I’ve seen double digit posts about it closing, which is super weird on Lemmy.

Before that is never heard of it either

Hillary did the same with trump over a decade ago, now look where we’re at…

“It might sound and look ironic, but if he’s willing to pay that tax then why the hell isn’t another billionaire willing?” said Zuniga.

If he’s willing to pay more taxes, why isn’t he already using the literal billions he’s stolen from the people to help him?

I fucking hate this shit from billionaires:

I’m totally cool with giving back some of this stolen wealth, just make me. C’mon, make me do the thing anyone with a shred of human empathy would do without anyone asking them to.

And I’ll never understand why people believe they’d put in a good faith effort if they weren’t willing to do it on their own accord

Same article as September for those curious if Raphael did it again, it’s just an old article.

I mean, it’s one of the most constant signs of an empire in decline…

When the powerful aren’t held accountable, doing something and getting away with it goes from a shameful act to something people brag about.

We don’t live in a just society, so no one cares about following the rules.

It’s the first crack in the social contract, and it showed up long ago. One the whole thing goes, so does society.

Quick edit:

That being said, mods will eventually delete this for being a text post, there’s a discussion community your supposed to use for this stuff

Moon bears

It’s gonna be moon bears, isn’t it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvjgIxuVdo4

I didn’t even think about it till the cartel thing, then I was like Whaaaaaaat?

Plurality of voters.

Only ~64% of voters voted in 2024…

“None of the above” would have won the most votes if everyone voted, but that’s not how the system works

In Munich, U.S. Secretary of State Marcio Rubio proposed a “new Western century,” built around a manufactured claim of shared Christian and white heritage, propped up by an elementary-school understanding of world history.

Lol

They don’t discuss the progressive policies of the candidate at all, Ken Martin just plugs his strategy of focusing on smaller races.

Because this is a “smaller race”…

just like how they always try to make Mamdani’s popularity about his personal charisma instead of his policies, reinforces that they’re trying to ignore progressivism’s popularity.

That’s not true either, and luckily I have a print quote for that one so we don’t have to argue over timestamps:

One is, he campaigned for something. And this is a critical piece. We can’t just be in a perpetual state of resisting Donald Trump. Of course, we have to resist Donald Trump. There’s no doubt about it for all the reasons we just talked about. But we also have to give people a sense of what we’re for, what the Democratic Party is fighting for, and what we would do if they put us back in power.

And that’s really critical. And I think that’s one of the lessons from Mamdani’s campaign, is that he focused on affordability. He focused on a message that was resonant with voters, and he campaigned for something, not against other people or against other things. He campaigned on a vision of how he was going to make New York City a better place to live.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/dnc-chair-on-the-path-to-winning-back-voters-and-lessons-democrats-can-learn-from-mamdani

But, if you think his opinions on policy matter, then you don’t understand how he’s running the DNC, even tho he’s very open about it.

If these candidates were piece of shit neoliberals, they’d get all the same support from the party, minus a few nice soundbites in interviews

That’s the strength of Martin, that he’s legitimately non-biased. All progressives need is a fair primary, and that’s what Martin gave Minnesota for a decade.

If you’re focusing on what he says on policy, you’re just not looking at the right thing.

Well, I was saying Dems “as a party”…

You’re referencing the House and Senate leadership, who notably got elected a week or two before Martin, when the old DNCs threats of “vote neolib or we defumd your state party and let Republicans take all the seats” was a valid and well proven threat.

They’ve been lame ducks this entire congress and everyone knows it. The media just won’t say it because they’re still trying to prop up neoliberals as effective and in control. Just because that will depress dem.primary turnout and help neoliberal candidates.

Like, Jeffries and Schumer are literally trying to be as terrible as possible intentionally

If a progressive Dem becomes president, they name the next DNC chair and neoliberals lose the party for good. They’d 100% rather a Republican wins 2028 if it’s not a neoliberal, because that gives them a chance to take the party back.

