There is a reason Reagan and the neocons were founded and backed by corpos.
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Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
anon_8675309@lemmy.world 2 days ago
As well as the fact he pushed the Heritage Foundation’s agenda.
Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
Evangelical conmen
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 days ago
The only thing that actually trickles down from the 1% is piss.
Flower@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
If we tried harder some other fluid might be included…
Either way it’s not money, or even valuable.
QueenHawlSera@piefed.social 2 days ago
I’m all for their blood trickling down.
Bluescluestoothpaste@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
That’s literally what the term originally alluded to, it was written by a critic of tax cuts for the wealthy.
MrShankles@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Just curious, do you have an easily available source, by chance? Or do I need to dig through the search engines’ slop for more info?
some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Great, now I have way too much piss, zero gold, and InfoWars’ revolutionary “turn your piss into gold” program is sold out
uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
The real difficulty is with the vast wealth and power in the hands of the few and the unscrupulous who represent or control capital. Hundreds of laws of Congress and the state legislatures are in the interest of these men and against the interests of workingmen. These need to be exposed and repealed. All laws on corporations, on taxation, on trusts, wills, descent, and the like, need examination and extensive change. This is a government of the people, by the people, and for the people no longer. It is a government of corporations, by corporations, and for corporations. — Rutherford B. Hayes, 1888
merc@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Ever since agriculture allowed some of the population to not be farmers, there has been inequality.
Overall, it’s probably a good trade-off. I’m not ultra rich, but I’m not a subsistence farmer either. So, some inequality is probably the price we pay for technology.
The current world is better off than most of history. Since the Odyssey is in theatres now, look at that. Odysseus is a king in a palace-centric economy where the riches flow to the kings who then redistribute it to everyone else. In the middle ages peasants were tied to the land from birth. They weren’t slaves, exactly. But, it was pretty similar.
Capitalism was supposed to be more efficient and fair. Instead of the bosses being born as bosses and the workers born as workers, in theory a boss who made terrible decisions could lose his capital and become a worker. A worker who had an idea and could find investment could become a boss. In the 1800s that was revolutionary, until that point classes were classes for life. But, of course, for it to work there needed to be laws and those laws needed to be enforced.
The US was revolutionary at the start because it was going to be a country without a king. They carefully designed the system so the president wasn’t a monarch. However, there were some problems. First, these were 20 year olds in the 1700s. They didn’t know game theory. They were idealists who thought that congressional representatives would be honest and honourable. They didn’t think a party would collude with a corrupt president. Second, these were aristocrats. Sure, they didn’t like kings, but they thought that only land-owning white males should have a say.
So, really, it’s no surprise that a few hundred years later the people who would have been the land-owning aristocrats 1000 years ago are once again in control.
It remains to be seen if the people can once again restore a sane level of inequality, or if this American experiment has run its course and something new will emerge.
breadsmasher@lemmy.world 2 days ago
shame a huge number of americans keep voting to be fucked over
rayyy@piefed.social 2 days ago
Talarico is saying the right things. He deserves a few bucks. The others, not so much. Democrats, in general stood by and let all this corruption go on. Support only those who understand the problem but understand that we need many more to actually actually change things.
boaratio@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Democrats didn’t stand by and allow the corporation to happen. They participated in it.
SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
You ever get the feeling that you’ve been manipulated into hating the political opposition to fascism?
betheydocrime@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Democrats aren’t the opposition to fascism, they’re its enablers. They don’t want to fight fascism, they want a version of fascism that follows the rules of respectability politics. They want a sensible, noncorrupt fascism that keeps thorough records of the people it kidnaps. They want a gentle fascism with body cameras to make sure the kidnappings stay “nonviolent” while they get a first person view of families being destroyed. They want fascism with more humane internment camps.
You know who is the actual political opposition to fascism? The mutual aid group in your city. The neighborhood group chat where community members talk to each other and keep each other safe. The rapid response networks. The tenant’s rights organizers. All the people out there building alternative power structures.
chewypoops@lemmy.world 1 day ago
No, because too many Democrats can’t even recognize genocide when it is happening right in front of them, and while I understand that we have to “play the game” in our two-party system, Democrats have given me no reason to support their party at a policy level.
SalamiDommie@lemmus.org 1 day ago
Also note that this is not a D vs R situation. It is the people vs those who keep taking advantage of the leadership we afford them.
beejboytyson@lemmy.world 1 day ago
*the pedefilic elite
Impractical_Island@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I made this meme like ten years ago:
Do you get it? The police state is two thousand years old. The New Testament describes a decentralized autonomous organization of secret police at an eighth grade reading level. Epstein was a Mossad agent - so, a cop - and is thus alive because of that. We do something called pairing, which is a big part of how “the battle is won,” according to them dum dum Christians, and so Epstein was paired with Maxwell, and thus Epstein disappeared and there are many loose ends of parallel investigations that just go poof, as far as suspicion of rats in criminal networks go. Trump/Hunter Biden/Clintons are all cops. That’s how won the battle is. We don’t give evil a chance to reach power. But, I’m just some retard doing his counterintelligence job on the internet.
beejboytyson@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Dw people are stupid. Remember every reasonable opinion has an unreasonable opponent.
