The Fairness Doctrine would change nothing about this.

Everything in this thread. ⬆️

Codify anything you value since "the institutional guard-rails" proved useless. Voting rights, Women's rights, LGBTQ+ rights, Veteran's rights all of it.

What we’re seeing now is Trump pretending to invalidate laws by his EOs.The media plays along.

Congress have done fuck all and relegated their power to the dick tator. It's fucking spineless and their constituents, even the Conservative ones, should be fucking livid.

They absolutely should be.

I'm curious if he isn't a dick tater.

It's not easy to do without making it easy for GOP to do opposite Dems can't codify a right without an exception in filibuster. Otherwise, it takes 60 votes to pass legislation in Senate If there is a filibuster exception for that right, danger is GOP could codify opposite with 51 votes in Senate

good thats democracy and our votes will mean all the more

Exactly. Relying on “Gentlemen’s agreements” and “common sense” didn’t work too well

Grifter's nor the greedy will abide by "Gentlemen's agreements" or "common sense".

There are no more gentlemen

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This entire thread is a list of things for which you would never have enough votes to pass laws. They can only really be passed at the state level. And maybe if you can get enough states to agree, you could do an update to the constitution eventually. But that's unlikely. So state level is max.

We're at a turning point in history. Things are going to be a bit more fluid for a while.

Fundamentally, while the right and left refuse to figure out how to get along... They're both just going to sabotage anything the other side pushes. Plus, currently, Republicans have majority in Congress and Senate (as well as the Supreme Court... nonsensical as that should be)

While I agree that killing it led almost directly to where we are, the internet makes it nearly impossible to reimplement. I wrote about it this week if you like essays. open.substack.com/pub/radicall...

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