I am kind of too scared to ask here, but what did it actually achieve?

  • Bophades@midwest.social
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    22 hours ago

    And you are the arbiter of what’s meaningful to someone else? Spout off about “sportsball” all you want, but your lack of vision for what material change this might possibly inspire in others helps nobody. Someone, somewhere out there, is fired up over this, and they’ll enact more change than this dogwater attitude ever will.

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      20 hours ago

      It is not unreasonable to ask why he didn’t use the filibuster to block actual legislation, instead of just I terupting procedure.

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        20 hours ago

        No, of course it’s not unreasonable to ask that, and I never implied that it is. It would have been incredible if he had chosen a more potent time. But that’s not what is being said, nor was it what I’m arguing against.