MutilationWave @ MutilationWave @lemmy.world

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Check out Bernie Sanders. Yeah he's 80 years old but he's fighting for the poor and middle class his whole life. He's the only senator in the US that doesn't belong to either political party.

This guy got arrested marching for civil rights with Martin Luther King. It sucks that he's so old but his mind is sharp. He, Warren, Lina Khan and Alexandria Cortez are the only national level politicians I respect. And Lina Khan got fired by Trump already.

That's just one video. Every day he's out there fighting for the workers.

.world got it's act together and stopped censoring Luigi stuff after a few days.

But know he owns businesses like Papa John's, which works hard at exploiting workers for their wealth.

For what it's worth Elizabeth Warren is considered one of the few left of center Democrats in the US. With this information I would say you are close to a social Democrat, and definitely not a conservative as we understand it in the US.

Trump and Elon are going to crash the economy. I know the stock market is actually based on rich people vibes, but I can't see it not tanking at some point, quite possibly soon. I took all the money I had saved for a down payment on a house out of the market on Tuesday.

Liberal. Not in the way it's used in the US these days, but the actual definition.

If it weren't for illegal weed and the free market part (depending on what you mean by consumer protections) I'd say you're pretty progressive for the US.

What do you think of social safety nets? What about universal basic income? What about tax rates (individual and corporate)? These answers would give me a better picture of your politics.

It loads a blank page with a title right now. Maybe someone decided that if they put the pages back up they can follow the letter of the order, but censor the page contents.

My wife kept her name when we got married ten years ago. It has only caused minimal problems with bureaucracy.

That's awesome. Who usually wins?

I mean, it used to be considered disrespectful to sit down to eat without taking off your hat. I would eat with you while you wear a hat no problem, but I would take mine off.

But how could we ban the content when the owners of the media are fascists? When all three branches of the government are dominated by people who rely on this messaging?

You want people to relax while we're in the beginning of a fascist takeover of our country?

I live in the state that gave Trump his highest margin of victory, so I have seen what you describe many times.

My friend listened to punk music and played in punk bands. He was very conservative politically. I hadn't seen him in a while and we decided to go to a show hours away and catch up. We had stopped talking politics to preserve our friendship. We were on our way back from the show, listening to Rancid, and I couldn't stand it anymore. I was like "hey man, you love this music, but do you not hear the lyrics? How can you say the things you say?" I didn't know he had changed.

He had been doing survey work for a mining company for years. He explained that after he got out of that job, everything became clear. He wasn't conservative anymore, in fact he had become progressive.

He explained that when he worked with nothing but hard right conservatives, with Fox News on all day, it seeped into his brain and corrupted him.

This is an intelligent man I'm talking about. He was a victim of propaganda and was smart enough to realize it once he was away from it.

This is always on my mind:

""We won the evangelicals. We won with young. We won with old. We won with highly educated. We won with poorly educated. I love the poorly educated."

Trump said this at a speech in Nevada during the primary in 2016, and people cheered.

It's happened twice to me, I'm now 41. I was able to get it resolved both times but it was not easy and in the first case seriously hurt my credit score for seven years.

This has happened many times. In the last city I lived in, a man went in to have a leg amputated and they got the wrong one, so he ended up with zero legs.

At one point in the campaign JD Vance suggested that people with children should get more votes than childfree people. I'm certain he, and many others, would be down for that.

Banks and nations. Saudi Arabia was a big contributor. I wonder why a theocratic dictatorship would want influence over a worldwide free speech platform?

That's so fucking clever, I love it.

Around 2006, a woman was able to start an account with the local power company with my SSN and name. She said she was my girlfriend and was setting it up for me. I know this because the person setting up the account made a note of it at the time. She ran it up over $300 and then let them close it. I didn't find out about it until a few years later when I had to set up electric in my name (lived with roommates from 2002 until like 2016). They told me they wouldn't start a new account until I paid what I owed.

I don't think this is possible anymore, but even at the time it's unbelievable that it was allowed.