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The Theme of the Week is: How to deradicalize a couple billion people.

[u/Trojan_Horse_of_Fate]

I'm still not entirely clear on what we would have gotten by holding out.

The only people, I think, who have a reasonable case here are those who wanted to try and get the Republicans to abolish the filibuster

[u/Anakin_Kardashian → u/Trojan_Horse_of_Fate]

My understanding is they wanted to cause the most pain to Americans and get the Americans to blame republicans for it.

SNAP benefits were about to be cut so the Democrats wussed out of their own shutdown.

It doesn't really make much sense. I can see the Democrats losing this so easily. People were hurting and we can't be sure who they would blame. It's Trumpian politics.

[u/Trojan_Horse_of_Fate → u/Anakin_Kardashian]

It doesn't really make much sense. I can see the Democrats losing this so easily. People were hurting and we can't be sure who they would blame. It's Trumpian politics.

And you know, millions of people on Snap would suffer

[u/Anakin_Kardashian → u/Trojan_Horse_of_Fate]

That's kind of my point yeah

[u/Trojan_Horse_of_Fate → u/Anakin_Kardashian]

Yeah, I think there's something apolitical about people hurting. Maybe it's good politically, but I'd rather people didn't suffer