Well it’s a sure thing that nothing will happen if they don’t try.

The Republicans broke the record for obstruction under Obama. We need that to happen right now under Trump.

We need a left Tea Party.

What did Mitch McConnell do when the Democrats had a supermajority under Obama, sit with his thumb up his ass?

At least their username is accurate.

I have to try making this instead of garlic butter next time. Is it just garlic, salt, and heavy whipping cream? Or maybe Mexican cream?

Jesus (pronounced in English)

It’s like the least convenient form of time travel.

You know what? Even though I disagree with this type of thinking, I can respect the empericist thought process.

Just because they masked evidence doesn’t mean it didn’t happen, though.

Why not guarantee the basic necessities to all citizens? They pay taxes, after all; it’s just that those tax dollars mostly go to bombing people overseas, funding multiple genocides, overmilitarization of police, corporate subsidies and bailouts, etc.

We can very easilly redirect at least some of those tax dollars to pay for everyones’ basic needs, including, but not limited to: housing, healthcare, food, water, waste, sewage, high speed internet, public transit (like a bus/train pass).

And if we still don’t have enough tax dollars for that, we can very easilly make more than enough by taxing billionaires and corporations at their appropriate rate, getting rid of all loopholes by ensuring there is a tax floor that all corporations have to pay.

Now, the system I am actually in favor of expands upon this idea of social democracy that I described above by forcing all corporations to become worker-owned coops after splitting them up into small businesses (by city, county, or rural region depending on what the locals prefer). This would also have the effect of abolishing the stock market, as the workers would have exclusive ownership of their company that they work for. This would functionally transform the workplace into a democracy. Imagine being able to hire/fire your boss with a vote, or having a say in what your company will be producing. This already exists, and they’re called worker-owned coops.

I would also like a hard wealth cap of $50 million tied to inflation. Nobody needs more than $50 million to have more than a happy retirement, regardless of age.

I believe that money = power, and power leads to inevitable corruption. Therefore, the only logical way to prevent corruption is to prevent people from ever being able to have that kind of power.

Check out Professor Richard Wolff if you want to learn more about this stuff. He’s a doctor and professor of economics with a focus on macroeconomics.

They both make some pretty good points.

Rosin flux. Soldering is one of the most relaxing activities.

I thought fwupd supported 8bitdo controllers already.

The real issue is the commodification of housing. Houses shouldn’t make people money; they are supposed to be homes to live in.

Not to mention both Obama and Biden not only failed to abolish ICE, but had higher deportation numbers than Trump in his first term.

Focusing on a a salacious and improbable event downplays the real “evils” of capitalism

That’s the thing. These events are not just “salacious and improbable”. These events are actually happening in front of our eyes and they need to be taken seriously. These events are happening as a direct result of capitalism, and not calling it out will just allow the right to set the narrative on those issues.

Correct. This is Steve Bannon’s “muzzle velocity” strategy at hand where there is so much wrong about this situation that it’s hard to focus on a single point about it.

Clearly the system has major flaws that got us here, such as not enabling the judicial branch to enforce laws, first past the post voting leading to a two party system, non-mathematical districting enabling gerrymandering, etc.

The biggest one though, is forming the country around capitalism, which enables people who seek power to obtain it via exploiting people for profit. The now-powerful then use their power to buy the government so that they could be allowed to exploit people further for more short term financial gain.

If the workers owned the businesses they worked for and if we had a hard wealth cap of $50m by taxing everything over that at 100%, no single person would be able to obtain that kind of power/influence to begin with.

Not to mention being in a gang is not illegal in the United States; commiting crimes is illegal.

Having gang-affiliated tattoos is not illegal either.

Also given their username, I’m guessing they’re a troll.

Same with Mouser. They have for a few weeks now.

These conspiracies come as a direct result of capitalism. Everybody can plainly see when Boeing murders whistleblowers that it is because of money/their image.

Failure to talk about these conspiracies is a failure to point out the specific failures of capitalism.

Also I assume you actually meant conspiracy and not conspiracy theory.