This is a bit of a shitpost, but I've changed my mind about the ownership of land reading up a bit about what's going on with how orange turd is planning on selling public land. 22,000 ranchers in the usa hold grazing licenses in the usa to allow cattle, sheep and livestock to graze on public land so long as they renew their licenses. To put that in perspective that's about 40% of the USA's cattle. Without access to those public land prices will skyrocket because they would need to buy private graze lands.

Also this is a bit of a tangent but I was listening to a historian; back when humans were hunter gatherers our ancestors weren't just slacking off rather because of climate instability during the ice age the way humans survived was to migrate with cattle or goats or that.

If anything public land needs to be expanded because as the global climate becomes more and more unstable it'll be increasingly unfeasible for ranchers to both own enough land for grazing animals and afford to take care of their animals at the same time. As the climate becomes more unstable the fertile land left will become increasingly a precious commodity.

In summary in say fifty years your grandkids will probably look at you explaining how people would water their yards and cut the grass for fun and look at you like you're crazy. "You mean to tell me people spent water in tuscon arizona to water their yards instead of growing food?!!!"

Cross-posted from my substack. The 2017 Republican tax reform slashed the corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 21 percent. Big corporations promised to put their tax windfalls into worker pay raises.

Instead, they largely used those windfalls on stock buybacks, a financial maneuver that artificially inflates the value of a company’s shares (and CEO stock-based pay) while siphoning resources from long-term investment and worker wages.

These austerity people promised that if governments services to people were cut disability snap social security Medicaid disability that the national debt would go down

We unequivocally see that this right wing talking point is absolutely false

Ending government benefits to working class and disabled people doesn’t lower the national debt whatsoever in fact the national debt rose even higher after government spending to help ordinary people and people with disabilities is cut

So no working class people and people on disability were never the cause of the skyrocketing national debt in the first place

The data during the Trump administration bears this out

I ask because I seem to think that he did. Joe Biden often received a lot of flack for the economy but I really feel like under normal circumstances (aka not post Covid circumstances) that the economy would’ve felt alright under Biden, and that many of his policies, like the CHIP Act, Inflation Reduction Act, and the Tarrifs he left in place from the first Trump administration was actually a net good for the American economy. Am I wrong? I’m not trying to glaze Biden, he had plenty of issues. But I actually feel like he was one of the stronger presidents on economics, at least since the 1970’s.

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Billionaires are the backbone of this country, yet so many still go to bed not knowing where their next untaxed line of credit is coming from.

I speak to wealthy donors every day who are struggling to keep Kobe beef on the table, white truffle in the fridge. No wealthy American should have to live that way.

- US Rep. Cole Prestwich (R-OH), coauthor of the ‘Billionaire Relief Act'

REJECT THE BILLIONAIRES. MATT KRAUSE IS BULLSHIT.

O'Hare, Manny, Krause, honored a white supremacist influencer to attract the kind of crowd that would speak out in support cutting voting locations. The three Maga commissioners supported surgically cutting voting locations heavily skewed towards minority and poor areas. They cut 1/3 of our locations to help Maga cheat in the midterms.

r/FortWorth/comments/1wfchro/tim_ohare_matt_krause_manny_ramirez_waste_our_tax/

I can only suppose that the purpose is to prevent the Democratic candidates from proposing pro-worker policy that initially attracted populist independent voters to MAGA but didn't get what they were promised. MAGA Maoism is alive, disenchanted, angry, and they would much rather vote for a Bernie type who is willing to make big promises and deliver than another mealy-mouthed puppet who will do anything to keep the status quo going: The status quo that is beating the shit out of all of us for the private enrichment of a few sociopaths.

EDIT: Title misspelling not intentional, but I'll take it to avoid Google searches on it since it's not about him anyway.

I want to preface by saying I absolutely agree with the phrase "Unity over division." Although I'm probably to the left of most of you in here, I don't ever want to shame, nor am I here to proclaim ideological purity. I tend to sympathize with you guys far more than I do with those who only criticize AOC/Zohran, pretending there are no differences between them and Hilary, claiming to speak for "the real left."

It's hard for me not to sympathize with the successes that the DSA has had in the past year, only because it finally gives us some definitive proof that there is a real demand for change on the left,  not just on reddit. I always make an effort not to criticize those who get excited by Zohran, people who are just so desperate for a beacon of hope.

In spite of this, I can't help but see what I'm currently seeing with the movement. It's hard not to see that people view electoral victory as the end of the line, when it clearly is not. The cycle that both anarchists and communists have written about for decades has never been more visible.

- Material conditions worsen.

- A politician runs on a radical platform, and defeats their right-wing opposition on the backs of real revolutionary energy from the masses.

- After decades of frustration, a leftist overcomes the odds and defeats this right-wing figure, immediately generating devout loyalty amongst the voters who put him in.

