So I’m exposing my ignorance here, but I have a question.

Apart from MTG’s association, how am I to make the distinction between a “real” bill and a “statement “ bill?

I understand what you’re saying, and have been persuaded by your latest comment; I’m just hung up on that “just a statement bill” thing.

E: I guess it’s literally as simple as “MTG is such a joke that her bills will never pass”.

Yeah, it’s amazing nobody in this pedantic thread mentioned that awful tweet. That tweet reframes the whole argument, if you ask me.

You make an important distinction, but by voting against the statement AOC is still saying “I don’t like the idea of defunding Israel’s Iron Dome”.

Is that not something to be frustrated with?

We have virtually no progressive politicians in the US. The ones that are progressive inevitably concede to safe and exhausted liberal ideologies, and this further proves that point.

Hurrr durrr horseshoe theory

Any substantive cut on Israel’s funding needs to be made if it is introduced. I literally don’t care what they’re defunding or who introduced the bill; the less my taxpayer dollars go to genocidal psychos, the better. End of story.

Yeah probably not. Instagram has a pretty big racism and bigotry and anti-intellectualism problem. The average user over there does not know what imperialism means, to my eyes.

This is Instagram.

I know, I wish I didn’t know, too.

Hasn’t this been known for some time? Perhaps I’m confusing these spiders with ones that simply form wind sails.

Talking about the left, no, we don’t like that. That’s a bad topic. The left is to blame for this war. Crooked Joe Biden is so sleepy all the time that he didn’t even know tue war was going on! I could have ended the war on day one, but Zelenskyy, well, he’s not a very good guy. He doesn’t ask a lot of good questions. When your asking the president of America a question, it better be a good questions. But sleepy Joe, oh man, he’s just awful. This war is all because of him.