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> Friday morning, the holdouts fell in line – sending the Section 702 renewal bill to the House floor for a full vote God party politics will be the death of u
by Spivak 3y ago
> Friday morning, the holdouts fell in line – sending the Section 702 renewal bill to the House floor for a full vote
God party politics will be the death of us. Why even bother electing specific individuals at this point. How is this bill not abhorrent to more Republicans, and to wit how is this bill not fine with more Democrats?
In a saner world this bill should have split both parties on auth/lib lines. It is truly a testament that we can make anything partisan along one specific ideological axis, even totally orthogonal issues.
- tocs3 3y agoAn even saner world the bill would be rejected by both parties.
- jayemar 3y agoIs your rational for this proposed party split that it's "big government" and therefore Republicans wouldn't like it and Democrats would?
- mindslight 3y agoI think people are reading OP's comment wrong. They said "abhorrent to more Republicans" and "fine with more Democrats", not 'more abhorrent to Republicans' and 'more fine with Democrats'. The entire point is that support should be less correlated with party. It probably didn't help to abbreviate "libertarian" into "lib", which despite having the same root as "liberty", has been turned into a partisan slur in a truly Orwellian fashion.