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Thanks, I thought so but it's good to have confirmation my fantasy could play out
Especially because they apparently improperly searched him, which could make it all inadmissable
It's amazing for quick everyone was to talk about him like he did it
Like, he can get acquitted, do a press conference and say "guys the police tried to frame me. It really wasn't me" and no one would believe him. People would go "riiiight" winking at him and doing finger guns
You act like we're saying different things...
But history rhymes, it doesn't repeat. We're in uncharted territory... The final outcome will probably rhyme, but there's endless differences from anything humanity has ever experienced before
Nope. Luigi is clearly innocent
And turning off the sarcasm for a moment... They found a manifesto and a murder weapon at McDonald's on a guy who dropped a backpack full of Monopoly money in central park? Then got away? He doesn't even look that similar to the security cam videos... It's too convenient, I have legitimate doubt
He doesn't though... He's still an independent
On November first, 2024, what do you say? Vote blue no matter who, don't let the fascists win.
On November 12th, 2024, what do you say? The Democrats are dickless fucks who handed the country to a fascist to court the billionaires
What do you think Bernie said? And when? What is he saying now?
No, he'd be killed. He's made too many enemies... Both in his peers for revealing himself to be a liability, and among the working class worldwide
If he falls out of grace, he's going down like Epstein, if not by the adjuster
No, Bernie is solid - he compromises, but he isn't compromised
He's a progressive...a very moderate one, but he's in between where we are and where we should be, and he has been there his entire career
You want me to paint a picture? I'm watching a god bleed, and now I'm wondering what it takes for one to fall
You can say it's impossible, but we're in the onion timeline. We're so far beyond anything humanity has ever gone through before... History might rhyme, but we're in uncharted territory
Let them have the democratic party, they're already on the right and they've captured the GOP... Trouble is, the GOP is gone - it's now MAGA
We just need a party to coallese on the left, and the cycle will turn. It's happened before, it'll happen again, because a two party system is dumb
I'm hoping Bernie has the gas left in the tank to set it up, draw away actually progressive Democrats, and rally the public. Because I don't know who else could do it in time
I've been wondering about this... Billionaires do the "borrow against their holdings so they pay no taxes, do it again to pay those off, then die" thing
So his holdings doubled and crashed back down (and still falling) over the course of a few months. He leveraged a ton of it to buy Twitter, which has also crashed.
So is there a point where he loses everything? If Tesla drops too low, can they call in the debt?
He doesn't seem to own much property directly, even his mini home is basically a publicity stunt while he basically lives with various friends
So if his stocks continue to crash, is there a point where it all just falls apart?
Well I mean I can respect that desire, but compromising on our ideals isn't the way there. Look at healthcare - Obama care was a compromise, and then from there we compromised further, crippling the good parts and leaving in the concessions
Where is our free healthcare?
If we had gone single payer or Medicare for all, people would've seen the savings directly. Because it is cheaper, cheaper for individuals and the government too.
That's the thing - the people overwhelmingly want what we're selling, they've just been convinced it wouldn't work. You think they're going to shoot up a nightclub because their medical bills were forgiven? No, they'll let go of the misplaced anger because their life is getting better and they feel less desperate
And as far as a peaceful transition - we need to organize on the left. Farmers, the elderly, the auto unions, veterans... All the top maga groups are being fucked too fast, too hard, and too directly to pull the wool back over their eyes.
People hate musk and Doge. There's been attempts on his life, they're vandalizing Tesla dealerships and vehicles all over, even republican representatives are starting to speak up about it
There's a chance, when everything is crashing and burning, when the federal government is fully in ruin, where we can build something better peacefully. With the world uniting against our leadership and calling us a shit hole, there will be an opportunity
That or we just keep declining more slowly, with less safety and less opportunity...
But civil war? That can only happen if the military fractures in neat halves along the command structure. We're too interconnected - if they stop stocking the grocery stores people aren't going to care nearly as much about which team you're on. There's already schocastic violence, there would just be more.