Like, I dunno man. I overestimate people a lot, but I really feel like all of this should be common sense and easy for people to figure out on their own.

But it’s seems like despite most people realizing billionaires are the problem, they still only listen to what billionaire owned propaganda says on the TV

Trump:

I can go lower

Taylor Rehmet, a Democrat and local union leader, won a runoff for a state Senate seat that’s been held by Republicans since 1992. What’s more, he bested the Republican Leigh Wambsganss despite having one-tenth as much money. Much of Wambsganss’s funding came from Dunn and the Wilks brothers.

Here’s the DNC chair talking about it two weeks ago:

https://youtu.be/J9Nk7RcZh7k?t=46

We’re not “over performing” this is the natural result of undoing the damage of 30 years of neoliberalism and especially the “victory fund”. Up until a year ago the goal of the party wasn’t “as many seats as possible” it was just to have a neoliberal president and at most House or Senate, but never both.

It’s like going from a pitcher who wants to win but not cover the spread, to one who just wants to win by as many runs as possible.

Dems aren’t intentionally holding themselves back, so we’re going to keep seeing massive gains.

They’re really trying to ignore it.

Man, they suck at ignoring things…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9Nk7RcZh7k

I’ve never tried to ignore something so hard that I travelled back in time two weeks ago to retroactively support it.

Maybe the DNC really is all powerful, I mean, they got a time machine

Hopefully the DNC doesn’t plug it’s ears and ignore the obvious.

As soon as Mamdani won his primary, the DNC chair said we need a candidate that not only emulated his charisma, but also the popular policy position Dem voters want…

That was months ago.

It’s been a year since that chair was seated.

I think the problem isn’t that anyone is plugging their ears, just that the billionaire owned media doesn’t want people to be engaged with the DNC now that they no longer control it.

I mean, here’s the DNC chair talking about this race two weeks ago…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9Nk7RcZh7k

But you didn’t hear about it.

Wealth can’t be “created” it’s finite.

The things we say represent wealth are infinite, that’s how inflation is a thing.

So the extra 33 trillion dollars the 1% have hoarded over the last ten years wasn’t pulled out of a hat, it’s money that used to circulate thru the economy in wages and purchases. It’s what made our capitalist society work.

Eventually the system will fail if for no other reason than no one can afford to buy anything or go anywhere. We’re getting close to that, that’s why Epstein was emailing billionaires about the best way for the majority of the world population to die off.

Once they bleed us dry, they have no use for us.

But we’ve never had a use for them.

I mean, there’s already a lawsuit because it’s chemical weapons…

Like cleaning supplies, but it’s honestly not as bad as people make it out to be.

It’s the shock of it the first time that disorients people. If you’re outside you really just need to walk five feet up wind and you’re fine.

Which is why the people living by ICE detention centers have it so bad. They’re not outside, but trace amounts seep into their homes because it’s deployed nightly in response to peotests., and it just hangs out in their homes.

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It’s literally not the same and it’s still happening in Minnesota more than anywhere else…

They’re just not doing it as blatantly since they finally realized that’s hurting public opinion instead of helping.

Instead of in cities with loads of people, they’re rolling up in suburbs where it’s over before anyone can get a cellphone out.

Don’t think shit stopped just because there’s less tiktoks about it

They thought a focused crackdown would make people everywhere comply out of fear.

It had the opposite effect, so they’re going to spread back out.

But they’re doing the same shit

It’s not as rare as people keep acting…

He was on a hit TV show 20 years ago, but it was his breakout so he probably got no residuals

He wasn’t broke, he was a landlord that made like 12k/month off rent. But if his net worth was in the millions it was probably just like two LA houses that most likely still had mortgages. If you’re going off websites it’s probably reported wrong.

Like it’s applicable to everyone because insurance shouldn’t be tied to employment now that wages aren’t capped due to WW2 anymore, but it’s not like he was the 1% either. You gotta be well over 10 million for that.

Which should make us realize how bad wealth inequality has gotten. To the actual oligarchs Dawson and the rest of us are the same.