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People gotta remember this guy has been as desperate as Trump his whole life to be accepted as a legitimate member of elite society. You factor that in, you factor in that Trump also wanted to be a crime boss like his mob affiliates from the early part of his career, the motives become more clear, the outcomes become more predictable.
Also remember, some of this is engineered by both parties to distract us from the everyday realities we are facing.
Don’t take your eye off the prize. We want a centrally planned economy, we want universal healthcare, we want federally funded infrastructure projects, and we’re gonna take that money from the wealthy.
Beware “abundance” grifters…
Lmao what? Is this a #JustLemmyThings meme?
Funny how one party seems to push this sort of shit way way more than another party.
I just want a functioning democracy, one with less fascists and corruption in it.
And how are you going to do that? Are you willing to take it by force? Because that's the only way it's going to happen. You have to take it by force.
No, we'll take it by legislation and re-writing the tax code, but if they want to hold out, than yes, we'll take it by force, and that will be a LOT worse for them.
WTF is wrong with you? Of course I'm not taking it personally, and obviously we wouldn't be taking away billionaire's fortunes under the current regime. There isn't the Congressional votes to pass it, nor would HitlerPig sign it.
IF we manage to take our government back, AND remove the DINO Democrats who are nothing more than Republican-Lites, then we can hopefully have a Congress who will pass legislation authorizing a re-write of the 1974 Tax Code, which baked-in Trickle Down Economics, resulting in an annual $2 Trillion shift of revenue from the middle/working class to the wealthy.
Study: Inequality Robs $2.5 Trillion From U.S. Workers Each Year
'We were shocked:' RAND study uncovers massive income shift to the top 1%
And who would take it? The Democratic government, acting on behalf of the American people. It's not done with guns (or shovels, WTF?), it's done with computers, and law enforcement. Their bank accounts will be frozen and confiscated, and their properties and assets seized and sold at auction, or utilized by the government.
These mechanisms have always been available, the Dems just never used them, while the MAGAs never histate to exploit them as much as possible.
You personally? You're going to take it by force?
So, when democracy is dismantled in the next year or two, and it's no longer possible to "take it by legislation" or "re-write the tax code", you personally are going to take it by force?
With what? Do you have a gun? What you are going to take it with? A shovel?
That's interesting. Makes a bit of a connection to Putin and Russian current regime.
They are mostly children of party bureaucrats, with some mafia and special services seasoning added. That includes Putin himself, people painting him as ex-intelligence or his KGB past as something big miss the point, he had a minor role, he was a kid from a party family and he was sent to GDR because foreign postings were prestigious.
So they have this inferiority complex to make themselves seem real mafia and special services.
I wonder if Putin's hate for Ukraine is a result of its organized crime not treating him as anything interesting. Same with Georgia, it was once the center of the organized crime in the ex-Soviet space, and Saakashvili didn't end that as much as people think.
Oh, so you want real serfdom. Where you have a dossier passed between your employers as if you were a resource. Trade unions being state-controlled and acting in the interest of your employer. Nice.
Teeth being torn out without anesthetics, doctors prescribing donkey piss, people finding the rare good doctors via acquaintances and ties for important operations, because otherwise you might not survive that. Oh yes.
Suppose that's fine.
Just remember that the most important part of ownership is deciding how the money is used, and you are giving this to non-elected bureaucrats if you want central planning.
Nah, should think a bit more.
A hint - "Soviet system" doesn't mean the USSR's system, and it can be good if designed very carefully.
Your description of Universal Health Care is ridiculous, and instantly destroys any credibility you might have.
We got universal healthcare in Europe and people don't pull your teeth out without anesthetics, what copium are you on, "the american self made man", "small government" or which delusional one is it?
Lol
BoTh SiDeS!
https://truthout.org/articles/dnc-moves-to-oust-david-hogg-after-he-says-party-isnt-standing-up-to-trump/