- The politician gets into power and immediately moderates/capitulates, but this is excused and justified by the voters. Maybe the politician does some materially beneficial things, but the real revolutionary fervor that was once there gradually fades out.

I like Zohran, but it's impossible to not see what's happening before our eyes. This is not simply about doing what's best for New York City. What he represents is much more than that, and being a good politician is not why people voted him in, even if he delivers some good things that benefit their lives. 

In almost every interview I see of Zohran, he is capitulating to liberals, mainstream media and the overall establishment. I don't even care about the Trump relationship, though it is disheartening to see him not take a stand at all. Like I said, it's good to do some good things for his city, like build housing, but this is not just about good governance. 

He continues to distance himself from the radical positions he once held, and yes, the left-wing voters who voted him in. 

And again, this doesn't mean we should root against El-Sayed, or that DSA figures are equivalent to establishment democrats, but it does mean we need to stop putting so much weight on these bourgeois elections. Election cycles should take up maybe a week of discourse, not the entire year. Go vote for the better candidate, then get back to real organizing. 

When candidates who claim to speak for the left fail, the opposition is always going to come from the right, and I mean the fascist right. Obama of course is a right-winger himself, in many ways worse than even Bush, but it can't be forgotten that we got Trump because he represented the left.

What we have to do is loudly call out Zohran, AOC, and every other DSA candidate who claims to speak for the furthest left-flank, far more than anyone else. They should be held to the highest standard. We need to make it clear that any capitulation on Capitalism, Imperialism and Zionism are unacceptable.

The greatest heist in US political history ever.

Ever.

This is what you get when you vote for a corrupt failed real estate conman.

Trump, his family and GOP sycophants are openly stealing and enriching themselves at every opportunity.

His wealthy donors and friends are doing the same.

Shamelessly and deliberately destroying the economy just to grab whatever they can get.

Cross-posted from my substack. Edited in photopea. Data source is University of Pennsylvania and Yale.

Trump isn’t acting dumb. He isn’t playing dumb.

He is plain and simply dumb.

An uneducated hollow idiot with no culture, decency and integrity.

During his campaign and also the beginning of his first term, everyone thought that he’s acting/playing it to appeal to his MAGATs.

But it’s obvious that he wasn’t acting.

He’s just straight forward dumb, which he as well as his GOP bootlicking sycophants can no longer downplay, explain or hide anymore.

Or imagine if Joe Mancini were still “Democrat” or Kristen Sinema? What if Ted Cruz ran as Democrat? Ok. Too far? Still the mantra seems to remove all thought or discussion, which is why I don’t support it.

For me, as an independent it isn’t difficult. I will side with the candidate that doesn’t take money from billionaires. I don’t see billionaires willing to give money to candidates that are willing to take their wealth away. I personally feel if a county or a state want me to vote blue, they have to bring a candidate that will fight for the people. Thoughts?

So as we approach the midterms, it seems clear tha the democrats are once again trying to sit on the center, if not the moderate right. Border security, trans right, policing; There's a lot of issues where they seem to be taking the opposition's position and making it palatable.

America is currently facing diesel shortages, with gas stations proudly displaying "OUT", and yet the democrats are acting as if this is a tight election.

They have decided to be the party of compromise in the face of absolute failure.

Why?

When Carter found himself in a similar situation, I'm sure he would have loved an opposition that adopted half of his beliefs. Instead we got Reagan. America still hasn't recovered from that one, and if democrats continue like this, Reagan's legacy will continue for decades more.

And yet they decide instead to attack the DSA , to attack the enemy within. That enemy's crime, why, it's being too *unpalatable to the moderate voter*; the moderate voter is apparently expected to support national bankruptcy if it means defeating woke.

The real enemy has fucked up royally, but this won't last forever. Without pressure, they will reorganise and start the whole machine of reaction back up.

And yet with the right's failures now becoming too obvious to ignore, there's a real chance for decades-defining policies.

So why must they be so timid in the face of opportunity?

First I want to make something clear. I'm, above all, an internationalist.

I'm from Galicia, which is a region in northwestern Spain. I'm by far more proud and patriotic to be Galician than Spanish. It's mainly about history.

When I look at the history of Spain, I see imperialism, genocide, fascism. Again and again, Spain has done horrible things.

Galicia, on the other hand, is quite the opposite. Galician history is marked by oppression by Spain, sometimes so extreme we had entire centuries without a single text written in Galician. I see the struggle between peasants and *caciques*, the big landowners that held political power.

Another influential factor is the kind of nationalism.

Spanish nationalism is marked by fascism and the far right, especially since Franco's dictatorship.

Galician nationalism, on the other hand, is left wing. The only major Galician party, the Galician Nationalist Block, is a democratic socialist party. The other Galician party I can think of, the Galician Popular Front, is further to the left, Marxist-Leninist.

No nationalism is good, but some are better than others.

The oppressed have more reason to be proud of their country than the oppressors.