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Trump recorded pressuring Wayne County canvassers not to certify 2020 vote
Trump pressured two canvassers not to sign the certification of the 2020 presidential election, according to recordings reviewed by The Detroit News.
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My ******** meter was going off like crazy watching this video. Even though I agreed with some of its points
This video is like most videos from modern socialist.
It makes legitimate criticism of capitalism.
Then make the claim that none of these can be fixed, or improved, without completely eliminating capitalism. Which is nonsense.
Then swears it would be fixed under socialism. Not by using rigorous analysis and economic arguments, but anecdotes.
Does both sides ******** regarding Dems and the GOP.
Then acts like there is some consensus among the public that their vision is correct
My criticism of socialism will always be the same. I can't endorse a movement that ask my to be smart and stupid at the same time.
Identify real economic and social problems to hate capitalism, yet ignore another set of economic and social problems to act like socialism is the answer.
Thinking like how dude does in the video is why we end up with things like NIMBY socialist
I really wish there was a serious, an appealing socialist movement in America. Especially one that could take hold in rural America.
But unfortunately most online socialist are marketing themselves just like libertarians do, and they seem oblivious to it.
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yeah, I just thought it was interesting. he makes some points but then glosses over a lot of it.
it's pretty clear we can't keep going down the road we're on now, no social safety net or worker protections is my main beef with America.
I did like the part of a minimum baseline for everyone thought, I feel like that could be achieved.
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To all the fools that say the Democratic party is pro genocide. Check out this wonderful tweeted by our secretary who has compassion for all people.
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I think that to synthesis what
mplsdunk
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RustyShackleford
are saying, I’d say that finding a common theme for people’s alienation is a great way to get people out of the simplistic, elite serving narratives about America, Hierarchy, and Society, which are hegemonic. But once you’ve broken that barrier, you need to keep pressing.
The fact that capitalism doesn’t serve a lot of people is pretty obvious and pointing it out isn’t adding much. So as someone saw a discrete issue and saw it linked to other discrete issue through the common factor of capitalism, once you know that, you need to:
A.) be rigorous in finding alternatives, because whatever else can be said about capitalism, it’s integral to many aspects of people’s lives. It solves a lot of problems (although many solutions created by capitalism disperse or transfer a problem onto other people) and it’s a question of how would socialists solve problem x, y, and z in a better, faster, and more equitable way.
B.) If you can shed hegemonic narratives about capitalism, you should keep pressing until you see capitalism being both the origin of many inequities and capitalism itself being a constituent part of a broader conglomeration of inequality.
Just like you can’t be a halfway crook, you shouldn’t be a half way social critic.
mplsdunk
and
RustyShackleford
are saying, I’d say that finding a common theme for people’s alienation is a great way to get people out of the simplistic, elite serving narratives about America, Hierarchy, and Society, which are hegemonic. But once you’ve broken that barrier, you need to keep pressing. The fact that capitalism doesn’t serve a lot of people is pretty obvious and pointing it out isn’t adding much. So as someone saw a discrete issue and saw it linked to other discrete issue through the common factor of capitalism, once you know that, you need to:
A.) be rigorous in finding alternatives, because whatever else can be said about capitalism, it’s integral to many aspects of people’s lives. It solves a lot of problems (although many solutions created by capitalism disperse or transfer a problem onto other people) and it’s a question of how would socialists solve problem x, y, and z in a better, faster, and more equitable way.
B.) If you can shed hegemonic narratives about capitalism, you should keep pressing until you see capitalism being both the origin of many inequities and capitalism itself being a constituent part of a broader conglomeration of inequality.
Just like you can’t be a halfway crook, you shouldn’t be a half way social critic.
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To stop alienating people we could take the people regulating their jobs from socialism.
At least you’d have some feeling of control and ownership. Vs feeling hopeless and watching corporations steal your wealth and future.
People gotta realize they aren’t capitalists. You’re somebodies capitol who doesn’t give a single f about you. This boot straps and hard work narrative isn’t real.
At least you’d have some feeling of control and ownership. Vs feeling hopeless and watching corporations steal your wealth and future.
People gotta realize they aren’t capitalists. You’re somebodies capitol who doesn’t give a single f about you. This boot straps and hard work narrative isn’t real.
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Def voting for biden
Imagine if this was Trump, he would have signed twice the ammunition and then raped everyone while doing it. Women. Men. Dogs. Cats
Imagine if this was Trump, he would have signed twice the ammunition and then raped everyone while doing it. Women. Men. Dogs. Cats
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Which third party candidate has your vote?
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Interesting that I can't seem to find any reliable sources confirming this to be true. Not even on the federal registers site. But of course, I'll just take some random persons tweet as fact.
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What?! You don't trust @Megatron_ron?
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Didn’t look hard enough maybe
Biden administration approves emergency weapons sale to Israel, bypassing Congress
For the second time this month, the Biden administration is bypassing Congress to approve a weapons sale to Israel.
www.cbsnews.com
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Biden 2024 BABY
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It took awhile for me to stop chuckling whenever I thought about my firm’s HR which refers to itself as Human Capital Management.
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It’s all over the news and he just did it a few weeks ago too.
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uniparty’s america
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Thanks for providing an actual source. I guess my mistake is that I was looking for an executive orderDidn’t look hard enough maybe
Biden administration approves emergency weapons sale to Israel, bypassing Congress
For the second time this month, the Biden administration is bypassing Congress to approve a weapons sale to Israel.
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