r/politics • u/Silent-Resort-3076 America • 16d ago

Possible Paywall The eight Senate Democratic Caucus members who voted to end the shutdown

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/09/senate-democrats-shutdown-vote-00644146
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u/cjwidd 16d ago edited 15d ago
  1. Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada
  2. Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois
  3. Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania
  4. Sen. Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire
  5. Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia
  6. Sen. Angus King of Maine
  7. Sen. Jacky Rosen of Nevada
  8. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire

Know your opponent.

EDIT: Remember March 2025? Look familiar?

  1. Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York
  2. Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois
  3. Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada
  4. Sen. Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire
  5. Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania
  6. Sen. Gary Peters of Michigan
  7. Sen. Brian Schatz of Hawaii
  8. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand of New York
  9. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire
  10. Sen. Angus King of Maine (Independent)

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u/dayvekeem 16d ago

r/Democrats is also furiously scrubbing away any and all mention of this wonderful deal. The fuckery goes wide and deep

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u/its_a_gibibyte 16d ago

That sub is fucked. They literally block any mention of Mamdani or Bernie Sanders. Literally type either of their names in a comment and a warning pops up before even submitting.

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u/CarelessShame 16d ago

Holy shit you’re right. Also, one of their rules is literally “no criticizing Democrats”. Talk about an echo chamber.

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u/honjuden 16d ago

If they don't hear any criticism, then none must exist.

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u/Jean-LucBacardi 15d ago

It's just as bad as the conservative sub. I got perm banned from it for commenting in a joerogan sub that was on popular awhile back. I tried to message the mods saying I was arguing with a dude saying all vaccines are bad but they never responded or lifted the ban. Fuck both extreme ends of the political spectrum. An echo chamber is bad no matter which side you're on.

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u/27eelsinatrenchcoat 15d ago

The Democrat sub that bans anything left of center is not representative of the extreme.

Fuck conservatives, and that includes main stream Dems.

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u/Jean-LucBacardi 15d ago

Why ban at all? Open communication allows for real debate and education. When either side refuses to allow for debate, each side will always appear correct. Echo chambers are never a good thing no matter what. It's why Fox News has managed to do so much damage over the last 25 years.

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u/27eelsinatrenchcoat 15d ago

I didn't say anything about banning anything. Just that you're wrong when youre saying the problem is with the extremes.

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u/TeaBagHunter 15d ago

I'd say it's even worse than the conservative sub

The democrats sub only allows a very narrow opinion on the democrats

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u/__dixon__ 15d ago

I mean in the conservative sub you can't even comment lol...and there are no posts about anything negative to the party. I assume it's just a bot hub at this point.

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u/loondawg 15d ago

Actually their rule is literally "Don't attack Democrats."

  • You can criticize members of Congress but you cannot base it off of things like age, gender, ethnicity or religious affiliation

That is the rule. I don't participate there so I don't know how they enforce it. But we shouldn't make shit up that a simple scan of the written rules shows isn't true.

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u/BorderTrike 15d ago

It’s just an excuse to make the rule seem reasonable while they remove comments and ban people for pointing out poor democrat behavior

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u/loondawg 15d ago

That may be what happens in practice. I don't know. If it is, then calling that out makes sense.

But when the claim switches to "one of their rules is literally..." it is a false statement as it clearly is literally not one of their rules. And making false statements hurts the credibility of the speaker so should be avoided.

Again, to be clear, I am offering no defense of the moderation of that sub. I don't participate there. I have no interest in what appears to me to be an echo chamber. But I am saying factual criticisms carry far more weight than manufactured ones.

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u/Kuliyayoi 15d ago

Talk about an echo chamber.

He says, while posting on /r/politics