GoofSchmoofer @ GoofSchmoofer @lemmy.world

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The rich throughout history have always been afraid of the working class it just usually just shows up in less obvious ways.

The way the wealthy talk about the working class

The way the wealthy always look to divide the working class into camps to fight amongst themselves

The way the wealthy demonize labor unions

The way the wealthy keep education limited and expensive

The way the wealthy use religion and media to drive their idea of goodness and justice

The way the wealthy try to make the working class envious of their wealth so the working class spends their money and time trying to replicate it.

Are all examples of an underlying fear of the significantly larger working class population getting control.

And it is such a winning strategy that it works on them in reverse. The wealthy will do whatever they can to keep their wealth and always try to pile more on because of the fear of being one of them (the working class) that they have demonized for generations.

EDIT: added more examples

hunger.

I don't mean starvation I mean there are people that cannot sit with a slight uncomfortable feeling of hunger. If you have eaten enough to fuel your body in a healthy way then being slightly hungry will not harm you.

If progressives want to actually play with the big kids (GOP and DNC) then they need to quickly start to promote a truly left leaning fire brand candidate. Someone that will fire up not just the base but a large portion of the American voting public.

The murder of a insurance CEO shows that there are common frustrations within the population at large and I feel that if there was one person that would address this in a way that is exciting and motivating they would do well. Bernie is an example of this but he can't be the only one.

Someone that is smart and has experience in debating the bullshit makers in the media and on podcasts. Someone that is willing to take the abuse and name calling that will come from the establishment and use it to their advantage. I genuinely believe that they would a least push the DNC away from the center - but it is something that needs to be started in the next 12 months to work.

If this happens there would be a blue wave that took over and would spend the next 4+ years trying to reduce the bleeding which is long enough for many non politically engaged people to forget it was the republicans that started it, who would then blame the Democrats for screwing up the economy .

The Secret IRS Files from ProPublica does an amazing job at outlining why this is

Well if every vehicle becomes autonomous then isn't that just a large scaled high speed train?

so we learned

It sounds like you were like most people in the western world - uneducated on nutrition, cooking and basic life skills. This isn't a jab at you this is just the world that we live in. Most people don't have a good understanding of these things so the go with what is easy, fast and feels inexpensive. This drives obesity.

It's great that you took the initiative to learn home economics and it sounds like it has helped you and your family. Many others have not gotten to the "so we learned" stage yet for whatever reason.

Neighbor's kid named Issac Cox

But Americans actually do like more socialist policies. There is a reason why Social Security, Medicaid and Medicare is known as the third rail of politics.

Harris' solution to the housing problem really annoyed me. There are so many other more effective ways to go about making housing more affordable but she just ignored them. This, in my uneducated opinion, would have also motivated more voters.

In a more general sense, the mainstream Democrats have always had a difficult time with messaging which is nothing new but really showed itself in this past election.

Democrats think that if you just spend time educating the voting population on all the good their policies will do then the voter will make a rational decision in the voting booth. And in the exit polling that is exactly who voted for Harris, highly educated people that like that kind of lecture type of politicking. But most people don't vote like that - they don't want a professor in the oval office they want a cheerleader.

I'm hoping for a removal of putin from power and the Russian people get a chance to create a more democratic system where they actually have people in power that are genuinely want to help the population.

This would be an interesting behind the scenes fight because I can't see other billionaires just letting musk dictate to them what they will and won't do.

That's great! do you have any names of these PACs ?

I think that is a great idea - I would donate to a PAC that promoted the election of progressive candidates. I'm sure many on Lemmy would do the same.

Most open to making money at the expense of security.

"“What they were telling me was counterintuitive to everything I’d heard at Microsoft about ‘customer first,’” Harris said. “Now they’re telling me it’s not ‘customer first,’ it’s actually ‘business first.’”

DiCola, Harris’ then-supervisor, told ProPublica the race to dominate the market for new and high-growth areas like the cloud drove the decisions of Microsoft’s product teams. “That is always like, ‘Do whatever it frickin’ takes to win because you have to win.’ Because if you don’t win, it’s much harder to win it back in the future. Customers tend to buy that product forever.”

Propublica

From their about page:

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Humans are animals that navigate life through the lens of emotions with logic being something that we have to work towards - so you may be closer to the truth than you think.

Yep. Lost a good and very smart friend to the anti vax conspiracies and maybe others by now.

I've also had to really pay attention and tell myself that I live in a liberal bubble and need to balance that bias against what is truth.

So there has to be a new department - headed by TWO different people that's going to be dealing with efficiency in the government?

This has to be the dumbest timeline

I would say there is still some complicated stuff going on in the brain with knowing where your arm, hand, elbow and shoulder are in space as well how much force you need to apply (the precise amount of motor neurons to activate at the exact time) so you can toss the ball in the arc you need to catch it on the other side.