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>In the Senate, pretty much everyone has made their views known on at least Ukraine, Israel and TikTok. There is a reason I used the word "accountability". Th
by slg 3y ago
>In the Senate, pretty much everyone has made their views known on at least Ukraine, Israel and TikTok.
There is a reason I used the word "accountability". There is difference between talk and action and accountability is about making sure the two align. "Made their views known" by itself is just talk that can easily be obfuscated. A voting record is an action and we shouldn't allow politicians to distance themselves from that action with a simple "it was part of a larger bill".
- JumpCrisscross 3y ago> we shouldn't allow politicians to distance themselves from that action Again, we have an actual case on hand. Who is distancing themselves from anything? Whose position—in talk and votes—on each of these issues isn’t abundantly clear?
- slg 3y ago>Again, we have an actual case on hand. Which is the disconnect here. I criticized a general practice of which this is an example while you are focusing exclusively on that one example.
- JumpCrisscross 3y ago> I criticized a general practice of which this is an example But it’s an example that clearly disproves the point. The accountability you describe is a communication, not vote structuring, problem.
- slg 3y agoPoliticians lie which is why communication alone can’t be trusted the way actions like voting can.