JigglySackles@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Lol I had that image many years ago in a forum. Except it said “Worms? In my vagina?”
MojoMcJojo@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Conspiratorial Design by Carlo Bramanti
Furbag@pawb.social 1 day ago
Looks like the Democrats have finally refined their messaging, now all they need to do is form a coalition more powerful than the establishment DINO centrists.
merc@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
I wouldn’t say the democrats have refined their messaging. The leftist democrats who are saying these things are still a minority while the majority of the democratic party want to be seen as centrists who aren’t hostile to big business.
But at least it has gone from 1 prominent person saying these things (Sanders) to now enough that you can no longer count them on just one hand.
The money, power and majority of the democratic party is still against them. But, it really seems like voters are behind them.
Perhaps the good thing is that so many democratic politicians lack a spine. It means that if it’s clear that the democratic socialist message has momentum, they’ll happily pivot to the new shiny thing and adopt it as if it’s where they were all along.
nonentity@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Financial obesity is an existential threat to any society that tolerates it, and needs to cease being celebrated, rewarded, and positioned as an aspirational goal.
Corporations are the only ‘persons’ which should be subjected to capital punishment, but trillionaires should be forced to transition into billionaires, and billionaires should be euthanised through taxation.
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
The bullshit in here is strong:
This is Paxton plus way more than I can put in here:
On July 28, 2015, a state grand jury indicted Paxton on three criminal charges:[276] two counts of securities fraud (a first-degree felony) and one count of failing to register with state securities regulators (a third-degree felony).[277][278] Paxton’s indictment marked the first such criminal indictment of a Texas attorney general in thirty-two years since Texas attorney general Jim Mattox was indicted for bribery in 1983.[279] The complainants in the case are Joel Hochberg, a Florida businessman, and Byron Cook, a Republican and former member of the Texas House of Representatives.[280][281] Paxton and Cook were former friends and roommates while serving together in the Texas House.[281] Three special prosecutors were trying the state’s case.[282]
In October 2020, seven of Paxton’s top aides published a letter to the office’s director of human resources, accusing Paxton of improper influence, abuse of office, bribery and other crimes, and said they had provided information to law enforcement and asked them to investigate.[318][319] The letter was signed by first assistant attorney general Jeff Mateer,[319][318] and the deputy and deputy attorneys general overseeing the office’s divisions for criminal investigations, civil litigation, administration, and policy.[318] Paxton denied misconduct and said he would not resign.[319][320] By the end of the month, all seven whistleblowers had left the office: three resigned, two were fired, and two were put on leave.[321]
The allegations were made the more serious by the accusation that the affair was facilitated by friend, donor, and Austin, Texas real estate investor Nate Paul, with Paul alleged to have hired the “girlfriend” with whom Paxton was having the affair, and facilitated her move to Austin and Paxton’s clandestine meetings with her, actions the managers of Paxton’s failed state impeachment effort contended (see Texas House investigation and impeachment section, above) were abuses “in exchange for his office… help[ing] Paul ’s faltering businesses…, looming bankruptcies[,] and a litany of related lawsuits.”[356] The impeachment managers also contended that Paxton and Paul shared an Uber account under a pseudonym to help Paxton meet with the woman.[356]
Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
They knew this. They did this because republicans never care about the people and the people that vote for them never think things through. Of course since its to the advantage of the democrats they do little explain the situation as anything other than republican greed.
This is one of those things that is both sides.
It adds to the idea that both sides are just as bad. If this murky morass of suck wasn’t addled by thousands of separate issues it would be easier to convince some of the stupids that they were being played. Right now though everyone needs to realize that some dems may want to put us all in cages with cameras but they are outnumbered by the ones that just want to keep their taxes low so they don’t have to trickle down.
Vote for the dems. They suck but at least most of them don’t want us all in cages.
YET!
Maeve@kbin.earth 2 days ago
velma@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
James Talarico is not documented as an AIPAC donor or official ally in the reporting provided; he attended an AIPAC event in 2019 but has since publicly disavowed taking money from AIPAC and criticized the pro‑Israel lobby, positions he has reiterated while campaigning for higher office [1] [2] [3]. Campaign finance records and reporting instead show connections to other PAC money—most notably a contribution from a Miriam Adelson‑linked PAC—which critics have used to raise questions distinct from any formal AIPAC connection [4] [5] [6].
Ohh thanks for linking to this! I didn’t know about this site before.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
Hell yeah, finally someone’s saying it
boaratio@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Maximum upvotes. Hell yeah.
SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world 1 day ago
And people keep voting for it. Sad!
frongt@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
Yeah we know. What should we do about it?
minorkeys@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
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Join the DNC, find likeminded people, form a block and force the party toward those beleifs.
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While you do that, make the effort to find out where the money you spend in the economy is going, to whom, and what they are doing with it. Stop giving your money to people who are working against your interests.
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Build a culture and hobby of politics. Form groups, have discussions, explore the possibilities of a world better than this one and what else can be done to support each other through the ups and downs of life. We don’t have all the answer so start helping us try and figure them out.
