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NYT suppressing genocide coverage in Palestine and questioning anything but lockstep support for Israel then wondering why authoritarians messaging landing so we’ll.

NYT are clowns, lost all credibility after backing invasion of Iraq in 2003 despite no evidence and UN security resolution against it.

Nah, I ordered in Oct and site said I’ve reached my limit. You are correct they add new limits every once in. While but they publicize poorly so it’s hard to remember.

Late 19th century. There was some pushback, some anti-trust laws with teeth, and then decades of bloody union battles to secure rights workers and their elected officials have thrown away for 50 years.

The concentration of wealth and influence of 10-16 people trumps that of hundreds of millions and is as bad or worse than it was during the robber baron era.

Political representatives are bought and paid for which means the poor have no voice against the wealthy.

We have a justice system that is incapable of prosecuting the wealthy and powerful, when it isn’t being stocked by ideologues.

Meritocracy is dead; Birth has much greater correlation to wealth and power.

Media is fully captured by the wealthy; they own the vast majority of media consumed: TV, film, news, social junk.

Nice country you got here.

It’s nearly impossible for me to see a salmon filet and not think about stuffing it in my pockets.

The mask sure as hell didn’t come out in 2004…is this AI slop?

Up voted for the dark humor but sincerely it’s Feudalism. A central state nor laws cannot be relied on for order nor process so those with the means purchase or are anointed with safety and power.

Medically necessary mandatory with those psychos. If you don’t get to control whether or not to have a child, imagine what else women will not get to choose. 18 men register for selective service, and women will select which “service” they can do for their country, Botox, perma-spraytan, or augmentation. Patriot Points will be determined for those who refuse, holding camps and deportation await. A glorious future.

This will 100% be the photo meme when Harris wins.

Tim walz–level confession

The good news is, with the fed lowering interest rates the cycle of speculation investment will pick right up in a year or two where it left off for a whole 30 months of higher interest. I can’t believe they’re dropping it so soon, but we can’t have unsustainable businesses held to account can we? Better to destroy savers and fixed income elderly.

We’ve bankrupted ourselves, largely to them. They are the largest holder of US debt. While much of their economy is currently aligned around exports and the US being their largest market, they are also maturing in their economy…their middle class is 300 million people. Think about that for a minute.

With time, when china chooses after theyve developed othe large trade relationships so they are not they reliant on the US, they will call in their chips, and the US will collapse. It may be 100 years from now. It doesn’t matter. China has always been playing chess while US pawns, only thinking about a current fat bribe or contribution for their party or Corp this year, are playing Pong.

In retrospect, the US was given power unimaginable due to confluence of events, history and geography…of course it squandered it without the historical wisdom to look ahead. It may be dark, but probably best for a harsh reset in the US…it’s horrific as a society, culture and has become a monster of a country. We will learn to be strong again and hopefully, like the French, make better lessons of our next revolution.

Guys who are here hate this one trick!

“However, I too often see people using that line to diminish the importance of speaking out for minorities under attack”

Thanks for succinctly making my point. My post is how economics unites all kinds of people and is something they inescapably share, and how it’s a true driver of change–you then say “yes, but” and mention minorities under attack.

The democrats have shown and highlighted the human rights, discrimination, disadvantages, abuse and fucked up experience of minorities in the US for decades…and how would you say that has gone? They’ve lost incredible amounts of policy ground since the mid 20th century while still having moved to the right.

To achieve meaningful, systemic progressive change in the US the left needs to bring more centrist and center-right Americans into supporting progressive policies. Centrist and center-right, white Americans, as has been (sadly) statistically shown again and again do NOT identify with minority groups under attack and the approach to focus the discussion on abused groups makes them vote for someone like Trump who tongues their insecurities in a changing world. These groups DO identify with economics; healthcare, retirement, overtime, inflation and many other things that the democrats have a slam dunk on–and the Dems keep playing right into the culture wars the right is using to drive culture wars, which keep the middle voting Republican.

Note; the above is not my preference, what I think is right, or how I wish the world should work. I wish photos of imprisoned children kidnapped from migrants motivated white centrists to think the Republicans and fox news are fucked up. I wish statistics on police violence vs. minorities made centrist Americans ashamed and pushed them to support police reform. I wish many things. But they aren’t the way the voting has gone, and the Democrats approach to identity politics has been disastrous. None of the above is meant to communicate in any way that abuse of minorities is ok, but rather to say that Democrats need to focus on abuses (economic) that are universal and easier to identify with for centrists.

It’s why it’s never talked about in corporate media. It’s why the power brokers were terrified by occupy Wall Street but not by BLM 10 years later. There were poor white Republicans who were into Occupy seriously. Then the left broke into a purity race and instead of aligning around economics. I’m never sure who is more stupid, the right for taking easy answers to complex problems and eating loads of horrific shit up, or the left who is too fucking stupid to take the massive advantages they have in economics to unite a critical mass and take power back in a meaningful way.

If they gave out monopoly pieces and gave away $1m they would have the entire working poor who don’t vote participate.

Whatever you’re doing now, you should be paid a lot in marketing, data analysis or sales consultancy. You’re an artist who mastered multiple crafts and the real value is the street sense and willingness to go with your gut when the data thins out. Thanks for sharing.

I changed the default search from DDG to Brave. The result is what I described above in Firefox.

People also just get confused by terminology and the mechanics and do it on accident, though much less common if state isn’t including it on voter reg for sure.

The genesis of this post was a family member in a very blue state, who went to an ivy league school and is extremely progressive and was sick of blue/red and googled “independent party” in her state and when I sent her the party platform she was registered for she lost her mind.

Political parties vary by state, and registration processes do also as noted elsewhere in the thread. There may not be an Independent party in your state, but there are in others and it causes confusion.

The point of the post is to share the point of confusion so people can read up on their registration or state party platforms. If you’re not going to bother to learn about the differences that do exist, but still want to broadly claim “election year bullshit”, maybe you’re part of the problem you’re raging about.