Probably leave religion in the past, recognize the oligarchy as the source of most of our woes, legislate for a maximum income, laws to make home ownership by companies illegal, begin providing universal basic income, stop caring about the boarder and just let people in, decriminalize drugs and prostitution, criminalize bribes to politicians, break up the obvious monopolies, nationalize internet access, expand voter access and encourage everyone to vote, release prisoners from prison for non-violent offenses, close private prisons and reform tge whole court system, structure fines for laws broken as a percentage of income making them a deterent even for tge wealthy, ties minimum wage to inflation or tge gdp in some way so it can keep up without further legislation, open a new department that is not police to handle most calls more ethically, cap income within a company so no one can make more than X times more than any other employee of the company, simplify tge tax codes to close most loopholes, empower tge IRS to send citizens a bill instead of paying turbo tax, prevent civil forfeture, remove state ability to fine individuals without an income for not paying fees, expand disability benefits so you can have more than $3k in liquid assets and still get benefits, and so on.
Odd that they bring up the Charles Dickins story, when litteral Christmas was about knocking on the doors of rich people and beating the fuck out of them if they didn't provide enough money or drink, then getting drunk together in the town square or the rich peoples houses.
Things like this are very interesting to me, considering a lot of what became 'Nazi rhetoric' was learned from the United States. We did eugenics, concentration camps, the red scare, defining groups as inferior, fostering anti-other hate mobs with public lynchings and the KKK, as well as invading countless countries killing leaders and civilians alike.
Should probably mark posts that show American symbols as NSFW as well.
Have always really enjoyed writing poetry and playing with rhyme and meter. I've never enjoyed reading poetry from famous poets. The first time I became interested in "high status" poetry, just for its status, I heard about the newest Poet Loriet. I looked up their poems, all excited to read clear, interesting takes on the human condition.
I think it was probably Kay Ryan at that time. Here is a poem by Kay that I found online:
The Elephant in the Room
Kay Ryan
The room is
almost all
elephant.
Almost none
of it isn’t.
Pretty much
solid elephant.
So there’s no
room to talk
about it.
It wasn't the typical art critique that a layman would typically jump to that filled me, "I could do that" it was tge far worse feeling of, "If I had written this, I wouldn't have thought to show anyone"
I pretty much decided then and there that poetry, like most art, it seems, has little to do with content or quality. More so with means and notoriety.
How is it people are at all surprised out society created a new generation more obsessed with being popular online than anything else?
It is very simple. When you are worried about yourself and your own actions that is normal. When you are concerned about what others choose, that is conservatism.
So you deliberately only assist those you consider "a friend"?
We really don't need to keep dragging this out. My point is simply that voting for the "lesser evil" is not morally superior to voting for your ideal candidate or protest voting. And fighting for an actually left movement to take power benefits us all.
But that isn't how comics are read, but it does make sense.