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[–] Olgratin_Magmatoe@startrek.website 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You can't wait out an indefinite filibuster. And it gets to become indefinite because they don't actually need to talk at all.

[–] wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They’ll get pressure from their party to stop it. At some point they’ll need to move to other business. It’s a battle of the nerves. Politicians have lost the guts to play chicken.

They actually get the opposite, support from their party. Because if you're the minority party and you're able to kill legislation that the majority party wants, it's seen as a victory.