So the system can work. Or we can all be pessimists and let the fascists continue to run roughshod because the Democrats aren’t woke enough or whatever.

As I said.

Mamdani won the primary. He’s polling ridiculously high in the general. Putting people like him, Crockett, Cortez, and others like them into office is how we push back and get the policies we want. MEANWHILE we need to elect whatever other blue options we’re provided in the general including the DINOs, not protest non-vote and hand power to the Repubnicons. 3rd party candidates are spoilers. Maybe in some future they won’t be, but right now they are. I don’t understand why this is contentious. If the enemy rules, we get NOTHING. Do you not see how the country is being dismantled as we speak? There will be no righteous revolution in this country. Democracy either survives or it dies, and if it dies, it’s 1984 x Handmaid’s Tale forever.

Thank god that at the end of the day, people like you do not control anything, not even your false anger.

Just proof that you’re a secret magat. Trust me, my anger at the dismantling of my country is very real.

LMAO you obviously haven’t been paying ANY attention in the last 10 years. If you don’t get why people absolutely hate Trump, you’re probably actually a Magat. Because the whole fucking world hates Trump.

Those comments are in criminal violation of his oath of office. He should be impeached, convicted, and removed. Of course there will be nothing but crickets.

So… Never Again™ actually means only the Jews. Got it.

You just can’t make this shut up. Nobody, I mean nobody would believe it if you wrote it.

There’s a few reasons. Firstly greed is a motivator, and people work hard if they believe they’ll receive more for more effort. This gets people to go out and generate the resources that need to be distributed. Second, fungible tokens allow people to trade on the open market instead of having to find a particular person who is willing to trade say, a worm gear for a bale or two of cotton. The token is the middle man that allows someone trying to sell something sell to someone who doesn’t have what the seller plans to finally trade for. That’s why money started to exist in the first place.

Even in a communist system, there needs to be a way to transfer the results of labor into the things a person needs. Money is that way. Even if it means everyone gets the same amount of money to buy what they need. Everyone’s resource needs are different. You can’t just say everyone gets the exact same everything.

Finally, we’re not post-scarcity. Not really. Until resource manufacture is so automated that it doesn’t require people to do labor to acquire it, we either pay people to do the labor or we force them to via slavery. For that reason alone, we need money.

I’m pretty sure in 2024 the Dems platformed someone who didn’t want a genocide in this country. Mamdani seems like a pretty good dude, and he’s in the general because he won the primary over said piece of shit. So the system can work. Or we can all be pessimists and let the fascists continue to run roughshod because the Democrats aren’t woke enough or whatever.

Yet you want me to keep voting for the people that aren’t doing much.

No, I want you to vote against the people who literally hate you and want to take everything from you to make you a slave. And in the general elections, that means voting Democrats. If you don’t like who’s being presented then actively work for the people who you do like, and help them win the primaries. People like me didn’t make the system we have, but we’re stuck with it. And now we have Trump actively working to destroy free and fair elections, ICE deporting hard working legal immigrants, JFK Jr. destroying our health department, the wife of the owner of WWE dismantling the department of education, etc. etc. etc. because god forbid we elect a woman who isn’t a communist. And here I thought the Inflation Reduction Act and student loan forgiveness were actually good things.

True. Radio is word of mouth, and the other forms of media are even slower. When one can sit down and doomscroll tik tok for an hour and be exposed to orders of magnitude more information, things are going to change more quickly.

If there was a tariff fee in the invoice, there would be standing.

What a weird take to say out loud.

UBI. Not only is it viable but it works in improving everyone’s lives, not just the people receiving it.

IDK, we’re pretty stupid on average.

He’s definitely both.

I doubt the importers will be refunded. Obviously if they were, 90%+ will not refund their customers because why would they? I can imagine class action lawsuits down the road, but honestly I predict the supreme court will overturn any lower court rulings and let him tariff away, saying it’s the congress’s job to reign him in since “it’s their prerogative” or some such, in a 6-3 ruling. If they wanted to stop the tariffs, the majority will argue, they could simply cancel them.

You’re assuming they knew what they had been ordered to do had anything to do with this. I highly doubt they did. Odds are they didn’t even know the survivors were speaking at the time.

And now we get to the fascists beginning to disarm their enemies phase. After that it won’t be long before they label registered Democrats as mentally defective.

40 years ago and before, slang had to travel by… get this… word of mouth. Now one obnoxious tik tok influencer (and the word is valid because they do actually influence others) to say something for a 12 year old to make it the new thing in her school, thereby infecting an entire town/village/planet. it’s skibidi if you ask me. And I’m 55.

I’m not trying to force anyone to even think a particular way, let alone DO something. But when the choice is the person who literally wants you dead vs someone who’s willing to maybe marginalize you in the current political environment, I would mildly urge you to maybe kindly vote against the guy with a gun to your head who will pull the trigger when he wins. Just sayin’. Maybe focus on the marginalization issue next season before it gets to the gun to the head again. “FUCK YOU KILL ME” isn’t really the best choice in my humble opinion.