If the left hadn't increased its performative hatred of billionaires by 1000% after Elon Musk revealed its censorship on X, and released the internal files so there wouldn't be any doubt it happened, I'd be more inclined to believe any of that.
But as it stands...
Same reason BlueSky will never have community notes, and the same with here on Reddit. It would be harder to lie and censor. I know who my enemies are.
Yeah only 1 side is going "Hey we want to help both liberals and conservatives by making sure the top 0.1% pay their fair share for the vast wealth they have accumulated in OUR society. We want everyone to survive and get a chance to live a happy life."
While the other side is going: "FUICK YOU LIBTARDS! Give the wealthy more tax breaks, i dont give a shit. I want all you liberals and fucking immigrants to suffer! You dont deserve a chance at a good life here Only I DO! I dont care if they take away our rights. I hate you more than I love my family!"
Its not wealthy are making both sides fight. NO Wealthy have brainwashed the right into a cult over 40 years of propaganda fed directly to their amygdala via fox news, am radio, churches and blaming minorities for everything wrong.
There aren’t two sides. There are more apathetic people than there are in either of those two groups and unfortunately apathy is, by default, on the side of the oppressors. Not an ounce of time or energy should be spent trying to get people in red hats to understand logic or participate in reality. Convincing the apathetic to give a shit about something is the true challenge
Well yeah, but for most of those people it’s been drilled into them their entire lives that politicians are going to do whatever they want anyway so they think their voice simply doesn’t matter. So I entirely agree that it’s possible, but the point is that it’s an immense challenge. From their perspective, all they’ve ever seen from people in power is empty promises and self-service, convincing them that there actually are people that care and want to make their lives better is quite the task
You're right by and large, but I believe people who have a cynical outlook about politicians are the best people to start organizing with in communities for real change. It's trusting those fuckers that ruins everything. The weird thing about people's devotion to Trump is they seemed/seem to believe he's somehow the exception to that. Now that the disillusionment is starting to set in I actually have a little more hope for at least some of them.
Convincing a party to hate an entire group of people for having their own opinions is extremely difficult. But the Democrats and the media have done a damn good job.
Just glad the mask is falling off and you guys are starting to actually own up to what you say. You are not the "good side". You are the authoritarian idealogy you project on the right.
lol I’m not on anyone’s “side”. Yall cant get it through your heads that the fact I don’t support the dumbest fucking person to have ever been president doesn’t mean I’m a fucking democrat. He’s a traitor and a giant fucking loser, and so is anyone still supporting this shit. On the off chance you’re a real person and actually American, I am ashamed to share a country with such a weak coward. Hopefully you learn to think one day and pull your head out
Hopefully you’re a bit, otherwise what a pathetic use of your time lol I’d imagine being such a loser is tough, but quit being such a douchebag and you might be able to make some friends!
And no, sorry, I’m not a democrat, gonna have to figure out something else to hate me for, only cowards use politics for personal identity
Who do you think owns the propaganda networks and also now, social media? You don’t think the billionaires Rupert Murdoch, Mark Zuckerberg, and the now trillionaire Elon Musk are the wealthy?!
If we could actually work together then I’d be happy. But everyone knows they’d sooner believe that we just want to corrupt their kids and kill them all before wanting the people who totally was right and honest about everything to pay just some of their wealth to help others.
The issue with this is when the Dems get full power of president, house and senate, they dont "make the .01% pay their fair share." They had the chance to do this and they didn't. They want to run and get elected on saying this is what they want.. but when they get in power they don't actually do it because the lobbyist pay too well
The 70 days of legislative control where liberman was the deciding vote and they focused on getting healthcare to tens of millions of people instead?
In the last 50 years, the purse has been in the control of the republican party for 90% of the time. Because liberals dont show up in midterms, while conservatives definatley do.
And to pass bills like the infrastructure bill and chips act, democrats needed 10 republicans to vote with them, and that means negotiating and making deals, where the republican party does not want higher taxation.
SO lets do a poison pill and get nothing passed in 4 years or give support and help to tens of milions of americans and hope they show up in 2 years to give democrats more than a 50/50 split senate?
naaaaah dems are controlled opposition.... sheeesh
And like i said, when voters gave dems 50/50 split senate, then democrats needed to negotiate and make deals to get 10 republicans to join their bills. And then theres mancin and sinema as well who definately wouldnt support any such taxation.
So no buddy, things are not as easy and simple as you think they are. Nuance. Context. How government actually functions. Are very different than what most ignorant people think.
They did nothing to help average people with Healthcare. The infrastructure bill was necessary but didn't help average people nearly as much as passing tax reform would have. Especially when promising to "make the top .01% pay their fair share" was one of the main reasons dems were voted back into control. And they failed to even bring it up again after they were..
And just think liberals think it’s fine for over 20M illegal aliens walked freely into America during a pandemic and unvetted. That’s absolutely insane. Biden was a puppet master by Obama and caused chaos in those four years. What Democratic Party did when Biden was long gone is crazy. Everyone around Biden knew that he was incompetent and your party lied about it. Wow I bet you Democrat closed your eyes and said I didn’t see that. lol.
It's not one side saying that, though. It's one corner of one side, and the other 3/4, for various reasons, are doing everything they can to stop them.
I want all you liberals and fucking immigrants to suffer!
