CrocodilloBombardino @ the_abecedarian @piefed.social

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The supreme court is 9 ppl appointed for life, so that's antidemocratic. The Senate is 2 ppl per state regardless of population, that's antidemocratic. Amendments need 3/4 of the States, not people, to go through, that's antidemocratic. The federalist papers specifically discuss the desire to prevent the people ("the mob" they called us) from having much power.

those are not comments by me

You spent most of your message telling me what I was saying (and getting it 100% wrong)

I think you have me confused with someone else?

I love listening to 4-part interviews before I can take part in a conversation.

It's what the post is about. Your question is addressed in the content of the post. I know you just wanna bang out a comment real quick and move on, but maybe the discussion would be meaningful if you at least listened to the shorter, 1-part interview.

Re-establish the system that got us here in the first place? The status quo before Trump... in which Trump got elected twice? I wonder if, once balance is restored, you'll say "now's not the time to question things" again because "our people" are in power?

I'm not saying the point is to make questioning the Constitution the most important leftist platform. I'm saying that the protest moment we have here is an opportunity. The Democratic Party wants to use the opportunity to get people to vote Democrat in elections and nothing more. It's fine to vote that way, but it just creates the opportunity for the next charismatic "outsider" figure to arise after we've had a Dem administration again. My point is that the left needs to offer a real alternative to the failing constitutional system and to the dictatorship the right is offering.

What's the link between the corruption of the current day (citizens united, ICE, MAGA) and the constitution? What would you want to replace it in order to solve any of those problems?

It's in the interviews in the OP! Nothing but knee-jerk reactions here.

I dunno y'all, maybe just listen to the interviews?

I think mine was gentoo, waaaay back in the day. It didn't go great lol.

I'm loving opensuse rn though!

I would never trust a billionaire to do anything for us. If he doesn't just carve out an exception for only people like himself at first, he'll still lobby to have new restrictions on sharing if they threaten his business model.

It'll end up being a back-and-forth between him and the IP companies, so if he has enough leverage, they'll just find a way to give him what he wants without doing so for regular folks.

Very cool! For the user scores, are you using monthly active users, total registered users, or something else?

https://thedigradio.com/

Also all of the Jacobin magazine podcasts are socialist

Thanks for this list! There are some fun suggestions here that'll help me get into peertube, but Russel Brand is a conspiracy theorist and far-right pundit, recently charged with rape & sexual assault. Suggesting you delete him from this list.

Pandoc can convert many kinds of files to docx, pdf, and lots of other things. Use the text editor of your choice!

Haha I sympathize. Glad to help!

There's also this mega list that overall leans libertarian-socialist, but contains authors from many perspectives

The Srsly Wrong podcast mixes and explains ideas about socialism (from a number of sources) in a lighthearted way. Use the suggestions in the "Start Here" sidebar on their site.

Anark is an anarchist youtuber, with clear explanations of ideas, strategies, and concepts for anarchist and libertarian-socialist (not at all like right wing "libertarians") forms of socialism. He disagrees heavily with authoritarian socialists (who are apparently a big part of lemmy.ml).

Zoe Baker is a youtuber who is a PhD-level scholar of anarchism, who also has a lot of videos about Marx's thought.

The quotes are not there for their accuracy, but to illustrate Musk's outlook and intentions. He sees all entitlements as a bad thing per se and will break whatever norms and rules he can get away with to get rid of them, citing great replacement lies as a justification to the far right and citing "efficiency" as a sop to the less-far-right. Whether he can get away with it remains to be seen, but my original comment was an off-the-cuff "Musk is trying to destroy social security", not a detailed argument about what has happened so far. I think, given the experience of so many other government agencies with Musk and DOGE, that this is a fair statement for casual posting.

Process counts as much as benefits. Difficulty making payments is a form of sabotage. Even delaying payments counts as a cut because some ppl will die before having received a payment they would have.

Why else would Musk be messing with SSA? "Efficiency" ? Why not take him at his word? A couple choice quotes from that article:

• “Most of the federal spending is entitlements,” Musk told the Fox Business Network. “That’s the big one to eliminate.”
• "Musk said Monday that federal entitlements are “a mechanism by which the Democrats attract and retain illegal immigrants by essentially paying them to come here and then turning them into voters.”

It's just an excuse. They want to get rid of him because they don't like his politics and he's an activist. Whether the state categorizes you as a citizen, resident, tourist, undocumented, etc. should have nothing to do with your right to speak out.

but please don't

Ofc Musk is trying to destroy social security as we speak

It often takes a personal crisis to get people to doubt the cult/white supremacist group/multilevel marketing scheme they've been a part of for a long time