The problem is that they’re not even negotiating, and also it’s been proven time and again that if you give concessions to republicans so you can ‘negotiate later’, they’ll take the concession now and wring another one out of the Democrats later. Negotiation does not work when the other party is not interested in it.

The website has instructions for if that happens as well!

Yeah, as I said, think very carefully about if you want to call republican reps.

They can actually do a significant amount, like force a recorded vote. That means that everyone has to stand by and admit, on the record, what they’re voting for, which becomes voting fodder later. It also significantly slows down the passage of bad bills and allows them to potentially be tied up.

They can also make frequent quorum calls, which also allow things to be tied up. Remember, these people are not working 40 hours a week, 50 weeks a year- if you stall things enough they fall off the agenda entirely and suddenly republicans have to start prioritizing what shit they’re trying to ram down our throats.

Additionally they can not do repugnant shit like agree to a unanimous consent time agreement, which speeds republicans atrocities through the senate- which Democrats literally just now did to fast track Gabbard through confirmation as the Director of National Intelligence.

The minority party can ABSOLUTELY gum things up- there’s all KINDS of dilatory motions the minority party can do, but right now democrats seem wholly uninterested in actually being an opposition party. In fact, top Democrats are actually mad that progressives are calling for them to be an opposition group in a meeting on tuesday!

They probably think it worked out great, since it was only ever an op by hostile elements to convince absolute fucking idiots to vote against their own interests.

If they didnt care about public opinion, they wouldn’t have lied.

If they didn’t care about public opinion, they wouldn’t be pressuring media to squash knowledge of it so hard.

CCGs hasn’t had a massive, massive Epic Games-paid astroturfing campaign against valve/steam like ‘lootboxes’ has. That’s the difference.

Look up the Paradox of Tolerance, or the ‘Contract of Tolerance.’

The only thing a tolerant society cannot abide by is intolerance.

And in this case? The rights and morals of free speech means we must- not can, must- abhor nazis.