• Gsus4@mander.xyz
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    13 hours ago

    Could already have had two terms of Bernie (or Gore too), but humans, eh.

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      certain, specific humans, have a great deal more culpability than others.

      less useful blaming billions when a couple dozen people engineered the choices for the rest of us, especially on climate.

      the biggest problem opposition groups have nowadays is targeting the wrong people to oppose. I know who my enemies are and it’s not so self defeatingly simplistic as humans = bad.

  • SabinStargem@lemmings.world
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    I think Capitalism is reaching a dead end, just as Feudalism had. We will need a completely different approach, specifically designed to bring prosperity and political agency to every person. A rebuilt constitution that isn’t just about political rules, but also economic.

    These times will either cause Americans to show the way forward to the globe, or be a disastrous example to avoid repeating. Either way, the American Experiment is reaching a crescendo.

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      i think you’re not wrong for thinking that, hell, it does look like it; But i don’t think capitalism is going to end just yet. The Americans have showed to all the world what hyper capitalism is and how it can poison and kill a nation. The fact that we don’t know yet of a system to replace the current doesn’t give me much hope that we are going to try out anytime soon. What i think might actually happen is that a social democracy might become the way forward is many places (as it already is in some countries today); For some people in the capitalist elite this might actually be a good compromise of keeping the status-quo and changing up the system.

      Who knows, maybe after social democracy thrives there might actually be a new system coming.

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        I don’t think the entire system needs to be changed. Just tax appropriately and get rid of free externalities. Companies should pay for pollution or other environmental effects they produce and should be taxed incrementally.

        Otherwise you have corporations making millions because of an unfair advantage which is eventually paid by the user or governments.

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        Wouldn’t a lot of our problems go away if worker owned cooperatives became the only legal form of corporation, combined with the abolishment of shareholder investment?

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    I’m 50:50 there will be another election. And I’m 50:50 on it being rigged if there is one.

    Even if we have one, and it’s not rigged, the Dems are proposing absolute jack shit for the people. So I don’t see how they could even win a fair election.

    We need a new party or a serious nation wide event if we want to put an end to projec 2025

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    13 hours ago

    Oh hell yeah! I totally support you guys trying that! I’m sure it’ll work out perfectly for us!

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    If the democratic machine would let him. He’d do a bang up job. But the DNC will mobilize all they have to stop him. Damn the cost. Just as they’ve done in the past.

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      This is how you continue to lose. The first bullet point is correct. The rest is fail.

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        The first dot point is incorrect. They should not embrace that right wing nonsense.

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          There’s something to be said for the very idea of We The People. Given the current state of things it can be a unifier for punching up.

          I’m not saying hang a flag on your pickup truck. Just know the constitution and home much Elon is tearing through it with that chainsaw of his.

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      Holy shit, that second bullet point. The hundreds of thousands of people donating small sums of money are somehow less representative of the electorate than the two hundred people donating over a million dollars each, because reasons (just not mathematically sound ones)

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        It’s the 4th bullet point that gets me. “We should spend more time going to right-wing-dominated spaces (and also restaurants)”. Because only right-wing communities are “real”. Anything lefties do is elitist.

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        The second bullet point is itself a paradox. By definition hundreds of small donations would represent the electorate better than individual large donors.

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      The hubris of the Democratic party establishment + consultants is just… wow. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a more poorly executed and inaccurate RCA summary. They are so far up their own assholes that they’re making themselves sneeze.

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      People really need to show up to the primaries from now on. Tired of this shit.

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      Is this verified? If so, congratulations, Democratic party leadership. Once again, you’re planning on doing the exact opposite of what you should be doing. Their leftist voter turnout is going to plummet again while they try court Republicans—who often vote by party rather than policy.

      The party should "embrace-patriotism, community, and traditional American imagery

      Playing into nostalgia and nationalism. A strategy taken straight from the other party’s playbook.

      Democrats should “ban far-left candidate questionnaires and refuse to participate in forums that create ideological purity tests” and “move away from the dominances small-dollars donors whose preferences may not align with the broader electorate”

      Condemning progressiveness, leaving their policies either to do nothing or slide the country even more into conservatism.

      Abandoning their actual “small-dollars” donors (constituents) whose preferences may not align with the broader electorate the corporate donors.

      They should “push back against far-left staffers and groups that exert a disproportionate influence on policy-and messaging”

      Going to screw progressive politicians yet again, leaving only moderates and conservatives.

      Candidates should “get out of elite circles and into real communities (e.g., tailgates, gun shows, local restaurants, churches)”

      Actively and deliberately court voters from conservative hotspots.

      The party needs to “own the failures of Democratic governance in large cities and commit to improving local government.”

      Either this means the goal is deregulation, or that they don’t plan on addressing issues outside of rural areas. Maybe both.

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    Trump / Musk is the two-headed avatar of corrupt Capitalism - the final boss - the last stand before it is finally vanquished.

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    That’s what the voters have been trying to tell the DNC since 2016.

    But the DNC’s ears are plugged with corporate cash.

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      Really? Then why aren’t there more progressives at every level of the Democrat party?

      Maybe they should try telling Democrats at the voting booth.