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Disengage from information spaces high in dishonestly, corruption, agendas and alterior motives and disinformation. Cleanse your perception of reality of the lies you are constantly being fed and realign it with the most accurate, though less exciting, sources of information. Being informed isn’t being entertained, it’s boring and it’s work. But if you know others are also doing it, that helps stay motivated. See point #3.
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Vote everywhere you can. Understand your rights, the process by which you vote and the tactics used to dissuade you. You have some power. No, not the amount you crave and would be gratifying. But the power you do have is your responsibility to each other. Learn what that power is, how to works and start using it for your interests, instead dof which convinced to use to for the interests of the billionaire class.
Nobody has the blueprint for freedom. Where we are right now is that we have to try and figure it out. Doing it alone is the opposite of what is effective. When power is dispersed, it’s utility only functions in groups. The motive to use it only emerges and sustains within groups**. Form those groups. Form those communities. Form those alliances and help each other find out the answer to, “What should we do about it?”.
You aren’t going to find this answer gratifying, exciting and it won’t feel like you’re waiting for it to feel before you act. Its work. Its sacrifice. It’s responsibility. Or watch your nightmares of today becomes the reality of tomorrow.
Folstar@lemmus.org 2 days ago
Geez, all that sounds like a good idea for making the world a better place, but what if instead we just stay at home and refuse to vote for politicians who don’t pass our purity tests? What if instead of working to make the world work the way it ought to we just pretend it works the way we want it to. Then hold ourselves in high regard for not participating or making token gestures that work against our interest?
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SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
I sharpened my pitchfork.
THEN I had it gold plated for this occasion.
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 2 days ago
This kind of thing always reminds me of Arkasia - New World Disorder (Urban Assault Remix) youtu.be/aSB0ulJkbt0
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
The only,reason this worked long-time in medieval times, was serfdom. You’ll either stop this or you will be serfs.
Bubbaonthebeach@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Economically, Americans are already serfs. Wealth inequality was slightly better for serfs than current Americans.
vivalapivo@lemmy.today 2 days ago
That’s what Charlie Kirk was talking about
givesomefucks@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Ken Paxton just keeps doing his best Rafael Cruz impression and running away from anyone who asks him a question…
Talarico signed up for three debates and said he’ll show up even if Paxton doesn’t.
Cruz is slimey, but he’s a legitimate master debater, he can slime his way out of shit most people can’t, and Paxton is just expecting it to work out.
As long as Talarico doesn’t start talking about taking people’s guns, he’s got this in the bag.
Folstar@lemmus.org 2 days ago
Yes. Get up there and laugh at am empty podium if you have to. It was beyond frustrating in 2024 when the Harris campaign was like “ok, I guess the debates are cancelled”. No! Make a show of it. Stand on stage for an hour and read everything wrong your opponent has every done. Dare them to show up next time. Do something.
velma@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
They really did run a terrible campaign.
GroundedGator@lemmy.world 1 day ago
They should find someone to read Paxton’s platform from his own website and Talarico can debate the positions.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Greg Abbott pioneered the strategy of just ignoring your actual opponent and scream “The communists are coming to take your guns!” at rallies hosted by your billionaire friends. To date, it’s kinda-sorta worked. Republicans have a stranglehold on the state senate due to gerrymandered districts. All the statewide offices are reliably Republican, year in and year out. And the Republican base loves to see a candidate throwing out red meat far more than a candidate who treats liberal opponents as serious contenders for office.
Anyone who thinks Democrats have a statewide office in a bright-red state in the bag because the Republican is ignoring them, is delusional.
You’ll know Paxton is in trouble when he starts crying about the liberal media not giving him enough attention and demanding a dozen debates a week with Talarico straight through election day.
protist@retrofed.com 2 days ago
Having lived in Texas for 39 years, I don’t think it’s delusional this time. Wendy Davis, Beto O’Rourke, Colin Allred…I wanted all of them to win but knew it was super unlikely.
What’s different this time is that Paxton has such a lengthy, tainted history in Texas. He’s made lifelong enemies of so many Republicans in this state, and Talarico is so very, very palatable to them with his level of comfort framing all of this through Christianity. Obviously, nothing is in the bag, but I have confidence in this race for Talarico I never had for the other 3 candidates I mentioned
Maeve@kbin.earth 2 days ago
I believe it actually began with the Bolshevik revolution and only receded, occasionally, rather than ever having went away.
fartographer@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Time to start buying seats at their fundraising events and then debating them while they’re busy fluffing themselves. Get kicked out for this move? Run headlines: “Paxton just proved that he doesn’t care about his own voters or sponsors”
Ep1cFac3pa1m@lemmy.world 2 days ago
“And what’s your stance on gun violence?”
My stance is that crime goes down when poverty goes down, so let’s work on making sure people can actually earn a decent living.
OwOarchist@pawb.social 2 days ago
Knowing Texan Dems, he’ll probably announce a new proposed policy tomorrow, announcing his intention for door-to-door gun confiscating raids.