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- Comment on When the Democrats regain power, their centrist leadership will claim, "We can't do anything because...". Don't be fooled. We need to get the corporate centrists out and real progressives in! 2 weeks ago:
Trump has already been convicted for some serious crimes they need to actually sentence him.
Capone didn’t end up prison for a lot of the heinous shit he did. But he did end up in prison.
- Comment on When the Democrats regain power, their centrist leadership will claim, "We can't do anything because...". Don't be fooled. We need to get the corporate centrists out and real progressives in! 2 weeks ago:
Exactly. Obama’s
Yes we can
Resonated with a lot of people and then it turned out he and the Democratic candidates had no intention on following through.
- Comment on When the Democrats regain power, their centrist leadership will claim, "We can't do anything because...". Don't be fooled. We need to get the corporate centrists out and real progressives in! 2 weeks ago:
This is just more of the centerist bullshit that’s led us to where we are in the past 25 years.
Stop defending obstructionists who vote for trash candidates in the Democratic primaries.
- Comment on When the Democrats regain power, their centrist leadership will claim, "We can't do anything because...". Don't be fooled. We need to get the corporate centrists out and real progressives in! 2 weeks ago:
They’re definitely on some kind of payroll. People can’t be so bored that they fight this hard for do nothing geriatrics.
- Comment on When the Democrats regain power, their centrist leadership will claim, "We can't do anything because...". Don't be fooled. We need to get the corporate centrists out and real progressives in! 2 weeks ago:
Democrats won’t do anything
Why do you suppose this is effective?
- Comment on When the Democrats regain power, their centrist leadership will claim, "We can't do anything because...". Don't be fooled. We need to get the corporate centrists out and real progressives in! 2 weeks ago:
Or general strike.
This tbh. I’ve got very little faith in politicians to do something at this point. I would have been happy if 2022 Democratic senators and Biden did nothing and refused to get involved with the rail strike. Yet in another display of solidarity with corporations and billionaires they moved quickly to pass a bipartisan bill to block the rail strike. Wild.
- Comment on When the Democrats regain power, their centrist leadership will claim, "We can't do anything because...". Don't be fooled. We need to get the corporate centrists out and real progressives in! 2 weeks ago:
Hence the title:
We need to get the corporate centrists out and real progressives in!
- Comment on He was no friend to the middle class 2 months ago:
working class
Fixed that for you.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
SatansMaggotyCumFart prefers MAGA to leftists.
- Comment on Bill to raise minimum wage to $25 an hour will be introduced in Senate 2 months ago:
Yes. And that’s a problem.
- Comment on Bill to raise minimum wage to $25 an hour will be introduced in Senate 2 months ago:
Buddy is simping for corporations your hobby?
low income service sector workers
This is you saying there’s a “shortage” of people willing to work for unlivable wages and then explaining that’s what makes “prison labor” AKA slave labor incredibly popular.
We get it bud. Corporations love human slaves. This comes as a surprise to nobody. You talking about it like this is a problem with workers instead of the horrifying reality of corporate greed is just gross.
- Comment on Bill to raise minimum wage to $25 an hour will be introduced in Senate 2 months ago:
The issue with labor right now isn’t legal allotment but availability and talent. Boomers are exiting the labor pool, immigrants are shut out of the labor market, and the Millennials/GenAs aren’t sufficient to close the gap.
What is this pro-corporate drivel?
- Comment on East Asia 3 months ago:
Remember, if you order the mushroom hot pot you have to wait a bit before eating it. Maybe you already know this but we didn’t and gave our server a heart attack. 😆 Fortunately we had only taken a couple bites so neither of us experienced ill effects.
- Comment on East Asia 3 months ago:
It doesn’t.
Housing is extremely affordable compared to here in the U.S. So is food, transportation and healthcare.
- Comment on The rich convinced us that taxing them is too complicated but everyday people can be taxed pretty easily 3 months ago:
I honest to god used 10% as an idea of “ridiculously low tax”
You live in a country that has 10% property tax rates?
- Comment on The rich convinced us that taxing them is too complicated but everyday people can be taxed pretty easily 3 months ago:
Also? A new realization event should be defined: collateralization. When you take out loans against the value of your stock/bond/whatever holdings, you are realizing gains from those assets - you wouldn’t have gotten the line of credit otherwise.
This is a pure red herring. County property assessors are a thing. We already have systems in place to address this concern.
- Comment on The rich convinced us that taxing them is too complicated but everyday people can be taxed pretty easily 3 months ago:
Say you are taxed 10% on the value of all the stocks you own, this means you have to sell 10% of your stocks annually, and by selling stocks you make those stocks less valuable for everyone… so technically they should be taxed less because value drops down?
Just a note, suggesting a 10% tax is pure fear mongering that billionaires and capitalists use to scare people. The average property tax rate in the United States is 1.1% so that’s a reasonable percentage to give. People don’t sell 1% of their home every year.
Property taxes are a thing. Stocks are property.