EndRedStateSubsidies

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 13 hours ago

Democrats will keep losing because that's their sole purpose.

Ratchet effect.

The Republicans tug on the levers of power pulling everything right.

The Democrats' duty is to normalize and rationalize while the GOP resets for the next tug.

There are Democrats that do actually care, but the DNC leadership is well right of center and would rather lose to Trump than win with Burnie.

Democrats will always lose because liberals are right of center nimby turds that will continue to worship capitalism as we all burn.

Anyone expecting the Democrats to save them is ignoring this is the first election in decades no state Democrat contested any result and PA, NY, and NV all show results that are statically impossible and obviously manipulated.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Whistleblowers/s/sWhn4WM7sW

[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago

I would argue both more than readily pay for themselves just based off three data points.

  1. Food stamps alone provide an immediate 170% return in economic activity. This doesn't factor in the benefit of addressing malnutrition or second hand factors like stress from scarcity or poverty PTSD. People without money can't participate. Giving them food money is a net cascade of good.

  2. The post office is one of the most sophisticated, accomplished, amazing, shoe string budget endeavors of humanity and despite constant right wing sabotage of both flavors still out performs private alternatives in terms of cost and performance with headcount. Making the post office not only a community credit union but a regional job board hub would be minor in terms of the staggering return in two generations.

  3. I'm on the board of a municipal utility. Our private competition will raise rates 15-25% to our 4-6%. We don't spend millions in advertising, we actually are pushing the gm to add head count because we fear burn out, we as a board give raises better than we got at our jobs, but they're still making under private sector- but our every service metric is superior.

The biggest problems with most systems are wholly intentional sabotage to justify further undermining programs that cost rich people money and make poor people more self sufficient.

It would be real easy to make a block chain based committee forum used for everything from local ordinances and sourcing legislation to sharing recipes and electing leaders. It's becoming less true, but Reddit is great for having the right person that can identify the vintage of the wine simply based off the cork in the dude's butthole.

Crowd sourcing information gets better the more capable the crowd. Our nation has been sabotaging education for decades specifically because they don't want literate masses.

Ultimately, the most significant impediment to either isn't funding; it's the fascists in power that spent the last century working towards a gullible and economically desperate working class Molotov they could chuck at FDR's legacy.

Ubi is the opposite of their goals and work camps will keep everyone plenty busy.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

Something like 80% of all theft at this point is unpaid wages.

You have to understand that a system that calls corporations people is inherently violent. Profit is unpaid labor, so the existence of a tax code that not only allows -but celebrates and defends- billionaires is class warfare. If you steal $1000 from a store, the police show up. If the store steals $1000 from your paycheck the police tell you to get a lawyer with a $5k retainer. The store's existence isn't hampered by the $1,000 while most families would be ruined without out.

However, the only instance of the crime the system cares about is the one against the corporation.

Corporations are the only people that don't have to worry about eating. Corporations are the only people that don't have hands for handcuffs. Corporations are the only people the law cares about.

Corporations own the media. Corporations own the red ones. Corporations own the blue ones. Corporations own the food. Corporations are eager to own everything the DNC will meet the RNC half way in privatizing.

We are here because infinite money now equates to infinite speech. We as individuals have ever less speech because we have ever less money. Unions are being crippled now and soon protesting itself will become a crime against the state.

It will be a crime to speak out. It will be a crime to be different. It will be a crime to work too slow or think too much.

When every notion of freedom becomes a crime, crime becomes our only freedom.

Ready Player 2 mother fuckers.