And ultimately, it's not the left vs the right, it's the billionaires and their corporation against everyone else. Both sides know this, the independents know it, they just call them "the elites" on the right
So what we need isn't compromise, it's to be able to explain simple solutions that most everyone agrees with. And we need to sell it in a million flavors just like the right - we need to be able to win over racists and centrist and each other.
We need to do it by finding simple and concrete next steps we hold in common, not compromising
That's the real problem.... Human social norms can't be codified. We can't do it in legalese, we can't do it in code, but we can do it naturally
It's why I find anarchy appealing - if your being a dick head, you should have everyone turn their backs on you. If you're hoarding resources, you should be made to watch as they pin you down and take it. If you're sociopath who abuses power, you should fall to torches and pitchforks
We know what justice is in a way we can't put into words. You know it when you see it, when you feel it... It just doesn't translate into words exactly
I mean, the 90s are what got us here...
You can't try to meet the opposition halfway, especially not when they're ideologically opposed to your goals. Especially when they're dishonest. Especially when they stretch and exploit the rules to get their way.
Even if their strategy wasn't to rig the system and manipulate the game, they are oppositional on near everything.
It just ends up in you starting the negotiation halfway, before they compromise 75% in their favor, and they might squeeze another bit here and there
The 90s were not a good time politically - it was a civil time. It was also constant pull to the right, we dismantled our social safety nets, we let worker protections get whittled down, we let corporations grow too powerful to reign in. We even removed banking regulations that allowes the 2008 recession, and it all culminated in citizens united.
Our problems now are because of that attitude... Congress used to occasionally erupt into fist fights, and it was better for it. You need the push and pull, or you get the uni party the GOP and Democratic party became - two faces squabbling over social issues as they cooperated to sell out the people
Yeah we do too... Just for some reason we never got around to making that actually illegal. It's just frowned upon
That's the kind of middle ground with fascism the Democratic party is engaging in...
You can make compromises, you can find a middle ground. But that ground has to be stable, it can't be compromised from the get go - that's how you get Obamacare, a payout to insurance companies that has a few positives baked in
If it's compromised from the start, you haven't done anything positive - you've just opened the floor to bastardize it further
But there's the root problem - why are you capping the speed at all? Why are you making inferior products?
To leave room for others to make money. That is the taint in the idea... Why do they need to make money if they can't provide a better service than what the government can do at cost? Or lower even, for the essentials
It's looking at it backwards. People don't need to make money - money is the sign that you're providing value to society. If you can't beat out the government, which is presumably focused on the things everyone needs, why does someone deserve money for it?
It's ok if the government becomes the largest food distributor, hopefully that means everyone eats. It's ok if telcos go out of business, so long as people pay less to get online
Companies should be able to challenge the government, but that doesn't mean they should be given special privilege - making money is a sign you're doing something valuable. If you're carving out room for people to make money you're doing it wrong
I mean, the poison is already in your pitch - "private sector gets the high end". What happens when the government fiber turns out to be faster? What happens when the government cheese is actually better? What happens when the government clothes turn out to be higher quality than the shit we wear today?
What is Verizon going to do? Cry to Congress that they need to go out of their way and pay more to artificially slow down gov fiber. Kellogg will cry free healthy food is ruining demand for overprocessed corn syrup products. If they don't kill it in the cradle they're all going to chip away at it, one bit at a time
How about the government produces the basics and the infrastructure, and corporations get fucked? Let small local business take over, and use the infrastructure at cost. Let competition thrive, and we use antitrust like the pro-active protection against oligarchy it was meant to be
That's why you sue doge, specifically if you can, otherwise supoena them as much as possible. They're young and arrogant, they're going to perjur themselves and spill things they shouldn't... Then daddy Elon will get pissed and lash out at someone, and regardless it'll take time and energy away from their efforts to destroy the government
You have to fight on every front. You don't just give it to them
No, we definitely want geniuses who find the work boring, like Einstein. Think of all they could accomplish when they're stuck in a tower for long shifts of unstimulating work, think of all the math, art, and science they could produce sounds of planes crashing in the background
Easy. You put it in your backpack under the seat in front of you with a long cable. Now no one knows it exists, but your bag is within arms reach so the battery is too