Oh no not our beloved billionaires who destroy our climate, ruin our air and water, leech our power grid, steal our data, monitor our every move, profit off our misery, refuse to give anything back but the absolute rock bottom bare minimum, and buy politicians to keep it that way. Whatever shall we do without them?
Congressional salaries should be capped at the average wage of the constituency they represent. And any earnings exceeding that amount will be taxed at 100%. Just sit back and watch how quickly these red states manage to push through a living wage.
The point of Huckleberry Finn, as far as I can tell, is that you can still choose to do good in utter darkness, even if you have absolutely zero tools for it, even when there are no role models you can follow, even when your entire learned vocabulary is full of explicit hate speech, even when every single religious and political and educational authority in your life says you're wrong and evil and will be condemned to hell for it. And you can do this by simply believing completely in the humanity of others, and then allowing that to guide your actions. It is a book about defining where, precisely, are the limits of power and control that can be exerted by white supremacy over an individual person.
And when you put it like that, it's no wonder MAGA keeps trying to ban the damn thing.
When we said "maybe getting sick shouldn't saddle you with generational debt," you said "THAT'S SOCIALISM!!"
When we said "maybe student loan debt should actually go down after paying on it for decades," you said "THAT'S SOCIALISM!!"
When we said "maybe trans people shouldn't be hunted and killed for sport but rather respected as unique individuals worthy of basic human kindness," you said "THAT'S SOCIALISM!!"
When we said "maybe women can actually make informed medical choices about their own bodies," you said "THAT'S SOCIALISM!!"
When we said "maybe qualified job candidates who happen to have black or brown skin shouldn't be punished for their color but rather have an equal opportunity to earn that job as a similar white candidate," you said "THAT'S SOCIALISM!!"
When we said "maybe there's something we can do to regulate gun ownership so that fewer school children die every year in preventable mass shootings," you said "THAT'S SOCIALISM!!"
When we said "maybe cops with guns aren't needed at every crisis, and in fact cases of people in mental crisis could be better handled by trained psychologists or therapists," you said "THAT'S SOCIALISM!!"
When we said "maybe billionaires don't actually need any financial help from the government and instead should pay taxes," you said "THAT'S SOCIALISM!!"
When we said "maybe the federal government has a duty to help private citizens in need by funding basic public services and safety nets like libraries and buses and hospitals," you said THAT'S SOCIALISM!!"
So we looked at all those things you called Socialism, and decided we want them. Brother, you're the best marketing Socialism ever had.
1,000 habeus corpus cases is systematic malpractice.
10,000 habeus corpus cases, in which nearly 90% of them are found by separate, independent, federal judges, to have been illegal, extrajudicial kidnappings is a war crime. It is the definition of genocide and a prosecutable offense under the Geneva convention.
But they're not going to stop at 10,000. They're not stopping at 100,000. They want fucking millions and tens of millions. Their literal, published plan is genocide on an unfathomable scale.
It is scorched earth time. Every single Democrat controlled state needs to do this immediately without hesitation, just to prove they understand the assignment.
Obama should announce he is running for a 3rd term and make every single MAGA dipshit openly come out against Presidents who try to circumvent the two-term limit in the Constitution.
If every Democrat-led state immediately redistricts, we have a 235-200 advantage. Time to stop pussyfooting around and playing nice with the fascists and just drop the nuclear option. We are at war.
Obama survived 11 Assassination attempts, one of which was literally a guy shooting directly at the White House with an AK, and another of which involved multiple enlisted soldiers creating a literal militia within the United States Army.
Zero of these assassination attempts involved sea shells.
If you truly believe that teaching about God in public schools will improve people's morality first you need to explain why that doesn't happen in churches.
I am fundamentally against AI, not because I am technophobic or anti-progress. I am no Luddite. I am quite often a first adopter of new tech. I am against AI because I can recognize a con when I see one. And we are living in the Golden Age of Con Artists.
We are being sold snake oil and told it is a panacea for all that ails us. We are being sold a deed to the Golden Gate Bridge and told it will only cost us the price of a sandwich.
People love being told they're right about things, and hate being told they're wrong. People love things that are inexpensive and hate things that are costly. People love things that are instant gratification and hate having to wait.
Actual subject matter experts are: costly, time consuming, and often tell you when you're dead wrong about something. AI is everything an expert isn't. It's cheap to use, gives results in an instant, and always tells you you're right. That's not an expert. That's a grift.
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