It is a scam. Neo liberals control the democratic party and they serve the elite. They were never going to save us.
We need a true populist movement. The parties haven't served us my entire life.
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Some would say, "we need to seize the means of production," even.
Grab 'em by the means of production
They just let you do it when you're rich
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I'm 40 years old and I have never felt represented by my government.
A 40 year old would have been born in 1985. No president has been born after 1961. If you exclude Obama, no president has been born after 1945.
What do you mean? Musk was born in '71.
Man, that's bleak.
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Remember: If it feels like a scam, it is.
Ever try to buy car insurance?
I just bought car insurance. Switched from USAA to Progressive and saved a shitload. USAA hasn't been a good deal for a while now.
THAT SAID - Progressive is always trying to get me to turn on "accident detection" on my phone. Fuck that, I know exactly what they do with that data, it's not happening.
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All insurance is a scam.
Game of Thrones should have taught you that.
It feels like it's a swing off the cancel movement and now everyone can just lie without any consequences.
Maybe this is a hot take, but why don’t we just make all the law abiding undocumented immigrants legal and just move the fuck on? We need a party that will focus on healthcare and education the most as those two things will create a better society in the long run. Having these other individuals able to fully participate in society could be helpful in many ways as well.
why?
racism
bEcAuSe ThAt WoUlD bE uNfAiR tO tHoSe WhO dId It ThE "rIgHt" WaY
Which is, of course, a completely bullshit argument. But it nonetheless gets trotted out any time there's a proposal to make something easier for anyone middle class or below.
Yeah, I love how that argument completely ignores all the other advantages that come along with 'doing it the right way'
It's like being on a cruise ship in the ocean that rescues some sailors in distress, and then someone gets pissed because the rescued people didn't buy a ticket like everyone else.
That's a very apt comparison, and I would bet cold hard cash that there are people who act exactly like that on a cruise.
Yes, and this is a key difference, on a cruise, that behavior in front of your fellow passengers will be seen in person, and shot down immediately by people with decency, any they would be looked on like total assholes and ostracized . There is no social media machine or group think on a cruise ship. They're are several hundred/thousand people confined to a limited space, and noteworthy events will still be transmitted the old fashioned away. From eyes to brain to mouth to ears to brain to mouth, and so on.
That's why I love using cruise ships for an analogy when I can. It strips away a lot of the bullshit strawman, what if's, and 'but this will happen's'
It helps highlight how actual human behavior often acts in opposition of the hive mind nonsense cultivated and propagated by News and social broadcast outlets that are owned by want to be oligarchs that view our rights as an obstruction to their God given right to rape the American people for profit
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One of the biggest problems in America is people thinking that suffering is a necessary part of human existence and people having what you have without suffering is an injustice, unless they're rich.
Every time a conservative sees someone getting help they assume it could have been money in their pockets instead. It's sick zero-sum thinking and betrays a total lack of understanding of financial appropriations, tax, really everything, reality even.
As a general advertisement, not even asking for money, liberal groups should send "fake checks" to people and say:
Trump and Musk shut down USAID and saved the taxpayer $21.7B... Here's your share of the rebate ($0.00). Whoops! We had to pay the millionaires and billionaires first. Better luck next time!
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Well, according to Trump, the way they did it isn't 'the right way' either. Otherwise they wouldn't be trying to block birthright citizenship.
But hey, expecting a Conservative to wrap their head around an abstract concept is... well, let's just say these are people who need pictures.
"I would explain it to you, but I don't have the time or crayons to do so"
One big reason is because minorities tend to be left leaning. This is one of the reasons people are against Puerto Rico becoming a state.
That's what Regan and HW Bush did. But they're all against it now.
Remember when fucking Reagan gave amnesty to a bunch of people? Ronald Reagan was the biblical devil, and trump is still worse.
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Everything's been a scam for a while especially this bullshit society. Capitalism inherently encourages and drives everything towards scamming people gotta "make profit" and no one dare dictate what's egregious or not because "who are you to say" so there is just no limit to the greed whatsoever. Cutting corners/costs can only go so far until the planes start falling out of the sky or however that saying goes. We're past the terminal end stages of capitalism and they have no remedy for it and we're seeing the cancer mutate in to something else now.
Yeah I’ve been saying this for a few months now, we are officially in “The Age of the Grifter.” Honestly it makes me a little sick this is what we’ve been reduced to.
Guys and gals, I have a solution, it involves a guillotine and...
You can chop heads forever and for all time but it will never decrease the number of scams and scammers. Regulations are the only solution.
Our gov is taking our tax money and not showing us what they are doing with it. If its not a scam, show us where the money is going.
Our gov is showing us what they do with the tax money. It is, in fact, all public information you can get with a couple seconds of digging (and has been that way for a LONG time).
https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/federal-spending/
The only real black boxes of the government are military and espionage spending. Everything else is out in the open.
That military black box is massive, and the pentagon hasn’t successfully completed one of its past seven audits. This is a prime area for reform and cost cutting, and yet house repugs just voted to add another 100 billion to its budget.
AOC is correct, it’s a grift, and the billionaires and corporations are coming for what little we have left.
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Does this include all the money that the government is giving to Elon Musk??
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I agree. But I absolutely do not trust the richest man in the world, who was not elected at all, in charge of those funds. Dude already has been using it to funnel money into his own projects. You’ve handed the keys to your safe to a known burglar, and now you’re offering him blowjobs as well.
Don't forget that he is also firing people who were investigating his companies.
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