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If you are an American with either a Democratic senator or house rep (or senate/house elect rep), you should write them as well.

They also refused to call Elon’s Nazi salute a Nazi salute.

He’s the guy who invented holding a mug in a smug way.

He already tried that in 2020 and it didn’t work.

This is also an effort to prevent the passing of the Epstein Files Transparancy Act 2.

What are the consequences if they don’t lisren?

Also works for cult leaders.

I don’t think he picked up the concept of psychological projection from any specific person, but rather, he’s just like that because he was raised as a spoiled brat who always had everything handed to him and got participation trophies every time he lost.

Roy Cohn mainly told Trump to never admit defeat, no matter how hard he lost.

Deny, delay, defend.

It might not be a radical idea, but it is, in fact, totally radical, dude.

What is your evidence for a “kneejerk reaction” being the specific reason she opposed that bill?

You gave a single actual example, which she has since changed her mind on after learning more about the situation and a whole lot of nonspecific language.

I understand social democracy very well and I don’t think it’s a good system because the capitalist class ultimately stays in charge, which will inevitably lead to corruption and the slow reverting of social services. I used to be a social democrat myself around when Bernie started to run for president the first time, so I understand why the premise is popular.

My idea of socialism includes:

• Workers owning the businesses they work for with no exceptions, which eliminates worker exploitation and enshittification
• Having a hard wealth cap (both realized and unrealized) of between $10-50 million tied to inflation
• A universal basic income that is enough to thrive, which will allow people to persue hobbies and become entrepeneurs without fear of failure
• Having all basic necessities be guaranteed and universally available without means testing (healthcare, housing, utilities, food, etc.)
• A universal right to dignity and privacy (eliminate mass surveillance both from governments and from companies, police and prisons must treat people with respect, similar to the Norweigan system)
• Create a government organization that publicly audits code to ensure that neither malicious foreign or domestic actors have the ability to hack into computers to the best of their ability, and have a state bug bounty program for all open source code
• Have the government own essential infrastructure as voted on by the people (public infrastructure, prisons, the military, schools, etc.)
• Have a more direct form of democracy, eliminating representatives in favor of direct voting on legislation wherever possible to aid in abolishing corruption
• Eliminate the Supreme Court’s ability to unilaterally enact laws
• Public funding of elections where representatives are needed, along with a new voting system (RCV, STAR, etc. depending on what mathmeticians agree represents the people best for each individual scenario)
• Ban all advertising, especially political. If any individual is getting paid to speak in any form that is not directly advertising, who pays must be disclosed or else face prosecution
• Ban all for-profit news organizations, excluding independent outlets who receive their funding from small-dollar donations
• Ensure that nobody is above the law by allowing the public as a whole to sue individuals and organizations, even if they were not directly affected by whatever crime has been committed

And that’s just what I came up with and is by no means comprehensive.

The difference between it being an option and it being mandated is that when the level of greed we see today is allowed to exist, then it will exist, and power will slowly and inevitably be taken away from the worker class.

There are also multiple types of socialism, and socialism doesn’t necessarilly mean government ownership specifically. Check out Professor Richard Wolff’s excellent lectures on the topic.

Nixon’s aide famously admitted in the 90s that the entire point of the War on Drugs was to go after black people, Jews, and hippies.

The racism on the right is nothing new. It’s been their main form of divide and conquer alongside sexism and anti-LGBT bigotry and fearmongering since the founding of the country (a reminder that the founders compromised with elitists to allow them to keep slaves).

Longer than that. Reagan coined the term “welfare queen”.

Democratic Socialism is closer to socialism than communism. It literally means using democracy to transform the economic system to be socialist.

I’d consider myself a democratic socialist myself, as I believe that workers should own the businesses they work for instead of consolidating the power to a small amount of executives and shareholders who only care about making more profit than they did the previous quarter. I also believe this would limit the possibility of corruption by preventing extreme wealth from existing in the first place.

I do not consider myself a communist because I don’t believe that centralized control is a good idea in most cases. An exception to that for me would be a single payer healthcare system, where the government guarantees healthcare to all of its citizens and visitors free at the point of service.

Gotta love the two party system, both of which the capitalist class controls.

Social democracy (regulated capitalism, or “checked wealth”) will always lead back into the kind of corruption and “unchecked wealth” that the US has, since it leaves the opportunity to gain more power and control politics intact. The wealthy elite will simply buy politicians over time, corrupt the news media, and play the divide and conquer game (mainly by means of racism and sexism to distract from their own power), as history has shown time and again.

Then I stand corrected. It is still voter disenfranchisement, though, especially during COVID.