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It is a scam. Neo liberals control the democratic party and they serve the elite. They were never going to save us.
We need a true populist movement. The parties haven't served us my entire life.
Some would say, "we need to seize the means of production," even.
Grab 'em by the means of production
They just let you do it when you're rich
socialism yes. communism no. Communists are just as corrupt as the capitalists. We arent limited to just capitalism or communism, why pick from failed strategies?
Communism is a stateless, classless society, and more like a utopian end-goal to strive for. But, yeah, parties that label themselves communist tend to be of the authoritarian type. Failure of certain strategies and implementations doesn't mean an entire ideology is bad. Democracy failed with Rome, and wasn't implemented on a large scale again for ~1800 years; and I think most people consider democracy a pretty good system now.
I'm 40 years old and I have never felt represented by my government.
A 40 year old would have been born in 1985. No president has been born after 1961. If you exclude Obama, no president has been born after 1945.
What do you mean? Musk was born in '71.
Man, that's bleak.
55 here and it's been the same
You change the parties the way the Tea Party and Maga changed the Republicans. You start a faction and then work on taking over the existing party.
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Maybe this is a hot take, but why don’t we just make all the law abiding undocumented immigrants legal and just move the fuck on? We need a party that will focus on healthcare and education the most as those two things will create a better society in the long run. Having these other individuals able to fully participate in society could be helpful in many ways as well.
why?
racism
bEcAuSe ThAt WoUlD bE uNfAiR tO tHoSe WhO dId It ThE "rIgHt" WaY
Which is, of course, a completely bullshit argument. But it nonetheless gets trotted out any time there's a proposal to make something easier for anyone middle class or below.
Yeah, I love how that argument completely ignores all the other advantages that come along with 'doing it the right way'
It's like being on a cruise ship in the ocean that rescues some sailors in distress, and then someone gets pissed because the rescued people didn't buy a ticket like everyone else.
That's a very apt comparison, and I would bet cold hard cash that there are people who act exactly like that on a cruise.
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One of the biggest problems in America is people thinking that suffering is a necessary part of human existence and people having what you have without suffering is an injustice, unless they're rich.
Every time a conservative sees someone getting help they assume it could have been money in their pockets instead. It's sick zero-sum thinking and betrays a total lack of understanding of financial appropriations, tax, really everything, reality even.
They hate on California for having broad healthcare access for the public because it's ''socialism'', but the reason California extended coverage so far is that study after study made it clear that if you don't cover the tooth ache, you will have to cover the root canal, or three ER visit for sepsis, or an ICU stay. We know giving people healthcare, cost less money then letting them get life threatening medical consequences. They also like to point to homelessness as though homelessness is a sign of total ineptitude, when R states literally forcibly transport their homeless to SF and LA. And the stat they don't realize they are pointing at, it's the number of homeless people in homeless shelters that CA maintains for a lot of money, but again. If there is no effort to keep people alive and well, you have to deal with the most expensive consequences. The RNC is the antithesis of keeping cost burden of the state low, and actual governing.
As a general advertisement, not even asking for money, liberal groups should send "fake checks" to people and say:
Trump and Musk shut down USAID and saved the taxpayer $21.7B... Here's your share of the rebate ($0.00). Whoops! We had to pay the millionaires and billionaires first. Better luck next time!
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That's what Regan and HW Bush did. But they're all against it now.
One big reason is because minorities tend to be left leaning. This is one of the reasons people are against Puerto Rico becoming a state.
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Remember: If it feels like a scam, it is.
Ever try to buy car insurance?
I just bought car insurance. Switched from USAA to Progressive and saved a shitload. USAA hasn't been a good deal for a while now.
THAT SAID - Progressive is always trying to get me to turn on "accident detection" on my phone. Fuck that, I know exactly what they do with that data, it's not happening.
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All insurance is a scam.
Game of Thrones should have taught you that.
Our gov is taking our tax money and not showing us what they are doing with it. If its not a scam, show us where the money is going.
Our gov is showing us what they do with the tax money. It is, in fact, all public information you can get with a couple seconds of digging (and has been that way for a LONG time).
https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/federal-spending/
The only real black boxes of the government are military and espionage spending. Everything else is out in the open.
That military black box is massive, and the pentagon hasn’t successfully completed one of its past seven audits. This is a prime area for reform and cost cutting, and yet house repugs just voted to add another 100 billion to its budget.
AOC is correct, it’s a grift, and the billionaires and corporations are coming for what little we have left.
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Does this include all the money that the government is giving to Elon Musk??
Yes. Our government is actually really transparent. Granted, a lot of this wasn't apparent until DOGE claimed to bring transparency, and then everything they did was shown to be redundant or worse with existing systems.
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Just not the uninformed shoddy lie filled way DOGE are.
Everything's been a scam for a while especially this bullshit society. Capitalism inherently encourages and drives everything towards scamming people gotta "make profit" and no one dare dictate what's egregious or not because "who are you to say" so there is just no limit to the greed whatsoever. Cutting corners/costs can only go so far until the planes start falling out of the sky or however that saying goes. We're past the terminal end stages of capitalism and they have no remedy for it and we're seeing the cancer mutate in to something else now.
Yeah I’ve been saying this for a few months now, we are officially in “The Age of the Grifter.” Honestly it makes me a little sick this is what we’ve been reduced to.
It feels like it's a swing off the cancel movement and now everyone can just lie without any consequences.
Guys and gals, I have a solution, it involves a guillotine and...
Everything is a scam?
Kind of like AOC voting to protect the rail corporation from a union strike, then presenting herself as a champion of the working class.
I hate Realpolitik, but she did that as part of a backroom deal with Pelosi.
AOC isn't perfect, but she truly does fight for us because she fights to change the system itself. Of the 435 elected House reps, she is easily the least corrupted of the entire lot. Her and Bernie are the best we have.
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