insane fucking American car culture. Republicans obviously suck arse but wtf. Invest in public transit instead and these problems wouldn't exist in the first place.

You should check out harris' record as a prosecutor in california sometime.

That is off-topic. You might enjoy !fuckcars@lemmy.world if that's what you want to debate.

I wish I had your privilege of only having to worry about two things; the environment and Palestine.

I'm one of those folks who has to deal with the police, doctors, schools, roads, and the possibility of a fascist takeover of the government by someone who has been praising Hitler for years.

I'm sorry if I've offended your high morals.

"In June 2021, a federal judge struck down Biden’s pause on oil and gas leasing on federal lands, delivering a win to Republican-led states that had challenged the policy."

Call me selfish, but I'm a lot more concerned when it comes to this election about the potential genocides of queer and brown people that will happen if Trump is elected. Since, you know, they're basically saying that will happen.

But there is this bizarre idea that some people have that adding two genocides on top of the existing genocides (because Trump isn't going to do shit about the one Russia is doing in Ukraine either) doesn't matter.

I want to keep queer people (including my own daughter) out of conversion camps and brown people out of concentration camps.

That's a pretty big fucking picture.