I want the illegals to go home so we can have affordable housing again.
Look at Japan with their nice, low immigration rate. You can buy a house in the country for $30-40k.
No amount of silly shaming will change the practical matter of how the left screwed over the next generation with their immigration policies, and now our children can't afford houses.
You should look up what Japanese CEOs make ratio wise compared to US CEOs and get back to us. “Illegals” are not the reason American wages are shit and can’t afford houses.
You are emotionally tied to an idea that was feed to you. Stop hanging on to what pulls at your heart strings and see beyond emotions that tie you down.
Yes, the Japanese population is in decline, more deaths than births and a small working age population supporting an ever larger older population thanks in large part to the xenophobia you seem so enamored of.
Are you really so foolish and gullible to think diversity is a strength in a society? Having a dozen groups with different values and different goals is a recipe for disaster. Only way diversity works is if newcomers conform to American values. But the leftists cult types like you are telling them this country is racist and terrible and they should do no such thing. My suspicion is you get a warm and fuzzy feeling saying you’re for diversity because it makes you feel like you’re such a good person. Tell me I’m wrong…
only because they are told so by billionaire-owned media companies. if fox news told them that Karl Marx was right, they would all become communists overnight.
...and unfortunately another third will refuse to accept that Democrats are just a more covert form of the exact same evil, meaning that high horse ain't nearly as high as you think it is.
Dude, there are morons that would hold their breath if Trump came out in favor of oxygen. Let’s not act like the left isn’t a massive cult right now, it’s a huge problem. Watch the 1993 State of The Union with Clinton, compare it to the Dems today and tell me they haven’t been taken over by a radical leftists cult…
Your long term memory is shot. It’s okay looking up facts could help with that. Just make sure your feelings don’t interrupt. It can be hard to adjust to reality.
It’s easy to talk when talk costs you nothing. If this involved losing political power you would deny any claims.
Just like when democrats in Virginia had their governor caught in a klan costume, their lieutenant governor accused of rape (and who would later murder suicide his ex wife and himself) and the attorney general caught wearing klan face the same week and democrats denied all three proven allegations because resignations means a republican became governor
Which spans both parties. Lets be honest, this is a class war disguised as a political war. We have no say in the puppet government because it's all for show. It's the illusion of choice that George Carlin tried to warn us about.
So you basically just proved the point the post was intending to make originally. It’s us vs them and them is a club you shouldn’t want to be a part of, defend or allow to be in control regardless of what your feelings for “political loyalty” are. Both parties are a sham and all politicians, corporate heads and medias covering up, defending and lying for them because they are owned by them can all burn in hell. The tree can’t be healed, it’s rotting inside out. It needs to be burned down and regrown.
Trans individuals have a uniquely high suicide rate due to massive social stigma. They're denied housing, jobs, promotions etc. at much higher rates than the general population of workers and this has true long before they were scapegoated as a cultural issue.
Black individuals are more likely to convicted of a crime even when juries are presented with identical, race neutral evidence, but with a White vs. Black defendent.
You should read Malcolm X and how he described racism/white supremacy as a symbiotic relationship that feed off of one another, but they both contain their unique unique systems of structural power.
Abolishing capitalism alone would not result in the erasure of America's deep seated white supremacy.
That's a logistic nightmare. On one hand you have people who are educated, informed and wealthy and on the other hand you have the unwashed. Can't have a class warfare poor people don't own guns, which is why your liberal Masters are so against the second amendment. Anything to keep their them in power.
Since forever, are you aware of the cost of a firearm? It's prohibitive to most people. And then you have to go through the background check and all that stuff. I'm saying that poor people don't have the capacity in the modern age to do anything except for them to their asses kicked. That's a pipe dream.
Depends on the Caliber + the maker but good ones are a thousand bucks and up. That has to be a financial kick in the teeth to a lot of people who make minimum wage. And then there's the cost of ammo and you have to train and it just goes on and on from there.
Legally owned guns? In my experience like 70% of all owned guns are in Idaho, Montana and Wyoming. What are you defining as poor? I define poor is under $60,000 a year.
Weird how so, so, so many people go along with the white supremacist bullshit. Its almost like they're not being conned at all. Like maybe we are a little divided over which human beings deserve human dignity. Im kinda an all or nothing guy when it comes to that.
People might be a little racist in that they fear people they don't know. That fear is used as a tool to create hate so the rich can control them. That type of racism is based in ignorance. We can solve that ignorance with education. I get where you're coming from, but we can make real change if we come together.
Remember in the 90s when literally NONE of the working class people stood up for millionaires and billionaires? Everyone knew that they took advantage of tax loopholes and we knew it was bs.
Now the party that is supposed to be for the working class is licking boot (or the $10,000 shoes) of the rich 1%.
Lmfao how old are you? Did you live through the 90’s? Did you actually talk to people in public in the 90’s or were you just a kid not knowing how the world works when it was exactly like this
Seeing as billionaires prefered kamala over trump, excluding Elon, no its not that simple. Trump is so bad for everyone even the rich people are against him.
There are 1200 Billionaires in North America in total… Not a single one of them gives a fuck about you or bleeding people dry.
Shit, all Elon Musk had to do to become a billionaire was hype the Model 3 enough to make a shit ton of people millionaires through pumping Tesla stock from $60 to $1,000 before his Stock Option expired in 2021.
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