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[+] 50 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (15 children)
  • [–] 54 points 2 years ago* (12 children)

    end citizens united -- corporations aren't people

    end lobbying so shell oil doesn't have 10000000X time and money to affect the government as a person does.

    Quit assigning good/bad labels to companies that operate within the law and furious pursue laws that make us more equal, richer and safer overall

    ???

    profit

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (10 children)

    Yeah, but how are you going to realistically do that?

    I'd love to know. Because I hate citizens united. But what do you propose people do about this?

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    I don't know -- It feels like we should be able to use the internet to make grass roots new and hard to corrupt political movements but I don't see that happening at all.

    There's also the 250 year empire rule which we're at now against stability with the current system.

    I honestly have no answer other than a "vote or die" but we all know that doesn't work.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    The answer is you vote or we lose democracy. That's the simple end-all be-all answer here.

    Biden might not be what every single leftist wants, but I guaranfuckingtee that it won't just be illegal aliens in his camps. It will be you as well.

    I personally don't want to live in Gilead. I don't want to fight in a civil war. I'd rather much prefer we vote in Biden, let the Silent/Boomers die off, so we can fix this shit.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I can almost smell the Gen X coming off your grim resignation to boomer die off as a new beginning. We've waited impotently for so long.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    yeah but that just kicks the can down the road, not that I disagree or anything. I don't know of any real solution.

    The United States is also a one-party state but, with typical American extravagance, they have two of them.

    • Julius Nyerere
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  • [+] -2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)
  • Force all companies to be worker-owned cooperatives, Richard Wolff-style.

    Also the stock market doesn't really need to exist. It's just gambling with extra steps, and the people who win at that game end up having control over way more than one person should ever have. Also goes along with the above, which is complete worker ownership over companies.

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