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Democrats will win the GA runoffs

Off the back of that, stimulus and other popular liberal policies will be enacted. And they'll be successful and well-liked.




I want to believe, however I think Joe Manchin will stand in the way.

I also think Joe Biden won't do anything to stop the filibuster.


Biden has nothing to do with the filibuster tho


Huh? He has everything to do with the filibuster.

He will work with Democratic senators to set their agenda during his term, and part of that is decisions regarding whether to keep the filibuster or whether to push to end it, or to work around it. He can express his will via the bully pulpit, and via communication & coordination with Senate Dems, the same way basically any president has been able to convey their agenda to the senate for as long as we've had presidents and senators.

Obama and Harry Reid had this exact conversation over whether to continue using a filibuster, and Obama listed it in his autobiography as a regret that he didn't accept Reid's suggestion to nuke the filibuster.


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Can you please stop posting flamewar-style comments to HN? You've been doing it repeatedly lately, and it's what we're trying to avoid here. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and sticking to the rules when commenting, we'd be grateful.


I’d like to know what exactly I’m “flamewar-style” comments on?

Parent commented on the “liberal GA candidates” one of whom is a known anti-Semite and literally beat/assaulted women, and that they “would be well liked”.

Other comments posts I’ve made have questioned the extreme views commonly held by those in this site, where events like CHOP/CHAZ in Seattle became well favored and liked. Yet obviously, no one then comments on the 2 or 3 black underage teens killed or the women raped/sexually attacked.

Better yet, most people here would still agree with Seattle’s mayor’s comment “it’s the summer of love”.

Perhaps we should fight against those comments and posts?


Snark and provocation on divisive topics equals flamewar. These are the sorts of comments that don't belong on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25254922

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25255196

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25097468

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25097867

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24270544

Too ideologically generic and predictable, not enough information.

A lot of your other comments are good though! I probably shouldn't said "repeatedly" above—it's technically true, but I normally only say that when it's more obviously true.




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