[-] Wes4Humanity@lemm.ee 8 points 1 day ago

Tried this with Bernie... The DNC rigged the primary... first goal needs to be to take over the Dem party. Which would actually be pretty easy since like 5 people show up to those elections, but only insiders really ever know about them.

If you're curious, every state, and many towns/counties have their own Democrat party... Find yours, figure out who the shills are and get like 10 people to vote for you to replace them during their next elections. The DNC leadership is elected by the state Dems, so once you've taken over your state you can start taking over the DNC.

[-] Wes4Humanity@lemm.ee 6 points 2 days ago

This is a video... Unless you're suggesting that it's a deep fake, we absolutely know what happened here... What we don't know is what led up to this guy hulking out about Palestine... But it really doesn't matter. There is no justification for it. This is not normal or okay behavior under any circumstances. This guy is mentally ill and needs serious psychiatric help.

[-] Wes4Humanity@lemm.ee 2 points 2 days ago

I nominate Cheney... Bring him on stage like she's going to thank him for his endorsement, then punch him in the face, then have a bunch of kids from Iraq and Afghanistan kick his ass. I'd watch that.

[-] Wes4Humanity@lemm.ee 1 points 5 days ago

If you put some bacteria in a petri dish, they might even up creating a very complex system... But they'll always be constrained by the petri dish. We can look at the petri dish and say it's having XYZ effect, without necessarily having to get too into the weeds about the complexities of what's happening inside the dish.

[-] Wes4Humanity@lemm.ee 1 points 5 days ago

One major problem with our current economic system is that it allows a small group of people to limit resources that would not naturally have to be limited (false scarcity). Sort of like if the rules called for throwing baseballs at people's heads to see the effects of TBIs.

[-] Wes4Humanity@lemm.ee 22 points 6 days ago

The economy is not a natural phenomenon, it was designed... Economists explaining "how things work" is like someone explaining how baseball works... That's great, but it's time to change to an entirely different game, so you telling me how baseball works is worthless

[-] Wes4Humanity@lemm.ee 1 points 6 days ago

Ugh... We need ranked choice so bad

[-] Wes4Humanity@lemm.ee 6 points 6 days ago

"The war to end war" (also "The war to end all wars";[1] originally from the 1914 book The War That Will End War by H. G. Wells) is a term for the First World War of 1914–1918. Originally an idealistic slogan, it is now mainly used sardonically,[2] since not only was the First World War not history's final war, but its aftermath also indirectly contributed to the outbreak of the even more devastating Second World War.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_war_to_end_war

[-] Wes4Humanity@lemm.ee 1 points 6 days ago

Imagine if all those people stood together against genocide instead of dividing over it. Women alone are like half the population... Why are they siding with genocide? They could elect anyone they want. Anyone with health insurance? That's almost everyone. Bam, anyone they want. If a gay person votes for genocide how much should I really give a shit about them? There's no "meaningful choice" because the libs get out early saying so... But if it's not this election then certainly by the next one, millennials and zoomers are gonna be done with the old boomer parties.. And good riddance

[-] Wes4Humanity@lemm.ee 2 points 6 days ago

They've probably also figured out how many people saying that will actually fold with a little arm twisting. Would be super interesting to see those numbers.

[-] Wes4Humanity@lemm.ee 9 points 6 days ago

Maga: don't threaten me with a good time

[-] Wes4Humanity@lemm.ee 14 points 6 days ago

The war to end all wars!

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submitted 6 months ago by Wes4Humanity@lemm.ee to c/economics@lemmy.world

This idea has been kicking around in my head for a while, and I'm hoping some Lemmy geniuses can poke holes/ flesh it out with me.

Every person I've ever heard of works for and gets paid by some form of company. So instead of the company paying the workers and then those workers getting taxed, why not just tax it all to the corporations to begin with? Instead of hundreds of millions of individuals to think about, the IRS (in US) could just focus on a few million companies.

We the people democratically decide what we think is needed for a functioning society, and charge it to the corporations.

I'd say each company should be responsible for paying the same percentage of the bill as percentage of total "profits" they made. Like, if Apple makes 10% of all the combined profits of all the companies this quarter, they are responsible for paying 10% of the bill. Highest paid employee can make 10x what the lowest paid employee (including contracted and foreign workers) makes; more than that gets included in the calculation as part of the company's "profits". (So that CEO can still get paid absurd amounts of money, but the company will still pay taxes on most of it)

What if we created some sort of secure opinion/voting app where people go to cast their vote on whatever people think needs to be voted on. Should there be UBI? Should it be a token, living, or thriving wage? (Personally, I'd go with thriving and tie it to inflation) Single payer healthcare? All education paid for? Stop funding genocide? No more polluting the planet, or at least force companies to pay to clean up their own messes? When and where are companies allowed to market to us? Where should the threshold of agreement be to enact changes, 40% 50%+1 60%? Etc etc

Then we elect people who agree to simply enact what the people democratically agree on... And if the people don't agree, they'll stay away from it or leave it to the states. And hopefully someday we could build it out so that state and local governments work this way too.

I think we get bogged down on the 2 or 3 things we disagree on and allow that to mean we never get the things we DO agree on. Let's get the things we agree on first, and then continue debating the things we disagree on.

Also I think this would be a long term plan. 12 years would give us 2 full election cycles here in the US and would give zoomers time to grow up, settle, and start to really vote (hopefully with this new system).

Anyway, like I said, let's poke holes and figure out solutions. Thanks

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